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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1975
Page
1
Eddie owned a 26 car fleet ranging from junkers to Cadillacs including a 1975 Lincoln Mark IV. Some cars had a telephone and the collection featured shiny models like Lincoln and Eldorado. He borrowed money from an Oberlin bank owned by Goodwin, which also financed a Cadillac Eldorado for Goodwin.
Lorain County records show Eddie Goodwin’s deep interest in cars from small to large. Once owning 26 autos in 1974 he now sits in Lorain County jail awaiting trial over involvement in Anthony J. Marsho’s theft of over $320,000 in auto tag funds, still owning 10 cars. The Lincoln disappeared mid 1975 as lawsuits seeking money he owed mounted.
A map circulated by the Jetport Opposition Committee compares Cleveland Hopkins International Airport at 1,450 acres with the proposed Grafton site of 10,600 acres. The light blue buffer zone expands the total area to about 29,000 acres per SERTA spokesman Jack Yewell. Yewell notes the jetport will require substantial land. A three-county rally against the jetport is planned for December 5.
Ewald Kane of Canterbury Rd joins the ACLU case in Columbus challenging Ohio's 44 million annual education aid to parochial schools. Kane cites five children in Lutheran schools as his stake and calls tax money for nonpublic students a duty of a taxpayer. His children attend St. Paul Lutheran Weslake and Lutheran West Rocky River. Kane is Lutheran Church Missouri Synod education director for Ohio.
Ronald Reagan announced his 1976 presidential bid at a news conference, denouncing the federal bureaucracy and a Washington buddy system. He aims at Ford in early primaries in Florida and New Hampshire, urging a more responsive government and stronger U.S. defense and energy policy. Reagan, a former California governor and actor, is seen as the leading conservative challenger to Ford.
Generalissimo Francisco Franco died at 5:25 a.m. EST prompting immediate reactions from outlawed Communist and Socialist factions, Basques celebrating his death, and mixed emotions in Madrid. He left a last testament warning enemies and calling for continued authoritarian rule. Juan Carlos de Borbón, 37, will become captain general and king in a Regency Council period, with mourning declared for 30 days.
Walter Scott, brother of Jack Scott, says he helped federal agents track Patricia Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army not as a paid informant but to aid the arrest of four key figures. He claims he provided information leading to the SLA hideout in a Pennsylvania farmhouse and says he faced death threats despite testifying if subpoenaed.
The Labor Department says October prices rose 0.7 percent, the third large monthly gain this year, led by higher costs for cars, fuel oil, dairy, coffee, clothing, mortgages, and auto insurance. The 12 month rise stands at 7.6 percent, with 1976 model car prices up 27 percent but adjusted down by seasonal factors.
A weather summary notes showers and snow flurries with cloudy skies and colder air tonight and tomorrow. Lows tonight 38 to 46 degrees, highs tomorrow mid to upper 40s, precipitation chances 78 percent tonight and 3 percent tomorrow west, 68 percent tomorrow east, winds SW 15 to 23 mph.
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