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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1971
Page
1
In the last two years Norwalk opened two modern trailer parks housing over 150 families and plans a third for 275 mobile homes. High interest and rising costs push residents from home building while the city studies effects in a five part Reflector series starting Monday.
In Watford Alexander Nevels, head of North London cemeteries, denounced a Reading graveyard experiment planting a weather resistant plastic tombstone. He called it a fraud and an insult to the dignity of death.
In Bonn, major industries shut more than 530 plants and locked out about 360000 workers to pressure a 7.5 percent wage demand by IG Metall. Union chair Otto Brenner warned the move would not break the strike, saying the union would not kneel.
Five Asian foreign ministers sign a declaration urging neutrality in the region. A Malaysian version asks the United States Soviet Union and China to guarantee non interference. Philippine Secretary Romulo expresses skepticism but says a common aspiration to be left alone in peace is agreed upon.
In Houston authorities found the decomposed body of 19 year old Gloria Gonzalez near a reservoir and later a 13 year old girl, Colette Anise Wilson, missing since June was identified by her father’s rings and dental work.
A space satellite 500 miles above eastern Ohio will start tracking strip mining after early next year. OSU geologist Wayne A. Pettyjohn and Bendix engineer Phillip E. Chase will read signals returned from Earth to detect secondary pollution in Belmont, Coshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum and Tuscarawas counties.
UPI reports federal judges ordered 37,000 longshoremen at 12 major seaports including New York Philadelphia Baltimore Mobile Alexandria and Savannah to return to work for a 10 day cooling off period under Taft Hartley Act provisions. Hearings next week may extend the order to the full 80 days while the government seeks to end a 57 day strike.
Ravenna Ohio Jerry Rupe 23 testifies he did not set the fire that destroyed the ROTC building at Kent State University two days before four students were killed by National Guardsmen. Prosecutor calls his testimony incredible but the defense cites reasonable doubt and the trial recessed until Monday.
The forecast calls for cloudy weather with snow mixed with rain or drizzle this forenoon, tapering to clearer skies tonight. Expect 1 to 3 inches of snow today, high near 40, low around 25, with Sunday partly cloudy and highs in the upper 30s. Precipitation chances drop to 50 percent this afternoon, 20 percent tonight and Sunday. Winds southeast 5 to 15 mph, shifting to west 10 to 20 this afternoon and west to northwest 5 to 15 tonight. Norwalk high 43, low 29. Humidity 78 percent at 8 a.m., 57 percent at 2 p.m., 85 percent at 8 p.m. Sunrise 7:30, sunset 4:59, moonrise 1:56, moonset 1:51.
A large crowd of drivers and locals comb the Woodlands area for the $200,000 hijacked Thanksgiving loot, with students and residents expressing mixed motives from fantasy to admiration for the fugitive as authorities widen the manhunt.
Norwalk officials prepare to table a sale agreement for the municipal electric system with formal bids due December 18 and a council vote on December 21. Service Director Herbert Krogh outlines talks with Ohio Edison and other firms, aided by Wallace Duncan and Richard Popham, to press negotiations before bids.
West Berlin Mayor Klaus Schuetz predicted East German border restrictions may ease for Christmas as talks between West and East Germany progressed on allowing unimpeded travel between West Berlin and East Berlin. Officials extended four power Berlin talks for a fourth day focusing on traffic control and travel rules under the four power accord.
London teachers condemn the Inner London Education Authority decision to ban all forms of corporal punishment in 620 public primary schools starting January 1, 1973. Critics argue it undermines professional discretion, while proponents cite the Plowden Report urging an end to corporal punishment.
City legislation to hire a full time city engineer will go to City Council on December 7. The post, titled chief building inspector, would be funded by a salary between 11016 and 13464 aligned to the Haskins and Sells study. The contract with Richland Engineering ends December 31 and the new hire would start January 1 or soon after.
United Press International reports the Thanksgiving traffic death toll rose to 281 by 3 a.m. today, covering the period from 6 p.m. Wednesday through the early hours. The count reflects three days of a four day weekend as authorities monitor fatalities.
The wife of the Case Western Reserve University dean of graduate studies was killed in a two car crash Friday afternoon at Bath and Akron Peninsula Roads in North Hampton Township Ohio. The dean was injured along with six others according to the Ohio Highway Patrol.
In Lancaster California 18 year old Gary Logan calmly killed his former girlfriend Laurie 15 and her parents Doris 37 Jack 42 then shot her new boyfriend Rocco Nolfo 15 and killed himself beside Laurie. Sister Susan Roskam 14 escaped through a window and Janet 15 fled to a neighbor as the attacker waited in the living room.
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