Jordanian Premier Wasfi Tel Assassinated in Cairo
Wasfi Tel aged 51, Jordanian premier, was assassinated Sunday in Cairo by four Palestinian guerrillas. He was buried with a 21 gun salute as King Hussein named a successor and named a tough national security adviser. Tel ordered the army to crush the guerrilla revolt last summer.
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Amman
UPS
Wasfi Tel
Cairo
Hussein
Tel
Nile
Abdel Khaled Hassana
Arab League
Snowstorms Sweep Nation With Heavy Midwestern Snow
United Press International reports two winter storms sweeping the country with heavy accumulations. Four inches or more predicted across Iowa Missouri Illinois and Michigan while travelers face warnings from Missouri and Wisconsin to Western Pennsylvania.
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United Press International
Great Plains
Midwest
Iowa
Missouri
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Pennsylvania
Man Frozen By Gas In Camper Tragedy
In Abilene Texas a 19 year old, Johnnie Aaro Allen, died after passing out inside a camper while filling a butane tank. He was found with his head and arm frozen near a gas valve. Justice of the Peace Silas Clark ruled the cause freezing not asphyxiation and warned about indoor gas use.
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Abilene, Texas
UPI
Johnnie Aaro Allen
Allen
Justice of the Peace
Silas Clark
Clark
Weather and life events for Norwalk area
Cloudy windy morning with light snow turning to rain then snow this afternoon and evening. Highs near 40, lows around 30. Temperatures and precipitation percentages noted with wind shifts. Marriage license applications for Fife Owens and White Webser. Births reported for Marett Wagner Schaffer Lee. Deaths for Brundage and Lutz.
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Walter D. Fife
Wellington
Emma Jean Owens
New London
Edward L. White
Norwalk
Penny Ann Webser
Missing Chinook carries 33 GIs over Vietnam coast
The U S command said 33 American servicemen aboard a CH47 Chinook are missing after a suspected sea crash off Da Nang. A vast air and sea search by the USS Epperson and others failed to locate the aircraft. A37 Dragonfly jet was shot down in Cambodia with a wounded pilot. The toll across six aircraft stood at 36 missing, three dead and seven injured. The Chinook group is part of a withdrawing division as Nixon’s pullout accelerates.
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da Nang
U.S. 101St Airborne Division
Phu Bai
Epperson
U.S
Cambodia
Indochina
Jack Brown
Norwalk
Mobile Home Boom and Its Real Impacts in Norwalk
The Norwalk mobile home boom reshapes neighborhoods amid traffic, sewer, and school concerns. A Panama City crash injures Dennis P. Ware and kills his two daughters Christine and Elizabeth, with Ware recovering at Tyandall Air Force Base Hospital.
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Norwalk
PTA
Gallup Avenue
Bob Meyer
Maplehurst School
Panama City
Fla
Dennis P. Ware
Christine Ware
Florida State Highway Patrol
Elizabeth
Beth
Tyandall Air Force Base
Ware
Air Force
Tyandall
Gary
Robert B. Flugal
Flugal
Donna
Donald Ware
Woodlawn Ave
Dennis
Hunter Robbed At Gunpoint In Greenwill Area
Huron County deputies logged a busy weekend with three burglaries and an armed robbery under investigation. Two men were arrested for possession of burglars tools after being found behind Jolly Lanes near Bellevue. The Sunday gunpoint robbery was reported by Douglas Boone of Greenwich on Plymouth East Road. Break ins occurred at Calvin W Cok and Rev Clarence DeHaan residences and the Fireplace Tavern in Willard.
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Huron County Sheriff’s Deputies
Jolly Lanes
Bellevue
Douglas Boone
Greenwich
Plymouth East Road
Calvin W. Cok
Clarence DeHaan
Fireplace Tavern
Willard
Boone
Rome-Greenwich Road
Sheriff's Department
Cok
DeHaan
John Osterland
Calvin Cok
Celeryville
Robert W. Ferguson
Sandusky
Thomas E. Houghden
E. Chestnut St
Lloyd Smith
Ferguson
Houghden
Addict Acquitted In Slaying
David C. Newlin a 27 year old admitted heroin addict testified he acted in self defense when he shot two narcotics peddlers during a Jan 24 apartment visit He was acquitted of first degree murder The case names Henry T Harris 23 Steubenville and John Mitchell 29 Avalon Pa as the slain men and Newlin claims they demanded an ounce of heroin and restrained him with a .45 automatic weapon
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Columbus
API
David C. Newlin
Newlin
Henry T. Harris
Steubenville
John Mitchell
Avalon
Wee Won the Norwalk High Mascot Dies at Four Months
Wee Won, the Norwalk High School football team's four month old mascot, died after encephalitis left it blind and unable to walk. The puppy was adopted Oct. 22 near the Trucker bench and named after a Reflector contest.
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Wee
Norwalk
Sam Cessna
Bucyrus
Trucker
Reflector
Wee-Won
Truckers
Ex Bellevue Basketball Coach Harry Strobel Dies
Harry Strobel, longtime Ohio State football assistant for 19 years, died Sunday night of a heart attack. A Massillon native and Miami University graduate, he collapsed at home and died at Riverside Hospital. Strobel coached Bellevue to the 1945 state basketball title and Barberton to the 1947 mythical state football title.
Nine Bids Opened for City Lagoons Near Filtration Plant
Nine bids were opened at city hall Saturday for building two wastewater lagoons to hold sludge from backwashing filtration plant filters. Wastes currently flow into Norwalk Creek. Construction starts immediately with apparent low bidder Price Construction Co. of Norwalk bidding $29,439.
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City Hall
Norwalk Creek
Herbert Krogh
Price Construction Co
Norwalk
Monroeville Man Joins Sheriff Race in Huron County
Lawrence A. Farley of Monroeville announced his bid for the Republican nomination for Huron County sheriff. He collected petitions from the Board of Elections on Saturday and would challenge incumbent Sheriff John Borgia, who filed for reelection to a third term. Farley works as an installer for Suhr Custom Kitchens and is the third candidate to enter the race, with Loren Welch already pursuing the Democratic nomination.
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Lawrence A. Farley
Monroeville
Huron County
Board of Elections
Farley
John Borgia
Herbert J. Schaffer
George W. Baker
Borgia
Suhr Custom Kitchens
Loren Welch
New London
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White House
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Daniel J
Danny”’ Greene
Michael W. Frato
Greene
Painesville
Ralph M. Joyce
Twiggy
Justin DeVilleneuve
New York
Gordon Marett
Jeffrey Wagner
James Schaffer
Terry Lee
John Brundage
Berlin Heights
Stella L. Lutz
Vietnam
Nixon
23Rd
Americal Division
Mary Ann
City Council
Hunter
Friendly Corners
Old State Road
Townsend Avenue
James Ryder
Ryder
Cessna
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