Ohio mother admits killing four children in despondent plea
In Dayton Ohio Betty Perry 27 described as a good mother killed her four children Stacey 10 months Carl 3 Scott 4 and Susan 6 with plastic bags over their heads and pillows covering their faces Police said she attempted suicide Friday night slashing wrists and taking aspirin before being found wandering near her home The father John Perry and the couple had been separated neighbors recalled her as timid and quiet and Despondent over money problems and a looming divorce were cited as motives
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Dayton
Ohio
Betty Perry
Dayton State Hospital
Veteran Ohio Publisher James A. Chew Dies at 82
Xenia Ohio obituary notes James A Chew 82 veteran publisher and head of a four newspaper group including Xenia Daily Gazette Middletown Journal Piqua Daily Call and Franklin Chronicle after a long illness.
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Xenia, Ohio
James A. Chew
Ohio
Xenia
Chew
Xenia Daily Gazette
Middletown Journal
Piqua Daily Call
Franklin Chronicle
Three Killed as Jet Fighter Crashes Into Summitville House
In Marietta Georgia a jet fighter struck a house killing the pilot and two spinster sisters Miss V Cassidy 61 and Ostelle Cassidy 58. A friend Miss Idel Pickens 58 was critically burned. A Baptist minister visitor had just left moments before. The Fury was approaching to land at the naval air station when it ripped through the frame house leveling it and starting a fire. Neighbors recalled attempts to rescue a burning sister trapped in the wreckage.
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Marietta
FIE
Naval Air Station
James Moss
J. K. Martin
New Hair Loss Treatment Claim Promises Growth
Houston firm announces a 32 day no risk trial of their hair loss treatment. Laboratory consultants say most cases are male pattern baldness and urge readers to send information for evaluation.
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Houston
Texas
Loesch Laboratory Consultants, Inc
Bellow
Jelegation Coufon
West Main St
Regular Checks Urged On Social Security Accounts
Her man E Landes district manager for the Social Security Office in Anderson urges people to check their Social Security accounts at least once every three years. The SSA has 140 million individual accounts and receives over 76 million wage items each quarter, risking errors from mismatched numbers or misspelled names.
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Social Security Administration
Landes
Anderson Social Security Office
Main St
Save Dunes Leader Praises Senate Bill For Lakeshore Creation
Thomas E. Dustin of the Save the Dunes Council lauds a bill to establish the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore as the biggest win for Indiana natural resources in two generations. He says the measure, backed by conservationists, could win congressional approval this year after a 12 year effort. The piece notes Portland Maine faces deer snow increases and an annual deer kill exceeding 37 000.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Thomas E. Dustin
Save the Dunes Council
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
Indiana
Dustin
Portland
Maine
Talent Exhibits Lend Highlights To Annual Farm Bureau Function
The Madison County Farm Bureau held its annual picnic at the 4-H Building in Alexandria with 250 attendees. Prizes were awarded in pet and hobby contests and a broad range of adult and youth divisions across cakes, flowers, and talent, judged by Mrs. Milliken and others.
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Farm Bureau
Madison County Farm¢ Bureau
Inn
Alexandria
Debbie Almquist
Jackson Two
Cindy Almquist
Zinnia
Mark Milburn
Stony Creek
Duane Devaurter
Debbie Lloyd
David Milburn
Debra Jones
Fall Creek
Beth Thornberry
Adams
Danny Gosness
Monroe
Gerald Horning
Jackson
Susan Horning
Charles Milburn
Frank Fesler
Lafayette
Ruth Keesling
Paul Doowning
Herman Sharritt
Green
Frank Wiles
Edith Brock
van Buren
Cora Collier
Ethel Yimmer
Pipe Creek
Marion Briles
Boone
Donna West
Earl Stephenson
Harald Lenaster
Audrey Hays. Adams
Marigold
New Ralston Purina President Named
Ralston Purina Co. selected R. Hal Dean as president and chief operating officer, succeeding Raymond Rowland who remains chairman and CEO. In Bayshore New York a mother, Rosalie Florio, was abducted with her children. two men took ransom and released her after $2,500 was paid, with Dean shown as new leadership in St. Louis.
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Bayshore
N.Y
UPI
ST. Louis
Poy ' Dean
Raymond
Rosalie Florio
Rowland
Hyde Park
Florio
On The Banks of The Wabash Far Away
Paul Dresser, a 300-pound songwriter, sought ideas from his brother Theodore in New York and penned On The Banks of The Wabash Far Away. The song became a national hit, later Indiana’s official song, and a landmark American folk tune alongside My Gal Sal.
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Paul Dresser
Theodore Dresser
Paul
New York
Theodore
Indiana
America
Dresser
Wabash
Terre Haute
Indianapolis
New York City
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Bell Telephone Research
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Mary Jane Ewing
Helen Irwin
Max Ayers
Paul Howard
Bob Dean
Charles Ferris
Harold Forrest
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van Buren Township
Don Gossett
Pat Clock
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White Plains
Ball State
Muncie
Republican Club
Faye Cunningham
Edna Shelton
Howard McKay
Lester Carlston
McKay
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Rochester
Erie & Lackawanna
Herman E. Landes
Anderson
Save Dunes
Senate
Marion Briles Boone
Frank Foster
la Fayette
Chris Ber
Herman Skarritt
Ethel Swain
Ernest Busby
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Lawrence Johnson
Richland
Lenora McNealy
John K. Summers
Alma Downs
Lawrence Oden
Richard Smith
Lewis Richardson
Debbie Jones
Rose Marie Cole
Kent Summers
Diana Jarrett
Diana McClintock
Gerinda Hall
Mary Philbert
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General Motors
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Arthur Htchison
Richard Lowe
Walter Haynes
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Ralston Purina
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