New Tennis Courts Approved and Football Seating Discussed
Norwalk Board awards Price Construction a four court tennis project at the junior high for 31,797 with total cost near 40,000. Supt. Gotaas backs the program citing PE value. Miller opposes cost. Boosters seek larger Whitney Field seating and advance ticketing to ease congestion.
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Norwalk Board of Education
Price Construction Co
Price
Raymond Sizemore
Paul Miller
Supt
Albion V. Gotaas
Miller
Sizemore
William Holman
Urban C. Livengood, Jr
Norwalk
St. Paul
Gotaas
Whitney
Robert Kramer
James Ryder
Alonzo Allen Teaches at Norwalk High School
Alonzo Allen did not finish high school but this year teaches government and European history to seniors at Norwalk High School. Janet Conway reports the story for Page 6. The Reflector begins a welfare series with "Welfare Trick Or Treat?" by Virginia Patton on Page 5.
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Alonzo Allen
Norwalk High School
Janet Conway
the Reflector
Virginia Patton
Libel suit over Kent State killings praised by reporter
Peter Davies welcomed a 1.5 million libel suit filed by 1st Sgt. Myron C. Pryor of the Ohio National Guard. Davies asserts the case will expose questions raised about his 1970 Kent State report. In Findlay, Joe Capponi was badly injured when a coffee can with explosives blew up as he picked it up, losing an eye. The device, likely filled with stolen Atlas Powder plant powder, was left on a road by a youth suspected of dumping trash.
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NEW York
UPI
Peter Davies
Kent State University
National Guard
Ohio
Myron C. Pryor
Ohio National Guard
Davies
Pryor
Kent State
Findlay, Ohio
Joe Capponi
Findlay
Hancock County Sheriff's Office
Capponi
Sheriff’s Office
Atlas
Botulism outbreak hits two families after chili sauce dinner
In Bakersfield seven people from two families were rushed into emergency care after consuming a homemade chili sauce. They underwent emergency tracheotomies Tuesday with four in critical condition and three in serious condition. In Cincinnati Ohio the Alcoholic Safety Action Program ASAP aims to curb drunken driving with a $2 million three year effort starting early 1972.
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Bakersfield, Calif
UPI
Cincinnati
Ohio
Seth Staples
Tropical Storm Heidi floods Chester and Norristown toll rises
Rescue teams in helicopters and boats plucked residents from trees and rooftops as Eastern Pennsylvania endured a fourth day of torrential rain from Tropical Storm Heidi. At least nine people drowned with four others missing amid 15 foot floodwaters through Chester and Norristown.
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Chester
UPI
Pennsylvania
Norristown
Weather Outlook Norwalk Wisconsin and Area
Increasing cloudiness and mild today with highs in the mid to upper seventies. Tonight cooler with a 10 percent chance of precipitation, 20 percent tonight, and 30 percent Thursday. Norwalk high 80 and low 51 with no precipitation. Births report two new sons in Lorain and Norwalk. Marriage licenses issued for residents of Willard and Bellevue. Deaths include Mrs. Marge Schulte aged 57 and Mrs. Mabel G. Kline aged 87.
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Norwalk
Marge Schulte
Euclid
Mabel G. Kline
Greenwich
Who Fired Shots At Attica As Hostages Die In Riot
Authorities acknowledge nine hostages were shot to death during the Attica prison retaking but refuse to identify shooters. Commissioner Russell G. Oswald revised earlier statements saying hostages died of gunshot wounds and noting inmates dressed hostages in prison garb used as shields. The toll rose to 32 inmates and 10 hostages with one more guard dying from injuries.
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Attica
N.Y
UPI
Attica State Prison
Russell G. Oswald
Correctional Services
Oswald
McGovern Denies Meeting With Viet Cong At Saigon Church
Saigon Police Chief Trang Si Tan said Senator George McGovern was unwittingly meeting with Viet Cong agents at a Roman Catholic church before a firebombing incident. Tan, who courtships Thieu’s daughter, noted McGovern did not know his companions were Viet Cong. Police blamed indignant PSDF units for the attack as McGovern campaigns against the war and Thieu’s unopposed re election.
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Saigon
UPI
Trang Si Tan
George McGovern
D-S.d
McGovern
Nguyen van Thieu
Tan
Thieu
People’s Self Defense Forces
PSDF
Dudley Plans Colonial Office Building on Benedict Ave
Joe E. Dudley begins a new 32 by 20 foot colonial style office building on Benedict Avenue near Norwalk Creek. The $10,000 project, built by Barman and Seitz, will house Dudley Real Estate with completion expected in December. Dudley exits all insurance ventures to focus solely on real estate, a move from the Dudley and Son firm and its later Bache Furey Myers Dudley and Son arrangement.
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Joe E. Dudley
Benedict Avenue
Norwalk Creek
Fisher Brothers Carriage Shop
General Motors
Dudley
Dudley Real Estate
Benedict
Frank Dudley
Furniture Production Is Resumed At Norwalk Plant
Norwalk Furniture Corp. resumed full production at 7 a.m. after a day-long stoppage caused by a power failure. A 1500 KVA transformer failed Monday evening and a replacement arrived Tuesday night, with power back shortly after 9 p.m. according to industrial engineer Eugene Doughty. The transformer was less than a year old and still under warranty.
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Norwalk Furniture Corp
Eugene Doughty
15 Year Old Walks Away From Center
A 15 year old Bellevue boy walked away from the Huron County Detention Center late Tuesday. He had been taken there to await transport to a diagnostic center in Columbus after a Sandusky County Juvenile Court conviction for breaking and entering. Authorities had little information and the youth remained unfound as of morning, with sheriff and area police alerted.
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Bellevue
Huron County Detention Center
Mittie Butler
Columbus
Sandusky County
Huron County
Huron County Sheriff's Department
Britain urges U S devaluation of dollar and tariff lift
London reports Britain joins Common Market partners in pressing the United States to devalue the dollar and remove Nixon's 10 percent import surcharge. Chancellor Anthony Barber told John Connally that such steps are key to ending the month-old dollar crisis as the U S resists lifting the surcharge without other currencies rising in value.
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London
UPI
Britain
United States
Nixon
John B. Connally
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Dennis Schultz
Lorain
Dennis Patterson
William A. Bardsley
Willard
Carol S. Patton
Thomas H. Yost
Helen A. Bernard
Sen
Eugene McCarthy
University of Maryland
Minnesota
UPI Telephoto
U.S
Vietnam
Joe Dudley
Anthony Barber
U.S. Treasury
Mary Scalf
Fisher Body
Pontiac
Mich
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