Firms Win Toll Road Work
The Indiana Toll Road Commission considered bids from Pace & Associates of Chicago and Cole & Son of South Bend for service building and toll booth contracts on the east-west road. The panel also discussed extending pre qualification for contractors and authorized hiring an engineer to assist. Hearings set for June 30 on concessions for fuel and dining operators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toll Road Commission
Chicago
South Bend
Harry Brown
J. E. Greiner Co
Pace
East Commission
C. Cheever Hardwick
Smith
Barney & Co
New York
Investment House
Calumet
Indianapolis
Ohio River
Calumet-Indianapolis
Hardwick
Commission
Albert J. Wedeking
Ice Mint Foot Cream for Cooling Relief
Ice Mint medicated cream offers cooling relief for burning feet. Easy to apply and helps soften stinging callouses and corns while temperatures soar.
Air Academy Inquiry Sought
The Madison Courier editorial calls for an inquiry into the air academy site selection amid last minute changes. Madison, Indiana had hoped for the academy and the paper notes Lake Geneva and Alton were dropped, leaving Colorado Springs as the probable choice with Eisenhower ties highlighting politics and vacation travel.
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Madison, Ind
Madison Courier
Air Academy
Madison
Indiana City
Fort Custer
Mich
Air Force
Talbott
Lake Geneva
Wis
Alton
Island
Colorado Springs
Colo
Courier
Grads Enroll For Clinic At DePauw
Two 1954 graduates of Anderson High School are among over 100 high school seniors signed up for DePauw University seventh annual Educational Guidance Clinic on campus June 15 to 19. Suzanne Wagner and David Wellington registered, with the clinic using tests and interviews to guide each student’s college plans and suitable areas of study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anderson High School
DePauw University
Suzanne Wagner
Winding Way
David Wellington
Arrow Ave
Household Scrapbook and Mishawaka drowning tragedy
Household tips include washing peas without shelling and a clothespin bag for clothesline use. Olive oil is flavored with a pinch of salt when taken internally. In Mishawaka, South Bend, Don Kristi, 15, drowned in the St. Joseph River during a school-year completion swim with four friends. Max Voss, 15, attempted rescue but could not save him. Kristi had just finished his freshman year at Adams High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Bend
Ind
Don Krist
St. Joseph
Mishawaka
Max Voss
Krist
Voss
Krista
Adams High School
Work Resumes In Quarries After Wage Strike In Indiana
BEDFORD Ind The Indiana Limestone industry neared 99 percent capacity Thursday as 2970 of 3000 workers returned from a brief AFL wage strike. Only 30 employees from three small firms stayed out. the 23 company bloc had agreed to a 5 cent hourly raise with unions, not retroactive, after negotiations over a 5 cent retroactive raise to April failed. Striking unions included quarry workers mill workers machinists hoisting engineers and blacksmiths with contracts expiring in July stone cutters and draftsmen joined but did not strike. Also Chesterton State Troopers Virgil Perrotts and George Marquardt won honorable mention in a traffic photo contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bedford
Ind
Indiana Limestone
AFL
Conservation County Contest Set for Sept 24 in Madison County
The Madison County soil conservation contest will be held on Sept 24 with the site chosen by Harold Scholl county planner. The district event leads to a state contest on Oct 7. A 1955 revision of the County 4H soil conservation program is planned. A June 23 vocational teachers meeting at Fred St John’s north of Lapel will plan 4-H Fair arrangements, with teachers wives as guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison County
Harold Scholl
County Soil Conservation District
Fred St. John
Lapel
Purdue Summer Session Opens With 3000 Plus Enrollees
Purdue University summer session starts Monday June 14 with an expected enrollment over 3,000 students. First time entrants register Friday and Saturday June 11 and 12. Classes run through August 7 offering one to four week credit courses for in service teachers in education. Orientation for new students is set for Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Purdue University
Howell Completes Airborne Training
Private Jackie C. Howell son of Mr and Mrs Francis M Howell of Lapel recently completed the grit testing course for Airborne Training at Fort Campbell Ky He is assigned to the 11th Replacement Company of the 11th Airborne Division and volunteered for service as an Airborne Soldier He attended Jump School at Fort Campbell and completed the course including five parachute jumps before returning to his unit where he is a supply clerk.
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Jackie C. Howell
Francis M. Howell
Lapel
Fort Campbell, Ky
Howell
L1th
11Th Airborne Division
Fort Campbell
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Indiana
Button Gay Gingham
Colorado
Mr. Eisenhower
DePauw
By Roberto Lee
Bob Barnes
Sues Asbo Aecora
Richard A. Spangler
Walter R. Spangler
Mounds Rd
U. S. Air Force
Lackland Air Force Base
San Antonio
Tex
Spangler
Flying Training Air Force
United States
Bloomington
Enny Kinser
Howard Marlin
Chesterton, Ind
Virgil Perrotts
Michigan City
George Marquardt
Chesterton
Dunes State Park Post
Traffic Digest & Review
Purdue
Thornton & Minor
America
E. & A. Shoe Store
E. 8Th St
Park Place
Ccs
New Folger
Folgers
Astabelle Mountain
Folger
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