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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1966
Page
1
Birmingham Bits notes parking issues at town hall convulsion and records HEART FUND contributions totaling 816534 with more expected. The page references Lorain County graduates review and WWI buddies reunion after 23 years.
Mrs Agnes Matusik 76 of 92 G St Lorain was found dead in a bedroom after a Saturday fire. Deputy coroner ruled burns caused death and a partially burned candle is blamed. Funeral plans set at Dombrowski Funeral Home with burial at Calvary Cemetery.
In WAVERLY Ohio a fire in a temporary one room home killed three infant girls Melanie Sue Walters 21 months Stephanie Lou Walters 21 months and Patty Jo Walters 10 months The parents Norman and Walters were nearby 50 feet away at the time The home was part of a remodel project near Beaver about 12 miles southeast of Waverly Beaver Sheriff said sounds of popping preceded the blaze which consumed the structure built with a house trailer attached
French President Charles de Gaulle announced France would pull out of NATO progressively by April 1969 while preserving the Atlantic alliance in practice. He stressed continued cooperation and did not sever membership in the pact.
U S military spokesmen report heavy bombing of targets in North Vietnam and continued U S casualties in the South. Five airmen killed and 12 wounded in a collision near Saigon as Viet Cong forces endure mortar barrages. 352 combat sorties flown in the South amid ongoing operations near Vinh and Thanh Hoa.
Bargaining teams from Local 1161 of the United Auto Workers and the Pfaudler plant of Ritter Pfaudler Corp are called to a 10 30 am meeting Wednesday with federal mediator Kenneth Evans. Local 1161 struck the plant Jan 15 after talks stretched the old contract to 1966.
The defense in the James C Cross case summoned psychiatrists to testify about childhood traumas in an effort to cast doubt on his sanity after he was accused of strangling two coeds and raping one of them in Austin Texas.
Dr. Robert Holgren of Fort Worth treated trauma from childhood for Harold Wilson in London. Wilson flies to Moscow for talks as Kremlin hosts debate on reconvening a conference to end the Vietnam war while suspect Perry L. Jones faces a trial for a slaying.
Police in Morzine France arrest a German shepherd accused of stealing dozens of items from ski slopes and streets. The dog was found carrying a jacket with money and most missing articles were recovered buried in snow. Officials say there is no plan to prosecute.
Sen Robert F. Kennedy urged Washington to include the Viet Cong in peace talks and in any future South Vietnamese government. President Johnson’s advisers dismissed the idea, while Sen Fulbright backed recognizing the Viet Cong political arm as a negotiating factor. Vice President Humphrey ridiculed the coalition proposal as dangerous.
Fleet Adm Chester W Nimitz, who led the Pacific Fleet after Pearl Harbor, died at his naval base home at 80. He never retired, and his era included rebuilding a shattered fleet into a force of 5000 ships. In his public remarks Wheeler described the Vietnam conflict and its aims, stressing economic and political factors amid a broader war context.
Partly cloudy conditions with light snow flurries through Tuesday. Highs reach 18 to 24 degrees, with tonight’s low around 7 to 11.
Lorain Lt John Malnovsky head of the vice squad and three patrolmen Emil Haponek George Whitman and Frank Aquilina were praised for capturing two men suspected in the slaying of Raymond Pounds a 28 year old clerk during a holdup at Convenient Food Mart. Malnovsky and Haponek had previously captured a slayer suspect within minutes of a shooting at the Mexican American Citizens Club on East 28th Street last November. Bonnilla Pedro Jose Ortiz Bonnilla 28 of East 28th Street fired during the exchange and surrendered after shots were exchanged.
Britain's Labor government plans a Tuesday defense policy shift emphasizing nuclear weapons and reduced naval spending. The plan aims for 1969 defense cuts by purchasing U S fighter bombers rather than developing costly domestic aircraft, signaling a major strategic reorientation.
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