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Parents of 15-year-old boy charged with slaying of young Jackson Township, NJ, neighbor sought unsuccessfully to commit him to psychiatric institution three days before murder (NJ Daily Briefing) (S)
Article on Fred W Hooper, owner of 1,400-acre horse farm in Ocala, Fla who is nearing his 100th birthday; Hooper has become elder statesman in a business that is groping to survive; photo (L)
Public Service Electric & Gas Co offers loans of up to $15,000 to residential customers to make their homes more energy efficient (NJ Daily Briefing) (S)
Residents of some small towns and cities fed up with high cable TV rates and limited choices are building their own cable networks to compete with large, private cable companies; they also worry about economic impact of long delays in getting residents and local businesses easy access to high-speed Internet links, inexpensive video-conferencing and other electronic building blocks of economic growth; movement seems strongest in Iowa; early this year in Alta, 88 percent of voters supported creation of municipal video and telecommunications network, despite campaign by unit of Tele-Communications Inc, calling it 'creeping socialism'; other towns in Iowa, Georgia, Kentucky and Massachusetts have voted for similar municipal networks; photos (L)
New York City-New York State program that built or rehabilitated 3,000 apartments over last seven years for city's homeless mentally ill has quietly expired; officials say program did not keep up with need for permanent housing; see danger that homeless mentally ill will again overflow shelters and become fixture on streets; graphs; photos (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 1, 1997, covering October 4, 1997.
Mariah Carey
LeAnn Rimes
Busta Rhymes
Master P
Puff Daddy & The Family
1997Rishabh Pant, Indian cricketer[†]
Rishabh Pant is an Indian international cricketer who plays for the Indian cricket team as a wicket-keeper batter. He is currently the vice captain of Indian cricket team in the Test format. He captains and plays for the Lucknow Super Giants in the Indian Premier League and for Delhi in domestic cricket.
1997Yuju, South Korean singer[†]
Choi Yu-na, better known by her stage name Yuju (유주), is a South Korean singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in 2015 as a member of the South Korean girl group GFriend and became known for her vocals, having participated in various singing competitions. After GFriend's exclusive contract ended, Yuju debuted as a solo artist with the extended play (EP) Rec. in 2022 and took creative control over her works.
1997Otto Ernst Remer, German general (born 1912)[†]
Otto Ernst Remer was a German Wehrmacht German Army officer in World War II who played a major role in stopping the 20 July plot in 1944 against Adolf Hitler. He was a Captain and Major (1943-1944) and finally a Colonel and a General in 1945. In his later years, he became a politician and far-right activist. He co-founded the Socialist Reich Party in West Germany in the 1950s and is considered an influential figure in postwar neo-fascist politics in Germany.
1997Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game designer, created the Game Boy (born 1941)[†]
Gunpei Yokoi , sometimes transliterated as Gumpei Yokoi, was a Japanese toy maker and video game designer. As a long-time Nintendo employee, he was best known as creator of the Game & Watch handheld system, inventor of the cross-shaped Control Pad, the original designer of the Game Boy, and producer of a few long-running and critically acclaimed video game franchises such as Metroid and Kid Icarus.
In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[†]