Dedication Draws 15000 At New Anderson Municipal Airport
An estimated crowd of 15,000 gathered for the dedication of the Anderson Municipal Airport on Sunday. Aerial demonstrations by local and visiting flyers, traffic control by Anderson police, and an official program featuring Mayor Ferguson and Elmo Funk marked the event. A 1912 biplane flown by Capt. Billy Parker and Blue Angel pilots offered demonstrations before weather issues cut short some acts.
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Nation Authority
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Charjairpart
Les Humphrey
Clouds Unsafe
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Lester Farren
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Indiana Has 5 Drownings During Holiday Weekend
Police continued hunting Monday for the body of one of Indiana five drowning victims. Dragging was conducted in Lake Shafer near Monticello for Charles E. McNulley 18 Buffalo believed drowned early Sunday when a storm swamped his boat. Searchers found Alfred Earl 33 Rockville Monday afternoon in the Wabash River near Montezuma Earl drowned Saturday while swimming from a pontoon boat.
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Lake Shafer
Monticello
Charles E. McNulley
Buffalo
Alfred Earl
Rockville
Wabash River
Montezuma
Earl
Robert Roth
Toledo
Ohio
Lineman Repair Storm Damage After Severe Midwest Outbreak
Utility and telephone line workers completed repairs after a storm sweeping through Indiana counties caused extensive damage. About 15,000 families in the Marion Muncie Elwood area remained without power Monday afternoon as winds reached 50 to 70 mph and rainfall dumped 1.66 inches in minutes. Streets were blocked by fallen trees and several towns including Elwood Kokomo Wabash Lagro Lafontaine Monticello Converse Warren Mexico Galveston Peru Perrysburg and Ytiana reported outages and line damage.
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Hemisphere Talks Sear for Earhart Plane Crashed Link
Reports from Washington and San Francisco outline requests by Hemisphere and OAS to convene on Amelia Earhart's disappearance. Goerner testified that weather and wreckage near Saipan support a crash claim with wires cut and limbs blown by wind. The council may meet next week to decide on charges and further action.
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Land Daleville
Isters
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Saipan
Vicen Tapanese
Sanchez Gavito
Mexico
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OAS Council
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Council of the Oas
Soviet Oil Set to Reach Havana Amid Shortage Fears
Havana sources say eight Soviet crude carriers totaling more than 60 000 tons will arrive this month to avert Castro regime oil shortages. The shipments, about a week’s supply at current use, will be refined in plants seized from U S and British Dutch firms after they refused to reduce oil deliveries. One vessel named the 19 500 ton tanker Peking reportedly was en route when a collision with a Norwegian tanker occurred off Tunisia.
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Madison County
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County Plan Group To Act On Repair Shop
Madison County Planning officials plan to act on a petition by Dunn to locate a temporary truck repair garage along Alexandria Pike. The Planning Board previously denied, CZAB upheld, but recommended a personal variance. Also on the agenda are budget discussions, John Manville Products rezoning, and Yarling's Addition final actions.
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John Manville Products Corp
Yarling
Colmnnst
Wheeler, Lilly & Co. official, dies on trip
Walton M. Wheeler Jr. 52, vice president of Eli Lilly and Co., died of a heart attack during a holiday trip. The Indianapolis native and Evansville resident passed away Monday at Walloon Lake Michigan while on vacation.
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Walloon Lake Mich
Fair Draws Huge Crowds at Weekend Opening
Large crowds packed Atherton Park for Anderson's Free Fair with a record fireworks display and a busy harness horse program. Organizers say the weekend opening drew the biggest attendance yet and expect continued crowds through the event.
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Fugitives Captured As Pendleton Fair Opens
A fleeing inmate from Pendleton State Reformatory was captured during an Indiana horse show night at the Madison County Fair. Police and deputies recovered him near the woods off Mass Ave after a dawn pursuit. He had $54.25 and admitted taking groceries and clothes from Seibert's. The fair crowds grew each day and tonight's program featured Indiana Trot pacing events with expected record times.
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Son County
Gene Brattain
Olsen
Bill Saxon
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Madison
David J. Smith
Jefferson
John Sokal
Atte Therman
Indiana
Ian
Madison County
Knightstown
Seibert's
Split views on China's role in world affairs
Editor notes by William L. Ryan survey divergent Moscow and Peiping perspectives on China's wartime stance and Leninist doctrine. The piece analyzes Khrushchev's foreign policy, Red China's belligerence, and the risk of war amid competing interpretations within the Communist world.
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Associated Press News
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China
Nikita Khrushchev
Cuba and Soviet China quarrel hints at July showdown
The piece outlines Fidel Castro's clash with American influences in Cuba and a broader Sino Soviet rift. It notes Khrushchev urging restraint while China pushes for rapid military and economic expansion, signaling possible conflict as tensions rise between the rivals.
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Independence Day Traffic Toll Tops Memorial Day Estimates
The Associated Press reports July Fourth traffic deaths likely set a new three day record, surpassing 407. Highway fatalities averaged five per hour as millions traveled, with boating and drowning adds and no fireworks deaths. Memorial Day totals were 367 traffic, 48 boating, 77 non boat drownings, and 87 other causes totaling 579.
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Madison County records latest traffic fatality in 1960
Rayleigh Thomas Ringer 58 of 312 N West St Alexandria died at St Johns Hospital after a two car crash at the intersection of Ind 128 and Madison Ave Rd His wife and five others were injured The crash involved a southbound Ringer car and a Rebuck driven vehicle The coroner ruled crushed chest as cause of death and the incident adds to Madison County 1960 traffic toll
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Madison County
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Ringer
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Madison Ave. Rd
Charles Hosier
Paul Ravage
Wil- Tort
Jiam Howard
Madison Ave
William Rebuck
Elwood
Fred
Library Seeks Civil War Material for Preservation Project
Indiana Civil War Centennial Commission asks residents and families to donate or loan diaries letters muster rolls rosters official papers posters and regimental histories to help historians study how soldiers viewed the war. The Indiana State Library and Indiana Historical Society Library will act as depositories for material, aiding permanent preservation.
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Anderson Public Library
Commission
Centennial Commission
Indiana State Library
Indiana Historical Society Library
Indiana
New Arrivals and Eisenhower Holiday Homecoming
The notice lists births in several families including Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bales and others at St John s Hospital and various Alexandria and nearby addresses. President Eisenhower returned to the White House after a farm weekend at Gettysburg and Fort Riley with maternal and paternal relatives noted, arriving 7 44 p m edt after a long weekend. He planned to depart again Thursday for further vacation travel.
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Frank Bales
E.ard St
Robert Johnson
Alexandria
Robert Adams
Mexandria
Dorie Jeffries
Summitville
David Brown
East Cross St
Finis Ferrell
Delaware St
E. 20Th St
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Watson
Morton St
Richard Mesalam
Washington
UPI
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White House
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Robert Drennen
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