The Daily Reporter from Dover, Ohio • Page 11

Page 11, The Daily Reporter, Saturday, Aug. 17,1957 Couple Trapped By Hitchhiker Freed KANSAS CITY UP) The fingers couple from the trhnir i protruding from the trunk of unK picked up a hitch-hiker, Esson, Esson stopped, opened the trunk, and attract attention. First thev KANSAS CITY UP) The fingers from the trunk of the passing car wiggled at him frantically. "I thought I was seeing things," said Lloyd L. Reavis, a driver's license examiner who was giving a test.

He looked again, jotted down the tax number and summoned motorcycle patrolman John Davis. Davis stopped the automobile and, holding the driver at gunpoint, released a bedraggled young Akron Derby To Be Sunday AKRON, Ohio 60,000 spectators are expected for Sunday's running of the 20th annual All-American Soap Box Derby. The large crowd was predicted by derby officials 'as they reported the largest advance ticket sales in the 20-year history of the event. Good weather also is expected to bring out a large crowd. Partly cloudy skies with temperatures in the 70's are forecast.

A record field of 159 young drivers tuned up their powered racers on the 975-foot Derby Downs hill Friday. All 159 official inspection. The first heat of the championships will cross the starting line at 2 p. m. (EOT) Sunday.

Youngsters from the United States, Canada, Alaska and several foreign countries will be racing for prizes which include college scholarships and a two-week tour of Europe for the champion. Salty Barrage ATLANTA Atlanta woman grocer drove off a would-be holdup man with a barrage of salt and mayonnaise jars. Police said Mrs. Ora Rowe, 57, told thorn a young man came into her store Friday, ordered a box of salt and then" pointed a long-bladed knife at her. "He said, 'Gimme your she said.

"I still had the pound box of salt in my hand. Without thinking I let fly with the box of salt. That must have surprised him because he ducked down and backed up. "Then I grabbed up some mayonnaise jars and began to chuck them at him," she said. "He got out of there fast." Grange News Master Dwight Dupler presided when Fairfield Grange met last night and held a candy contest.

WinneVs in the junior division for dark fudge were Mary Feighting, 1st and Wanda Shaffer, 2nd. Sam Waltz took first place for his light fudge and Linda Breniser was second. Divinity fudge winners were Don Takas, 1st, and Mrs, Erma Gundy, 2nd. A work night at the grange is scheduled for Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. A covered dish supper will be served.

Sept. 6 has been set as the date for election of officers. KREISHER DRUG STORE OPEN TOMORROW AUG. 18 For your convenience the following drug stores are still cooperating to give the community 365 a year drug BAKU DRUG CO. DOVER PHARMACY KUEISIIER DRUG STOKE couple from the trunk.

The driver identified himself as James Richard Esson, 35, a fugitive Ohio killer. An automatic pistol lay on the seat beside him but he offered no resistance. The victims, Airman Carl A. Wagner, 21, and his pregnant wife Molly, 18, of Salina, told a tale of terror which began at 2:30 Friday morning. It was then that they stopped at Kingdom City, 65 miles west of Louis on U.S.

40, and picked up a hitch-hiker, Esson, while on their way home from- a vacation trip. Esson pulled a gun and took over not long, afterward when the car hopd new open and Wagner got out to close it. The rest of the night, the couple said, was one of horror during which' Esson pistol whipped Wagner several times and kept them both, bound and gagged, in the trunk. Several times, Mrs. Wagner said, Teachers Allege Pay Gimmicks CHICAGO UP) A teacher's union official said today that "gimmicks" are being used in public schools in efforts to avoid pay increases, for teachers.

Television, teachers' aides, and the "so-called merit pay plan," Mrs. Florence Sweeney of Groose lie, said are the gimmicks "frankly and cynically designed to substitute for geheral pay increases." Mrs. Sweeney, a vice president of the AFL-CIO American Federation of Teachers, spoke at a meet- ing of the AFT executive council. A past president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers, Mrs. Sweeney said 'that Detroit 'teachers abandoning their jobs for higher pay work; in suburban schools.

She said that throughout Michigan, at least 11,000 teachers with "less than acceptable" qualifications will be hired during the coming school year. "To meet both the immediate and the long range problem," Mrs. Sweeney said, "pay schedules must go up." Esson stopped, opened the trunk, pointed the pistol at them and pulled the trigger. It clicked, but did not fire. "It scared us to death," Mrs.

Wagner said. he would apologize for the way he was treating us." The Wagners worked loose from their bonds and succeeded in prying open the trunk enough to try Teen-Ager Wins U.S. Chess Title CLEVELAND tournament directors Friday night declared defending champion Arthur B. Bisguier, 26, of New York the winner of the JJ.S. Chess Federation's open tournament, 14-year- old Bobby Fischer protested that there had been a mistake in the scoring.

Tournament officials an hour checking the complicated chess scoring system then discovered they had awarded Bisguier too many points. They reversed their decision and declared Fischer the new champion. He is the youngest player ever to win the and attract attention. First they tossed out what objects they could find in the trunk. Then Wagner stuck his fingers through the narrow opening and Reavis spotted them.

Wagner, stationed at Schilling Air Force Base near Salina, was treated for a head wound which required 15 stitches, and Mrs. Wagner for shock and cuts. Both were released after treatment. Mrs. Wagner said she is expecting her baby in'SVfe months.

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