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Wayward Youth AlmostKills His StepmotherLeague to SelliPeanuts for PolioyJunior Welfare League members will be selling “Peanuts for Polio” this weekend.Several downtown business establishments, along with Van’s store, will be headquarters for the peanut sale Friday afternoon and evening and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.Two hundred pounds of peanuts were packaged in labeled bags Tuesday night at a regular Junior League meeting in preparation for the project. The peanuts were purchased from a local store and freshly roasted for the event. More than 3,000 bags of peanuts are expected to be sold, with all proceeds earmarked for the polio fund.Mrs. Don Oosterbaan is the league’s general chairman for the project. Her group chairmen are Mrs. Clarence Van Liere, Mrs. Ben Bowmaster, Mrs. John Percival,PONTIAC, Mich. (UP)Theearlywayward son of a West Bloomfield Township osteopath returned Tuesday night and nearly shot his step-mother while trying to rob hisformer home.Sixteen-year-old Eric Matheny, son of Dr. C. C. Matheny, was turned over to Oakland County juvenile authorities after he was arrested by State Police today.The boy was sent to Commonwealth at Albion September after an autoconviction. He was allowed toleave the home for delinquent boys to spend the Christmas holidays at home.The doctor's wife, Sadie, saidshe drove Eric back to Albion last Sunday. School officials said he never checked in.Matheny said he and his wore awakened by a noise inkitchen about 10:15 p.m.tried to turn on the lightsStarrlasttheftwifetheir They but* Tfound the main electric switch and the telephone wires had beenripped out.“When we entered the kitchen r eou'd see no one, Matheny said. “Then a voice which I• *
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Holland Evening Sentinel
Holland, Michigan, US
Wed, Jan 05, 1955
Page 21
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