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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1978
Page
5
Amman residents react with mild surprise as King Hussein, who has been married to three Arabs and a Briton, announces his fourth wife Elizabeth Halaby a 26 year old daughter of Pan Am chairman. The king remains shaken by the death of Queen Alia in a helicopter crash 16 months earlier.
In Austin a 13-year-old student killed English teacher Wilbur Rodney Grayson Jr. with a .22 rifle after alleged ongoing distress and ridicule in class. The shooter, son of former White House press secretary George Christian, was held at a juvenile center with a May 26 hearing scheduled. the case drew strong public attention.
Sgt. 1st Class Arthur C. Eckstein 37 of Clarksville Tenn died when both parachutes failed after jumping from a helicopter with two club members at 9 500 feet. He struck a driveway near an elementary school as children watched from a playground.
The FBI says 13,000 pounds of lobster tails were missing with 15,000 pounds recovered. Three men are charged with theft of interstate cargo after a Frigid Express truck carried tails from Brazil to New York and they were stolen in Newark on May 12. Lobster tails sell for 7.50 dollars per pound.
Berkeley based report notes an industry economist predicts higher tomato prices as lettuce costs also jump. Richard Hartmann of the California Farm Bureau Federation cites late winter rains delaying the San Diego County crop, a major source of U S tomatoes.
In Rockford Illinois, the estranged wife of Simon Peter Nelson testifies on the first trial day that he drove to Milwaukee to reveal the deaths of their six children. She recalls his claim that his divorce woes and her work as an ice skating instructor caused the breakdown.
MOSCOW AP Two more Soviet dissidents were sentenced to three years in a labor camp followed by two years internal exile for anti Soviet agitation and propaganda. Yuri Orlov received the maximum sentence a day earlier.
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