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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1990
Page
4
President Bush plans a budget intended to bring the deficit down to about 100 billion in 1991, masking a 144 billion shortfall in other programs. The plan uses Social Security surplus accounting, slows military growth, and relies on new revenues and deep domestic cuts to meet Gramm Rudman targets.
Senate Budget Chair Jim Sasser warns the era of good feeling evaporated as Congress votes to accept administration optimism on deficits. The budget hinges on Social Security surpluses and a plan to slow Pentagon growth while expanding housing aid and education. Medicare remains a major target.
Eyewitnesses describe chaos and fear as a Colombian to New York flight crashes near Nassau County. Rescue workers, including volunteers and EMS teams, pull scattered survivors from wreckage while many passengers are reported dead or in shock.
AP reports a University of Pennsylvania and Delaware study finds weekend daytime kids shows averaged over 25 violent acts per hour in recent seasons, up from 18.6 before 1980, prompting sponsors Senator Paul Simon and Representative Dan Glickman to push on antitrust exemption legislation despite network opposition and unresolved committee status.
North Ridgeville police describe Christopher Metcalf as a walking encyclopedia for his detailed confessions and memory of 44 burglaries across Lorain and Cuyahoga counties. Officials say he admitted to stealing at least $25,000 to fund a cocaine addiction and faces one count of breaking and entering with a $5,000 bond while jailed in Elyria.
Washington AP reports the US economy grew only 0.5 percent in Q4 1989, the weakest quarter in over three years, driven by weak consumer demand. Full-year 1989 GNP rose 2.9 percent, after 4.4 percent in 1988, marking the slowest annual gain since 1986.
Six workers are injured after more than 100 tons of molten steel at 2,850 degrees splashed across the floor when a giant ladle crashed at the Nucor Corp mill in Whitesville Indiana. Michael Hinz, guiding the crane, said a cable broke and the ladle dropped 30 feet, sending heat and steel through walls and starting fires.
Lorain County will relocate the Planning Commission Senior Citizens Association Veterans Services and Job Training and Partnership Act from the administration building to the Big and Small Lots site about two blocks east. The move frees space for a state mandated expansion of the Domestic Relations Court Child Support Bureau, requiring 13 175 square feet leased and construction to start ASAP.
Casino developer Alan Spitzer seeks a referendum to repeal a constitutional ban on casino gambling and let Lorain and six other resort districts vote locally. The push faces invalid signatures and faulty paperwork in several counties including Erie Knox and Cuyahoga, with mixed validation rates and past deadline concerns.
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