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iccdheatt Dacic in 'Life With Lucy' Lucille Ball, at 75, Ralph Nader takes aim at insurance industry High cost of premiums, canceled coverage cited MetroD-l Hot Reds cool Atlanta, 5-2 Cincinnati has won 7 of last 10 games SportsC-l to star in new series TempoB-l Dave Conception scores nrhnr i 4 XT' A lTicSH- i Aifssa, 1 1 Gas prices fL- jL J2JLaX- A Journey Toward Liberty 1L expected to if 11 JKeeiu mum UWmS OF MWff WPS teax'tmxw. tug wap ins of wis. Holiday price plunge unusual, but welcome In Greater Cincinnati, pump prices already have dropped 6t in the last 10 days, said Michael Kun-nen, president of the Greater Cincinnati Gasoline Dealers Association. Kunnen expects local prices to continue to drop because of instability in the marketplace with crude oU prices. The 95.6H average price for all grades of gasoline will likely decline further, perhaps by 3.4C a gallon later this week, because wholesale prices dropped 4.74C a gallon in the past few days, Lundberg said.

"That's a startling unseasonal cut on the eve of the July 4th holiday, which usually ushers in retail and wholesale price increases. July 4th is the big season opener for the gasoline business." Though he agrees that prices will drop, Kunnen warned that fluctuating crude oil prices make predicting the price of gasoline unpredictable. "Nobody can really prognostic (Please see GAS, back page, this section) THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER and ENQUIRER NEWS SERVICES Gasoline prices that already have dipped after an early summer rise will continue to fall this week in an unprecedented Fourth of July plunge, an oil industry analyst said Sunday. "It is an amazing drop," industry analyst Dan Lundberg said after tabulating results of his twice-monthly 50-state survey of 17,000 gasoline stations. But for the petroleum industry, Lundberg added, this will be "the summer of unprecedented doldrums." The Lundberg Survey shows the average price of regular leaded gasoline at self-serve pumps, including all taxes, is now 82.95C a gallon.

Regular unleaded is 88.70C a gallon and premium unleaded is $1.03 per gallon. The average for all self-serve gasoline is 89.75C a gallon, while the average price of gasoline at full-serve pumps for all grades is $1.1564. Denver fans remain true to farm Retail giant could rival Federated May offers to acquire Associated The Journey Cartoonist Jim Borgman and reporter James F. McCarty are traveling the nation reporting America's mood enroute to the July 4th centennial of the Statue of Liberty. Today, they visit Denver and the Reds AAA farm team.

BY JAMES F. McCARTY The Cincinnati Enquirer DENVER Life on the farm can be glorious fun. Baseball remains more a game than a business here in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, where the Denver Zephyrs the Reds' AAA farm team play a zany brand of baseball. Fans of the Zs, as they are known, have come to expect a bit of the offbeat with their peanuts and hot dogs at the park. In fact two of the all-time clown princes of the game, Casey Stengel and Marvelous Marv Throneberry, are Denver veterans.

Regardless of its source, whether it's the thin air, some mysterious magnetic mountain I powers, or all that Coors Beer in the clubhouse cooler, the national pastime takes on a unique flavor in this football-crazy town. On this day, Bob Howsam the Zephyrs' president and general manager, is brainstorming with Greg Corns, his right-hand man. Here's Howsam's predicament: If magical forces won't come to bat again for his team at tonight's game, shouldn't he dream up a scheme of his own to tip the odds in their favor? Howsam snickers. He'll arm his players with squirt guns and orders to shoot them at the opposing pitcher. It's smart baseball to stick with what works, and a stroke of good fortune such as occurred the night before is unlikely to repeat itself.

Things had started out bad in that game, the first place Zs falling behind the Omaha Royals Kansas City's farm team by two runs in the fourth inning. The opposing pitcher, Keefe Ca-to, was mowing down the home team's batters. Then the field's sprinkler system jumped to life, swishing long shots of water around the infield, dousing the pitcher and his teammates. All were stunned. Then Pandemonium broke out and cavernous Mile High Stadium echoed with laughter.

Howsam was furious. "I got on the phone to our groundskee-per and I yelled, 'What the hell is going on out It turned out to be a timer malfunction. But the brief episode had a surprising result. The sprinkler cooled off the opposing pitcher, he grew flustered, and the batters started to powder his pitches. The Zs won 9-5.

Howsam hoped his players could recreate the previous night's results. A more serious approach to the game prevailed, however. "Okay men, put your guns back in your holsters," ordered (Please see AMERICA, Page A-4) Fort Collins rLoveland. Greeley Longmont j. ufx I Denver I Boulder i Denver 0 yg THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER and ENQUIRER NEWS SERVICES NEW YORK May Department Stores has offered to acquire Associated Dry Goods owner of the L.S.

Ayres, Lord Taylor and J.W. Robinson department-store chains, for the equivalent of $2.7 billion in a deal that would create a deadlock in sales with the industry leader, Federated Department Stores of Cincinnati. Federated reported sales of nearly $10 billion last year. For the same period, Associated posted $4.4 billion in sales and May posted $5 billion. May is the third-largest U.S.

operator of department stores and Associated is the fifth-largest. The proposed merger follows dramatic changes for two venerable department-store chains. Eleven Gimbels stores and six Ohr-bach's stores, all in the East, were sold last week. Six remaining Ohr-bach's outlets on the West Coast were put up for sale. In a letter delivered Friday to Joseph H.

Johnson, chairman of Associated, May's Chairman David C. Farrell said he would pay $66 worth of May common stock for each of the 35 million Associated shares outstanding and $211.20 of May common stock for each share of Associated's preferred stock. One insider close to May said (Please see RETAIL, back page, this section) II vvnnaw I I Colorado Springs US Faith, spirit remain alive Mandela, church aid struggle in South Africa Four Sections 146th Year, No. 75 Copyright, 1986 The Cincinnati Enquirer Bridge C-7 Business C-6 Classified D-5-18 Comics B-6 DearAbby B-2 Deaths D-3 Editorials A-6 Horoscope B-6 Movies B-5 Horse racingC-2 People B-2 Puzzles B-7 Readers' views A-7 Scoreboard C-2 TV-Radio B-8 Weikel D-2 I'm sure we are heading for worse times. Tough action like this is not the solution.

It has failed in the past. Winnie Mandela $2,200 'text' in store for some at UC BY LYNDA HOUSTON The Cincinnati Enquirer Freshmen entering the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cincinnati in the fall will have to buy a $2,200 "textbook." Patrick Clements, an electrical and computer engineering graduate, showed off the textbook a computer Sunday to educators and engineers signing up for a five-day conference. Hewlett-Packard will sell the Vectra computer at a 40 discount to UC freshmen, Clements said. Computer software would be offered at a 50 discount. Clements' demonstration was (Please see COMPUTER, back page, this section) Abductors of statue demand McRansom THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DOVER TOWNSHIP, NJ.

A 7-foot plastic statue of Ronald McDonald is being held for ransom in an elaborate plot complete with anonymous letters and photos of the, uh, victim. The abductors, who swiped the statue from a McDonald's restaurant, want 8,891 Chicken McNuggets for its return. "This is the biggest thing to happen around here all year," said police Sgt. Thomas Goode. Police said two men carried the statue out the door just before closing time on June 6.

Nine days later, a ransom note appeared on the restaurant's back door: "Don't you wish your Ronald McDonald was replaced? If so place 8,891 nuggets at 886 3rd New York, N.Y. Don't forget the sauce, or he gets it." Later, a photo of the statue with a gag around its mouth appeared on the back door. "The manager doesn't think it's funny," said Goode. "He was ticked." Ml BY ALLISTER SPARKS The Washington Post SOWETO, South Africa She. was dressed for the occasion in a black suit with an emerald-green blouse and a jaunty black Spanish sombrero.

In the modest ghetto church, she cut a dashing figure. Heads turned. People nodded in recognition of the best-known inhabitant of this township south of Johannesburg. The minister, the Rev. David Nkwe, addressed Winnie Mandela, wife of imprisoned African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, as "the mother of the nation," recounted her recent tribulations, and asked her to stand and receive the acknowledgments of the congregation.

It is skirting the fringes of the state of emergency rules restricting press coverage to report that vides its own accompaniment, and sometimes the singers beat time with their hymn books against their palms. There is a harmoniz- (Please see AFRICA, back page, this section) Policeman slain, Page A-3. Networks struggle, Page B-8. as she did this, she raised her fist. A sheet of paper stuck to the wall bears a handwritten "Prayer for Peace" with a couplet that says: "Lead me from war to peace, from hate to love.

There is no organ or any other instrument. None is required. The harmonizing of African voices pro Weather Partly cloudy today, slight chance of thunderstorms. High in mid-80s. Tonight's low in the 60s, 30 chance of rain.

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