27 Oct 1969
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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1969
Page
1
In San Francisco the diocesan convention urged immediate withdrawal of all U S military and intelligence from Vietnam and backed a program to influence abolition of conscription. Delegates rejected support for the Vietnam Moratorium of November 14-15.
Mrs. Walter Thompson urged private citizens to locate the bodies of Linda Peugeot and her daughter Lori Mae, who disappeared last September after being kidnapped in Cumberland. FBI has not recovered them, and Thompson suspects a burial in the Toledo Ohio to Ft Wayne Indiana corridor.
United Press International reports eight people died in two crashes near Tiffin and Columbus on Saturday. The weekend traffic toll rose to 34, the second straight weekend over 30, with 25 deaths Saturday and five on Sunday plus four on Friday night.
Joan Tunney Wilkinson, daughter of former boxing champion Gene Tunney, was found alive in Milwaukee. She had been missing since August 28 after missing meetings with her husband Carter Wilkinson and their daughters Alexandra and Erin during a camping trip in Norway.
The Senate Finance Committee debated taxing foundations and their untaxed assets. It was expected to vote to tax foundations for the first time and extend beyond the House by considering a levy on income from stock holdings totaling about 65 million dollars.
Variable cloudiness and colder with a chance of snow flurries tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy and cool, with a high in the lower 40s and a 30 percent precip chance overall. Wednesday fair and not as cool. Highs around 60 in Norwalk and lows near 40. Births list multiple area families with newborns. Death notices for Robert J. Koegle and Anna Theresa Lawrence.
Former President Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson attended the 125th anniversary service at First Baptist Church founded by Johnson's great grandfather George Washington Baines in Minden Louisiana. A crowd numbering about 1,000 filled the church and 150 stood outside. After worship, the couple joined 20 local residents for lunch at a two story brick house on Garrison Road.
Beir ut reports say Lebanon relaxes 24 hour curfew in major cities except Tripoli as peace talks loom with Arab guerrilla leaders. Fighting tapers, a gentlemen’s agreement in Tripoli and a cease fire in southern Lebanon hold, while guerrillas demand borders and refugee camp rights and accountability for crackdowns.
Five Boy Scouts from Sacred Jesus Church School drowned after swift Colastine River currents swept them away during a day camping trip in Santa Fe Argentina. Troop leaders attempted rescue but failed.
A Seattle woman registered with her husband at the Crown Motel on U S 250 North shot herself in their room about 9 p m Sunday night. Mrs Margaret Lee Erickson 51 died from a gunshot wound to the head according to Erie County Sheriff and Coroner Dr Joseph Butler.
Bellevue Lamp Plant workers of General Electric rejected the company offer but voted not to strike as contract expired. Negotiations to continue with no date set. workers are in the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. A nearby GE glass plant in Bucyrus operated normally.
Daniel Lee Peirce 25 of Standardsburg dies after his 1961 Mercury collides head on with a westbound semi near Route 51 construction in Sandusky County. Clinton Ashley 49 of Akron treated and released. Peirce, Navy veteran and Monroeville High School graduate, survived by parents and siblings. funeral plans set at Drake Funeral Home with services at Riverside Cemetery.
City officials report strong and external interest in a volunteer ambulance program. Service Director Mount notes it is early to gauge staffing, with a model drawn from Tiffin offering pay for 160 hours and extra for out of city runs. A closed council session will discuss ambulance service along with taxes and water rate issues.
Huron County Board of Elections announces polling place changes for the November 4 general election. Norwalk city precinct 1 C votes at St. Paul Social Hall Milan Avenue. Willard city precinct 1-B uses fire station. Plymouth village precinct uses Fazio Insurance Office, formerly Esther Dull Building. New London Village three precincts and New London Township vote in the high school multi purpose room.
A sky diving incident in New London injures Nancy Arndt a 28 year old from Corine Ohio with a fractured left leg and she receives treatment at Fisher Titus Memorial Hospital. Rebecca Berry a 7 year old Norwalk resident is bitten on the index finger by a squirrel while protecting it and is treated at Fisher Titus. Mike Leak a 16 year old Norwalk High football player sustains a sprained left ankle and is hospitalized.
At the Rt 250 and 13 junction early Monday, Daniel Johnson 24 of Mansfield lost control and struck a guardrail. Two of his five passengers Clara Morris 42 and Dorothy Rooks 19 were taken to Fisher-Titus with back injuries and other injuries. Rooks was treated and released. The guardrail had been struck four times in the past week.
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