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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1978
Page
3
UPI reports Bangkok dispatch alleging Hanoi officials oversee a gold payoffs system for escapees from Vietnam. Refugees describe four taels of gold per person plus higher sums for boat organizers and guards, with 30 000 people escaping and potential $15 million in gold leaving the country.
Gunfire damaged trucks in Norwalk and East Liverpool Ohio as drivers faced shots and brick throws on routes 205 and 11. Pickets at U S 22 Pa 66 area caused $400 damage to a Canton driver’s rig. FASH and Teamsters clashed over a steel haulers strike with carloads of violence tied to wage talks.
A Monday explosion at Monongahela Power Co. Fort Martin plant near Morgantown WV injured 23 people, with two severely burned workers flown to Pittsburgh hospitals. Fifteen others were treated locally for burns and smoke inhalation as investigators probe the cause.
Los Angeles UPI reports Ernest Sinclair, operator of a phony college diploma scheme, earned about $100,000 and received two concurrent five year prison terms plus five years probation after pleading guilty to three counts of mail fraud. Judge David W. Williams described Sinclair as taking joy in fleecing others.
The Freedom from Religious Foundation led by Anne Gaylor began three times weekly Madison TV airings sponsored by the group seeking funds. Prosecutors described Williams as running a diploma mill, selling fake degrees for 500 to 3500 dollars, with at least 100000 dollars in a year, and ordered restitution to victims.
Shirley Ritchie 23 gave birth to quadruplets three girls and a boy at Decatur Memorial Hospital after fertility treatment. All four infants were moved to St John’s Springfield neonatal center with two girls improving to good and the boy still in fair or guarded condition. Father Steven Ritchie expressed overwhelming joy as the family of four expands from a two bedroom mobile home.
Ritchie, a drainage firm partner, learned a week earlier his wife would birth triplets and then four babies. Dr. Phillip Lynch assisted by Dr. J B Waller delivered by cesarean section. The boy weighed 4 pounds 11 ounces at 12 36 p m. three girls weighed 3 pounds 7 ounces, 2 pounds 12 ounces, and 3 pounds 8 5 ounces. Mrs Ritchie in good condition, fertility medication Clomid cited.
In Cleveland Mayor Dennis Kucinich will remain away from town for at least a week for recovery from an Oct. 14 ulcer attack as critics push for medical records. In Franklin the Missionary Baptist Temple sanctuary rebuilt after a 1977 fire, costing about 170000 with community help. In Akron Mohawk Tire to close its 281 hourly and 37 salaried workforce plant by Nov. 23 due to modernization limits. In Cleveland plaintiffs drop dollar claims in Kent State shooting retrial. jury will set damages. In Columbus Donna McNeil, 31, is charged with aggravated murder for hiring teens to kill her husband, John E. McNeil, 89, at Cardinal Industries. two teens are also detained.
Neil Armstrong, 48, is recovering after surgery to re-attach a severed left ring finger at Jewish Hospital in Louisville. Spokeswoman Barbara Bigman said he looks and feels good but wants his hospital stay kept private as reporters and well wishers seek updates.
The Ohio Controlling Board refused to approve an $8.6 million loan to Columbus city schools until the Columbus Board of Education formally accepts state conditions or proposes changes. After two hours, board president Paul Langdon was told to return next Monday with official consent.
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