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r ITivo Students Try To Halt RobberTakes $1,100FromSupermarketPolice Spot**•T*Escape Car,Give ChaseGunman And Pal Elude OfficersAttempts by two high school students and a man to thwart an armed robbery Wednesday evening at the Kroger Grocery Co. at 710 . State ave NE, were unsuccessful. The. thief escaped with an estimated $1,100 in cash according to Sam Ma-cioce, store manager.At approximately 8:47 p. m. last night a man about 35 years of age walked into the store and went to the manager’s booth, police said. They reported the man accosted Richard King of 3425 Lincoln Way, E, head clerk, and Gashed a heavy caliber revolver.The bandit handed King a paper bag and said, “Put all the bills in it.” As King started to fill the bag the robber added,“I want all of it.”* * * jAFTER THE RAG was filled, j police said the gunman took itJFK UrsjesHuge Gift' I o CitiesTransportation Plan Handed To CongressaiaooitCi*aAowBy The Associated PressWASHINGTON — President Kennedy proposed a $500 million handout to traf-! fie-strangled cities today and jt]; dangled hopes of eventual if! tl ,v^. I «..r,..V.WAW.-V ........ A,. •• . ..--- - , i T ^ ’ I ■» ft . * , ^TOM MIGGE, Washington 'high school student who attempted j °ai §am lates beiore tne na-|t= to thwart an armed robbery at the Kroger Grocery Co. Wednes- [tions air, rail and bus travel* I -day evening, is pictured above on the right. Migge went to the ■ ers. store to see his friend, Dave Larson, (left),, who was sweeping i Kennedy bundled up his ideas I] up at the store where he is employed when the robber entered, \ in a 10,000-word transportation J Mrs. Edith Ayers, of 8589 Fulton dr, another employe who was |message and sent it off to con-in the store at the time of the holdup is in the center of the jgress. He ignored former Presi-photo. dent Dwight D. Eisenhower’s rec-;ommendation for creation of a!KEEN GIVES EXPLAN ATION-]Merchants Considergovernment department of trans- j 1 portation. ! J* * *THE $500 MILLION would be! only a first installment, spread jte over three years, to be given toibi [public agencies. They would put'p (up some partially matching fundsjbi and use the combined federal-s£ local money for ,;the revitaliza-; _The Downtown Massillon Merchants association board of di- i^°ur ne^e^ expansion otjtlSupport Of Surveyand asked about the store's safe. rectors will meet early next week to consider support of the con They saia he was told the safe; troversial comprehensive city survey.j public mass transportation.” !Pi For the traveling public and for.mbulk freight — grain, coal oreT1Pi?#? i J. ^ R. Thomas Straughn. chairman of ,the merchants group saidJi~iNr~TfkQll ' i • i^e wduld. call the special session of the board following a meeting!and farm and fishery products, while tne robbery was taking (Wednesday at which Mayor William J. Keen addressed some 30 j Kennedy recommended that Con-? place, police said James Knouff;merchants. Ordinarily the merchants board would not meet for;Sr©ss end minimum rates pre-©f 9 Willard, ave NE. another another two weeks, on the third Tuesday of the month. [scribed under federal regulation.Iutemploye at the store had enter-; ed the store and overheard whatjm «• • -» «•was happening. They said Knouff; JVI3Id* iYLcIV left the store and went to a near-i Jby phone booth to summon police.; q 1 Tl He then went back to the store {JlAAlr f OWPTand was attempting to lock the!bandit inside when a second man;T.._T TT______came up behind him and told JL 10DC JLld C him to leave the door alone. The;During the course of the meet-1 Just what passengers on what i ing Keen said that if the plan!lines might get lower rates in1, shoutd be defeated on a referen- time was not spelled out. But fed-:!? dum being sought for the Novem- eral officials said they hoped for , ber ballot, he would recommend some “bargain rates to attract [jf to city council that it go forward people away from cars” as well with the survey with the city for congressional action to pre-i paying the entire estimated cost-vent price wars.'of S38,S0Q. ' The rate and mass transit rec-Ccmof;sat i , | ommendations, and a stringsecond man was not seen, police/ city Solicitor Richard F. Maier? 13 N DER the comptehensivejothers, were parts of a vast, long-'ifSa^’ L • sa^ today he is considering.ask-:survey plan as proposed now, the;range attack on complicated, coil- aAs the thief was leaving the: jng the Public Utilities Commis- Cl3,-V vould pay $12,800 over a .troversial problems Kenned}' said store, Tom Migge, 17, of 1726 sj0n of Ohio to send an engineer two-year period with the federal burdening our national'nc13th st SE, a member of the jto Massillon to investigate charges government paying the remain- ™Washington high school football 'made by a Massillon radiologist lt;3er* survey would be done (See JFK—Page 12) 1team, entered and sensed what'that the citv’s electrical cower ^ t3ie Stark County Regional;was going on. Police said Migge supply js subject to major voltage p3an™n§ commission. Opponents' #threw a block Into the man, grab-fluctuations. ' . t*le p3an are seeking 1,259 I IP/ij/fi SPPIIbed the bag of money and tossed; “I intend’to investigate to see signatures on petitions for ai _it back into the manager’s booth, jf this charge is a general prob- 1‘eierendum vote. rpj IT?The thief pulled out bis weap- iGm jn the city or if it is limited . In hiS comments before answer- / tlVOU^II JlLY€S on, which he had concealed after to some soecific instances,” Maier !n® questions. Keen said Massil- O %/leaving the booth, and. Migge fled said. ‘ .Jon was ; depressed and stagnant ^ -wr ai jfor cover. * * * ?a condition that did not develop f)m 1 C(lTmiJlCLLarry Montgomery of 820 Eu-; “IF THIS condition is found to:0,VGrni^t-’ He quoted figures'did ave SW, who was a customer be general it is a serious threat s, v!n= MassiLori employment!in the store saw what was going:to our industrial future and is a ! ,n Lo:on and threw a can of coffee at matter of municipal concern.”; • , m iypl-the man and then also ran for Maier said. ; Keen termed the comprehen-jcover. . i Maier is in Cleveland today ob- s*ve survey a “systematic plan-;The subject returned to the .serving new rate negotiations be- n.e^ approach in areas over whichmit:anMandugoBy PETER AMBRO, JR.(As told to bis mother, Henrietta Leith Ambro,AP Staff Writer)NEW YORK (AP)—It wasn’tta:popotzathiticbooth, retrieved the bag of cash* tween “the city of Cleveland’and jfe cityhas control, “and” a plan the first time I went to the cir- ^and ran out of the store to an;the East Ohio Gas Co.auto which was parked at the I He said he intends to start his! ($ee SURVEY Pase 12)east side of the building. As he probe into the problem of electri-1 ---was getting into the'car, police cal power fluctuations as soon as:for common goals.” He said good cus. but when I was 4 or 5 I ufarrived at the south end of the he returns from Cleveland. AttSC*kbuilding and began pursuit. \ xhe complaint about “short but Officers said they got as close frequent voltage fluctuations of♦ * « * m w *nr.uused to get tired and want to go home. ®x1 didn’t get tired Wednesday 3c night because I'm 6 years old and big enough to stay to the; end, and I’m sure glad I did.*4
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Evening Independent
Massillon, Ohio, US
Thu, Apr 05, 1962
Page 13
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Stark L.
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