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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1982
Page
1
Local residents react to the NFL settlement ending the longest pro sports strike. Some celebrate football’s return while others doubt fans’ spirits, concerned about shortened schedules, injuries, and the season’s altered rhythm. Citizens note weather, greed critiques, and altered viewing habits.
National Football League players end a 57 day strike and vote to accept owners' offer without recommendation. Training camps open, 28 teams compete in the shortened nine game season, with a record playoff field of 16 teams amid a historic labor dispute.
Lorain County bankers move into money market funds as federal rules raise rate ceilings and allow new accounts starting December 14 with a minimum $2,500. Banks and savings and loan associations plan high initial rates, six monthly checks, and flexible terms amid expected stiff competition and rate jockeying.
Outside conditions are partly cloudy tonight with a low near 36. Winds from the southerly direction around 10 mph. Thursday brings mostly cloudy skies and a high between 53 and 57. Details appear on Page A-3.
Avon Lake officials recount the August 1981 strike at the Cleveland Center in Oberlin where 392 l ers were fired. On day two of appeals for 51 fired controllers, chief Donald Enders admits procedural errors including two erroneous proposed dismissal letters to John McNaughton for a missed shift while on leave.
Lora Hawkins, 18, was to plead guilty to murder in Lorain County Common Pleas Court for the July 9 Oberlin fire that killed William Hawkins, 37, and injured Beulah Hawkins, 64. Her sister Diana, 14, was convicted in juvenile court and sentenced to a reformatory until age 21.
Relatives in Cuyahoga and Lorain counties watched with pride Tuesday as cousin and nephew Robert F. Overmyer returned from space. Lorain and Parma residents, including Helen Fabian and the Butler sisters, cheered the Columbia shuttle touchdown at Edwards Air Force Base while noting Overmyer’s late mother’s memory.
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