10 Dec 1972
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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1972
Page
1
Lorain County courts show 353 grand jury indictments this year with 82 secret ones aimed at drug offenses. Secret indictments are issued without suspects knowing, enabling police to arrest long after crimes.
Only 19 of the secret documents remain in the files and one indictment from 1971 and one from 1967 are unserved. The Lorain County sheriff's department leads arrests with deputies occasionally assigned to seek those on the wanted list. Indictments cover felonies from larceny to murder. If needed, the FBI joins under federal fugitive law to secure quick results or long pursuits. A case decades past saw a mother raped and killed. fingerprints led to the killer in California, who was returned for trial and executed. Old indictments are usually dismissed but may be revived if arrests occur.
President Truman remains critically ill but better, speaking to his wife and daughter for the first time in days. Doctors report improved heart function, easier breathing, and tolerance of tube feedings as he receives nourishment and stabilizes medically in Research Hospital, Kansas City.
A freezing rain warning remains in effect for the northwest while a flash flood watch covers the south. Rain is expected to change to snow flurries today and tonight. Highs reach the 30s in the northwest and 50s in the southeast with lows in the teens to 20s. Cloudy skies expected tomorrow with highs in the 20s and lows in the single digits to low 20s.
Robert Strauss, a Dallas attorney, won the DNC chair on the first ballot 106 to 71 to 26 after Jean Westwood quit as chair following her earlier narrow victory. Westwood, the first woman to lead either major party, urged open doors for the disenfranchised and Basil Patterson remained as a vice chair with a new female vice chair post created for Caroline Wilkins.
The Apollo 17 crew homed in on the moon for an afternoon rendezvous with the lunar surface. Engineers report the LM data looks perfect and the planned 2 47 p m EST orbit insertion proceeds as teams anticipate the Taurus Littrow landing tomorrow.
AP News features examine rising food costs in America, blaming middlemen and a complex distribution system. It traces how 12,000 items fill shelves once 500, showing profits shift along the chain from grower to supermarket.
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