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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1972
Page
1
At Hilton Head the vice president left the head table to speak with Governor Wallace in his wheelchair about prayers for recovery after last May’s assassination attempt. Wallace apologized for missing a prior reception as Agnew bent close.
Dr Michel Siffre, 54, reappeared with his wife Nathalie near Del Rio Texas after six months in Midnight Cave. He endured dust and a 205 day isolation while studying biological rhythms, emerging at 11:49 a.m. to embrace life outside and plan a bath.
The Dallas city council voted to halt demolition or alteration of the former Texas School Book Depository until an application to designate it a historic site is decided. The vacant building linked to John F. Kennedy's 1963 assassination sits in limbo after foreclosure by Republic National Bank from Aubrey Mayhew and eventual return to D. Harold Byrd.
United Press International reports thousands of students face uncertain school openings as teachers unions strike or threaten to strike in Philadelphia New York City Rockford Saginaw and suburbs. In Philadelphia 285000 students attend public schools and do not open as planned with little chance of classes starting this week.
Senator George S. McGovern urged an end to all violence after the Munich Olympic killings, warning that if unchecked it could become the only way of life. He asked for global action to halt the bloodshed.
Mostly sunny mild day with highs in the 70s and a low around 50s. Thursday brings warmer, variable clouds with a small shower risk. Norwalk records show marriages for Harry Schar Ruth Clevenger and Thomas Leasure Lisa Stull. a Norwalk birth to Mr and Mrs Thomas Hutton. deaths of Virgil Lewis and Bernard Spayde in Willard.
New London Police Committee will investigate a Labor Day incident in New London between part time Patrolman Jake Risner and 24 year old Andy Fife. Fife was treated for a head wound after a beer spray confrontation and jailed on a public intoxication charge.
Norwalk parochial schools show a fall enrollment drop from last spring with St. Mary’s Elementary at 172 students and St. Paul’s high and elementary totals down from 196 and 578/350. Officials say tuition factors affected only a few withdrawals and transfers to public junior high cited. The Watergate bug probe noted by the Democratic chairman is reported in Salt Lake City.
Arab terrorists sparked a deadly attack at the Munich Olympic Games killing 17, including 11 Israelis. Hostages and other athletes were affected as West German forces tried to recover control, with international leaders urging mourning and continuation of the games.
President Nixonordered further protection in the United States against potential Arab terrorist activity. He said security measures could target Americans of Israeli background as he condemned the Munich massacre and spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.
Shmuel Lalkin of Tel Aviv, leader of Israel's Olympic delegation, said he escaped his room an hour after gunmen seized nine teammates. He described waking to shooting at 4:30 a.m., two teammates fleeing from rooms two and four, and two escape attempts from room one. He noted Moishe Weinberg was killed at 5:10 a.m. and that others escaped in the darkness, with Turye Sokolski and wrestler Seberin also fleeing.
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