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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1977
Page
1
The Cleveland Indians will raise box and reserve prices by $1, boost general admission by 50 cents, and keep bleacher seats at $1. New rates are $3 general, $4.50 reserved, $6 box. The club notes 13 AL teams have similar pricing, with four higher and eight lower. Family night remains Monday, group discounts apply, and youth Saturday tickets stay at 50 cents.
Energy Department figures show licensed American drivers averaged 2.3 gallons per day last summer. A record 317 million gallons were consumed daily by about 136 million drivers, with a 3 percent rise from 1976 Bicentennial levels. Highest use occurred in the East and North Central regions at 106 and 107 million gallons daily.
The government will install 200 bilingual welcome signs along the U S borders with Canada and Mexico designer Peter Max will create 4 by 4 foot signs. Entrance panels at Mexican borders read Welcome to the United States in Spanish while Canadian borders use French.
Partly cloudy tonight with lows mid 40s and a 20 percent rain chance tonight. Saturday mostly cloudy with a 30 percent shower chance and highs around 60. Also reports marriage licenses births and deaths including Ruth Sigsbey 64 Elyria and Bert Plue 92 Collins.
Bank robbery suspect Thomas Michael Hannan hijacked a Frontier Airlines Boeing 737 at Hartsfield Airport holding 15 aboard. After 13 hours and pleas from his lawyer and ally, he shot himself as authorities prepared to intervene. StewART, 29, remained jailed. Hannan faced charges from a prior Georgia bank robbery.
Ohio Senate approved a bill to loosen branch expansion rules, allowing banks to open in adjacent counties after 1979 and anywhere in the state after 1989. The measure, backed by Sen. Harry Meshel, faces House debate amid opposition from rural banks and concerns over concentration of banking power.
Nonakk Towigh at Norwalk High School hosts Tiffin Columbian tonight at Whitney Field with kickoff at 8 p.m. Jaycee Haunted House open 6 30 to 9 30 on Woodlawn Ave south of Main St. The Littlest Horse Thieves shows at Towne and Country Theater at 8 p.m.
A Norwalk woman Peggy Jarvis aged 48 died after her car struck a pickup at U.S. 250 and 20. The Pinto collided in the southbound right lane while the pickup went straight. Jarvis died from skull base fracture after efforts to revive her. The driver Michael Gilbert and passenger Conrad Lucas were uninjured. Jarvis, a local art teacher and librarian, had lived in Norwalk 10 years and left behind a large family. Friends may attend the 1 p.m. service at Kubach Smith Funeral Home.
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