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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1971
Page
11
A car with four occupants fled from about 20 officers after being stopped for questioning over a stolen credit card. An officer was fired at as the car evaded roadblocks. Authorities commandeered a moving house to block the highway, ending the pursuit. Two men and two women were arrested without incident.
Owen F. Clarke vice president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Baltimore and Ohio railroads warned at the Cleveland Coal Club that without creative federal fiscal involvement the United States faces a rash of railroad bankruptcies. He urged government guaranteed loans to modernize expand and sustain rail fleets even for railroads in receivership.
UAW owes 43.7 million from GM and Harvester walksouts and reports repayments to GM 32.4 million and Harvester 1 million plus 5 million of a 19 million Steelworkers loan. Brezhnev will visit France in October in his first trip outside the Soviet bloc since 1964 with Pompidou inviting him.
Ten Democratic U.S. Congressmen campaigned across streets and venues in Cleveland led by Rep Bella Abzug to pressure the Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia. Abzug claimed 73 percent of Americans favor withdrawal with a December 31 deadline. She said Congress has been largely irrelevant and urged leadership.
GAO auditors charged that 10 percent of U S enlisted personnel perform tasks outside their training or civilian background. Overseas misutilization rate was higher, though a precise figure was not provided.
Thames Valley police authorize female officers to wear hot pants on duty to blend with crowds. Rosemary Kelly, 20, explains the choice helps officers discreetly blend in when questioning crowds and making inquiries.
Kenneth Yablonski calls for federal inquiry into possible perjury by UMW District 5 member Roland Nucecatell and international board member Francis McCallister. The men testified for defense in the Budzanoski Seddon trial, which convicted them on conspiracy and falsifying union records tied to Boyle’s 1969 re election.
In San Francisco a courtroom ceremony bound Ronald Dunn and Sally Samuelson as husband and wife after a five minute service in Judge John Ertola s chamber. The couple then returned to prison cells awaiting future reunion while Dunn faces escape sentences and Samuelson shares related charges.
Senate war critics push for a quick vote on a Vietnam withdrawal path. Fulbright convened 16 doves to craft the Vietnam disengagement act to force end of the war this year if conscription continues. Cooper and Church back a deadline free withdrawal compromise and defer the stronger measure.
The Defense Department announced the Army will start a 48 week plan to destroy the United States stockpile of offensive germ warfare weapons stored at the Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas. The program follows Nixon's order and uses 1000 degree flames and sterilization methods with strict safety and pollution controls. The arsenal will become a national toxicological research center under FDA oversight.
AFL-CIO official Louis Stulberg warns hot pants and mixed fashion lines jeopardize small garment firms. With 442,000 union members in unions and 1000 delegates at Miami beach, small houses struggle to choose one core line amid shifting demand. Some firms already closed as makers pivot to dresses.
Cartoonist Al Capp creator of L il Abner is named in an Eau Claire Wisconsin arrest warrant charging sodomy attempted adultery and indecent exposure a 20 year old married coed alleges. Capp calls the charges untrue and says they stem from campus opponents.
Officials put a preliminary price tag of at least 1.5 million dollars on three weeks of antiwar demonstrations in Washington DC. Costs cover police overtime, clean up, repairs, and lost business with figures from Interior, the Pentagon, and DC government.
A federal judge in Seattle says a ruling will come early next week on a motion to free antiwar activist Leslie Bacon on illegal electronic surveillance grounds. The 19 year old, detained as a material witness in Capitol bombing investigations, faces a $100000 bail.
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