Chesterfield Day Program Highlights July 4 Festivities
Chesterfield prepares for the 16th annual Chesterfield Day next Tuesday with a pancake breakfast by Kiwanis from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. a 7 p.m. Makepeace Park preholiday square dance and a 9 p.m. gant fireworks show. Donkey softball, parade led by Garland Dilts, infield show, and a variety show precede the fireworks. Parade units include Highland High School band American Legion posts and Boy Scouts. Total event cost about 1200 funded by local merchants their groups and the community.
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Chesterfield
Philip Hallenbeck
Chesterfield Jaycees
Garland Dilts
Highland High School
American Legion Post 408 Color Guard
Hoosier Model T Club
Indiana Antique Car Club
VFW
American Legion Post
Makepeace Park
Little League Association
Little League
Jaycees
Marshal Dilts
Kiwanis Club
American Legion
United States
Tax fairness and education figures ahead in April edition
The Inside Story highlights tax fairness as a national preference, Senate probes say Vietnam’s war gains rely on U S support, NEA with 1.2 million teachers weighs alliance with AFT’s 275000 members, and Miami Beach mulls curfew ordinances for convention security with more on Page 14.
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Senate
South Vietnam
Thieu
U.S
Congressional
National Education Association
Organized Labor
American Federation of Teachers
Miami Beach
Eastern states flood aid mobilized nationwide
Federal aid to flood victims is being organized across the country from the Treasury to a New York firehouse collection box. Weather shows scattered showers ending this morning with clearing this afternoon. Highs near 80, lows mid 50s, and 39 percent rain chance today. A friendly classified ad plea encourages lost and found notices by calling 643-5371.
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Treasury
New York
Anderson
Buzzard Squad Joins Peru Skyjacker Search For Coat Clue
A Peru area search led by a group nicknamed the buzzard squad focused on locating a missing skyjacker who seized an American Airlines jet and fled with $500,000. A farmhand found a brown sport coat near Grissom Air Force Base, turning it over to Indiana police as investigators reassess the suspect’s whereabouts and identity.
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Peru
FBI
American Airlines
Indiana
Alvin Chalk
Kokomo
Grissom Air Force Base
Chalk
Richard Obermier
J. R. Dillman
James Martin
St. Louis
Robert Wilson
Air Pirate
Tulsa
Oklo
Lowell Elliott
Frank W. Bodwell
Indianapolis
American
Bodwell
Elliott
Nixon orders 10000 more Vietnam troops withdrawn
President Nixon announced an additional 10,000 American troops will be pulled from South Vietnam over the next two months, setting the ceiling at 39,000 by Sept. 1. He also ordered that no draftees be sent to Vietnam unless they volunteer, with a televised news conference planned to discuss negotiations with Hanoi and wider Indochina issues.
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Washington Post
Washington
Nixon
South Vietnam
Vietnam
Indochina
Hanoi
White House
Alexander M. Haig Jr
Cambodia
William P. Rogers
Henry A. Kissinger
Ronald L. Ziegler
Kissinger
Ziegler
North Vetnam
Pentagon
Thailand
Community reform drive sparks citizen committee role
Madison County Council of Governments seminar highlights how talkers from the upper middle class and political types dominate planning meetings leaving the average citizen silent and discouraged. The piece notes that even with a plaque potential leaders face a cycle of monotony as routine speakers foreclose fresh ideas.
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Madison County Council of Governments
COG
The Show Ings and a Dwindling Citizens Committee
Shrugging off a bad experience, a new citizen member faces rejection as the committee, once a potential input to local government, collapses into a nonfunctioning body. Leaders in authority dominate, trust is lacking, and unclear functions deter participation, turning it into a myth. Please Turn To Page 3.
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Citizens Committee
Asoo
Ohio hitchhiking protester jailed after refusing bond
Ann Upshure, 84, refused a 10 dollar bond for hitchhiking on Interstate 71 near Columbus. She rode a driver to jail after being warned by a state trooper and later faced Franklin County Municipal Court where Judge Joseph M. Clifford fined and then suspended the 10 dollar hitchhiking fine.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ann M. Upshure
Here
New York City
Upshure
Ohio Highway
R. P. Burkhardt
Columbus City
Columbus City Women’s Correctional Institute. Burkhardt
St. Louis
Mrs. Upshure
New York
Urban League outlines county wide street academy plan
The Urban League of Madison County led by Mrs. Juanita Clay seeks a county oriented program to boost social involvement through a street academy, drug education and political awareness. They aim for United Fund approval of a $53,000 grant as part of a $97,000 total budget, with funding also from foundations. The group presses for coalition among social agencies, labor and management to advance minority employment and education.
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Urban League of
Madison County, Inc
United Fund
Anderson
Urban League
Juanita Clay
District of Columbia
Congress
Walter Fauntroy
Democrat Party
Little Rock
Ark
Clay
United States
National Urban League
Anderson Chamber of Commerce
Madison County
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Indiana Employment Security Division
Ball State University
Indiana Interreligious Commission On Human Equality
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United States of America
Chesterfield Kiwanis Club
Seave
THE
Anderson Herald
America
Nea
Fred Weyand
Creighton Abrams
Army
Leo
Oneeeoucee
Buzzard Squad
Herald
Federal Aviation Administration
Irv Ripps
FAA
Jeff Atteberry
38Th Street
John Toombs
APD
Saigon
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