Week of October 24, 1981

A federal labor panel votes to strip the Professional Air traffic Controllers

Organization of its right to represent air controllers because of the union’s call for

an illegal strike against the government. It’s the first time the government has put

a union out of business by stripping it of its bargaining authority.

Organization, hoping to strengthen the

court appeal of its desertification, declares

an end to its three-month strike.

Administration officials say the surrender

would change nothing - the 11,500 strikers

will not be allowed to go back to work.

President Reagan scores a victory as the

Senate approves his record $8.5 billion

arms sale to Saudi Arabia.

OPEC fixes a new unified base oil price of

$34 a barrel and freezes it through the end

of next year. It will add about 2 1/2 cents a

gallon to the price Americans pay for gas and home heating fuel.

In Murfreesboro, NC - Ten Chowman College students are arrested and charged

with inciting a riot in a food fight that erupted at a Halloween banquet in the

college’s cafeteria. Walls were splattered with roast turkey, mashed potatoes,

candied yams and smashed pumpkins, resulting in $2000 in damages. Eight of

the students are being held at $2000 bond.

In Fairfield, California, 19 year-old Melinda Middleton agrees to undergo

sterilization after her baby is born rather than to prison on child abuse charges.

Middleton was convicted in connection with the death of her 5 month-old

daughter who had suffered from malnutrition and a whiplash-type injury.

In sports - the Dodgers win the World Series beating the

run, triple and single and beat the Yanks in game six - 9-

2...Yankee Owner George Steinbrenner gets into a hotel

elevator fight with a couple of Dodger Fans, leaving him

with a possible broken left hand, a cut lip and other cuts

and bruises...The Philadelphia Phillies are sold to a group

headed by club executive VP Bill Giles for $30 million -

Week of October 24, 1981

the highest ever paid for a major league baseball franchise.

Developers in Chicago are drawing up plans to build a 169 story, almost half-mile

high skyscraper. The structure is proposed for a site north of the Loop according

to the Chicago Tribune. Towering over 2,300 feet - the building is set to cost

$1.25 billion. Chicago is home to three of the world’s five tallest buildings.

At its Bloomington, Indiana

plant - RCA lays off 400 at its

Videodisc plant due to week

demand of the players. RCA

has spent $200 million to

develop its videodisc. The

company expected about 50%

of all television-viewing homes

would have videodisc players

and an $8 bullion annual

market for players and discs would develop by 1990.

reaches Australia - the first to

cross the Pacific Ocean in a 10-

foot sailboat he built in his

Minnesota garage. Spiess left

California June 1 arriving in

Hawaii on July 31. He left

Hawaii July 31 and arrived in

Pago Pago September 8.

Bryant Gumbel and reporter

Chris Wallace replace Tom

Brokaw on the “Today Show.”

Gumbel will co-anchor with

Jane Pauley. Wallace will

remain in Washington as a correspondent. Brokaw leaves to join Roger Mudd as

co-anchor of the NBC Nightly News.

Bestsellers include - “An Indecent Obsession” - Colleen McCullough, “The Hotel

New Hampshire” - John Irving, “The Cinderella Complex” - Colette Dowling, “The

Beverly Hills Diet” - Judy Mazel.

Week of October 24, 1981

Thursday Night TV (begins at 8 eastern)...(CBS) Magnum, PI, Movie...(NBC) Bob

Hope Special - Opening the President Ford Museum...Candid Camera

Special...(ABC) Mork & Mindy, Best Of The West, Bosom Buddies, Taxi, 20/20.

Bailey, Danny Thomas, Glen Campbell.

Candid Camera - Allen Funt hosts with Loni

Anderson, Wilt Chamberlin and Valerie Harper.

CBS Movie - “Killjoy” - Kim Basinger, Robert Culp

(1981)

At the mart - Ruffles potato chips - 8oz bag - .95...

drumsticks - .99lb... AA large eggs - .79dozen...

xtra-strength Tylenol - $2.39(60 tablets).

That You Can Do)” - Christopher

Cross, “Endless Love” - Diana Ross

& Lionel Richie, “For Your Eyes Only”

- Sheena Easton” Lady (You Bring

Me Up) - The Commodores, “Never

Too Much” - Luther Vandross, “We’re

In This Love Together - Al Jarreau,

“She’s A Bad Mama Jama” - Carl

Carlton, “Private Eyes” - Hall &

Oates, “Here I Am” - Air Supply,

“When She Was My Girl” - The Four

Tops

On A Country Road - “Queen Of

Hearts - Juice Newton, “There’s No Gettin’ Over Me”

- Ronnie Milsap, “Step By Step” - Eddie Rabbit,

“Fancy Free” - Oak Ridge Boys, “My Baby Thinks

He’s A Train” - Roseanne Cash, “Never Been So

Loved (In All My Life) - Charlie Pride

burglar at her Beverly Hills home and steals $5

Week of October 24, 1981

thousand worth of jewelry. After awakened at about 1am, the demanded to know

where her jewelry was. After hitting her, the burglar put her in a closet. Stanwyck,

who did not lose consciousness, told police it was too dark to get a good

identification.

At the movies -

Pleasence

“Time Bandits’ - John Cleese, Shelly Duvall,

Michael Palin

“Authur’ - Dudley Moore

“Paternity” - Burt Reynolds

“An American Werewolf in London”