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Newspaper
Anderson Herald
Location
Anderson, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1954
Page
8
A young drive-in restaurant manager and a companion reported they were robbed of 3000 dollars and dumped from a car by an armed thief early Tuesday in Indianapolis. Michael B. Watson, 18, and Gene Vickery, 25, described being forced from the vehicle and left at a distance from the restaurants.
The Anderson Herald reports Pat D. Banning, chief disburser for multiple federal agencies, retires after a 40 year career handling vast outlays. He oversaw billions in checks yearly, with about 300 million issued annually and 200 million going through his office. Banning plans consulting work and a Florida retirement with wife, reflecting on a life of meticulous accounting and government service.
The CIO International Electrical Workers union resumes bargaining with GE on July 13. The final decision on offers by UK national GH negotiators is delayed, pending resolution of issues including improved vacation payments and overtime. The proposed pay raise averages about $1.88 per hour for 30,000 GE employees, with ratification still pending as of early June.
South African theatres halt playing the national anthem amid a two year old custom, with major chains citing the practice as frivolous. The shift follows owners’ decisions as audiences shrink for in cinemas, while travel and tourism reports note high visitor counts to Carlsbad Caverns.
In the first year of a strict Illinois auto law, Secretary of State Charles F. Carpentier reported 4,542 revocations, 220 suspensions, and 291 cancellations. Total revocations reached 5,053 with a rise from 4,198 the prior year. drunken driving revocations declined 7.5 percent.
Police said a California teenager, 18 year old Wall J. Klymera from El Monte, was killed when the car overturned on a curve near Greencastle, Indiana, while traveling at high speed Tuesday. His father Ernest Klymera was in the car and critically injured.
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