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Newspaper
Delaware County Daily Times
Location
Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1981
Page
6
Ridley Township commissioners passed a law licensing dealers in gold silver and gems and requiring daily police transaction logs. Buyers’ identities must be verified, goods held 15 days, and police can trace stolen items. Other towns urged to follow suit to curb crime.
Paul Harvey argues the Iran crisis shows hypocrisy over 2,528 missing in Vietnam as Americans were warned to evacuate while hostages endured. He notes ships off Hormuz prepared to rescue evacuees, with crewman Douglas A. Pirolozzi recalling orders and delays, and cites Kissinger fears that paying ransom would invite kidnappings.
Oranges were selling for six cents a dozen in Chester markets as part of a Florida frozen crop. Preston Lake drew crowds of boys and girls skating there each afternoon amid cold weather and water shortages in the North Ward.
The departing vice president Walter Mondale ordered thousands of dollars in furnishings for the Naval Observatory and the White House office last fall. New carpeting, wallpaper, drapery, and a custom couch were delivered in October through November. A federal probe followed but stopped short of a formal investigation. The Bush administration vows cost cuts while Mondale’s redecorating appears partisan to some observers. Fidel Castro reportedly contemplates defecting but remains tethered to the Soviet bloc and its $10 million daily aid to Cuba.
Almanac notes Saturday January 31 1980 the 31st day of the year with 334 to follow. It lists celestial positions and zodiac sign Aquarius. It recalls Truman ordering hydrogen bomb development in 1950 and Explorer 1 launch from Cape Canaveral in 1958.
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