20 Oct 1978
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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1978
Page
1
Washington AP reports the Commerce Department says the 3rd quarter annual inflation rate eased to 7 percent, the year's smallest thus far, while the economy expanded at a steady pace. Despite this, other indicators hint at renewed price pressures and President Carter plans new anti inflation measures in a televised address.
Police say actor Gig Young and his 31-year-old wife Kim Schmidt were found dead in their luxury Manhattan apartment after a Thursday night shooting. Young, 60, held a .38 snub-nose revolver, with a diary opened to We got married today. The deaths are treated as murder suicide with no note found.
George Dashnau, an advertising executive from Philadelphia, markets $100 skulls supplied by a medical firm. The specimens, prepared for medical study, are hollowed to reveal brain cavities and feature a movable jaw. Dashnau calls them old bones and says they fascinate and command attention in any room despite their gruesome appeal.
A HEW funded Georgetown study projects health care costs will exceed 1 trillion dollars in 2000, consuming up to 12 percent of GNP. Indirect costs bring total illness costs to over 2 trillion, with aging population and rising physician fees driving the surge.
Ypsilanti, Mich. AP Billy Hardesty, 21, nicknamed "terrible kid" by neighbors, is hospitalized as police review a grisly murder spree that claimed five victims including his mother and father. He was charged with three murders after his arrest on Thursday. Neighbors described him as aggressive and vulgar, with frequent fights with his father. State Police noted a prior assault conviction in 1976.
U.S. planners pursue mobile MX missiles to escape Soviet targeting with diverse concealable launch concepts. Proposals include trains or trucks moving the weapon, underwater platforms, buried tunnels, air launch, or sea basing, with two main options under development and others kept on paper.
A local police advisory urges residents to call 425 7700 to report crimes or suspicious activity and help prevent incidents. The notice emphasizes immediate reporting to authorities for timely intervention and public safety.
The forecast calls for clear skies and cold nights with mid 40s lows. Saturday should be sunny with a high near 70. Temperatures yesterday reached a high of 63 after a 37-degree morning. Sunday looks fair with showers expected Monday and ending by Tuesday, with highs in the 60s and 70s and lows in the 40s.
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