Ex-Con Arrested After Truck Theft Near Pendleton
Russell William Mercer 35 of Muncie was held by State Police after hitchhiking from a stolen semi tractor near Old Ind 9. He admitted stealing a car in Washington Court House Ohio and was jailed in Anderson for extradition.
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Pendleton
Here
Ohio
Russell William Mercer
Muncie
Richard Shull
Old Ind. 9
Indianapolis
Shull
Mercer
Anderson
Washington Courthouse
Indiana State
Lumumba Manacled and Shoved On Flight to Leopoldville Trial
Patrice Lumumba, seized in the Congo interior, was manacled and flown to Leopoldville to face trial on incitement to revolt. Soldiers shoved and slapped him as they hustled him to Kokolo camp amid mob cries of death to Lumumba.
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Leopoldville
the Congo
Patrice Lumumba
United Nations
Stanleyville
Lumumba
Mobutu
Congo
Kokolo
Court Orders Branham Back to Reformatory
Convict Homer Branham was ordered returned to Indiana Reformatory for safe keeping pending his April 4 trial on first degree murder in the 1959 Deputy Gus Knight killing. Circuit Judge Carl T. Smith acted after Deputy Prosecutor William Lawler sought return to the reformatory from jail. Sheriff Harold Goehring said he knew nothing about the transfer. Branham had been serving 2 to 14 year terms when he admitted the murder and had been moved to jail before arraignment. Also, John Thomas Weaver, 34, an Alexandria parolee, faced a delayed arraignment for rape of a 5 year old Anderson girl with a continuance till Dec. 16 to secure an attorney.
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Paul Harber
St. Mary’s Gaels
Fishers
Highland
St. Mary’s
Harber
Gaels
Gael
Jim Ballinger
St. Mary's
Rick Heider
Heider
Lillian Abel
St Mary's
John Russell
Fisher's Club
Sheridan
Homer Branham
Indiana Reformatory
Gus L. Knight
Carl T. Smith
Branhams
Reformatory
William Lawler
Harold Goehring
Branham
John Thomas Weaver
Alexandria
Anderson
Robert Robbins
Coates
Drunk Driver Held After Fatality Crash Near Summitville
Two 1 1 4 ton trucks collided at a county road intersection west of Summitville injuring farmer Merle Brown and sending him to St John’s Hospital with skull fracture. Lloyd Edward Terry 33 Terre Haute jailed for drunken driving. Another crash on Alexandria Pike injured Richard Baker 26 Alexandria.
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Summitville
van Buren
Merle Brown
Lloyd E. Terry
Terre Haute
Sheriff's Department
Frank Landaker
Anderson
Rt. 1
Brown
Lloyd Edward Terry
Summitville Rd
Ind. 9
Terry
Muncie Tree Surgery Company
St. John’s Hopital
Vinson
Landaker
Robert Hedge
Townsend
Richard Baker
W. Adams St
Alexandria
Alexandria Pike
Ind
Mel Hornbeck
County bids read for supplies and printing
Commissioners opened bids for county supplies with Miller Huggins Company winning office supplies. Taylor Printing Co and Haywood Publishing Co submitted low bids for printing. McMahan and Lieb Co and David Dairy Farms bid low on groceries and dairy for Orphans Home and Coaty Farm. No clothing bids. one coal bid rejected. New bids planned. two bookkeeping machines awarded to Burroughs. Next bid openings set for Dec 5 and 9 for highway and janitorial supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burrough’s, Inc
Indianapolis
County Highway Department
Houston asylum grants aid 21 Cuban detainees
UPI reports that immigration officers in Houston granted political asylum to 21 Cubans over the past week. Among the latest were three crewmen from the Cuban vessel SS Rio Escondido which sailed from Houston Thursday night bound for Havana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston, Tex
UPI
Houston
Havana
Eisenhower Photographers Snapped By Mexican Officials
UPI reports President Eisenhower and 20 Mexican government officials posed stiffly outside the White House. The mood lightened when Eisenhower teased them to smile, and the group grinned for photos after a six week visit to study U.S. law enforcement techniques.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Eisenhower
U.S
Mail Early And Exactly Says Post Office For Christmas
Acting Postmaster Wendell L. Hollingsworth urges timely mailing for Christmas items. He advises sending distant cards by December 10 and local mail by December 16, with best pickup before 10 a.m. or 1 30 to 3 30 p.m. He recommends correct addressing, sealed letters for 4 cents, money orders for gifts, separate local and out of town mail, heavy packing, and policing perishables.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wendell L. Hollingsworth
Seaway Begins Winter Shutdown After Busy Season
The 135 mile St. Lawrence Seaway began winter shutdown as the Greek ship Arie H was the last ocean going vessel to clear the St Lambert lock at Montreal. The Arie H passed the lock near noon and moved into the St Lawrence River toward the Atlantic.
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Montreal
UPS
St. Lawrence Seaway
North America
Arie H
St. Lambert, Que
St. Lambert
St. Lawrence River
Atlantic Ocean
Youth to Build New Church in Trinidad Camp 1961
Church of God youth from around the world will help construct a new church in Chafuanas Trinidad during six weeks in summer 1961. Twenty five selected young workers plus thousands more supporters finance and staff the project.Participants travel at their own expense and live with peers from various nations while sharing in labor discussions and Christian experiences.
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Church of God
Chafuanas
Trinidad
British West Indies
Alan Egly
International Youth Fellowship of the Church
Egly
Panama
Michigan
Bomb Scare Clears Haggs Drug Store in Meridian Street
An adult male phoned Haggs Drug Store manager Don Hodson warning of a bomb set to go off at 1 pm. Police and FBI, plus Fort Harrison squad, cleared the store for a search by Anderson officers. no bomb was found and the call is under investigation as a federal offense.
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F.B.I
Haggs Drug
Meridian Street
Drug Ny
Don Hodson
Fort Harrison
Anderson
Robert Graham
F .B.I
Indiana and Notre Dame Rehire Football Coaches
Indiana University announces a new four year contract for football coach Phil Dickens after a 9-7-2 1958-59 season. Notre Dame extends Joe Kuharich’s contract through 1964 despite a 1960 2-8 season as the board approves the extension at its winter meeting.
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Indiana University
Phil Dickens
Notre Dame University
Joe Kuharich
Dickens
Hartsville
Tenn
Indiana
Notre Dame
Kuharich
Ound P. Joyce
34-Ton Record Truck Overload Charged
State police arrested truck driver Herbert S. McClanahan 40 Dixon, Sr. for hauling a crane with a 139000 pound 34 ton overload on U S 12 20 in Hammond Indiana. He lacked an overweight permit and will appear in Hammond City Court Monday.
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Hammond
Ind
Indiana
Robert Vinovich
U. S. 12
Vinovich
Herbert S. McClanahan
Dixon, Sr
Inland Steel Corp
McClanahan
Police Push Safety Drive In December Campaign
The Anderson Police Department announced an intensified December safety drive with speed traps roadblocks and extra officers to cut accidents. In November more than 190 moving arrests were logged 140 more than last year and 50 above September. Governor Handley proclaimed December 9 10 and 11 Traffic Safety Sabbath as part of the effort.
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Anderson Police Department
John L. Heiden
Robert Graham
Police Department
Std
Meridian Sts
Harold W. Handley
The
Indiana Traffic Safety Foundation
Weather boosts Christmas shoppers with mild, partly cloudy day
Christmas shoppers face a partly cloudy, warmer day with a high in the low 50s. The forecast warns to start early as winds pick up in the afternoon and a warm trend continues into tomorrow with mild temperatures.
White boycott pressure grows as integration continues
Gov. Jimmie H. Davis vows to fight segregation while Louisiana lawmakers move to fund private school aid. In New Orleans reports show few white students at William Frantz and McDonogh No. 19 as picketers clash with demonstrators outside. Baton Rouge approves a grant in aid bill 84 to 0 to assist parents choosing private schools, but funding sources remain unclear. Davis warns of another special session if needed, joking about selling butter and eggs to raise money.
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New Orleans
Jimmie H. Davis
William Frantz School
McDonogh No
William Frantz
Lloyd Foreman
Pamela Lynn
Foreman
Frantz
Baton Rouge
State House of Representatives
Senate
Arthur Crais
Davis
Progress at Community Hospital site despite poor weather
Officials report steady progress on the new Community Hospital with the structural frame now 100 percent complete and the west wall brick work about 95 percent finished. More than 7,250 tons of concrete and 40 workers are on site as masonry and utility work advance through the past week.
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New ‘Community Hospital
Hospital Corporation
Gordon B. Wilder
Anderson‘Madison County Hospital Development Corporation
Rein
Anderson- Madison County Hospital Development Corporation
Herald
Jury Convicts Coates in Hazelwood Drug Store Burglary
A jury found 22 year old Bobby Floyd Coates guilty of second degree burglary for the September 6 burglary of Smiths Drug Store in Hazelwood. Deliberation lasted under three hours and sentencing was set for December after a pre sentence investigation. Coates remains jailed on $2,000 bail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bobby Floyd Coates
Yeer Robery
Smith
Hazelwood
Carl T. Smith
New Arrivals Born at St John s Hospital and Other Homes
A series of births reported from various homes and hospitals. The list includes multiple newborn girls and boys from Elwood Alexandria and other towns, with parental names and addresses. Notable entries include twins at Walker AFB Roswell New Mexico and a birth at Jewish Hospital Cincinnati to Jack and Arthur Ford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walker Air Force Base
Roswell, N. M
Ronald Stricklett
Jewish Hospital
Cincinnati
Ohio
Jack Ford
Arthur Ford
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Robert Herde
Baker
St. John’s Hospital
Hornbeck
Good Morning Star
Seaway
Vatican
Canterbury
Geoffrey Fisher
John XXIII
Church of England
Clears Drug Store
Anderson and Vicinity
Holand Braham
Elwood
Ernest Leonard
Hershel Maxey
Halford St
Darrell Kirk
Robert Brooks
St. Rd
0. M. Goodman
Madison Ave
Wilford DeLong
Ball Memorial Hospital
Guy L. Craig
Forkner Sr
Charles Corn Sr
Dalevile
Glen L. Craig
18Th St
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