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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1973
Page
1
Nixon ends most mandatory wage price controls except for food and health sectors and asks Congress to extend standby authority. Markets react with a stock surge while critics warn of a wage earners price crunch and potential rapid government intervention if costs rise.
Economic leaders react with mixed views as Nixon outlines Phase 3 to ease controls while keeping some sectors under tighter supervision. Meany says AFL CIO will cooperate, Woodcock calls restraint a long-term goal, Fitzgerald blasts the plan as profiteers’ field day, and GM chief Gerstenberg urges early return to competitive markets.
A $1 million damage suit against General Motors over a 1968 Cotaco school bus crash continues as deposition testimony is read. GM denies brake design fault while witnesses cite maintenance limits, environmental conditions, and driver error as contributing factors.
U S military sources report tightened security at the Tan Son Nhut Command headquarters amid intelligence that Viet Cong terrorists may try to bomb the facility. Vehicles are restricted and searched for explosives as tensions rise after reports of planned attacks linked to U S bombing in North Vietnam.
HARTSELLE Robert Harold Orr 37 a Fulbright Scholar and Naval Academy instructor died Thursday at Vanderbilt Hospital Nashville after a lengthy illness. Funeral 2 p m Saturday Peck Funeral Home Chapel burial Hartselle Cemetery. survivors include parents sisters and a grandmother. A scholarship fund is set with donations to local banks.
New Orleans banker Louie Roussel, major stockholder in Mutual Savings Life, launched a relief fund for the families of three officers killed in the DownTown sniping attack. He gave $5,000 to Irvin Magri to share among Deputy Police Supt Louis Sirgo and Patrolmen Phillip Coleman and Paul Persigo, urging other groups to contribute.
Detroit Lions head coach Joe Schmidt resigns following a 8 5 1 record and a third place finish in the NFC Central. The move arrives after a season marked by frustration and team underachievement.
The notice lists section locations in Today's Daily Calendar with A sections for Classified Editorials Obituaries and Weather. It notes Quick Weather with highs in the upper 30s and lows from the low 20s to upper teens through the night and into Saturday.
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