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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1982
Page
1
A January recap notes eight weekend weather days with seven weekend disruptions, including 4th, 9th, 10th, 16th, 17th, 22nd, 30th and 31st. Weekdays stayed mild and roads clear while weekends brought a mix of warmth and bitter cold, snow, sleet, wind and rain.
Reading like a diary of brutal winter, the piece notes minus 50 to minus 70 wind chills, blizzard days, and four inches of snow with freezing rain. Forecasters warn more snow is possible while officials quip about luck and frequent weekend cold fronts.
More than 130 hourly workers at Fisher Body Elyria face layoffs as GM phases out the Euclid trim plant. The move follows prior cuts and raises total Elyria job losses past 300, with about 1,300 workers remaining. Outsourcing of injected molding and trim for Cadillac models is under consideration. The phase out targets multiple Fisher Body facilities across the U S and Canada.
Feature on Tom Haley and Del Donahoo as Channel 3’s early morning duo. Weather notes include snow diminishing to flurries with lows near 10 to 15 degrees and a Saturday of mostly cloudy skies and flurries. Temperatures list a high near 18 and a low near 8 at specific times.
Elyria Memorial Hospital trustees approve an 27 million expansion to include a five story addition and new facilities for coronary intensive and pediatric care. The plan by Hamilton Associates increases debt to 36 million by 1987 with staged construction and demolition of the M B Johnson School of Nursing dormitory pending Ohio Department of Health approval.
Michael George Wilson 23 was seized in Murfreesboro Tennessee seven hours after the 2 year old Jessica Marie Wilson was found at a day care. He faces Ohio charges of assault and child stealing and is jailed for extradition while Tennessee also cites gun possession in his car.
The U.S. unemployment rate fell from 8.8 percent to 8.5 percent in January, with 270000 fewer people out of work. About 9.2 million were unemployed as the labor force shrank by 300000, amid weaker business activity and fewer postholiday layoffs. Ohio jobless rate up.
Jerome Jackson, 43, former TRW investor relations manager and ex Rockwell aide, was shot by police after a bank robbery attempt in Strongsville, Ohio. Indicted for grand theft and a $2900 bad check, he had been a Washington candidate for the EEOC post until late December and was described in newsletters and Jet Magazine as a front runner. Jackson, a 1960 Dartmouth graduate and 1977 Duquesne Law alum, remains in guarded condition at Lakewood Hospital.
Oberlin College workers try to corral 100 white mice delivered for a psychology project. The mice escaped Tuesday night but most are captured. a few remain as staff set traps and use bait. A poster shows a man holding a mouse by the tail with cheese.
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