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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1983
Page
2
May 2, 1983 dateline notes bishops considering a letter while President Reagan visits a Vietnam memorial. An Associated Press feature covers dialysis costs and Poland’s May Day unrest, highlighting national and international contexts.
Juan Fernandez Krohn a 33 year old Spanish priest received six years for attempted murder and six months for illegal possession of a 14 inch bayonet. He shouted insults at the judge and was ordered tried in absentia for contempt. In California a rookie officer Anthony Sperl was cleared of wrongdoing for fatally shooting a 5 year old holding a dime store pistol.
Richard T. Funkhouser former ambassador to Gabon and head of the EPA international affairs office offered his resignation, which was accepted by acting administrator Lee Verstandig. He said he will take another Reagan administration post but did not name it. The move follows earlier resignations and is not said to be tied to a House subcommittee probe into an international chemical testing agreement.
Alaska remains the richest state with $15 200 per capita income in 1982 while Mississippi is the poorest at $7 792. The Commerce Department reports Americans averaged $11 056 per person in 1982, with national income up 5.3 percent from 1981 and inflation at 5.6 percent. Connecticut is second, Alaska and Connecticut kept top rankings from 1981. a decade earlier Alaska led and Mississippi ranked 50th.
Des Moines Iowa a 132 year old marriage law remains on books banning nontraditional officiants and a new measure limits ceremony fees to two dollars. Gov Branstad is expected to sign. The law also threatens fines for violations. In Bangkok a May Day vasectomy drive sterilized 667 men in seven minutes each aided by a rock band and volunteers.
The FCC faces a dispute over a New York sex telephone line run by High Society magazine. About 30 million calls in three months earned the outlet roughly $600,000, prompting lawsuits and congressional outcry over minors' access and obscenity concerns.
A swarm of thunderstorms with high winds, heavy rain, and 40 tornadoes swept the eastern Great Lakes, killing and missing people and injuring scores in the Midwest. One police officer drowned in Kansas City while rescuing a canoeist. A mobile home overturned in Edgewood, Illinois, killing one and injuring another. Divers searched for a 7-year-old swept away on the Great Miami River. Ohio faced flash flood watches as storms shifted, with numerous tornadoes across Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Nebraska and Michigan.
Rain and thunderstorms spread across the Great Lakes to New England and the Ohio Valley with tornado potential. Southwest and southern areas see sun and heat. plains and Rockies partly cloudy. Temperatures range from the 20s in the high west to the 90s in the south and southwest with air quality Good at 8 p.m. yesterday.
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