9 Year Old Boy Admits Icebox Tragedy Details
In Walnut Ridge Arkansas a 9 year old boy named James Buddy Chessier confessed to authorities that he shut three playmates in an icebox during hide and seek and left them to suffocate when the door could not be opened. Prosecuting attorney Millard Hardin described the statements given in the presence of Buddy and his parents. The confession ties to the deaths of James Delbert Chastian Joyce Ann Chastain and Shirley Ramsey found in the Chastain home last Friday. The investigation remains under review with officials labeling the incident possibly accidental.
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Walnut Ridge
Ark
James Buddy Chessier
Borden Chessier
Millard Hardin
James Delbert Chastian
Joyce Ann Chastain
Shirley Ramsey
Ed Chastain
Buddy
Ramsey
Hardin
Chastain
Byron Chastain
Shirley
Elmer Etchison
Super Highway Plans Disclosed
The State Highway Department unveils a new policy widening right of way to 300 feet for planned highways into Austin, allowing four to six lanes. Travis County Commissioners Court will hear details as W D Dockery presents plans for the US 290 Fredericksburg Road widening from the Hays County line to the city limits.
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Austin
Travis County Commissioners Court
State Highway Department
Fredericksburg Road
Hays County
W. D. Dockery
Commissioners
Steel Firm Orders Furnaces Shut Down
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp will idle one blast furnace and ten open hearth furnaces at its Duquesne Pennsylvania plant Friday and Saturday. About 200 workers have already been furloughed and officials cited a lack of orders as the reason for the shutdowns.
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Pittsgurgh
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp
Duquesne, Pa
Thieves Steal Car Then Wrecker in Wyoming
In Worland Wyoming thieves took a car from a local garage and skidded it into a ditch. They returned to the same shop and removed a wrecker, which police later found stuck in the same ditch along with the car.
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Worland
Wyo
Squatter Granted Split From Executive
Edith Marie Lord was granted a divorce from New York shipping executive Robert P. Lord in Las Vegas. She cited extreme mental and physical cruelty. Ryland Taylor described her as the woman who barricaded her apartment with shotgun guards to deter dispossession. Judge Frank McNamee approved a sealed property agreement. The couple wed in New York in 1933.
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Las Vegas
Edith Marie Lord
New York
Robert P. Lord
Ryland Taylor
Iden
Frank McNamee
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Chastain Boy
Etchison
Joe Spades
Spades
Steel Firm
Ditch
Wyoming
Home Loan Service
Dial
Sheffield & Wall CO
I. Co.cat
CAN Zoe
Convenient Drug
A. Lee
Sss
Libbey “Safedge
Knapp
Emerson Jr
Alka Seltzer
Upjohn
Unicaps
Borden's Mull-Soy
Cardus Medicine
Roxbury Fountain
University of Illnois
Dybasik
Council On Therapeutics of the American Dental Assn
University of III. Foundation
U.S
Pat
Tae
Dybasik Ics O
LY Boq
Crane
Lotion
Winso
Hobart
Martel
Polident Plate Cleanser
Kolynos
Ayds
Wrisley Bath
Woodbury
Jergen
Swan Soap
Skeezix
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