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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1966
Page
1
Bay Village police chief says the 12 year old Marilyn Sheppard murder case may be closed though other suspects could still exist. The acquitted osteopath Dr Samuel H Sheppard remains a focus as investigations pause.
Saigon report says two U S destroyers and Navy pilots from the carrier Ticonderoga sank or damaged 41 Communist barges and boats off the North Viet Nam coast in a sequence of sea battles and air attacks. In San Francisco topless dancers staged a demonstration outside a North Beach club over pay, with signs urging better wages in New York. Inside the club performances continued as usual. dancers reportedly earn about 25 dollars daily.
Reita Faria, a 23 year old medical student from Bombay, becomes the first Asian to win Miss World. The 5-8 beauty with 35 24 35 measurements begins her reign in London and plans to take medical exams next April. She is engaged to a tea planter who will marry next June.
UPI reports Jerald C. Brauer of the University of Chicago says the new Lutheran Council of the U S A marks the first step toward unity among the four major American Lutheran divisions. He notes millions seek fuller church oneness.
Cloudy and windy with a cooler afternoon high near 55 to 60. Tonight and Saturday colder with possible snow flurries. low 20 to 26. Sunrise 7 19 a m. sunset 5 06 p m. Births: Robert Jensen and wife RD 1 Collins a son. Jack Slagle Flatrock a daughter. James Daniel Willard a son. Raymond Rider Norwalk a daughter. Deaths: Dwight McCleery 76 former area resident. Louise Dicker 90 rural Monroeville.
Willard zoning board rejects John Lee Pratt request to replace the current Lee's Drive-in at 623 Myrtle Ave with a 40 by 60 foot food store citing area residential use and public welfare. Pratt may appeal within five days. existing drive-in may continue as a non conforming use until changes occur.
London UPI reports Beijing has more than doubled its technical troops and supporting anti aircraft artillery in North Vietnam. An ISS estimate of 40 000 railway engineer troops has grown due to intensified flow, aiding repair of supply lines while limiting Soviet bloc movement into Vietnam.
Norwalk plans a downtown Christmas display with lights across Main Street and a Santa Claus house at the Old Avalon Hotel site on Hester Street. The city Adds greeting signs on Route 20 and Route 250 approaching Norwalk. Universal Decorating crews will begin work soon.
Dolores Goldfarb files $500,000 federal suit in Honolulu on behalf of her late husband Robert Goldfarb. The case targets Frank Sinatra and alleges the yacht Southern Breeze failed to provide a proper launch and employed a negligent crew member leading to the death off Martha’s Vineyard.
Juvenile Court Judge Russell T. Antrim stated five Norwalk youths aged 13 to 17 were reported missing Thursday evening after apparently leaving town in the morning. Two Willard teens were also missing, but Antrim said there is no connection between the Norwalk and Willard cases. Names of the youths were not released.
Norwalk firemen were called out twice in the past 15 hours. At 10 52 this morning the crew fought a fire at 250 Woodlawn Ave where cut and stacked telephone poles beside railroad tracks behind Fessenden Bicycle Shop burned. A second grass fire started Thursday night near the Farm Bureau elevator at Townsend and Old State Roads, caused by burning rubbish, and took over two hours to extinguish.
Huron County Board of Elections will re canvass votes for the Norwalk School District 5 mill levy in seven Norwalk precincts on Nov 25. Letters were sent to candidates and levy filers inviting attendance. results will be certified and filed for the 70 day ballot retention period.
President Johnson, refreshed by eight hours sleep, told doctors he felt great upon awakening at Bethesda Naval Hospital. He left his night readings and attended to a busy schedule involving Viet Nam, the economy, and the budget, while recovering from throat and abdominal operations.
In New York the AFTRA led action forced The Tonight Show and other programs off air as performers refused to tape, NBC airing a month-old Carson program. The dispute also involves the Screen Actors Guild. 35,509 members are affected. Federal mediators called for talks to restart negotiations.
The Rev. Robert H. New will leave Norwalk after more than two years as assistant minister at St. Pauls Episcopal Church to become rector at St. Pauls Episcopal Church in Mt. Vernon. He begins duties January 8. New, a Minnesota and Bexley Hall graduate, was ordained February 2, 1965, and serves on local boards and committees. He and his wife with five children reside at 865 Linwood Ave.
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