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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1990
Page
1
Lorain County Republican leaders honored retiring party chair Bob Wilson with a Friday night roast. The event showcased longtime supporters and noted his service to the party, marking a traditional send-off.
News briefs from Elyria and nearby including a $100000 settlement proposal in a suit against two soft drink firms from North Ridgeville, Apple Festival royalty prize money, and civic developments in Elyria Oberlin Westlake Berea North Ridgeville. Weather: partly cloudy with a 30 percent rain chance and highs in the 75 to 85 range.
Washington Mayor Marion Barry is convicted on a single drug charge and acquitted on another, while jurors deadlocked on twelve counts including perjury. The mistrial followed an FBI videotape showing Barry smoking crack, with Crenshaw testifying to shared use and Barry denying prior drug use.
Sheffield Lake fourth graders spent two weeks in a summer school program themed around whales and sailing. They improved reading and math skills and capped the program with a sailboat ride aboard boats owned by local teachers Bill Glynn and Doug Hall.
A majority of Arab League states back sending troops to defend Saudi Arabia amid Iraqi aggression. The group also endorses sanctions on Baghdad and condemns the invasion of Kuwait. Libya PLO and Iraq vote against. Algeria Yemen abstain. Jordan Sudan Mauritania abstain or reserved. Egypt and Syria pledge strong armies in the region.
Area families brace for sons heading to the Middle East with the armed forces. Delma Lawkis of Sheffield Lake waits for news as her son Ray, 22, a petty officer aboard the USS Saratoga, prepares to depart after graduation from Brookside High. She recalls recent calls and the strain of waiting. William McKenna of Elyria also featured as a related update.
Page A-2 reports President Bush vacationing in Maine as critics and media question timing. Page A-6 notes Saudis allowing pumping from the reserve, amid broader energy discussions. Political groups on Graveland rally amid tensions.
John Simko 57 of Sheffield Township is charged with aggravated murder and kidnapping in the Darling Elementary School case. Lorain officials note he bought a 1990 Wellcraft sport boat and an $11,915 car, raising questions about his indigent status as the county may fund his defense.
Ginger Manning the Lorain woman sentenced to 18 years to life for shooting her estranged husband will speak at a Battered Women's Syndrome workshop at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville. case manager Rebecca Car oline says Manning will join psychologists, rape crisis counselors, and crime victims advocates for a Sunday session on prison grounds. Manning testified she endured physical and mental abuse and that her husband admitted to sexually abusing her daughter before the shooting.
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