Braggart Slayer Described as Psychopath in Ironton Trial
Billy Joe Schaffer 25, accused of strangling 75 year old Emma Remy in her Ironton home on February 21 1958 and setting fire to hide the crime, is on trial for first degree murder. A defense psychiatrist described him as a psychopath and a liar, though he said Schaffer knows right from wrong.
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Billy Joe Schaffer
Julius Hoffman
Columbus
Hoffman
Schaffer
Webster's
Emma Remy
Record Low Temperatures Hit Ohio Cities In March
The deep winter cold lingered in central Ohio with Columbus at 2 below, the coldest March reading ever there. Zanesville at 4 below, Findlay and Toledo at 1 below, Mansfield 2 below, and Cleveland 1 below in an all time March record. Snow faces due to returning southerly winds, spreading from the northwest late tonight into Wednesday.
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Ohio
Zanesville
Findlay
Toledo
Mansfield
Cleveland
Geyer’s Restaurant Opens to All After Protest in Xenia
Geyer’s Restaurant in Xenia plans to serve everyone after three days of closure to protest refusal of Black students from Wilberforce University and Central State College. About 100 students, including 15 whites, gathered. a National Food Service Assn. representative arranged reopening. Ohio Civil Rights Commission sent an investigator, while Warren officials seek April 12 election on city charter via the Ohio Supreme Court action.
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Columbus
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Wilberforce
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Ohio Supreme Court
Confession Repudiated By Suspect
Burl F. Kirkpatrick 27, a Bartlett bank robbery suspect, pleads guilty in Marietta Municipal Court to forgery and issuing a worth less check. He is bound over to the April grand jury on 1000 dollars bond per count and held in Washington County jail. He alternated between confessing and denying the Bartlett Farmers Bank robbery of 764 dollars, with authorities checking his statements.
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Bartlett
Washington County
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Marietta
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Millfield
Athens County
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Bartlett Farmers Bank
Dean Ellis
Athens
Mother-In-Law Interferes As Couple Plans Adoption
Leo Moore and his wife Yvonne press ahead with giving their unborn child to an American couple for adoption. Ellen Moore traveled from Manchester to plead for the child, but Leo rejects the intervention. Yvonne will fly to the United States to await the birth in mid April and the adoptive couple Wilbur and Billie Prescott of North Charleston, South Carolina will cover travel costs. neighbors and coworkers criticized the disclosure of the plan.
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England
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Ellen Moore
Yvonne
Moore
Manchester
United States
Wilbur
Billie Prescott
New Hampshire Votes Presidential Primary Opens
New Hampshire voters went to the polls for the nations first presidential primary of 1960 with voting places open early and polls closing by evening. Nixon and Kennedy traded charges as Gov Wesley Powell of New Hampshire led the Nixon forces amid a heated pre results clash.
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United States
New Hampshire
Richard M. Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Nixon
Kennedy
Wesley Powell
Powell
United States Denounces Castro Charges as Baseless
In Washington Secretary of State Christian Herter harshly rejects Fidel Castro’s accusations that U S officials caused Havana Harbor’s March 4 ammunition explosion. He calls the charges baseless and misleading and questions Cuba’s good faith while Cuban officials protest at the State Department.
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United States
Fidel Castro
Castro
U. S
Havana
Christian Herter
Herter
Enrique Patterson
State Department
Dead Baby Found In Bus Locker In Newark
In Newark Ohio police investigated after a Lake Shore Bus Co locker at a station held a box with clothing and a dead baby wrapped in a blanket. Louise Margaret Gibson, 39, of Mansfield was detained for questioning after authorities traced a letter in the locker.
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Ohio
Louise Margaret Gibson
Mansfield
Lake Shore Bus Co
Admits 7th Killing In Coast-To-Coast Slaying Spree
West Palm Beach report says seventeen year old Dennis Whitney admitted his seventh slaying in a coast to coast murder spree. He stated on Monday he killed two men in Phoenix Arizona, a prior confession had counted one kill.
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Dennis Whitney
Phoenix
Ariz
4-H Week Honors Young Members in Southeastern Ohio
The Messenger features 4-H Week coverage highlighting outstanding boys and girls involved in 4-H work across Southeastern Ohio. Pages 6 to 9 and 18 in today’s edition focus on 4-H news and activities.
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Herter Denunciation Of Castro Stirs Cuban Tensions
Havana reports anti American sentiment rising after Secretary Herter denounces Fidel Castro. U S officials expect potential briefing of Daniel Braddock by Raul Roa. La Coubre blast death toll rises to 52, with many missing or injured. Cuba's sugar mills plan a nationwide whistle protest against a proposed U S sugar quota bill.
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Cuba
Christian A. Herter
Fidel Castro
Herter
U.S
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Raul Rae
Castro
la Coubre
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Heater
Washington
Pinar del Rio
Eisenhower Returns From Latin Tour To Report To Nation
President Eisenhower, back from a 15,500 mile swing through Brazil Argentina Chile and Uruguay, prepares a 15 minute address broadcast tonight. He also faces a Senate civil rights filibuster and a looming legislative log jam as he aims to share improved Latin American relations with the nation. He logged an exhausting tour amid heat and humidity, with limited rest compared to his Asia and Europe visit.
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Former Meigs Countian Dies In Auto Crash
John Dye aged 71 a former Carpenter resident was killed in an auto accident on the West Virginia Turnpike near Charleston. His wife Nellie was hospitalized with minor injuries. Dye lived in Columbus for years and leaves sons Robert and Webster and daughters Doris Angle Eva Butt. Funeral services are planned in Columbus and Carpenter with burial at Temple Cemetery.
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John Dye
West Virginia
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Dye
Nellie
Florida
Columbus
Robert
Doris Angle
Weber
Leach Funeral Home
Bigony Funeral Home
Carpenter Baptist Church
Ray Biddle
Temple Cemetery
Spanking Bill Before New York Senate
A bill to allow teachers to spank unruly pupils faces the New York Senate again today. It bars force unless prior acts have been reported to school authorities.
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Albany
N. Y
State Senate
Tosses Out $100 Bills Worker Leaves Trail Of $13,000
In Hamtramck Michigan AP report 47 year old Chrysler worker Stephen Krysiak distributed or destroyed thirteen thousand dollars in a ten block stroll tossing hundreds to bystanders tearing others into confetti and shredding scraps. He started with twenty thousand and ended with about five thousand seven hundred in one hand while the other held shredded cash. His mother says he has been under treatment for a nervous disorder.
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Hamtramck
Mich
Detroit
Stephen Krysiak
Krysiak
Chrysler
Sophie Krysiak
Pre-Meeting to Prepare for Summit
Western ministers from the United States Britain France and West Germany plan a mid April meeting in Washington to align policies ahead of the Paris summit. The talks target the main topics for discussions with Soviet Premier Khrushchev when the parley opens May 16.
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West Germany
Washington
Nikita Khrushchev
Paris
Train Crash Kills Eight Near Norton Lane
A passenger train collided with a station wagon on Norton Lane killing eight people including seven children and a woman. The wagon was hurled into a five foot lake beside an unprotected grade crossing.
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Berlin
Colin
Black man attacked in racially charged Houston incident
Felton Turner describes being assaulted by four masked white youths who dragged him into a car, tied him to a tree, and scratched two sets of Ks on his chest and stomach before releasing him. Turner, 27, was treated and released at Jefferson Davis Hospital. The attackers cited publicity tied to Texas Southern University lunch counter sit-ins.
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Houston
Tex
Turner
Texas Southern University
Butler apologizes for remark on Eisenhower and Rio plane crash
Democratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler apologized for saying President Eisenhower had something to answer for to the wives and children of Navy bandsmen killed in a Rio de Janeiro crash. He said he did not mean to imply presidential responsibility for the deaths.
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Paul M. Butler
Eisenhower
Rio de Janeiro
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