Hartshorn pleads innocent in first degree murder case
Robert Hartshorn, accused of killing his brother Lloyd Junior Hartshorn on November 29, pleaded not guilty before Magistrate Elias Bright and was held to the grand jury without bond. His attorney sought time to subpoena seven witnesses while Sheriff Waldron noted remorse in contrast to two convicted killers from 1954. The slaying followed a family dispute over money at their Stump Run Road home near Rt 180.
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Bulletin
Elias Bright
Hartshorn
Lloyd Junior Hartshorn
A J. Waldron
Leslie Johnson
Waldron
Benjamin Meyer
Robert Lee Downs
Robert
Jack
Stump Run Rd
Rt. 180
Soviet Leaders Bind Burma Trip to West Critique
In Rangoon Khrushchev and Bulganin tour South Asia and lambaste the West while Bulgaria and Burma urge a nuclear ban and Formosa transfer. They call for unity of Indochina after Geneva and a Korea unification, plus disarmament and end to power blocs. Churchill is criticized over a WWII arms directive in a rally address.
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Rangoon
Burma
Communist Party
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Nikolai Bulganin
India
Khrushchev
West
Britain
Bur
Personal Income Still Climbing
Washington reports October personal income rising sharply keeping the 19 month total at the equivalent of 301 billion dollars per year. The October figure is 14 billion higher than the annual rate for the first ten months of 1954.
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Washington
America
Commerce Department
Bricker Doubts Ike Has Decided
Sen Bricker of Ohio doubts President Eisenhower has yet decided on running for reelection.
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Bricker
Washington
Bricke
Ohio
Eisenhower
Defense Spending 5 Times Total For Pre Pearl Harbor
Fivefold rise in U S defense outlays since 1940 is noted as Pentagon officials draft next year’s budget Secretary of Defense Charles E Wilson says annual defense spending could be about 34 billion dollars but would be tough to hold for the Pearl Harbor year Eisenhower and Wilson discuss the shift while noting atomic budget items and broader armament costs rise to meet wartime needs.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
United States
Pentagon
Secretary of Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Wilson
Gettysburg
Eisenhower
Oes
Police Think Schoolboy's Attack Story May Be Hoax
Cleveland police question 17 year old Earl Fryman after he reports being chained to a tree, drenched in turpentine, and burned with a 12 foot limb. Discrepancies in his account lead detectives to consider the youths involved may not exist. Fryman walked a mile to Fairview Park Hospital with burns covering 85 percent of his body. He said three youths from a nearby school abducted him while hitchhiking to St Ignatius, drove through Cleveland, then into a river valley scene before the assault. Family says Fryman is an excellent student and may have considered priesthood. parents are upset but cooperative.
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Cleveland
Fairview Park Hospital
Earl R. Fryman
Rocky River Valley
Metropolitan Park
Fairview Park
Fryman
David Kerr
St Ignatius Parochial School
St. Ignatius
River Valley
Julien Keller
Atty
Marvin J. Schatz
Earl
Irene
Bank Pays $1.05 For 100 Pennies
The Killington Bank and Trust Co. Rutland Vermont offers $1.05 for every dollar in pennies. Customers must bring coins in rolled wrappers. The penny shortage is nationwide per the Federal Reserve.
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Rutland
Killington Bank and Trust Co
Federal Reserve
Vermont
Perry man bound over to grand jury in burglary case
Franklin Hedges of Perry Two pleaded not guilty to breaking and entering and larency after being arraigned before Magistrate Klias KE Bright. Bound over to the grand jury on a 1500 dollar bond, he was jailed for failing to post. Mrs Flora Welker reported the Dec 16 1954 burglary at Cola Rd, missing two revolvers a shotgun and a watch valued at 350 dollars.
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Klias KE. Bright
Franklin Hedges
Perry Two
Bright
Flora Welker
Cola Rd
Rt. 180
Idle Claims Climb in Ohio Week Ending Dec 3
Newly unemployed claimants in Columbus area reached 9 378 for the week ended December 3 up from 6 679 the prior week according to the Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation.
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Columbus
Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Skeleton Found in Casper Basement Shocks City
Casper Wyoming authorities probing the 1953 disappearance of Barbara Alexander unearthed a woman's skeleton buried in the basement of the Alexander home. Rose Alexander admitted helping conceal the death, claims the body was buried in wet cement and later covered. Alexander, a former Casper High School instructor, now works as a machinist in Worland.
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Barbara
Alexander
Rose
Hardin, Mont
C. J Carter
Carter
Casper High School
Worland
Wyo
Rose Alexander
Broad plan to expand school construction aid announced
A Cabinet member said the Eisenhower administration will present to Congress a broadened program to build thousands of schools. Marion B. Folsom outlined federal aid aimed at reducing classroom deficits while stressing local control and targeted need.
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New York
Congress
Marion B. Folsom
Folsom
Eisenhower
Office of Education
Afl-Cio
Carborundum Plant Project Moves Forward Near Logan
Work on the Carborundum Company plant east of Logan progresses smoothly with 55 acres staked for a four story 450 by 240 foot building. Earthwork, piling and early framing are underway as Cecil Climo and Albert Wissing oversee plans for a Sept 1 1956 completion and a 1956 production start for resinoid abrasive wheels.
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Carborundum Company
Logan
Albert Wissing
Brown & Matthews, Inc
Wissing
Brown & Matthews
Climp
Savage Co
Weather Report Indicates Warmer Conditions Across Regions
Temperatures rose slightly in Hocking County with a 34 degree reading at 12 30 pm and a 35 degree high yesterday. The forecast calls for increasing clouds and a chance of light snow mixed with rain tonight as colder air moves eastward.
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Hocking County
Explosion in Frankfurt Buries 32 in Wreckage
A powerful blast leveled a midtown apartment building in Frankfurt before dawn, killing 26 people including seven children and leaving 32 missing under 20 feet of debris. Authorities hunt for survivors as rescue operations continue.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Huge deer spotted in Hocking Hills opens three day hunt
In Hocking Hills area a Laurelville woman and her nephews took a 100 pound 15 point buck at Claude Carroll farm near Buena Vista. A Columbus hunter killed a 35 point buck near Revenge on the Fairfield county line. Both deer featured on Don Mack Outdoors on channel 10.
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Hocking Hill Country
Claude Carroll
Buena Vista
Laurelville Rt. 2
Columbus
Hocking Fairfield County
Don Mack
Channel 10
Hocking County
Lancaster
Mack
Riddle
Waltonian Choir Presents Fourth Annual Christmas Concert
The Waltonian mixed choir directed by J. Richard Farmer stages its fourth annual Christmas concert at 4 p.m. Sunday December 18 in the Logan High School auditorium. The program features familiar numbers and new pieces centered on the Christmas theme with members from the Waltonian Chorus and county church choirs. A rehearsal is scheduled Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Courthouse auditorium.
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Waltonian Mixed
Logan High School
J. Richard Farmer
Logan
Southeastern Ohio
Uni
Que
Main St
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