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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1956
Page
15
Montgomery boy Jonnny Becker, age 12, left with 8 cents en route to California. He stopped for a candy bar and then planned to travel six days. An unidentified motorist alerted Columbus police and Juvenile Officer James A. Bonham.
The United Nations projects a midyear world population of 2.655 billion, up 129 million, driven by a large rise in Red China to 582.6 million. The update contrasts with the Nationalist Chinese figure of 163.5 million from 1948, altering prior assessments.
Wealthy film figure Bob Burns reportedly bequeaths his 300000 dollar estate to his widow Harriet Burns as probate details unfold in Los Angeles. The news notes the sizable legacy and ongoing settlement processes.
Three men accused in the failed National City Bank of Marion robbery on January 22 pleaded guilty to bank robbery kidnapping to extort and conspiracy to kidnapping. Duane Charles Packer 26 Willard Lee Kim 20 and Donald Francis were sentenced to life imprisonment in the Ohio penitentiary.
A young Ohio couple died of asphyxiation after 20 hours in a sealed overheated Alamogordo New Mexico apartment. Victims William Daniel Kime 19 and Stephanie 15 from Galion Ohio.
Malla 1 34 and wife Rosemary are in custody for investigation of child neglect after four month old Terry died from pneumonia and exposure. The home lacked coal for heat and authorities found three other children placed in Franklin County Children's Home for safekeeping. Also, a National Airlines DC-9 nosed over at Idlewild. one passenger injured slightly including Bishop Fulton J Sheen.
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