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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1979
Page
3
Mt Union College five students sang 60 straight hours to raise funds for a choir trip and set a record. They began Friday at 9 a.m. and finished Sunday at 9 p.m., performing about 3,500 songs in a local restaurant, spanning rock country western and TV themes.
The article surveys shifts in Western attitudes toward death from religiously framed events to secularized private matters. It notes more elderly people, fewer deaths at home, hospital and nursing home care expanding, and the isolation of the elderly. It highlights widow mortality, changing funeral customs, ethical dilemmas from medical tech, and calls for reassessment in a 15 week series.
In Houston, UPI reports jurors six days into deliberations remain 8-4 deadlocked on whether T. Cullen Davis paid $25,000 to have Fort Worth Judge Joe Eidson killed during his divorce case. Judge Wallace Moore may seek individual verdicts today. Prosecutors vow retry. no bond restrictions on Davis.
Extra police guarded West German TV facilities and transmitting towers as the nationwide airing of the American series Holocaust faced neo Nazi threats. Heinz Werner Huebner said the $543,000 purchase aimed to show fearlessness in tackling the shocking theme. The four part event airs 9 p.m. local time with continued airings and heightened police protection throughout the week.
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