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The Evening Courier

Our picture: Sudfurt, 31 August 1978, photographed for the Courier as the light went. Kesselhöh Iron Company is wound up. 883 jobs are lost at Sudfurt.

The Roll as published by the War Ministry

No names this week. Good.

The front line is at the Reed Line. No change.

Courts and Assembly

The Assembly this week, in words of one syllable where possible.

26 August 1978. The Telephone (Amendment) Act goes through. Passed by the Assembly by 48 votes to 13. Licences are issued by the Ministry of the Interior for a fee of 124 marka. It changes The Telephone (Amendment) Act. It took them all afternoon.

The High Court. Bauer v. Brenn: Concerning an unpaid debt of 107421 marka. Ruling: dismissed. The gallery was half empty by lunch.

The Regional Court of The Ostrand. Lamm v. Brenn: Concerning the reckoning of a lease spanning the removed year. Ruling: for the tenant. You should have seen the faces.

The Regional Court of The Capital District. Rusk v. Gristen: Concerning the estate of the late Gristen. Ruling: for the eldest son. You should have seen the faces.

Money

What your pfen buys this week.

Bread 214.8 pfen the loaf. Beer 322.3 pfen the litre. A day's work pays 33.2 marka. A room costs 116.19 marka the month. The Exchange closed the year at 23,152.50. Bank rate 6.29 per cent.

The War Appropriation this year: 73,180,477 marka. Sixty-three to nil.

The week in the registers.

201 births, 128 weddings, 169 deaths this week. Population 675,231.

On this day

173 years ago. The harvest at Tarnmund is reported late. Grain is 4 pfen the measure. Report.

167 years ago. A storm strips roofs in Grautal and fells the old lime in Orchard Gate. Report.

Programmes of the day: the wireless.

Sport

Pfahl. The League of 1977 went to Tarnmund Lake. Full table.

ClubWL
Tarnmund Lake184
Marschau Garrison175
Weinfeld Vintners157
Grauburg Fortress148
Reedside Athletic148
Hollstadt Workers1111
Norrwick Printers1012
Altstadt Pfahl Club1012
Brennholt Farmers913
Vellmar Wardens814
Ostrabruck Bridge418
Kessel Iron220

The Courier's man on the bank rates the champions' stake-men 6 out of ten and the ferry 4.

The Stars

Aries A letter you expected does not come. Buy bread early.
Taurus Someone at work repeats your idea. Let them.
Gemini Two invitations for the same evening. Take the nearer.
Cancer Stay near the water. It is where you are happiest.
Leo The Exchange is not for you this week.
Virgo A form arrives. Fill it in the same day.
Libra The scales tip your way on Tuesday.
Scorpio Someone is keeping something from you. It is probably a cake.
Sagittarius Good news from a cousin. It costs you a stamp.
Capricorn Hard work this week; the reward is next week, or the one after.
Aquarius A stranger asks directions. Give the long way.
Pisces The water is high. Stay on the causeway.

The Courier crossword

Today's crossword

Clues marked Across run left to right; the rest run down. Solution in tomorrow's Courier. Entries with a licensed calendar reference are void. Fill it in online. Yesterday's habit, today's solution.

Printed and published at Vellmar by The Evening Courier. One pfen. Registered under the Press Act. Casualty figures as published by the War Ministry.

From the Courier's digitised back issues, every evening since 4 September 1871. Reproduced as printed.