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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1979
Page
4
The pope's arrival sparked huge crowds and minor injuries from stumbles and heat, while security hinged on the largest operation in Mexico's history with 300000 troops and police. The pontiff met President Lopez Portillo for 75 minutes to discuss peace, disarmament and aid for the poor as millions planned to greet him across five cities.
Obituary note on Nelson Rockefeller who died of a heart attack. Highlights include his birth in Bar Harbor Maine on July 8 1908 and his rise as New York Governor and vice president nominee. Recounts presidential bids, marriage to Margaretta Murphey known as Happy, and his art reproductions business. World leaders’ tributes quoted.
Nelson A Rockefeller’s 15 years as New York governor built a vast SUNY system across 62 campuses with about 400 000 students, transforming it from small colleges into a major state university. The Empire State Plaza in Albany stands as his high profile monument to the era.
Former President Ford mourns Nelson Rockefeller, calling his death a tragic loss personally and politically. Ford learned of the former governor and vice president's passing in Amman, Jordan, while on a Middle East tour. Public leaders from New York, West Virginia, and beyond honor Rockefeller's vision, service, and warmth. Rockefeller, twice close to the presidency, was praised for his energy, courage, and devotion to America by Gov. Hugh Carey, Sen. Jacob Javits, and others.
Relatives of four Peoples Temple members who died in Jonestown Guyana filed a 10 million wrongful death suit against the temple, founder Jim Jones estate, attorney Mark Lane, and unnamed drug companies. It is the third such civil case in Los Angeles County.
A van carrying 11 Portland Oregon junior high basketball players from the Columbia Boys Club collided with a car in a snowstorm on Interstate Five fifteen miles south of Chehalis. Four boys were killed and three others were critically injured as the van swerved and was struck by a southbound car with additional vehicles colliding into the wreckage. About a dozen people were hospitalized.
In Milwaukee stores, 25 pound bags of kitty litter are selling fast as motorists use it to free cars from ice and to add rear-wheel weight. Jewel Food Stores reports a shortage with West Allis store selling out 100 bags after listing them at 1.59 dollars.
UPI reports safety critics urge immediate shutdown of sixteen atomic reactors in ten states after the government repudiated a study that previously justified their operation amid known safety defects.
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