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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1973
Page
1
Milan picks its queen from ten contestants for the melon festival as Labor Day activities kick off with an antique car contest drawing over 200 entries. New London hosts a festival parade at 6 p.m. with sky diving and majorette competition, while Milan's queen contest follows the first day’s events.
Julie Nixon Eisenhower told a Latvian Song Festival Centennial audience that Watergate no longer threatens President Nixon’s remaining three years in the White House. She urged Congress to focus on Soviet relations arms limits and inflation and avoided commenting on Agnew resignation discussions.
Jinny Adams, Miss Alaska, arrived first for the 53rd Miss America pageant as Atlantic City sweltered at 95 degrees. She recalled 44 degree weather in Anchorage on departure and noted her love of water sports in chilly streams back home. The pageant starts Wednesday.
Heat wave drives rising death rates in eastern cities and fuels widespread thunderstorms and tornadoes. Violent storms peak in the northeastern Plains from the northern Appalachians to southern New England and along the Gulf coast.
Continued hot and humid weather through Sunday with a 30 percent chance of thundershowers. Highs in the 85 to 90 range, lows 64 to 70. Norwalk temperatures reach 88 and 64 respectively with 84 percent morning humidity. Births include two girls and a boy at F T Hospital. deaths listed for Willard James Trushel and Hazel Seagren among others.
Negotiating teams from the EHOVE Joint Vocational School Board of Education and the EHOVE Teachers Association met for the third day to agree on a wage package before the school opening. Superintendent J Creighton Christ said progress was optimistic, with the main dispute over the wage index. The present 4 percent on a $7,074 base is sought at 4.5 percent by teachers, while the board proposes keeping 4 percent but raising the base to $7,400.
Norwalk City Council will introduce an emergency ordinance to authorize bids on two new and one used packer type garbage trucks for the new municipal service set to begin Jan. 1. Two ordinances will get second readings, including codified ordinances correction and Benedict Avenue rezoning from multi family to neighborhood business. Neighboring property owners, Mr. and Mrs. John Kaiser, seek rezoning to allow a drug store.
President Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew met at the White House with aides denying any resignation discussion. Agnew sought updates on the federal probe into kickback allegations in Maryland.
Rescue vessels freed Pisces III after a 76 hour 20 minute dive freeing trapped crewmen Roger Chapman and Roger Mallinson. They were lifted from 60 feet to the surface aboard the Vickers Voyager with doctors waiting. Oxygen ran low but held due to careful conduct and emergency masks.
San Quentin inmate Jim Tanner 28 nears completion of an elevating motor cart for Shirley Kopecky 38 a paralyzed St Louis woman The project began as a joke but grew into a life changing effort aided by letters and inmate support Tanner says the work gives him purpose and shows Shirley’s resilient spirit despite polio and hardship
Richard A. Crouch joins the Huron County Sheriff's Department as a full time deputy replacing Lt. James Robertson who resigned in May Robertson planned to leave for Greenwich street Commissioner Crouch 24 years old served in U S Army combat engineers including Vietnam and Germany He and his wife Carrie live in Norwalk Sheriff John Borgia notes Warner will remain on force after reconsidering his resignation and the department reaches its officer limit with the hires Warner has served seven years as a deputy.
Police announce a new traffic policy banning turns from Milan Avenue onto Monroe Street during school hours. The measure, effective on school days, targets safety at the St Paul School intersection with crossing guard Marvin Stutsman enforcing it.
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