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Newspaper
The Gazette
Location
Medina, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1973
Page
3
Reported firing in the Golan Heights ends with three Arab guerrillas killed as they planted a bomb near a village. Separate items note James McCord Jr received 3000 dollars monthly, Wounded Knee talks, Bormann death ruling, and a Swiss plane crash toll of 96 dead.
Ralph Nader accuses the Environmental Protection Agency of yielding to the auto industry and says the EPA will grant a one year delay in implementing pollution control standards mandated for 1975. The decision was set to be announced today.
Air Force Captain Edward J. Mechenbier of Dayton, a prisoner of war for fifty years in North Vietnam, presented the Air Force Museum with a hand embroidered T shirt showing a picture of his wife. He said the embroidery took about a week while in prison.
Partly cloudy and cool with a chance of snow flurries in the northeast. Highs will be in the 30s to 40s. Tonight and Thursday bring variable cloudiness with lows in the upper 20s to mid 30s and a warmer Thursday. Lake Erie winds shift to a small craft advisory with 20 to 30 knot gusts diminishing, then 12 to 20 knots tonight. Waves are 3 to 6 feet today and 2 to 4 feet tonight.
On this date 1794 birth of Edward Everett is noted. Jackie Robinson breaks color line in 1947 exhibition with Dodgers. 1966 Guam based B52s strike Vietnam. 1968 Johnson calls up 24500 reservists for Vietnam. 1970 Apollo 13 mission heads to moon but crew aborts after oxygen tank explosion.
Memorial service held for Phila O Averill 83 at Central Congregational Church Madison. Other obituary notes: Viella B Kidd 81 died Wooster. Bertha J Anderson 91 died Canton Lodi area. Henry S Wojciak 59 Brunswick. Regina Cosco Hinckley with five grandchildren. Surviving relatives listed. services planned in several funeral homes and churches.
Hinckley residents object to a planned regional sewer linking Hinckley Brunswick and North Royalton arguing lack of master plan and potential zoning destruction. Critics warn of wasted millions and long-term assessments while supporters cite petition drives and county orders to proceed. Public officials urge caution and alternatives including septic options.
The column notes Ohio legislators debate lowering the drinking age to 18. Sen. Van Meter argues 18-year-olds deserve full rights. four Democrats join 13 Republicans in opposition. Gray cautions about higher auto insurance costs if age is lowered. A voice vote led to a roll call showing few in favor. Lukens was absent. In Medina, a separate notice covers a paper drive by Boy Scout Troop 514 at St. Matthew Lutheran Church with pickup details.
Harry Bradstock of 7791 Pawnee Road Lodi received a 10 to 25 year term in the Ohio Penitentiary after a Medina County Common Pleas Court jury found him guilty of two armed robberies on February 3 and February 11, 1972, amounting to 134.90 and 24 dollars respectively.
Five people were injured in a three car crash on Route 3 near I 76. Patricia Sands led a southbound vehicle that stopped for oncoming traffic and turned left into the path of a northbound car driven by Charles Anderson, with a passenger in Sands’s car and a passenger in Anderson’s car also injured. All injured were treated and released at Medina Community Hospital.
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