City Rejects Landfill Bids. City to Run Own Ops
Anderson Board of Works rejected all bids for contracting landfill operations, citing bids over $85,000 and one low bid of $57,000 deemed too inexperienced. City may handle its own landfill at lower cost. landfill at Ridge Rd site to begin in October. Also, federal court injunction preserved delaying Viet Nam war demonstrations hearing, with actions by the U.S. Court of Appeals and the Department of Justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anderson Board of Works
Howard Ehrhart
Ridge Rd
Washington
U.S. Court of Appeals
House Committee On un-American Activities
Viet Nam
Joe R. Pool
D-Tex
Howard F. Corcoran
Edwin E. Willis
D-La
Department of Justice
The
American Civil Liberties Union
Een
Eee
Congress
Joseph
M. Hannon
U.S
Arthur Kiner
New York City
Civil Liberties Union
House
Committee On un-American Activiities
Tuessday
Corcora
Corcoran
Woodlawn Heights
John Pemberton
Center
ACLU
Allen N. Krebs
Left
Free University of New York
Walter D. Teague
Right New York
National Liberation Front
South Viet Nam
Best Ever Won Offer Accepted By Union Officials
Machinist union officials accepted terms to end a 39 day strike by 35,400 AFL CIO IAM members and push for rank and file approval of the contract. A tentative agreement will be voted on Friday after 20 hours of Labor Department talks, with details to be mailed to members. The strike hit five airlines and cost nearly 400 million in revenue and wages. The deal likely includes a cost of living wage escalator and places three year costs around 90 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Afl-Cio International Association of Machinists
House Rules Committee
Senate
Labor Department
Eastern
National
Northwest
Trans World
United
White House
Johnson
P. L. Siemiller
Willkie Memorial Ceremony Set in Elwood Park
Elwood to formally dedicate a Wendell L. Willkie memorial in public ceremony at 1 30 p m Wednesday in Callaway Park marking the 26th anniversary of his 1940 nomination speech. The granite monument weighs 9000 pounds and features a ten foot high bust tablet on a seven by three foot base set in Wendell L Willkie Memorial Park on N Anderson Street. The dedication is the result of a year and half effort by the Elwood Chamber of Commerce Civic Affairs Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willkie
Wendell Ll. Willkie
Elwood
Wendell L. Willkie
Hoosierborn
United States
Callaway Park
N. Anderson St
The
Civic Affairs Com
Madison County school calendar 1966-67 announced by Supt Evans
Victor Evans outlines Madison County School System dates for 1966-67. key events include faculty organization August 29, student enrollment August 29, first full day August 30, dismissal for State Fair Band Day August 31, school resumes September 1, holidays Veterans Day Thanksgiving Christmas break and spring recess, with commencements at Jacksoney and Lapel High Schools and final day May 26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison County
Victor Evans
Indiana State Teachers Association
Schoo
Jacksoney School
Lapel High School
Riot erupts after Mount Lawn race finish near New Castle
Gene Houston of Anderson won the Mount Lawn Speedway prek car race. Fans attacked his car with bottles and weapons, about 150 raced onto the track, rioters armed with chains and tire irons. Houston was uninjured but his brother Tom was beaten. One man arrested, another sought for inciting a riot. Marion Swinford, 34 Noblesville race car owner, pled guilty to six charges, fined 175 dollars, with a broken hand from the melee. Authorities cite heavy drinking at the track.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Castle
Mount Lawn Speedway
Here
Gene Houston
Anderson
Houston
Tom
Henry County
Warren Davis
Marion Swinford
Noblesville
Justice of the Peace
Paul Minnick
Mechanicsburg
Swinford
Speedway
Weather Outlook With Showers Clearing Today
Scheduled showers end today as skies clear to partly cloudy this afternoon. Temperature holds with a high in the 70s and a low around 60. Yesterday’s high was 86 and low 68. Sunrise tomorrow at 5:57 a.m. Sunset today at 7:42 p.m.
Bicycle found atop 50-foot TV antenna in New Castle
Police investigated how a bicycle ended up on a 50‑foot television antenna pole at the home of Harold G. Ingersoll, president of Ingersoll Steel Division, Borg-Warner Corp. The discovery tied to Ingersoll's residence prompted questions about motive and method.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Castle
Ind
Harold G. Ingersoll
Ingersoll Steel Division
Borg-Warner Corp
County GOP Teens Attend First State TARS Conference
Micky Bowman and Bob Bid dle took part in Indiana’s first statewide Teen Age Republican Conference held weekend in Indianapolis. Dolly Chapel of Warsaw opened the conclave in the Chateau Room with welcome remarks from GOP leaders. Indiana University and Purdue professors delivered keynotes as Republican candidates addressed the morning session. The Rogers of Warsaw supplied music at noon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Micky Bowman
Bob Biddle
Indianapolis
Dolly Chapel
Warsaw
State
TARS
Chateau Room
Charles C. Hendricks
GOP
Esther B. Guthlridge
James Kessler
Indiana University
James Dornan
Purdue University
Rogers
Anaconda Strike Vote Set by Local 18704 Members
Members of striking Local 18704 of the Federal Labor Union will meet at 7 tonight at the UAW 662 Hall to consider what was termed a final offer by Anaconda Wire and Cable Co. Delco Remy layoffs rose to 2,500 last Friday due to a materials shortage as copper wire use grows, and the union rejected an Anaconda offer 184 to 100.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal
Ionight
UAW
Robert Witham
Anaconda Wire & Cable Co
Delco Remy
Delco
Delco-Remy
Anaconda
Witham
Burglars Break In Through Unlocked Doors and Locks
Weekend burglars kicked in a basement door at 823 Marine Dr, taking about $40 in barbells. In a separate break in late Friday or early Saturday, about $133 in cash was removed from the home of Mrs. David Gephardt. Detectives reported entry was gained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anderson City
Jeannie Nowlin
Marine Dr
David Gephardt
Bids Opened For Pendleton U S Post Office Work
The Emmy Construction Co of Millersport Ohio appears low bidder for extension and remodeling of the Pendleton Indiana U S Post Office with a bid of 185886 announced Monday by the General Services Administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Emmy Construction Co
Millersport
Ohio
U.S
Pendleton
Ind
General Services Administration
Lunar Orbiter Test Reveals Site Zero Photos for Moon Edge
In Pasadena, a NASA spokesman said the Lunar Orbiter’s 20 minute transmission test produced excellent photos of a moon model. The craft, 850 pounds, is in an egg shaped orbit, filming the east limb area Site Zero never photographed before. Televised images expected Thursday.
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Pasadena
Calif
Space Agency
Langley Research Center
Hampton
Boeing
Jet Pro
Propulsio Laboratory
Moon
Lunar Orbiter
Earth
Teleo
Marine Benbow Appears in Guadalcanal War Film Part
PFC John Benbow of Camp Pendleton California and a Vietnam veteran is furloughed to play a jeep driver in the World War II film First To Fight about the Battle of Guadalcanal. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. David Benbow of Norwalk California and related to Anderson Newspapers staff. The piece notes other Marines also in support roles. The article then shifts to a Detroit auto sales report showing an August decline of 9.4 percent year over year, attributed partly to fewer selling days.
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Pfc
John Benbow
Anderson
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Guadalcanal
Benbow
David Benbow
Maidstone
Norwalk
Anderson Newspapers, Inc
Viet Nam
Charles
Chick) Benbow
Anderson Newspapers Pressman
Deadliest Highways in Indiana Numbered by Fatalities
U S 41 leads Indiana as the deadliest road in 1966 with 36 fatal crashes and 44 deaths since January. U S 131 ranks second with 38 fatalities in 30 accidents. Indiana 78 37 and 67 37 are also among top killers, reflecting dangerous curves through Morgan County and wider statewide danger among a mix of state, U S and toll roads.
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U.S. 41
Indianapolis
UPI
Indiana
Chicago
Evanseville
U. S. 131
South Bend
Louisville
U. S. 41
U. S
Morgan County
Morgan
Marion and
Lake
Indiana 9
U. S. 24
U. S. 40
U. S. 20
U. S. 30
Northern Indiana Toll Road
Circuit Court Criminal Cases Are Continued
Deputy Prosecutor Everett McDaniels and Investigator Max Branch attended the arraignment session in Judge Carl T. Smith’s Madison Circuit Court. None of the county jail inmates were arraigned. Indianapolis men, accused of second degree burglary in the Coin King laundry burglary, were brought before Judge Smith without attorneys. Public Defender J. Bayne Burton was appointed to represent Merle Tyrone Garner Harold Webster Duncan and Costello Julian Tolliver, with arraignment set for August 29. Kenneth Earl Britt, 37, charged with incest in connection with an alleged assault on his 13-year-old daughter, appeared with counsel and is scheduled to be arraigned August 29 at 2 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everett McDaniels
Max Branch
Carl T. Smith
Madison
Madison County
Indianapolis
Anderson
1835
Meridian
Smith
Elwood Girl Wins Swine Carcass Show in Madison County
Tina Kelich of Elwood won the 1966 Madison County Swine Carcass show at Emge Packing Plant in Anderson. She also placed seventh in the on foot carcass class last Thursday. Kent Underwood of Pendleton took second overall and first in the on foot class, with Kent Marsh of Jackson Two taking third. The champion carcass posted a meatiness index of 125.8, higher than last year's 121.6 and 116.7 in 1964.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tina Kelich
James Kelich
Elwood
Madison County
Emge
Anderson
Kent Underwood
John Undergood
Pendleton
Kent Marsh
Gene Marsh
Jackson Two
U.S. Troops Lose Contact In Ia Drang Battle
In monsoon rain U S air cavalrymen dug in on a jungled mountainside near Ia Drang after losing contact with Vietnamese troops they hunted for 24 hours. Both sides reinforced as a rocket helicopter was downed, killing its four man crew. North Vietnamese battalions held positions west of the cavalrymen near the Cambodian border, with estimates of 300 to 600 men in the unit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Ia Drang
Cambodia
New Arrivals in Anderson and Vicinity
Born at St John s Hospital Mr and Mrs Billy Eaden 328 Ind 67 W a boy Mr and Mrs William Couch 505 Plum St a girl Mr and Mrs Jay McCarroll Jr Chesterfield a boy Born at Community Hospital to Mr and Mrs Robert Hole 1104 E 32nd St a girl Mr and Mrs Robert Lucas 1420 Chase St a girl Mr and Mrs James A Ball 1515 W 20th St a girl Mr and Mrs Larry Stottlemyer Rt 6 a girl Mr and Mrs Harold Lindamood 209 Federal Dr a girl
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Billy Eaden
Ind
William Couch
Plum St
Jay McCarroll Jr
Chesterfield
Community Hospital
Robert Hole
E. 32Nd St
Robert Lucas
Chase St
James A. Ball
W. 20Th St
Larry Stottlemyer
Harold Linday Mood
Federal Dr
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Appeals Court of Ruling
Group Defiant
Works Board
Marr
First
Pendleton U.S. Post Office
Grand Rapids
Mich
Mary Philbert
Ann Blakeley
Cathy Jo Smith
Carol Falk
Kris Durmire
Linda Burke
Judy Smelser
Pat Fabian
Linda Gustin
Dinah Hazel
Cathy Sparks
Cindy Abney
Debby Crosley
Martha Michael
Diana Ford
Neeca Bannon
Jennifer Moore
Marine
Detroit
NY Herald Tribune
NEW York
VPS
New York Herald Tribune
World- Telegram
Journal-American
Horace
la Drang
Central Highlands
U.S. Command
North Viet Nam
Anderson and Vicinity
St. John’s Hospital
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