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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1979
Page
3
Morris Illinois UPI report states John Wayne Gacy confessed to luring 32 boys and young men to his suburban Chicago home and killing them. The Illinois River body identified as Robert Piest, 15, described as a good kid. Indicted on seven murder charges.
HEW doctors accuse overuse of services at New London hospital and improper admissions related to patients from distant nursing homes. Concerns include extensive tests and blood transfusions to an 80 year old with mild anemia, which coroner Dr William Holman called potentially dangerous. He ruled the death natural, but faulted Dr Faymore for overstepping.
Detroit UPI reports a Trans World Airlines Boeing 727 cockpit voice recorder tape of a five mile supersonic plunge was erased after an emergency landing in violation of federal law. The 20 minute tape captured crew conversations as the jet yawed right over Flint Michigan rolled over twice and dived from 39000 feet at a steep angle.
Los Angeles detectives escort Bobby Joe Maxwell to the Criminal Court Building where he was charged with 11 murders of skid row derelicts and five counts of robbery. He was refused bail after being found standing over a sleeping derelict. Maxwell appeared in a lineup over the weekend and was identified. The prosecutor seeks the death penalty.
The Ohio Basketball Association reports eight districts pay football coaches over 2500 and three districts pay basketball coaches that much or more. State average for high school football assistant coaches is 860, Elyria system has 11 assistants at 1199 each. Elyria women’s head basketball pay is 1199, about 35 percent above state average 892, with top pay statewide at 2090.
Columbus Ohio Chief Justice Frank Celebrezze removed Common Pleas Judge James J McGettrick from hearing Cleveland carnival kickback cases and replaced him with George Tyack. Celebrezze cited concerns about McGettricks conduct eroding confidence in the judiciary. Elyria schools report shows teachers and coaches facing lower base pay and mixed extra duty pay, with notable gaps versus state averages.
An Ohio Teamsters spokesman said there is little evidence of union actions against noncontract firms while the 10 day trucking shutdown disrupts auto supply. J C Penney distribution suffers. Sears may fare better as federal mediators report progress but say a long road remains to end the strike.
In Stow Ohio 29 year old David Hume will be charged as an adult after a juvenile court judge waived hearings. Prosecutors plan to present to a grand jury. Hume allegedly killed his adoptive mother Norma Hume in 1965 and dumped the body in a creek near Akron. An autopsy later found a bullet wound and homicide ruling.
Pennsylvania officials authorize 23 nearby schools to resume classes after Harold Denton of the NRC says the crisis at the Three Mile Island reactor is easing. Gov. Thornburgh also tellspregnant women and children to return home within a five mile radius as radiation readings drop toward normal levels. Civil defense on call status relaxes from fall alert.
The Ohio Lottery Commission moved toward a contract with American Totalisator Inc for the Daily Game. The plan includes 500 vending machines rising to 1,000 in year one and 1,600 after two years, with the Attorney General reviewing the contract.
Harold D Hoopman, president of Marathon Oil, argues windfall profits tax on oil producers is unnecessary. He endorses phased decontrol of domestic crude oil prices as vital to an energy plan and notes much revenue from price increases already goes to governments under current taxes. He cites large company investments in oil.
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