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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1969
Page
1
Sunday Chronicle feature for deer hunting dates in Nepal and insights on crowd control shown by London bobbies. Includes note on the year of great hunger and the Nepalese effort for a better life, with a glance at Glen Campbell and a note on U S population mobility in 1968.
A general alarm fire engulfed at least four Lorain buildings along a street from an alley to 29th Street. Two firefighters were injured when Ralph's Restaurant walls collapsed. Elias Lee and Dan McNutt were treated at St. Joseph Hospital with leg injuries. The blaze spread through a tavern, tobacco shop, jewelry store and grocery as wind fanned the flames.
Forty three Local 277 members, all Elyria city employees, vote to join firemen in a petition drive for a city income tax. Atty. Jack E. Zagrans backs the effort, aiming for over 6,000 signatures to present to council next week.
The Nixon administration boosts the FHA and VA mortgage rate ceiling from 6% to 7% as an interim measure. Secretary Rom ney calls the move overdue and warning that higher payments will raise monthly costs for a new $20,000 home with a 30 year loan by about $10.
The forecast calls for mostly cloudy, windy and cold conditions with scattered snow flurries. Highs reach 18 to 24 today and 18 to 26 tomorrow. Tonight lows 3 to 10 above zero, then easing cold and clearing Monday with 20 to 36 mph westerly winds diminishing.
At the Paris conference opening, Viet Cong demanded the overthrow of Saigon, while U S negotiator Lodge urged mutual withdrawal of foreign troops from South Vietnam. Riot police failed to keep rival Vietnamese groups apart as delegations arrived for talks.
President Nixon will hold his first news conference since taking office on Monday at 11 a.m. EST, meeting with newsmen in Washington.
A 21 year old Lorain resident, John Mertz of 3782 Wood Ave, was crushed to death about noon in Sheffield Township. He died at St Joseph Hospital after an accident at Brady Arnold Junkyard where owner Arnold operated a crane and added strain to a stuck car, causing the boom to crush Mertz between the crane and the cable drum.
Prague reports that Jan Palach's funeral was pared to a simple ceremony to prevent a demonstration. Police expelled Western reporters, and officials limited speakers while thousands gathered to honor the 21 year old student who immolated himself to protest the Soviet invasion.
Opponents of a $12 500 annual congressional pay boost press for a Senate or House vote before February 14 automatic enactment. Rep H R Gross Iowa asks Rep Thaddeus Dulski to disapprove, while Rep Henderson introduces a disapproval measure. Johnson had proposed raising pay to 42 500.
The House Banking Committee reviews a Treasury proposal to sell three million old silver dollars, mainly Carson City coins from the 1880s, with a $75 million estimated value. It also considers resuming metallic dollar production in copper nickel and phasing out the 40 percent silver half dollar.
George M. Steinbrenner IIT president of American Shipbuilding Co. is named one of 50 national Captains of Achievement by the American Academy of Achievement. He will receive the Golden Plate Award during the Salute to Excellence weekend June 26-28 in Dallas, Texas.
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