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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1964
Page
1
The Norwalk area Girl Scouts will receive 5500 from the United Fund to maintain professional services for troops. The drive began Wednesday in Norwalk with 3800 raised on the first day. UF president B Harry Parke announced the campaign goal of 49117 and plans to distribute funds to 18 agencies.
American soprano Leontyne Price sang with bronchitis during her Moscow Bolshoi debut. An ovation lasting 26 minutes drew fans and hosted by Nina Khrushchev as Price hoped to impress further on her next appearance.
London the Imperial College senior lecturer Joan Woodward told an audience that no evidence supports the theory that happy workers are more productive. She added that in some occupations and industries disgruntled workers have been found to outproduce their happier peers.
Weather cloudy and windy with light showers in the northeast area. Partly cloudy and cooler tonight and Friday. Low around 44 to 51. Marriage license applications for Donald G Ward and Ellawayne S Wrede. Births include a girl to John and (Mrs) Urban at 82 Old Road and girls to David Reineck and boy to William Rarick and Herbert Bores. Deaths listed for Arthur G Smith Ida M Harper and William T Croff.
A 50 year old Lodge proposal to engrave each Senate desk with occupant names returns amid debate as Sen Johnston claims Calhoun desk. Sen Thurmond and Sen Long dispute desk ownership with Huey P. Long's son reluctant to surrender his father’s desk.
Senate Rules Committee plans renewed hearings on Bobby Baker, tied to a $25,000 kickback link to the Kennedy Johnson campaign in 1960. Matthew H. McCloskey and Don Reynolds are named as witnesses amid calls for open and closed sessions. Baker again invokes constitutional rights in prior testimony.
St Pauls high school senior Robert L Wiedemann named a Merit Semifinalist in the 1964 65 National Merit Scholarship competition. Bellevue High School senior William H Degler also semifinalist. Semifinalists qualified by performance on the National Merit Qualifying Test taken last March in over 17 000 high schools. To reach finalist status they must take a second exam gain school endorsement and meet requirements.
Arthur George Smith 74, author and amateur archaeologist, died yesterday at Crile Veterans Hospital. He lived at 65 N. Foster St and served as curator for archaeology at Firelands Museum. He held offices in the Ohio Archaeology Society and contributed to Norwalk Reflector’s Public Forum. Services Saturday at 2 p.m. at Heaston Funeral Home. Burial Woodlawn Cemetery. He is survived by wife Virginia Kinney and two sons.
Vandals entered the First Baptist Church Wednesday night and smeared mustard lard ice cream and communion bread over a parked car. Rev R H Buckland reported the vandalism to city police. A car owned by Quintella M Cronk at 15 St Clair St was ransacked and a box of Kleenex was spread on the church lot.
Sam Landes of London Ohio House member will speak at the Huron County Industrial Exposition and Safety Awards banquet at 7 PM at the Knights of Columbus Home. The event closes the exposition with safety awards handed by Thomas W Gallager. Landes chairs key committees and backed 1963 workers compensation laws. About 800 adults attended the two public showings and 2000 area students visited during the day. Twenty seven county industries participated.
The article argues for stronger actions to curb juvenile delinquency through earlier counseling, increased funding for education and vocational programs, and expanded institutional options. It notes teachers and judges call for more funds and counselors, and describes a new Big Brother program in Huron County to support at risk youths.
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