GOP Blames Irongate and Preachers for Shortfall
In New Orleans the Republican National Committee reports a fund raising shortfall of over $2 million from 1987 targets, blaming Iran Contra fallout and evangelical controversies. Officials note $14.5 million raised in five months and project $35 million for the year, down from $37.7 million.
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New Orleans
Republican National Committee
RNC
Charles Cragin
Portland
Maine
RNC Executive Council
Frank J. Fahrenkopf Jr
Fahrenkopf
Oral Roberts
Jim Bakker
Keith Brown
RNC Finance Committee
Cragin
Democratic National Committee
Party Treasuer
Bill McManus
Commuting boom as cars dominate suburban work trips
Washington AP reports a two year study shows 110 million Americans now commute to suburban jobs, up 65 percent since 1950 while population rose 50 percent. Private vehicles drive the trend, with women entering the workforce boosting car use and suburban growth fueling the shift.
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Washington
United States
Alan Pisarski
Census Bureau
U.S
Longtime Boeing Vertol worker Francis Ward dies in Ridley Park
Francis T. Ward 64 of Ridley Park and a Boeing Vertol tooling employee in Delaware County for 27 years died Wednesday at Episcopal Hospital Philadelphia. Survived by wife Dorothy Perks and children Mary Anne Teresa Donna James Michael Kevin and a sister, he had been active in United Aerospace Workers Local 1069 and Norwood American Legion Post. Funeral at Griffith Funeral Chapel Monday with Mass at St Madeline's Ridley Park. burial SS Peter and Paul Cemetery Marple.
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Francis T
Frank) Ward
Ridley Park
Boeing Vertol
Episcopal Hospital
Philadelphia
Westernport
Ward
Delaware County
Vertol
United Aerospace Workers
John Wesley Cross Post
American Legion
Norwood
Dorothy Perks
Mary Anne Augustine
Los Angeles
Calif
Teresa Ward
Glenolden
Donna Burr
James C. Ward
Springfield
Michael R. Ward
Kevin B. Ward
Gertrude Jones
Hagerstown
Dee Dee Burr
Griffith
Chester Pike
St. Madeline’s Catholic Church
SS. Peter and Paul
Marple
Sapirstein, founder of American Greetings, dies at 102
Jacob Sapirstein, who started selling postcards from a horse drawn wagon in Cleveland in 1906 and built American Greetings into the world’s largest publicly held greeting card company, died Wednesday at 102. He emigrated from Poland a year earlier and led the firm as president until 1960 and as chairman until 1978 when his son Irving took over.
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Cleveland
Jacob Sapirstein
American Greetings Corp
Sapirstein
Poland
Sapirstein Greeting Card Co
American Greetings Publishers
Irving
Louis G Black Dies Former AP Journalist at 79
Louis G Black 79 longtime Associated Press reporter who covered sports and news in Connecticut from 1934 to 1968 has died in New Haven Conn He began as an office boy and stringer for The Hartford Courant while studying at NYU and later served New Haven as director of community relations until 1978 under mayors Richard C Lee and Bartholomew Guida.
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New Haven
Richard C. Lee
Barthlomew Guida
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