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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1976
Page
1
Grass roots push in the Roman Catholic Church advances as Sister Kathleen Keating notes participation aims not at hierarchy. In a close House of Deputies vote the measure on women ordination passed 60 to 38 with 16 clergy divided. the lay order approved 64 to 37 with 12 divided. Turn to page 4 column 6.
Elyria Memorial Hospital will build a 175 car parking lot on East River Street across from the hospital within a year to ease current and projected spots. The project, tagged at 618,000, accompanies a $9.6 million four story addition announced over a year ago. Olesen cited the expansion as easing congestion and freeing other lots for visitors. Approval stages include regional health authorities and a February start, with completion targeted for fall 1977. Parking will primarily serve outpatients, emergency staff, doctors, and students.
During Kissinger's two day trip South African police patrolled Soweto and Cape Town as race riots surge leaving 369 dead in 13 weeks. Witnesses report student demonstrations near Johannesburg with police fire injuring several. power outages and a department store firebombing escalate security alerts.
Jacobs Co. plans a fourth department store at Midway Mall within three to four years, potentially Halle’s or Joseph Horne Co. The new wing would sit southeast of the current anchors J C Penney Higbee’s and Sears, with parking moved south. The timing aligns with Midway Mall’s 10th anniversary.
State officials closed a loophole allowing vans built for human habitation to receive five dollar license tags under the House Vehicle provision. BMW records show a rise in House Vehicle registrations from about 110,000 in 1969 to over 183,000 by 1975 and 1976, with manufacturers noting the trend toward carpeted custom vans.
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