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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1983
Page
67
Police charged a 19 year old with deliberate arson in a string of fires that killed at least 69 people along the drought struck southeast coast. The suspect’s name and details await court appearance as fires threaten Warburton and Melbourne’s water shed.
The AP reports two men executed this month in mainland China and 12 others sentenced to prison terms for attempting to hijack the passenger ship Mao Xing bound for a Chinese island off Taiwan. Canadian TV footage showed posters about the incident from Marwei naval port, across the Taiwan Straits from Nationalist China.
Weather map shows snow expected Saturday across northern Plains and upper Great Lakes with flurries in the Southwest. Most of the South and East to stay sunny and mild. Ohio tonight mostly cloudy north and partly cloudy south with lows in the 30s and Saturday highs from the mid-40s north to mid-50s south.
Windy and wet conditions dominated the West with gale warnings along the Oregon and northern California coast and a high wind warning for west central Nevada. The northern half stayed cloudy, New England saw rain or snow with travel advisories for southern eastern Maine. Texas faced showers ahead of a cold front as rain moved east and snow pushed from the Upper Mississippi Valley into the Great Lakes. Sunny skies were forecast for much of the South later today.
A local forecast projects a chance of rain on Sunday followed by colder air and scattered flurries Monday. Tuesday may see additional flurries in the northeast. Highs run in the 50s Sunday, then drop to the 30s or low 40s Monday and Tuesday with overnight lows in the 30s Sunday and 20s Monday and Tuesday.
Weather bulletin notes southerly to southwest winds at 10 to 20 knots through Saturday. Waves run 1 to 3 feet tonight, with sea conditions expected to persist as described.
AP reports in Cleveland that Phillip B. Christopher pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 1968 disappearance of Audrew Prunella Jr. The Kilbane brothers still face trial for first degree murder as the case continues in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.
Sadamichi Hirasawa, Japan's oldest inmate and reportedly the world's longest serving death row prisoner, marked his 91st birthday at Sendai Prison after 35 years behind bars. Convicted in a 1948 postwar bank robbery and murder spree, he poisoned 12 bank workers with cyanide laced medicine and absconded with about 180000 yen.
Nicosia CyprusAP An Iranian official says Iran has recaptured all but 360 of the 5720 square miles seized by Iraqi forces in the 24 year war. Kamal Kharrazi head of Iran war information office says Iran also controls 160 square miles of Iraqi territory. The remaining 360 includes Naftshahr oil wells as Iraqi troops still pump about 18000 barrels a day.
Lorraine Momen, 29, was found not guilty of first degree murder in the death of her husband Wayman Momen after a six year trail marked by savage beatings and mental torment. The Monongalia County Circuit Court jury sided with the defense claim of self defense and abuse as motive.
In Goshen Indiana a Red Cross worker named Donna Kauffman faced a mistaken infidelity accusation after a slip of paper found in a husband’s coat pocket contained the word KISS the name Donna and a phone number. The note related to a Red Cross infant car seat program called KISS Keep Infants Seat ed Safely and the husband was signing up for the program. The situation was cleared when the woman learned the note referred to the safety campaign rather than an affair.
Indiana Governor Robert D. Orr signs extradition papers to return a wager ham from Kentucky after Indiana University beat Kentucky — a playful dispute linked to Coach Bob Knight and a joke about a missing ham.
Larry Usoff known as Froggy ran as a dark horse independent in Jacksonville May 24 to unseat Mayor Jake Godbold. He used a green and white Froggy-4- Mayor bumper sticker after DC Comics refused use of Superman’s motto, citing lack of endorsement.
The Ohio Lottery announced The Number draw 880 for Thursday night and Pick 4 5590. Total earnings from the daily game reached $723,470.50 with $1,027,556.50 in sales and $304,086 in paid winnings. Parimutuel Pick 4 sales were $194,915.50 with winners receiving 45 percent, or $87,902, and straight and boxed $1 prizes of $6,564 and $547 respectively.
About 130000 residential customers of East Ohio Gas Co received roughly 6.6 million in heating bill subsidies over two months under the Ohio Energy Credits and Home Energy Assistance programs. Spokesman Patrick A Carney said the combined programs totaled just under 6.8 million. The OEC program offers 25 to 30 percent subsidies to qualified customers based on income age or disability.
Polish military prosecutors plan an appeal after a military court handed down lighter sentences to nine Radio Solidarity personnel. Physicist Zbigniew Romaszewski, 42, his wife Irena Zofia, 36, and seven others were convicted of spreading false information and illegal union activity connected to the underground station. Prosecutors sought eight years for Romaszewski and five years for his wife. the court gave 40 years to him and three years to her.
Irish police alert Interpol over the Shergar case. They deny rumors of exile to the Middle East and confirm a horse trailer seen near the crime scene. Interpol has been contacted as investigators pursue leads in the $13 million racehorse mystery.
Country singer Johnny Cash and wife June Carter Cash were reported in satisfactory condition in a Nashville hospital after he was admitted with pneumonia. He, 51, stayed in a room near June, who recently had abdominal surgery.
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