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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1973
Page
1
Three Elyria attorneys slipped into Cleveland Public Hall for a Metropolitan Opera event and emerged upbeat after a brief backstage tour. City Solicitor Kosma Glavas recalled the reception as pretty fine despite a brief backstage pause.
A group forming Quality State Bank of Gahanna sought a payoff for state approval, while FBI probes a $50,000 payment tied to a $10 million stock deal. Leroy Munroe, new bank president, and incorporator Carl Nourse denied involvement and said they reported the matter.
Weather report notes clearing and cold tonight with scattered frost possible in low areas. Nixon designates Gen Alexander Haig Jr as interim White House staff chief after resignations of Haldeman and Ehrlichman, with Haig returning to Army duties later. Senate Watergate hearings set to begin in about 10 days as grand juries pursue indictments and a special prosecutor awaits confirmation.
A compact CT datebook entry lists deaths and births for the day. It notes entertainment, finance, stocks, and sports items alongside the birthday reference for 1923. The page highlights notable people occurrences and thematic sections such as television and doctor concerns.
In Columbus a federal grand jury call is urged by the ACLU of Ohio to probe civil rights violations by Ohio National Guardsmen in the Kent State killings. At Kent State University about 2,000 gathered for a silent vigil, recalling May 4, 1970, and the four students slain during protests over Cambodia. The Schroeders of Lorain renewed their plea for a grand jury probe.
A 20 year old college student Robert Materne of Kingston RI devoured 83 hamburgers without buns in two hours at the University of Rhode Island, setting a new world record and fueling talk of a Hamburger Festival in Elyria to christen the sandwich there in 1894.
Westlake police hold two Lorain County women in the ambush killing of Beverly Williams a 19 year old mother of two. One suspect 27 formerly lived with Williams reportedly a former roommate. the other 38 with few details released. Detectives say many reports statements and evidence remain to be gathered before presenting to the prosecutor. Williams was slain about 11 p m Wednesday at the Dover Nursing Home parking lot after reporting for work. She was shot six times four bullets hit vital organs, a fifth bullet was found in her car. A knife was reportedly found under the front seat of the 1965 Buick. Williams had been threatened three days earlier and collapsed at the scene. Obituary on Page 12.
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