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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1987
Page
3
Southern California freeway shootings rise to 34 this month as five more motorists are targeted with bullets. No injuries reported, 4 dead and 15 injured overall with 18 arrests. Board of Supervisors offers $25,000 for information leading to arrests and convictions.
Prosecutor Michael Shaked wrapped six days of cross examination with a claim that John Demjanjuk operated gas chambers at Treblinka. Demjanjuk, a 67 year old Cleveland area retiree, denied the charges saying he was in the Red Army and later in POW camps. The courtroom audience reacted with murmurs as Judge Dov Levin e urged the witness to answer clearly.
Iran announces its first submarine will be launched this week during three day wargames named Martyrdom. Commander Mohsen Rezaei says missiles are ready, and naval maneuvers aim to boost Iran's ability to confront US plots.
US Representative Don Pease and UAW Local 780 officials discuss federal and state programs that could aid the Fisher Guide workers displaced by GM’s Lowell Street plant shutdown. Benefits include training, job search help, relocation support, and extended unemployment assistance through programs like TAA and JTPA.
County officials described lack of publicity for job openings as a factor in the low applicant turnout for a $20,800 starting post. Six people applied after last month’s posting, compared with about two dozen when the position first existed in February 1986. The broad job requirements narrowed candidates, with four lacking college degrees. Marotta, a 24-year-old Cincinnati grad with a master’s in communications arts, was the sole candidate without “baggage.” The county plans further training and may broaden advertising in the future.
Unruh, 64, nicknamed Big Daddy, a flamboyant speaker of the California Assembly, died in Los Angeles on Tuesday. He helped transform the state treasurer’s office into a national economic force and was an early supporter of John F. Kennedy. As state chairman of the Unruh campaign, he stood with Kennedy when he was assassinated. He authored landmark pre consumer credit laws including the 1959 Unruh Credit Reporting Act and California’s civil rights act, both years before federal peers.
The Chronicle-Telegram lists key staff with positions at Lorain County Printing & Publishing Co with publishers editors and department heads including Arthur D Hudnatt Timothy Lowecke Arnold Miller Charles Hostetter Jack Weaver George Miller and board contact details for Elyria Ohio offices and circulation contacts.
The landmark Baby M case winds through its aftermath as Mary Beth Whitehead files separation from Richard Whitehead after 13 years of marriage. The couple, who fought a custody battle with William and Elizabeth Stern over the child born to contract, say they love each other but do not plan to reunite. Whitehead, treated for a kidney ailment after the baby’s birth, remains separated from Bricktown, New Jersey, while the Sterns hold custody of the child born under the contract.
The Oberlin levy, after a campaign by the Lorain County League of Taxpayers led by Joyce Brummer, was defeated 663 to 517 in the city and 447 to 71 in rural townships. The measure would have raised 410000, funding eight teaching positions, bussing for Langston Middle School, and waiving athletic and activities fees while imposing student work book fees. A special school board meeting tonight at 8 will discuss levy effects.
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