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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1978
Page
3
After a week of debate, Britain cancels 900 adult seal killings and limits pups to 2,000. Greenpeace and Hunt Saboteurs assist, while Scots review the plan to halve the gray seal population amid protests and a government claim of evidence.
President Carter outlines an expanded anti inflation program including voluntary wage and price guidelines. Labor unions would limit wage rises to 7 percent, business bids to 5.75 percent, with lower income workers exempt. A Council on Wage and Price Stability staff will be expanded to monitor compliance. enforcement will use government contracts and regulations.
George Dashnau of Philadelphia sells a $100 skull novelty marketed as a fascinating room piece. The skulls, provided by an anonymous medical supply firm, are prepared to show brain cavities and a moving jaw, claimed to be old bones and not people, with a grim but intriguing appeal.
A National Cancer Institute survey finds an 8 percent yearly rise in lung cancer for white women and 10 percent for black women from 1973 to 1976 across 11 areas. In 1976, 23.2 per 100,000 women developed the disease versus 77.5 per 100,000 men.
Ohio winning numbers include Gold 6, White 38, Blue 368 and Win A Thon 47169. The item notes Pennsylvania Daily Lottery number 279 and lists Chronicle Telegram details from Elyria Ohio dated October 21, 1978 with address and contact lines.
Maschinenfabrik Augsberg-Nurn berg of West Germany plans to buy 1.2 million White Motor common shares at 13 dollars each, giving 12.7 percent and making MAN the largest single stockholder. The deal includes a joint venture to sell MAN trucks in North America and to assemble White trucks in the United States using MAN parts. White Motor will also assemble MAN trucks abroad with MAN parts.
Ottawa issued a stern warning to Canada’s 23 000 postal strikers that they are very much mistaken to believe the government will refrain from prosecuting those who defy the back to work order. Postmaster General Gilles Lamontagne said legal action would follow noncompliance.
The third quarter shows economy growth near target with inflation cooling driven by lower food costs. GNP price deflator remains the key inflation gauge. Final sales rose by 56 billion, while personal consumption up 31.6 billion and durable goods up 1.5 billion. motor vehicle purchases slowed. President Carter to announce revamped anti inflation plan with wage price guidelines.
Cleveland sends a $3 million payment to Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co reducing city power debt to about $8.7 million excluding interest. CEI plans no immediate asset seizure but signals possible legal action if pursued. Meanwhile six present or former council members testify in a Cuyahoga County grand jury probing bribe allegations. In Columbus, Ohio University reports $13.7 million raised toward the 1804 Fund, 97 percent of a $14 million goal, including a major bequest from the Stocker estate for electrical engineering.
Richland County deputies testify before a special grand jury investigating department corruption using prepared statements. More than a dozen officers have spoken briefly and largely invoked the Fifth Amendment, as prosecutor Joseph Murray pursues the inquiry sparked by earlier Mansfield News Journal stories. Two local lawyers have been seen meeting with deputies prior to testimony. The paper reports the department circulated "scripts" on Fifth Amendment usage for deputies in the jury chamber.
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