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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1972
Page
1
UPI reports Phnom Penh fell into near anarchy with thousands looting markets while gunfire echoed in the streets. Civilians and soldiers broke into stores, and a Red Cross warehouse yielded 200 sacks of rice donated by Japan as food shortages persisted.
In Dayton suburbs Sargent Shriver met Mrs. Bette Lowrey known as the average American voter. Lowrey, a 46 year old Democrat and wife of a machinist, said she will vote for McGovern, praising his and Shriver’s interests.
Beachwood Ohio Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld delivered the eulogy for Israeli weightlifter David Berger and urged Jews to shun calls for retaliation. He said true memorials are security for Israel and the Jewish people achieved through peace and condemned revenge as beastiality.
Mostly cloudy today with showers and a few thundershowers. High mid to low 70s, cooler tonight with a chance of rain then partial clearing. Lows upper 40s to lower 50s. Saturday partly cloudy and cooler, high near 60. Rain chances 50 today 30 tonight 20 Saturday. Norwalk high 82 low 57. Sunrise 7 00 sunset 7 48. Moonrise 8 59 moonset 8 01. Marriage licenses issued to Kluding Barr Cramer Ballev Fritz Varney. Birth: Nichols girl. Death: Sandy Aquino stillborn daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Aquino Jr Norwalk.
Rebecca Sue Graham Miss Indiana a physical education graduate student from Indianapolis who cannot swim won the swimsuit preliminary. Terry Anne Meeuwsen Miss Wisconsin a professional singer won the talent preliminary with He Touched Me. The pageant continues with the final prelims tonight before Saturday’s Miss America 1973 crowning.
Israeli warplanes swept to within four miles of Damascus aiming at guerrilla bases in Syria and Lebanon in retaliation for Munich's Olympic killings. Attacks hit seven Syrian villages and three in Lebanon with no immediate damage assessment.
Mrs Gladys L Bender longtime helper of area migrant workers died today at Providence Hospital Sandusky after weeks of illness. She 70 lived 56 N Pleasant St Norwalk born in Michigan and active with Church Women United and migrant nursery programs. Funeral arrangements to be announced by Kubach Smith Funeral Home.
A 25 year old Vietnam veteran Richard E. Shoemaker of Bellevue died after his car hit a truck on U S 20 east of Bellevue. Henry W. Brown 63 of Sandusky died from internal injuries after being knocked down and dragged by a Erie County Highway Department dump truck on Mason Road east of U S 250. The truck driver William E. Burnaman 27 of Washington Pa was hospitalized in fair condition. Shoemaker’s family and Brown’s survivors are listed with funeral arrangements set in Sandusky and Bellevue.
Prosecutor Bernard Freeman filed in Common Pleas Court asking Judge Robert J. Vetter to re-examine 63 Huron County petition signatures for a repeal of the state income tax. The county board of elections had invalidated 507 signatures for noncompliance as protests spread to other counties.
Huron County Fair Board seeks 33600 in federal funds through the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to cover about half the cost for 20 acres west of the fairgrounds. Commissioners press for sanitary sewer service and consider future grants for broader fairground development.
Todd Arbogast a 17 year old and his one man bird have formed a close bond after reviving a damaged pigeon found by neighborhood girls last June. The bird now rides on Todd’s shoulder and eats from his hand, and even flies in circles behind the house but never leaves the yard.
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