Navy Drops Plans For 6 New Warships
The Navy canceled six planned ships and three modernization projects to save nearly half a billion dollars amid rising labor and material costs and future nuclear and missile expenses. Five destroyer escorts four missile frigates and conversions including an amphibious carrier and two missile cruisers were dropped. Budget provisions allow reassignment of work in the 1959 program starting July 1.
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Indiana Projects Get Public Works Funds Approval
The House Appropriations Committee backed four Indiana public works projects totaling 12.6 million dollars. Mansfield Reservoir receives 3.4 million, Evansville gets 200 thousand, Lock and Dam 41 along the Indiana Kentucky line 6 million, and Markland Locks and Dam spanning Indiana Kentucky and Ohio receives 11 million. The figures match administration requests except for Evansville which was added.
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Alexandria Social Activities and CWE Installations
Mrs Paul Kauffman hosted the Past Noble Grand Club on S West St with plans for July 1 initiation at an allding affair at club president Mrs Gladys Hawkins home. Attending were Mesdames Frank Ball Rufus Boston Howard Foley Alice Horn Ages Johnson Roy Ladd Everett Leach Ethel Peek Stella Montgomery Earl Small and Mary Starr. Install Officers Mrs Francis Thomas state treasurer of the Christian Woman's Fellowship officiated at the Vermillion Christian Church meeting at Mrs Maurice Matthews home. New officers include president Mrs Ruth Leaky vice president Mrs Gladys Featherston worship chairman Mrs Hazel Crump study chairman Mrs Phyllis Dailey membership chair Mrs Faye Tanner secretary Mrs Muriel Chaplin treasurer Mona Hood. Outgoing president Mrs Featherston presented each officer with a potted plant then a rose. Next meeting set for 7 30 p m May 3 at the church with hostesses Mrs Chaplin Thelma Cranfield and Mrs Ethel Klakampp. Emmert Pays Assessment Indiana Supreme Court Judge James A Emmert paid his 1800 assessment to the Republican State Committee seeking renomination at the state convention June 27. Emmert, a veteran on the high court and former state attorney general, has no announced opposition for renomination in the Second Judicial District. ega Bristol is a twin city half in Tennessee and half in Virginia.
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Shelbyville
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Virginia
Trade Measure Push Started in House Debate
Washington reports bipartisan leaders launched a drive to ram President Eisenhower's reciprocal trade program through the House despite opposition from protectionists. Debates and a showdown vote were scheduled for Wednesday as lawmakers weighed two plans.
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D-Ark
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D-Ga
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Supreme Court to review contempt in labor and race cases
The Supreme Court agreed to hear two contempt appeals next term. Abram Flaxer of the United Public Workers faces punishment for refusing to reveal the union’s membership rolls, while David H. Scull challenged a 10 day jail sentence for defying a Virginia racial affairs committee. The court also declined to block a Hartford County desegregation plan.
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Annandale
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Ctl
NAACP
Hartford County
Summitville Leader Named Madison County Attendance Officer
Gates Long of Summitville, former Van Buren Township trustee, will head Madison County attendance for the 1958 59 school year. Announcement of the appointment was made yesterday by Dale Prough, County Superintendent.
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Madison County
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Jury Selected To Hear State Scandals Trial
A 12 member jury was chosen in Indianapolis to try five former state officials and two salesmen on bribery counts linked to Indiana highway scandals. Elmer Dee Sherwood and Arthur J. Mogilner were sworn in after six days of juror questioning with the trial set to begin, pending alternate jurors and judge instructions.
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Sayer
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Elwood burglaries and courthouse crowd events reel through weekend
The Elwood area logged three burglaries over the weekend including a service station break in and a furniture store entry with a failed safe attempt. A grand open house for Mogilner collaboration and a street-sign dispute with a two-car crash later drew local attention as witnesses spoke and authorities questioned suspects.
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Local Meetings Schedule At Chelsea Coast Guard Depot
The Coast Guard Station in Chelsea Massachusetts serves as the supply depot for lighthouses along the Atlantic seaboard while a busy day unfolds with Rotary Exchange and Ind Safety luncheons at noon and Kiwanis and Toastmasters gatherings in the evening. Junior and intermediates swim and gym sessions run in the late afternoon with a 3:45 to 4:30 schedule.
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