Norwalk Residents Split Over Water and Sewer Rate Hike
Disgruntled residents react to a new rate schedule that would more than double quarterly charges for water and sewer services. The Reflector survey finds mixed views as the city says increases are needed to cover costs and fund future improvements. Some demand financial transparency while others think the rise is justified or excessive.
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Norwalk
William Mount
Reflector
Roy Cooper
South Garden St
James L. Schlacter
Rosedale Blvd
Nelson C. Hall
Stoutenburg
Richard A. Elmer
Woodlawn
Paul Wright
Newton St
H.J. Wise
Prospect
Mets pennant triggers bizarre weather dispatch
UPI reports a Weather Bureau teletype claim that a radar at Rockefeller Center shows Shea Stadium suspended about 50 feet in the air after the Mets clinched the National League pennant. In San Francisco the city adopts I Left My Heart In San Francisco as its official song, with George Cory and Douglass Cross present as Tony Bennett era sales rise worldwide.
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New York
UPI
U. S. Weather Bureau
New York Mets
Weather Bureau
Rockefeller Center
New York City
Shea Stadium
San Francisco
Windy Hills
George Cory
Douglass Cross
Board of Supervisors
Tony Bennett
Nixon check joins Mississippi relief fund drive
A $1000 personal check signed Richard Nixon from a Key Biscayne bank was placed in the We Care Fund for Hurricane Camille victims. The donation contributed to the fund at Jackson city hall, part of a total now totaling $1.6 million.
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Jackson, Miss
UPI
Biscayne, Fla
Richard Nixon
We Care
City Hall
Jackson
Angela Davis Delivers First UCLA Lecture to 2000 Crowd
Angela Davis, a black militant and admitted Communist, spoke at UCLA in Roy Hall to 2,000 attendees. She criticized a regents ruling denying academic credit for her lecture as an act of harassment expanding to the student body.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Angela Davis
UCLA
Roy Hall
Weather outlook Norwalk area mild with showers possible
Mostly cloudy and mild through Wednesday with a chance of showers on Wednesday. High 60s, low tonight around 50. Norwalk highs near 74 and lows near 56 with varied precipitation probabilities and light southerly to westerly winds. Births marriages and a death are listed for local residents.
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Norwalk
FBI Silent On Fate Of 2 Kidnap Victims
The FBI withheld details on the fate of a Maryland mother and her daughter allegedly abducted by Stanley Barton Hoss Jr. after his escape from an Allegheny County workhouse. Hoss, a Pennsylvania fugitive, is also linked to the killing of a policeman.
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FBI
Waterloo
Iowa
UPI
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Maryland
Daugher
Stanley Barton Hoss Jr
Pennsylvania
Hoss
Allegheny County
Pittsburgh
Linda Mae Peugeot
Bel Air
Lori Mae
Peugeot
Cumberland
U.S
Evan Hultman
Fair President and Secretary Resign From Huron County Fair Board
The Huron County Fair Board president Anthony G. Meyer and secretary Kathleen M. Harris resigned citing outside pressure. They will leave after the Dec 6 election. Restroom issues and county officials’ scrutiny were discussed but no formal meeting was requested. Meyer served 22 years on the board and Harris two years as secretary.
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Huron County Fair Board
Fair Board
Anthony G. Meyer
Kathleen M. Harris
North Fairfield
Meyer
Harris
Huron County Farm Women’s Club
Fairgrounds
Board of Health
Clarence Ellett
Barnard Wins Beauty's Heart in Johannesburg
Barbara Zoellner 19 plans to wed heart transplant pioneer Dr. Christiaan Barnard. She flashed a diamond and ruby ring at her Johannesburg home and said Barnard gave it before his trip to the United States. No wedding date set. The piece notes Barnard’s previous divorce.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
UPI
Barbara Zoellner
Christiaan Barnard
Miss Zoellner
Barnard
United States
Zoellner
Weve Got To Do Better Blosser Says United Fund drive
Donald R. Blosser drive chairman urged over 50 United Fund workers to exceed last year’s effort as five week campaign aims for 70 848 dollars a 16 percent rise. Divisions set quotas industrial 34800 commercial 17906 professional 9442 residential 8700 with weekly noon reports to measure progress and a wrestling tag match incentive for missing the goal.
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Donald R. Blosser
United Fund
Blosser
B. Harry Parke
Father Sues Driver Who Struck Son
Hershal Hall of Wakeman files two negligence suits against Thomas M. Bickley of New London for injuries to his 5 year old son Jeffery from a truck collision on Zenobia Road near State Route 18 last April 25. Hall seeks 150000 for Jeffery and 10000 for himself. notes brain damage paralysis and convulsions, and extensive surgery. Represented by Freeman and Freeman of Norwalk.
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Hershal Hall
Wakeman
Thomas M. Bickley
New London
Bickley
Hall
Jeffery
Zenobia Road
Freeman
Norwalk
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James G. Meisler, Jr
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Neva B. Howells
Milan
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Look
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