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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1973
Page
7
In a satirical piece, a columnist mocks officials including Attorney General Richardson as they cling to “bright spot fever” when facing bad news. The piece lampoons optimistic readings from crime and cost of living data and explains the syndrome with a medical joke about a stiff upper lip.
Comic quips expose a New York used car lot cycle where Jake the salesman defends secrecy and sham fixes. A running gag features a little old lady buyer myth, a mother as the true car source, and a son who joyrides. The piece satirizes green stamps, bailin wire repairs, and buyer skepticism.
Actor Stu Gilliam, star of a new fall TV show, is free on $1000 bond after an arrest in connection with an alleged ax swinging incident at Alan Hale's Lobster Barrel Restaurant in Hollywood. Police say Gilliam argued with the headwaiter about reservations, fetched an ax from his car, threatened the waiter, and was restrained by Hale who wrestled the weapon away.
Jazz clarinetist Pete Fountain, owner of a French Quarter venue, launches an independent bid for New Orleans mayor. He joins incumbent Moon Landrieu and two others in a field with Landrieu favored to win. The campaign echoes a cry for two Superdomes.
A $160 000 suit filed in Lorain County Common Pleas targets Wiggins Nursing Home Inc. and Cowling Funeral Home Inc. over the death and burial of Eugene Graves 63. Plaintiffs Mildred Graves Whitmore and Curtis Graves claim failure to notify them of the death, improper handling of the burial, and noncompliance with state health laws. They seek 80000 dollars in compensatory and punitive damages from each defendant.
The New London council approved a temporary subsidy of 34000 from federal revenue sharing to the general fund to cover sanitation costs and a 32 deficit from August. Officials hope revenue sharing may fund water and sewer lines once affordable. The board also paid 2823 to Price Construction Co. for reservoir work and heard that underground work is underway with earth moving planned for spring. Sgt Loren Welch resigned. Henry Tappell was hired as patrolman. Timothy Budd hired as auxiliary policeman. bids for a 1974 one half ton truck for the sewer dept were authorized with specs on file.
A recent university study shows South Carolina's three largest cities Charleston Columbia and Greenville increasingly border white suburbs. In Columbia the share living within two miles of town center fell from 26 percent in 1960 to 18 percent in 1970 while the inner-city black population rose from 43 percent in 1960 to 49 percent.
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