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Newspaper
Delaware County Daily Times
Location
Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1981
Page
13
A watermelon on a shooting range was blown apart by a .44 caliber magnum and then another melon detonated with a new East Coast firecracker fad. The piece notes bans on large crackers in 16 states and federal prohibitions on interstate commerce, with police struggling to enforce such laws.
In Coshocton County, 56 year old McClellan Poston Renner, long-term inmate, was discovered chained to a bedpost in a messy farmhouse. Identified as nephew of late Columbus Electric Co. president John Poston, Renner is deemed mentally incompetent and is under care arrangements by his mother. The trust fund of Elias McClellan Poston funds his care, with $12,000 yearly in probate records. Family contemplates proper action and future guardianship.
Samuel Pierce, the lone black in President Reagan's Cabinet, urged NAACP delegates to back the administration's plan. He argued government programs have long driven housing and urban development, but a shift is needed despite unemployment gaps under historic policy.
UPI reports Fulton County District Attorney Lewis Slaton plans to present the Williams case to the grand jury within 30 days of his June 21 arrest. He noted no indictment until after the July 14 grand jury meeting, while investigators seek links to other slayings of young black victims in Atlanta.
Hutchinson Kansas mayor John Corey announced the city will adopt To the name of one of Jupiter’s major moons as a symbolic sister city link. Max Ary of the Kansas Cosmosphere and Discovery Center said the move reflects Hutchinson’s Cosmophere heritage and desire for a space themed partnership.
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