Farm crop prospects show drought shrinkage in 1961
The Crop Reporting Board reports sharp reductions in planted and harvested acreages for corn and wheat due to drought across the northern Great Plains and South of the Corn Belt. Estimated corn harvest 58.3 million acres with 34.5 bushels per acre. wheat 53.1 million acres with 24.5 bushels per acre. Soybeans 27.9 million acres. oats 961 million bushels. milk and eggs rise modestly in June.
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Great Plains
I¢ Crop Reporting Board
Crop Reporting Board
Union Reports Heavy Response In Strike Vote
Local UAW-CIO Delco Remy division with about 10 000 members reported a strong turnout for a strike vote. About 94 percent of ballots cast favored the strike while 127 voted no. four voting times prevented an absolute total. Other issues included short work week overtime and layoffs. AP Poultry prices noted for Indiana in Indianapolis with roasters eggs and sizes listed.
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Uaw-Cio
Delco-Remy
Neal Edwards
Ross Breanon
Cliff Danson
GOP Chairman Ridicules Indiana Spending Policies
INDIANAPOLIS AP Gallmeyer the GOP state chairman harshly criticized Indiana Governor Welsh and President Kennedy for alleged overspending. He warned that super government spending leads to higher taxes and risk of national collapse, claiming Communists seek U S bankruptcy and urging tax restraint.
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UPD
Thoma A. Gallmeyer
Welsh
Kennedy
GOP
Gallmeyer
United States
Washington
Gailmeyer
Indiana
Saturnalia
Berlin Crisis shapes five year foreign aid package proposals
Democratic leaders press Kennedy for long term spending plan while Rep L Fountain notes pledges to cut waste in overseas aid. Lincoln White links Sino Soviet aid to Berlin pressure as Mansfield and Rayburn hint at bipartisan support and possible five year financing. Wiley urges readiness for actions to defend Berlin rights.
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L. Fountain
D. C
Kennedy
State Department
Lincoln White
North Korea
Berlin
White
White House
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Khrushchev
Sam Rayburn
Rayburn
Khrush
Chev
East Berlin
Alexander Wiley
Wis
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Russia
Whittaker Chambers Dies at 60 in Maryland
Whittaker Chambers died of a heart attack at his Bachman Valley farm at age 60. He was cremated in secrecy after being a key witness in the Alger Hiss perjury trials. He is survived by his widow Esther Shmitz, a son John, and a daughter Ellen Into.
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Alger Hiss
Chambers
Bachman’s Valley
John Myers
Myers
Associated Press
Esther Shemitz
New York
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Washington
Ellen Into
Wallingford
Conn
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House UnAmerican
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Hiss
State Department
Roosevelt
Carnogie Endowment For International Peace
Time Magazine
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Philadelphia
Lynbook
Long Island
N.Y
Communist Party
Columbia Univerisity
Rezoning petitions and approvals for Tara Lynn Village and area
Planners target Lot No 3 in Tara Lynn Village for a seven acre shift from residential to business plus a mobile home park on the east side of Ind 9 at the Ind 9 junction. A beauty shop on Fosnot Addition Lot 14 was tabled for 30 days pending covenants. A 13.9 acre change from agricultural to residential for Summer Lake Subdivision was tabled. A 6.99 acre shift from conservancy to business for Geeting Lumber Co was approved.
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Ind. 9
Fosnot
Summer Lake
Conservancy
Geeting Lumber Co
Crusade Leaders Announce Two Week Counseling Meeting
Ellis reports two week Crusade counseling period with the counseling committee and gym sessions inviting others to participate. C Fred Johnson chairs with Mrs. Lowell Cochran and Rev Warren C. Roark as co chairs. Halvarson referenced as lead singer and coordinator in the Cru sade events. He and wife Trudy reside in Mercer Island Washington with two children.
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Crusade
C. Fred Johnson
Lowell Cochran
Warren C. Roark
Edward C. Toner
John A. Morrison
Halvarson
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United States
Europe
Canada
Mexico
Mr. Ellis
Halvorson
Charles M. Alexander
Great Britain
Seattle
Furniture Guild of America
Mercer Island
I Wash
Trudy
Howie Hustler Ad Promises Quick Cash for Household Goods
A Bulletin-Herald classified ad urges readers to call 643-5371 to quickly sell unused household items. The pitch promises help finding cash buyers and turning idle goods into money.
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Howie Hustler
Bulletin-Herald
Indiana Traffic Toll Rises With Young Lad’s Death
Indiana's 1961 traffic death toll reached 497 with the death of five year old Michael Theodore in a crash on Interstate 65 near Austin. The boy rode in a station wagon driven by his mother Edna Theodore 29 Flint Michigan. The wagon was struck and forced off the road by a semi driven by Donald Wear 28 Loudon Tennessee. The boy died on arrival at a local hospital. Two other occupants suffered minor injuries.
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Indiana
Austin
Michael Theodore
Edna Theodore
Flint
Mich
Donald F. Wear
Loudon
Tenn
Christian Center Pante noe located at 614 Main St since 1957
The Rev Mr Lambert reports that in the past six months the center served 347 men with 4,500 meals and 1.50 nights lodging plus clothing. The director and his family reside at 1915 Louise St, reflecting the center's community role.
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Re Pare
Main St
Lambert
Louise St
Forest Hills School Plans and Sewage Discussion
Plans for Forest Hills grade school and junior high wing include 18 classrooms and 17 teaching stations with science home economics shop music and offices plus cafeteria and student center. Sewage alignment with city lines raises questions from residents while officials argue on financing and scope and first year enrollment is projected at 938 students.
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City
Anderson City
William L. Peck
City Atorney
Jack B .Campbell
Robert Miller
Town‘ship
Labout
Madison Heights
Forest Hills
George Hancock
Boone
Lingberg
Edgewood
Madison Height
Defense funding debate swells over aid and missiles
Senate leaders back Kennedy foreign aid and Krushchev’s stance prompts calls for bigger defense outlays. Rayburn and Mansfield urge boosting the foreign aid package as defense supporters press for increases in military spending during the appropriations subcommittee hearings on the $42.7 billion defense bill.
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Russia
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
House
Kennedy
Mansfield
Kennnedy
Poe
Krushches
Sen
Willis Robertson
D-Va
Robertson
Edward Harner obituary long-serving Delco Remy retiree
Edward Harner 77 of 2609 East Lynn Street died at 3 p.m. Tuesday in St. John’s Hospital. Born December 22, 1883 in Howard County, he lived in Anderson for 44 years and retired from Delco Remy in 1950. Survived by Zelma L. widow, six stepsons, four stepdaughters, one sister, and numerous relatives. Body sent to Baker Brothers Funeral Home.
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East Lynn St
St. John's Hospital
Howard County
Anderson
Delco- Remy
Zelma L
Roy Summerlott
Dunkirk
Ind
Fenton Summerlott
Warsaw
Lloyd Summerlott
Argos
Walter Summerlott
Walkerton
Alfred Summerlott
Grovertown
James Summerlott
South Carolina
Wanetta Sailyer
Hamlet
Lela Benninghoff
Plymouth
Ethel Surma
North Judson
Luetta Jean Fornal
Winamac
Goldie Leieht
Chesterton, Ind
Baker Brothers Funeral Home
Deaths in Madison and nearby counties
Obituary notices report the deaths of Rev. John Denbo in Fort Wayne and Alta Moreland in Daleville with funeral details. Carl Brown of Noblesville and Bessie Farrell of Middletown are also noted with service information. Nineteen teenage girls are to testify in a Delaware county grand jury probe of sex and drinking parties.
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Ind
Jack H. Young
Grand
Dela
Summitville
Ware County
Beulah L. McCune
Arley McCune
Ewing
N. M
Paul Gardner
Redenham
Anderson
Texaco Boosts Stock Dividends After Split Vote
Texaco directors boosted quarterly dividend to 80 cents on old stock following stockholder approval of a two-for-one split. New rate equals 80 cents per share, replacing prior 65 cents quarterly.
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NEW York
UPI
Texaco, Inc
LIVES
Washington
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad
B&o
New York Central
B&o-C&o
John Barriger
Central
ICC
Detroit
United Auto Workers
Ford
Denver Airliner Crashes on Runway After Hydraulic Trouble
United Air Lines flight from Denver failed to land smoothly as a skid ding jet struck a survey truck near the runway end. Flames engulfed the front cabin trapping all who died. Captain John Grosso and six crew were uninjured. CAB took charge of the investigation.
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Civil Aeronautics Board
Washington
United Air Lines Offiicials
Grosso
Widely Known Mortician George McCarty Dies in Fortville
Fortville funeral director George McCarty aged about 70 died after a Tuesday noon illness at Indianapolis Methodist Hospital. He led his family business after early work in furniture and embalming, was Indiana's youngest licensed embalmer, and long active in Masons and community groups. Survived by sister Geneva Sparks and several cousins, his funeral arrangements include services at his George McCarty Funeral Home with graveside rites at Gravel Lawn Cemetery.
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Fortville
Rilboetih Hospital
Indianapolis
Gere
Methodist ‘Hospital
Fishersburg
James
Sarah Elizabeth
Roudebush) McCarty
Zarnis
Lapel- Fishersburg
Fernville
George
Indiana
The
Order of Red Men
Estal Taylor
Christian Church
Walter Miracle
Mharch of the Nazarene
Gertrude Crouch
Gravel Lawn
Foriville
Airport expansion boosts May traffic and hangar plans
Ottawa Indiana reports a record May value for goods moved by air with taxiway and hangar construction. The Bureau of Statistics notes a 6.3 percent rise from 1957 and a peak of 540 million in May as city paving begins on a new airport road.
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Ottawa
UPI
Canada
Columbus
Ind
Ffrom
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