Locally, the featured story was about an unfortunate boater from Sheffield Lake whose car ended up in the drink down at the Lorain Municipal Pier's boat loading ramp. It seems that his car's automatic transmission slipped out of the park position and into the water it went. Poor guy. And the Journal was right there to take a picture of him.
Lorain's Mascon Toy manufacturing plant had just been purchased by a group of investors along with two sister toy companies, including Flexible Flyer of Medina, manufacturer of the well-known sled. The new owners planned to continue operating the purchased plants and hopefully increase production.
Nationally, the ongoing protest and occupation by American Indians at Wounded Knee, South Dakota was triggering sympathetic protests elsewhere, in this case Lumberton, North Carolina.
And the hoped-for ratification in 1973 of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was stalled with less than half of the states approving the amendment – far short of what was needed.
Elsewhere on the front page was a capsule comparison of the contrasting points of view of two returning Vietnam POWs; an announcement of the closing of Lorain's draft board office; and a story of British man, heavily in debt, who had just solved his financial problems by winning "a big prize on the soccer pools."
