Missing Boy Found Dead in Gallipolis Ferry
The body of five year old John Wayne McKinney son of Mr and Mrs Paul McKinney was found Sunday afternoon about three miles from home on the Henry Yester farm. Dr Oliver Eschenaur ruled death due to exposure after Joe Yester and his daughter Jackie discovered the body on a hillside.
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Gallipolis Ferry
John Wayne McKinney
Paul McKinney
Joe Yester
Jackie
Yester
Henry Yester
Oliver Eschenaur
Mason County
Johnny
Unions Misuse Millions Delay Tax Moves Until April
Reports say unions delay tax policy actions as official economic data for March remain incomplete. President Eisenhower's aides consider a broad tax cut only if warranted by improving employment and production figures. Nixon warns against inflationary effects and favors job creating cuts.
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Nixon
Eisenhower
Committee For Economic Development
Dayton Tragedy in Trailer Court Ends with Fatal Shootout
In Dayton a gunman killed Lester Maxwell in a trailer court dispute and was then struck by a train in Greene County. Miller, the shooter, died in the rail incident. his wife Thelma identified the body. Police and detectives investigate the sequence of events and motives.
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Lester Maxwell
George Miller
Miller
Maxwell
Dayton
Greene County
Hugh C. Schick
Xenia
Thelma
F. A. Lins
Lins
State Highway Patrol
Franco May Approve Of Spanish Throne Return
Madrid reports speculation that General Francisco Franco may drop objections to restoring a Spanish king to the throne. Franco’s wife Carmen Polo de Franco met with Don Juan of Bourbon, the 44 year old pretender living in Portugal, in four meetings.
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Madrid
Spain
Francisco Franco
Don Juan of Bourbon
Portugal
Carmen Polo de Franco
Slavs Vote Sunday in Yugoslavia Election
Reports from rural areas show more than 9 percent of Yugoslavia's eligible voters braved snow and cold to reach polling stations for Sundays one party parliamentary elections.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Churchill Improves After Pneumonia Setback in France
Sir Winston Churchill was reported progressing normally and satisfactorily in Roquebrune France after a slight setback in his recovery from pneumonia and pleurisy.
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Roquebrnne
France
Winston Churchill
Elvis Begins Army Draft With Humble Sendoff
Elvis Presley reported to the draft board in Memphis at dawn for a two year Army hitch. The teen idol arrived half an hour early, wore dark blue trousers and a grey jacket, and joked he would do what the Army asked. His only worry was the early rising schedule.
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Memphis
Tenn
Elvis Presley
Draft Board
Army
Ohioans injured in Sharon PA crash that killed local man
Two Ohio residents were hurt in a three vehicle crash north of Sharon Pennsylvania Sunday night. Sharon man Howard Weber, 24, died in the collision.
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Sharon
Here
Howard Weber
Susie Reece 100 A Gallia Native Dies
Services were held today for Mrs. Susie Reece a native of Gallia County Ohio who died Saturday at age 100.
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Parkersburg
Susie Reece
Gallia County
Ohio
Cleveland East Tech Boy Saved From Cistern
The Messenger reports a rescue of a 5 year old boy saved from a cistern in Cleveland East Tech area. Firefighters and bystanders acted swiftly to prevent injury as authorities grateful for quick response.
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Cleveland East Tech
Sessio
Athens Glouster
Chauncey Logan Comics
Gallipolis
Nelsonville Women’s
Women Killed In Hill Country Investigation Presses On
West Union Ohio AP officers plan a dawn search in north Adams County for Sylvanus Daulton 53 former Bar den marshal linked to the murder of Florence Hoffer 51 and her daughter Margaret Louise 18 whose bodies were found near a vacant farmhouse. Orvie Hoffer age 12 reported a car abduction. Daulton faced a kidnapping charge in Portsmouth Municipal Court.
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West Union
Ohio
Adams County
Eugene Fulton
Sylvanus Daulton
Barden
Scioto County
Daulton
Florence Hoffer
Margaret Louise
Lone Nurse Stems Epidemic On Small Island
OCRACOKE North Carolina reports a flu epidemic affecting about 300 of 500 residents is under control. Nurse Kathleen Bragg, sick herself, says mainland drugs and a Hatteras doctor have helped. Dr. Garland Wampler of the Public Health Service treated up to 200 patients on Ocracoke. Bragg notes no worsening and continues care via telephone and messenger with nurse assistance.
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Ocracoke
N. C
Ocracoke Island
Kathleen Bragg
Hatteras Island
Hatteras
Garland Wampler
U. S. Public Health Service
Ten Ohio traffic deaths include three teen-agers
Ten people died in Ohio over the weekend in traffic accidents. Three of the victims were teenagers in a collision with a freight train near Chilli cothe. An elderly woman also died in a fire at her home in Ashtabula County.
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Chillicothe
Ohio
Ashtabula County
Hammarskjold Opens Talks With Soviet Leaders
U N Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold began a round of meetings with Soviet leaders in Moscow. He said he expected no specific results but called the discussions important in themselves.
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Moscow
U. N
Dag Hammarskjold
House Delays Pay Bill as Congress Honors Rep. Long
The House postponed until Tuesday the 668 million dollar bill to raise servicemen pay. Today's session followed congressional custom with eulogies for Rep. George Long of Louisiana who died Saturday.
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Washington
George Long
D-La
Ravenna man elected president of Ohio Conservation Congress
Gene Murdock of Ravenna becomes the new president of the Ohio Conservation Congress, signaling leadership change within the state organization.
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Ravenna
Cincinnati
Gene Murdock
The
Ohio Conservation Congress
Wanted To Buy Roller Skates Size 5 Ad Seeks Offers
A classified notice seeks to buy roller skates size 5 for a boy named Dannie Baur. Contact by phone 20814. By 5 30 that day the ad van had purchased the skates, and the ad promotes low cost Messenger Classified Act 31242 for buyers and sellers.
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Dannie Baur
Dannie
Ad van
Ohio Congress votes recorded on three roll calls in flood and farm bills
House roll calls show 321 to 81 in favor for a flood control and navigation package with listed For and Against names including Ashley Baumhart Dennison Feighan Hays Jenkins Kirwan Minshall Polk Vanik and Not voting Bolton. A 210 to 172 vote on freezing farm support prices with Polk for and a long list of Against and Not voting. A 50 to 43 vote on freezing farm prices below 1957 levels with Bricker for and Lausche against. A 61 to 19 vote on extending the 1955 formula for taxing life insurance with Bricker for and Lauche against.
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Polk
Ayres
Baumhart
Betts
Bolton
Brown
Clevenger
Feighan
Henderson
Hess
Jenkins
McCulloch
McGregor
Minshall
Schenck
Scherer
Vorys
Dennison
Vanik
Ashley
Bow
Hays
Kirwan
Bricker
Lausche
Elizabeth Taylor to Fly for Mike Todd Funeral
Hollywood AP report says Elizabeth Taylor, bedridden with a severe cold, will depart for Chicago to attend the funeral of her husband producer Mike Todd. She will be accompanied by Eddie Fisher, Helen Rose, Dr Reyford Kennamer, Howard Taylor, and Dick Hanley.
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Hollywood
Elizabeth Taylor
Chicago
Mike Todd
Todd
Eddie Fisher
MGM
Helen Rose
Reyford
Ken
Namer
Howard Taylor
Dick Hanley
Miss Taylor
Michael, Jr
Albuquerque
Art Cohn
Bill Verner
Tom Barclay
Mike, Jr
Prank Fire Causes $25,000 Loss At Columbus Hotel
In Columbus a basketball fan prank led to a mattress fire at the Deshler Hilton Hotel. One room suffered smoke damage and twelve guests were evacuated. A careless fire charge was filed against Joseph E. Kundert of Delphos after investigators say he dropped a lit cigarette ash on a mattress without noticing.
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Columbus
Joseph E. Kundert
Delphos
Kundert
Bid Opening Set for 18 Million on Cincinnati to Neot Freeway
Ohio Department of Highways announced plans to open bids in April on nearly 15 more miles of the Cincinnati to Conn eaut Freeway Ohio 1. The project is valued at about 18 million dollars and covers additional highway length.
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Columbus
Cincinnati-to-Conneaut
Ohio Department of Highways
Offutt Plea To Quash Denied In Murder Hearing
Meigs County Courtroom hears defense bid to quash affidavit charging George Lynn Offutt with first degree murder in the death of his wife Donna Jean. County Coroner Henry Ewing testified about head injuries and a wrench with blood and hair found in a truck at Holter home.
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Pomeroy
George Lynn Offutt
Meigs County
Emmet Peoples
Henry Ewing
Ewing
Robert C. Hartenbach
Offutt
Donna Jean
Warren Sheets
John Halliday
Gallipolis
William Porter
James C. O'Brien
Hartenbach
Denver Holter
Soviet Union rules out talks on postwar island losses
The Foreign Office said the Soviet Union will not discuss territories lost in World War II and seeks to recover them. Japan demands the return of two small islands off Hokkaido and two south Kurile islands.
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Tokyo
Soviet Union
Japan
Hokkaido
Kurile
Report cites 10 million missing from union funds
The Senate Rackets Committee says about 10 million dollars in union funds were stolen embezzled or misused over 15 years by officials from five unions the Teamsters Bakery Workers United Textile Workers Operating Engineers and Allied Industrial Workers. Employers in seven states are named for alleged union busting and a separate dissent by Sen McNamara calls the figures phony. The report urges five legislative goals to regulate funds ensure union democracy curb middle men and allow state takeover when federal bodies decline jurisdiction.
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Washington—I
Senate
McNamara
D-Mich
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Chicago
Whirlpool Corp
Marion
Ohio
Clyde
Morton Frozen Food Co
Webster City
Iowa
Mennen Co
Morristown
N.J
J. W. Pilcher Co
Louisville
Seamprofe Co
McAlester
Okla
All State Insurance Co
Sears
Skokie, Ill
Englander Co
H. P. Wasson Co
Indianapolis
Congress
National Labor Relations Board
Butler Says Recession Was Planned
Democratic national chairman Paul M. Butler accused the Eisenhower administration of deliberately planning the recession as a readjustment and said the country is now in a full blown downturn. He argued Republicans are reversing past criticisms and advocating measures as responsible policy. Butler spoke at Ohio Wesleyan University and contrasted with Meade Alcorn’s prior remarks.
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Delaware
Paul M. Butler
Butler
Ohio Wesleyan University
Meade Alcorn
West Virginia Ohio Weather: Rainy cool into Tuesday
Rain and cool conditions linger across West Virginia and Ohio tonight into Tuesday with cloudy skies. Temperatures fall to around 37 tonight and 43 Tuesday, while a slow warmup is forecast later in the week. The five day outlook shows below normal temperatures regionwide and scattered rain chances including Saturday.
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West Virginia
Ohio
Albuquerque
Bismarck
Cleveland
Des Moines
Cube
Fort Worth
Indianapolia
Memphis
Miami
St. Paul
Oklahoma City
San Diego
St. Ste. Marie
Seattle
Traverse City
Hero’s Son Aims for West Point Following Father
Corky Kelly, son of WWII hero Capt Colin P. Kelly Jr., seeks appointment to the U S Military Academy at West Point. The 17-year-old Chester Heights resident plans a West Point visit with his mother and stepfather while his precollege records are sent to the academy. The elder Kelly earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Distinguished Service Cross after bombing missions at Pearl Harbor.
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Chester Heights
Cork Kelly
U.S. Military Academy
West Point
Corky
Colin P. Kelly
Franklin D. Roosevelt
United States
Amer
Ican
Army Air Force
Colin P. Kelly, Jr
Corey
Philadelphia
J. Watson Pedlow
Academy
Pedrow
Pearl Harbor
Kelly
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