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Newspaper
Anderson Herald
Location
Anderson, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1963
Page
8
The White House Science Advisory Committee issued a 46 page report urging stronger federal pesticide laws and tighter agency controls. It notes benefits for food production but outlines risks to humans and wildlife and calls for further research on long term effects.
The Methodist Men and Youth of Park Place Methodist Church will host an Athletic Banquet Sunday at 6 p.m. A carry-in dinner precedes a program honoring men and boys from the church’s basketball and bowling teams and softball participants. Rev. Gene Smith will deliver interpretive readings including Casey at the Bat.
Indiana commercial red meat production in March totaled 153,687,000 pounds, up six percent from February but 12 percent below March 1962. Cattle slaughtered numbered 51,000 with liveweight 52,887,000 pounds, down from March 1962 and February. Calves slaughtered 8,000 weighed 1,874,000 on the hoof, up from February but down from March 1962. Hogs slaughtered 410,000 weighed 97,990,000 pounds, up from February but below March 1962 by 13 percent. Lambs and sheep figure incomplete in available text.
A group led by astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell reports that the July 9 1962 high altitude U S nuclear test injected charged particles into the earth's magnetic field altering the charged particle environment and interfering with space research. The finding was presented to Britain's Ministry of Science.
Slaughter weighed 936000 pounds live, one per cent higher than February, but 23 per cent below March 1962. Commercial slaughter includes packing plants and local butchers, excludes farm slaughter. Totals indicate marketings by farmers and red meat availability.
Haiti expelled Swiss-born U. S. citizen John Richardo, head of the United Nations technical aid mission, ordering him out within 24 hours with a 24 hour grace. The Foreign Office called his evacuation of dependents an unfriendly act.
The 175th United Presbyterian General Assembly opened in Des Moines Indiana and runs through May 22 with 840 commissioners representing 3.2 million members. Anderson First Presbyterian Church sends three ministers and three elders. delegates are elected one minister and one elder per 8,500 communicants. The assembly will study Church and State issues including Bible reading in schools, birth control via welfare agencies, Sunday closing laws, tax funds for parochial schools, clergy privileges, and tax exemptions for religious groups.
A party of 25th Street School fourth graders led by Mrs. Eloise Seybert visited the Bulletin and Herald publishing plant in Cleveland. The group included 25 students and several accompanying parents and teachers, observing newspaper operations. The visit notes mention the U S steel industry consuming over 250000 tons of bituminous coal daily.
A Beechcraft, owned by Lauhoff Grain Co., crashed into a 300-foot Commonwealth Edison smokestack at the plant in Hammond Indiana during dense fog and rain. Pilot Marlin Snyder 34 and H W Corman 62 Lauhoff vice president died. Wreckage strewn 400 feet. one body fell on the roof, the other 400 feet into Lake Michigan. Coast Guardsmen recovered the second body. Flight from Danville to Chicago Meigs Airport with planned landing near Calumet City. No station employees injured.
Markleville High School announces 43 seniors in the Class of 1963. Baccalaureate is Sunday at 6 30 p m and commencement Friday May 2 at 8 p m in the school gym with speeches by Merle Strom and diploma presentations by Dale Prough.
Dary Industries, Inc., an aluminum fabricator, has concluded an agreement to acquire Royal Aluminum Corp. of Hialeah, Florida. Royal Aluminum operates plants in New Jersey, Illinois, and California and reported about $1.5 million in sales last year.
Epipiscopalians schedule Rogation Sunday with services at Trinity Episcopal Church broadcast on WHUT at 7 a.m. Activities include Holy Communion at 8 a.m. Morning Prayer at 9 15 and Bible class after. Rogation Days are the three days before Ascension. Morning services 9 30 a.m. Monday to Wednesday. Events include Boy Scouts, Women of Trinity picnic, Altar Guild hosts, and a Deanery Teacher Training Institute May 25.
The Anderson Boating Club will hold its annual downtown parade this afternoon at 1 30 originating at Athletic Park. County residents may join the procession. After the parade the U S Coast Guard will inspect boats at Edgewater Park. Camping and boating displays will be set up and a potluck at 4 30 for attendees.
The Board Of Public Works will receive bids May 27 for a 2500 KVA three phase transformer for the municipal light department. Specifications available at the light plant office.
Mrs. Trudy Cooper flies from Houston to Los Angeles then to Hawaii with daughters Camala and Janita to join astronaut L. Gordon Cooper for a family reunion. They will attend a news conference in Cape Canaveral and meet President Kennedy who will award NASA's distinguished service medal.
Willie Cottrell age 19 of 726 West 14th Street was fined one dollar and costs by Judge Fred R. Roberts in City Court after pleading guilty to assault and battery. He was arrested for an alleged attempt to molest a girl at the Delaware Street dump. In 1962 Gulf of Mexico shrimp landings totaled 88 million pounds.
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