Babysitter Admits Strangling Child After Job Loss
Akron AP report says Rochelle Posey admitted choking 14 month old Michael Magier with a silk stocking after losing her job due to her boyfriend’s visits. Posey, held without bond, told police she felt guilty and planned to end the boy’s life. Police found the child with a stocking around the throat on a couch. The Magier family had recently separated. the couple’s other children stayed with grandparents.
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Akron, Ohio
Rochelle Posey
Michael Magier
Miss Posey
Forrest Diefendorff
Norton Village
Diefendorff
Ruth Magier
Summit County
Magier
Joseph
Only Half-Day Needed To Mark Anniversary
Middletown Ohio AP reports veteran officer Delman Whitman asked his supervisor for leave to mark his 20th wedding anniversary. He stated twenty years ago he received a full day, but this year he needs only half a day.
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Middletown
Ohio
Delman Whitman
Four Men Convicted On Narcotics Counts
SEATTLE AP Ernest Duke Arnold, serving a federal term in Missouri, is among four men found guilty by a federal jury of conspiring to operate a narcotics ring between Mexico and Seattle. U.S. District Judge William T.
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Seattle
Ernest
Duke) Arnold
Missouri
Mexico
U.S
William T
Two More Named For Boys State
Two Jefferson City youths John Hiesberger and Orville E Johnson are accepted to Missouri Boys State June 6 to 24 at Central Missouri State College Warrensburg. They join 720 other boys from 97 counties at the annual event. Johnson attends Senior High, Cedar City Baptist Church, sponsored by the Eagles Club. Hiesberger attends Helias High, National Honor Society, Legion of Mary, Y C A, basketball and golf, sponsored by the Knights of Columbus. Bows State is a leading youth program sponsored since 1934 by the American Legion.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Boys State
Central Missouri State College
Warrensburg
John Hiesberger
Anton Hiesberger
Cardinal St
Orville E. Johnson
Orville Johnson
Eagles Club
Hiesberger
Helias High
National Honor Society
Legion of Mary
The
Immaculate Conception Y.C.A
Knights of Columbus
Bows State
American Legion
Alert Sounded On Holdup Men
Chicago authorities issued a nationwide alert for three suspects in a $38,000 robbery at the West side CTA terminal. Identified are Samuel R. Fleming 36 Ladd Davis 35 and Aaron Wilson 35 all described as Negroes. Fleming left Chicago Sunday night bound for Manhattan Kansas to visit his father in law Wilson has relatives in St Louis Davis reports a Hartford Connecticut connection. Eight associates are charged with aiding knowledge or weapons.
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Chicago
API
Kansas
Missouri
Chicago Transit Authority
West Side
Samuel R. Fleming
CTA
Ladd Davis
Aaron Wilson
Fleming
Manhattan
Kan
Wilson
St. Louis
Davis
Hartford
Iberia Scout Unit To Receive Charter
California special charter day ceremonies at Proctor Park Calif ornia Friday mark the charter for Troop 24 Boy Scouts Iberia. About 200 attendees from seven Lake of the Ozarks Council units including Iberia California Versailles and Jefferson City will participate. Louis Hughes council chairman presents the charter to sponsoring American Legion Post 105 Theria. Program includes California High School band performances, color presentations by Post 120 California High School band, welcome by council president Charles D Bailey, an address on The Three Charters by William Tweedie Jefferson City, and recognition of 1962 chartered packs and posts by Commissioner Kenneth Roland. L E Moody district scout executive speaks on How Our Chartered Institutions Are Being Served. Tenderfoot investiture by Troop 3 Jefferson City for Troop 24. pinning ceremony for Troop 24 adults. Invoca tion by Rev Dale DeLong California Christian Church benediction by Rev Peter O Rourke Annunciation Church.
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California
Proctor Park
Boy Scouts of America
Iberia
Lake of the Ozarks
Versailles
Jefferson City
Louis Hughes
American Legion Post 105
Theria
William D. Powell
Kenneth Roland
L. E. Moody
Tenderfott
Troop 3
Dale DeLong
California Christian Church
Peter O'Rourke
Annunciation Church
Dog of crash victims killed in auto accident
In Atlanta the long haired dachshund Padre, kept by neighbors while the Frederick Bull family mourned six members killed in an Air France jetliner crash in Paris on June 3, was struck and killed by an automobile last week. The dog had been living with neighbors during the family’s absence.
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Atlanta
Padre
Frederick Bull
Air France
Paris
Bull
Prosecution claims holdup slaying and loot loss in dice loss
In St Louis, Ruben Anderson faces first degree murder charges for allegedly plotting a week to kill elderly salesman Anthony Schrader, beating him, robbing him of $82.20 and a ring, burning the body in a furnace, and then losing the money in a dice game while Schrader burned. Prosecutor seeks death penalty. judge upholds confession issues but finds insufficient grounds to dismiss them.
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ST. Louis
Ruben Anderson
Anthony J. Schrader
Henry J. Fredericks Jr
Anderson
Waldo C. Mayfield
FBI
Mayfield
Schrader
Bridgeton
Illinois
Carlyle
Fredericks
Canada and U S politics show parallels in party system
Ottawa reports that Canada's two main parties resemble the U S Reds and Blues while two minor parties, New Democrats and Social Credit, make little campaign impact. Analysts note possible minority government, with 12 to 20 seats in play, as 1957 underscored. Pearson argues for Liberal alternative. Diefenbaker warns against wasting votes on minor parties.
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Ottawa
Canadiaa
U.S
Conservative
Liberal Party
United States
New Democratic Party
Social Credit Party
aSow
Lester B. Pearson
Washington
John H. Levis
Park
Social Credit
Jean
Diefenbak
Inter
Iwo Jima
Levis
Uve LK
Wee Ee
Conservatives
Party of Free Enterprise
Liberals
New Democrats
Canada
Former Kansas Candidate Townsend Dies at 47
J William Townsend a Topeka attorney and two time candidate for lieutenant governor of Kansas died at his home after a series of heart attacks. Townsend ran second to Fred Hall in 1950 and made an unsuccessful bid in 1954. He served on the Kansas Turnpike Authority and is survived by his wife two sons and three daughters. Funeral plans are pending.
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Topeka
Kan
J. William Townsend
Kansas
Townsend
Fred Hall
Kansas Turnpike Authority
Death Log Missouri Traffic Fatalities Report
Missouri records 4 hours ending midnight report 3 deaths in that window. Last 24 hours total 3. Year to date 360. Compare with same period last year 380. Data tracks traffic fatalities across the state with brief daily totals.
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Missouri
Flour Mills Say Rail Rate Cuts Won't Hurt Industry
An Interstate Commerce Commission examiner heard testimony that lower grain shipment rates sought by Southern Railway would not harm flour mills. Samuel Flint for the Southern Governors Conference disputed prior claims that multi-car Midwest shipments to the Southeast would drain mills. He argued the South is not a strong market for mill feed, a by product of flour, and profitable disposal of mill feed matters to the industry.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Southern Railway
Samuel Flint
Southern Governors Conference
Southeast
Midwest
Flint
South
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