Robber Blinds 17-Year-Old Wilma Chestnut in St Louis
Mrs. Colin Chestnut, a nurse’s aide, comforts her 17-year-old daughter Wilma after a robber blinded her in St Louis. Johnnie L. Brooks, 30, is jailed for the attack, who allegedly vowed to cut her eyes out to avoid identification. Medical staff at Homer G Phillips and Normady Hospitals start a fund to aid Wilma.
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Colin Chestnut
Wilma
St. Louis
Johnnie L. Brooks
Homer G. Phillips
Normady Osteopathic
UPI
Nixon to unveil Phase 2 plan on inflation control
President Nixon plans a nationwide television and radio address from the White House tonight at 7:30 p.m. EDT to outline how he will curb inflation after the wage price rent freeze ends November 13. Phase 2 focuses on major industries and is to be unlimited in duration and enforceable by government action.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
White House Oval Office
Nixon wage-price freeze sees first wholesale price drop
Wholesale prices fell 0.4 percent in September under Nixon's 90 day wage price freeze, the first drop in 10 months. The report boosts hopes for his economic program as a key employment and unemployment release looms Friday.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Obetz signs on I 270 puzzle drivers near Columbus
More than a dozen highway signs point to Obetz, a 3300 resident suburb, drawing motorists and ire from those not planning a trip. Officials say several Outerbelt signs will be removed after complaints.
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Columbus
UPI
Obetz
State Highway Department
Robert McMillen
McMillen
Robber Hints at Vermeer Ransom Over Refugee Crisis
Mario Roymans a 21 year old from Hasselt Belgium stole The Love Letter Vermeer and demanded 4 million dollars for Bengali refugee relief. He was captured hiding in a cowshed and the painting was found under his hotel bed mattress.
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Hasselt
Belgium
UPI
Mario Roymans
East Pakistan
Robin Hood
Johannes Vermeer
Roymans
Weather and Local Births Deaths Norwalk Area
Partly cloudy and cooler today with a high near 60. Tonight clear and cooler. low 30s to 40s. Friday partly sunny and warmer. high around 60s. Norwalk high 65 low 41. 7 am humidity 93 percent, 1 pm 58, 7 pm 86. Births list two local families a girl and a boy. Deaths mention Mackert Scheid Brubaker Widman with ages.
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Norwalk
Norwalk Seeks Back Up Power At City Council Meeting
Tonight at 8 in the council chamber the Finance and Electric Committees will discuss a package boiler as backup power for the municipal plant. Electric Chair Domenic Coletta and Service Director Herbert Krogh push for 100 percent back up while Finance Chair Richard Cunningham seeks details on available backup power and needs.
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Norwalk
Finance and
Electric Committees
City Council
Council Chamber
Domenic Coletta
Herbert Krogh
Finance Committee
Richard Cunningham
Ohio Edison Co
Cunningham
Coletta
Krogh
Ohio Edison
Firelands Museum Eyes Move to Seminary Street
Firelands Historical Society weighs buying 80 E Seminary St the Wickham Benedict house to enlarge and relocate the museum. Trustees authorized option signing with repairs and fundraising to meet public building standards and preserve the Benedict family property.
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Firelands Historical Society
Norwalk
Eleanor Wickham
E. Seminary St
Henry Timman
the Historical Society
Timman
Wickham
Society
Case Ave
David Benedict
Platt Benedict
Elisha Whittlesey
Benedict
Firelands Museum
E. Seminary Street
Rebozo Favored Land Deal for Biscayne Monument
Newsday quoted NPS adviser A E N Westcott saying he faced potential delicate handling when buying Adams Key from a close friend of President Nixon for the Biscayne National Monument. Westcott later denied giving special consideration to Bebe Rebozo, noting the offer rose from 500000 to 550000, five thousand above appraisal, after a quick agreement.
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Garden City
N.Y
UPS
National Park Service
NPS
Nixon
A.E.N. Westcott
Long Island
Newsday
Bebe Rebozo
Biscayne National Monument
Miami
WWOK
Westcott
Rebozo
George A. Smathers
D-Fla
Adams Key
National Monument
Rebozo and
Smathers
City Hall Buzzing With Four Tonight City Meetings
City schedule heavy with four meetings plus mayor's court. At 7 p.m. the Finance Committee and Service Director Krogh meet Columbia Gas representatives on a rate rise. 7:30 p.m. City Charter Commission in Mayor's Court room. 8 p.m. Charter recesses for mayor's court. 8 p.m. Human Relations Committee meets in fire station council chamber. Electric and Finance committees hold open power discussion in the council chamber.
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Herbert Krogh
Columbia Gas Co
Krogh
City Charter Commission
Charter Commission
City Council
Council
Nixon Uses Taft Hartley Act To End West Coast Dock Strike
President Nixon invoked the Taft Hartley Act to compel 15,000 striking West Coast longshoremen back to work, ending a 98 day walkout. A temporary restraining order was issued by U.S. District Court Judge Spencer Williams in San Francisco, with operations expected to normalize in a couple of days.
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United Press International
Nixon
U.S. District Court
Spencer Williams
San Francisco
Beck Joins Huron County Board of Health
Corinne Beck, 43, of 232 West Main Street Norwalk, appointed by Mayor Harold E. Finch to represent Norwalk on the Huron County Board of Health. A pharmacist, she replaces the late Merritt Friedley and becomes the second woman on the board joining Mrs. John A. Wallace. The board also accepted the resignation of Marjorie Brickey, and welcomed Doris Smith, a former county nurse, back as health educator. The board condemned a haunted house owned by Elsie Sly and deferred action on a Norwalk property at 113 North Pleasant Street. Funds in the speech and hearing project and migrant health program stood at $494.29 and $1,443.10 respectively.
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Clifford
Corinne) Beck
Norwalk
Huron County Board of Health
Beck
W. Main St
Allen Memorial Hospital
Oberlin
Merritt
Bud) Friedley
Harold E. Finch
John A. Wallace
Willard
Health Board
Marjorie Brickey
Doris Smith
New London
Health Department
Clarence Ellett
Smith
Elsie Sly
Fitchville
N. Pleasant St
Ellett
Boiler Number Five Returns to Service in Norwalk Plant
The main unit at Norwalk's municipal generating plant came back online at 10 22 p m Wednesday after a Friday ruptured tube shut it down. Oil igniter lit at 3 p m and extra heat at 8 p m. turbine started at 9 42 p m and full operation followed. Superintendent Don Davis thanked residents and industry for cooperation during the shortage.
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Krogh
Ohio Edison Co
Service
Herbert Krogh
Municipal Generating Plant
Don Davis
Industries
Davis
Kennedys Yawn At Report Of Romance
Hyannis Port friends of the Kennedy family dismiss a National Enquirer claim that Robert F. Kennedy Jr plans to marry Kim Kelly a 15 year old bartender's daughter. They call it a high school crush and note Kennedy has dated Kelly for two to three years while he spends time near the Kennedy compound.
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Hyannis
Mass
UPI
Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy Jr
Kim Kelly
Frank Kelly
Kelly
National Enquirer
Kim
Bobby
Peg Kelly
the Enquirer
Pomfret School
Pomfret
Conn
Kelly House
Miss Kelly
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Treasury
John B. Conally Jr
Conally
Senate Finance Committee
Edgar Heston
Richard Myers
Gilbert F. Mackert
Wakeman
Elmer L. Scheid
Monroeville
Clara F. Brubaker
Berlin Heights
William D. Widman
Fremont
Seminary Street
Miss Wickham
Charles
Bebe
City Hall
Mrs. Beck
Boiler
Kennedys
Bob, JR
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