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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1970
Page
3
City hall workers logged extensive overtime to feed information to consultant John Sawyer as he reviews electric department data and prepares for the Nov 3 election on selling the municipal power system to Ohio Edison. The task wrapped up Monday night per a city hall source.
An E A Barton and Associates representative will meet Norwalk City Council tonight to discuss double decker parking facilities. The public is invited. Allen Hakes says the speaker will answer questions about the proposed parking lots including plans at Whittlesey Avenue north of the fire station. Council previously defeated buying Main and Hester Streets property for a lot.
Columbus City Auditor Charles Hipp and Service Director Adam Brickner attended the 1970 Ohio Municipal Conference Program in Columbus run by the Ohio Municipal League. Sessions cover labor relations finance housing mayor’s courts planning and zoning sewage disposal and traffic. The event runs through Friday at the Sheraton Columbus Motor Hotel.
Ralph Parker of the First United Methodist Church urged the City Council to appoint a tax equalization board to review church property assessments. The church reports being assessed at over one third of property value. Law Director Franklin Eckstein cited no irregularities per Squire, Sanders and Dempsey. The council gave the church until mid October to pursue legal options with its own counsel.
Rescue planes searched a 52 000 square mile area about 450 miles southeast of St. John's Newfoundland for two men and a woman in an orange yellow white balloon named The Free Life. Pilot Malcolm Brighton Rodney Anderson and Pamela Brown left East Hampton Sunday hoping to cross to Europe in four to ten days.
A rear truck fire started at 9 30 AM after a cardboard box with hot ashes was dumped into the trash truck. Driver Walter Sweet of 34 Morley Drive suspects the box was placed in the vehicle earlier and noted smoke spreading from the rear while he was loading. Only the top of the enclosed compartment was damaged.
In Toledo a mortuary set for Patrolman James Miscannon's funeral was firebombed with the word pig on the wall. Security boosted as services planned at Susiowski Mortuary and a march to Calvary Cemetery. Black Panther member John McCllland, 25, charged with first degree murder. Michael Cross, 20, deputy defense minister, charged with illegal possession of explosives and weapons.
David D. Hartley of rural Norwalk received a six month suspended jail term after pleading guilty to petit larceny in Common Pleas Court. He admitted stealing tires valued at 90 dollars from Maxie Tire and Supply Co. on Whittlesey Avenue earlier this summer and was placed on five years probation after the charge was reduced to a misdemeanor.
Cuyahoga County Coroner Samuel Gerber ruled that John Hay High School senior Michael Holt died of heart failure brought on by exertion and heat during a running drill last August. He noted no pattern emerged from his study of similar cases.
A two-vehicle collision at State Route 113 and Joppa Road in Florence maimed and killed two, with Robert E. Bing 55 of Fremont and Mary Bing (Mrs Ford Bing) of Milan dying from injuries. Truck driver Webster Potts 63 of rural Collins survived in fair condition. Funeral notices follow for the Bings and memorial arrangements are listed.
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