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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1977
Page
3
Jimmy Breslin describes a Brooklyn blackout night where Ernie Blue guards his store as looters surge through Utica Ave. and Eastern Parkway. Police arrest crowds while avoiding riot tactics, saving lives. columnist contrasts televised images with real danger and restraint.
More than 3,000 looters were arrested by 7 p.m. as gangs raided stores in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. Fires spread, police injured, and property losses ran into millions while Mayor Beame ordered mass mobilization and courts kept detainees at Rikers. Yonkers and surrounding Westchester towns also faced looting.
Edward J. Fowlkes of the Federal Power Commission cites an improvised response that prevented a wider collapse. The 1965 outage localized to New York City and Westchester and Long Island, yet highlighted interconnection limits and led to safeguards, cooperative planning, and computer contingency tests across three major grid interconnections.
In a tense crisis near the DMZ President Carter termed the downing of an unarmed U.S. cargo helicopter a mistake. The craft, lost after crossing into North Korean territory without a navigator, killed three crew and wounded one. White House officials described no broad military escalation.
In Covington Kentucky jurors watched Deep Throat and Swing High prior to retrial of three men and two corporations charged with interstate transportation of obscene material. The jury, seven men eight women, observed for about two and a half hours with occasional giggles as they evaluated whether the film lacks any redeeming social value under pre 1972 standards. Linda Lovelace was not present to testify.
A year after the Chowchilla bus kidnaping the town cools its memory as pretrial hearings resume for three suspects James Schoenfeld 24 Richard Schoenfeld 24 and Frederick Woods 24. Local residents say they would rather forget the incident though some still recall the escape and trauma endured by the 26 children and the driver Ed Ray.
Jeannie Connell from Miami was crowned Miss Tall International 1977 at the Tall Clubs International convention in Bend Oregon. Her mother Gemma Connell congratulated her after the event.
Federal agents confiscated about $20,000 worth of laetrile and other drugs in raids on Metabolics Inc. The searches covered corporate offices, a warehouse, and a private home in West Palm Beach, owned and operated by the firm. Metabolics owner Bob Lemon has publicly endorsed laetrile and other non toxic cancer treatments.
Philadelphia officials expect a signed agreement by early next week to sell the Bellevue Stratford, the 72 year old Victorian landmark closed since last November after a Legionnaires disease outbreak. Richard Rabin & Co. reportedly will pay 8.5 million dollars and invest 18 million to renovate into a new 251 room hotel reopening in 18 months under a new name.
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