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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1965
Page
1
Rhodesian rebel Premier Ian Smith told Der Spiegel that his forces would fire on British paratroopers if they landed in Rhodesia. He asserted the people would obey his order, and “Anyone who enters this country without the right to come will see what happens to him.”
The Salvation Army opens its annual Christmas kettle appeal led by Capt. Dennis Blanchard to fund food and toys for needy families in Huron County. Last year 121 families, 605 members, and 324 children received baskets and toys, plus 199 sunshine baskets in eight institutions. Applications for aid are available in person at 48 Benedict Ave from Dec 6 to Dec 15, weekdays 9:30 to 12 and 1 to 4, processed through the Welfare Department.
Weather forecast cloudy and windy with colder highs around 24 and lows near 12 to 16. Marriage license filings list Gary Lee Sams and Judith Lynn Hulteen with other applicants. Birth announcements note two newborns, and death notices include Martin L. Powers, 94, Milan and George B. Sheaffer, 71, Elyria.
Dr. Phillip K. Wood 31 of Norwalk listed in serious condition at Cleveland Clinic after being found unconscious in his car on a country lane. Police say he was reported missing since Friday afternoon and a statewide alert was issued. Wood previously sustained a self-inflicted chest wound in September.
A pan of grease ignited in the kitchen of 9 Chatham St causing fire and smoke damage to the Stoltz home. Firefighters reported a five minute delay after Mrs. Stoltz’s initial attempt to contact help. A second incident involved a broken furnace fan belt at 19 Morley Drive filling a nearby home with smoke.
Norwalk police arrested Donald Ward 21 of 941/2 E Monroe St on a morals charge after a 15 year old Sandusky girl said she had been intimate with him. Sandusky and Norwalk police coordinated to locate two missing girls, aged 15 and 16. Ward was found at 281/2 Oak St with a delay in the report as officers investigated occupants of a nearby apartment. The apartment housed Donald Ward’s wife 18 and Harold Conrad 19 with the two missing girls later located.
Clyde II Coy 12 W a seminary student was cited by police for failing to stop after an accident reported by two witnesses. One witness obtained Coy's license number. Coy is scheduled to appear in Mayor's Court at 8 p.m. Thursday.
Nineteen teens apprentice M H Austin shaved and cut Thomas Edison's hair in a Norwalk shop on Lais and Link Block. Now 86 and in Berlin Heights, he recalls electric razors replacing hand clippers and prices that were 25 cents for a haircut and a dime for a shave.
Members of the First United Presbyterian Church of Norwalk voted unanimously to build a Fellowship Hall on the south side complex. Dr John McDivitt said foundation work could start immediately weather permitting with spring completion hoped. Elders Dale R Bush Robert F Chapin Herman Schaafsma Clarence R Ellett Lawrence Carpenter. Deacons Mrs Don Halter Robert Winchester J Kenneth Kinney Mrs Wilbert I Lawrence elected.
Norwalk saw only light snow flurries while much of Ohio faced heavy snow. Temperatures dropped to twenty degrees Sunday night marking the coldest reading so far this season in the city.
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