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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1956
Page
9
A group of medical dental and civic leaders formed the Committee to Protect Our Children Teeth Inc with headquarters at 105 E 22nd St to spread facts about fluoridation of water supplies. Dr Benjamin Spock chairman and visiting professor of child development at Western Reserve University Cleveland leads the effort.
At a Columbus gas station two boys aged eight and ten dropped a lit book of matches into an underground waste oil tank. The blast sent hot oil 20 feet, inflicting third degree burns on their faces and arms.
Nevada delegates to the National Junior Chamber of Commerce Convention vow to toss 10,000 silver dollars in the parade next Wednesday. Florida will fling grapefruit as part of rival display plans during the event opening Monday in Columbus. Gordon Jeffery of Toledo is named president of the State Committee of Boys' Clubs for America.
Dwight B. Miller of Tacoma says a bee in the back seat led him to pull off the highway onto a canal bank, the bank gave way, and the car toppled into water. In Ohio, Nicholas Mt Kostic, 38, of Massillon, was adjudged insane by a common pleas jury.
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Earl Baker, 22, Dayton, held on reckless driving, was freed after his bond. Deputy Kenneth Schultz, entering Montgomery County jail, called Baker's name and released writer, 42, Covington, Ky, jailed for public intoxication, who had accepted Baker's possessions.
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