Seven Principals Swap Schools In City Assignments
Anderson Board of School Trustees named new principals for the 1958 59 school year. Harriett Monahan moves from Meadowbrook to the new Hiawatha School in Indian Meadows, while Bert L Downey leaves Park Place to lead Meadowbrook. Monahan previously taught at Columbia Lincoln Shadeland and Longfellow alongside her nine years at Meadowbrook.
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City
Anderson Board of School
Harriett Monahan
Meadowbrook School
Rip Van Winkle Backaches and School Career Highlight
The article recalls a local educator with 11 years in teaching and coaching at Park Place School, plus earlier elementary work in Indiana. It notes a 24-year Navy service, degrees from Canterbury College and Ball State, and residency on East State Road 32. Board members Kathryn Knight, Wilbur Robyt, Syd Williams, William Hovermaie, and Gordon France attend.
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Park Place School
Indiana
U. S. Navy
Downey
Canterbury College
Ball State
East State Road 32
Margaret Knight
Wilbur Roby T
Syd Williams
William Hovermaie
Gordon France
Best Better 4-H Mothers Tea Featured by Miss Lamper
The Best Better 4-H Club held a Mothers Tea at St Ambrose School with Miss Monahan opening the program and Margaret Lamper modeling her gown. Fr. Heilman and several guests attended while club leader Mrs John Lamper of 117 South Sycamore led the talk on 4-H work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monahan
St. Ambrose
Anderson
Frances Nuce
Buller University
John Lamper
South Sycamore
Margaret Lamper
Father Heilman
St. John's Hos
St. Ambrose Catholic Pital
Church
Mary Ledebuhr
Gladys Phipps
Frankton
Raymond Rogers
Pendleton
Wahnetta Wilson
Martha Brown
W. Ath
Explorer II Satellite Silence Ends After Week
Cedar Rapids Iowa reports space expert Dr James Logansport hospital says V Narkevitich 54 a heart patient born November 3 1903 Vigo County daughter of Mr and Mrs John Guerin married John Narkevitich in 1926. She had been a Lapel resident of 25 years and survived by daughter Jane Baldwin two brothers two sisters and two grandchildren. Satellite radio resumed Wednesday after heavy radiation or meteor shower collision silence. Funeral plans await word from California. Deaths and survivors noted.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
America
James Logansport Hospital
Sheas Allen
van Allen
University of Iowa
Vigo County
Jane Anne Baldwin
Garden Grove
Calif
Sam Guerin
Terre Haute
Ralph Guerin
Alexandria
Edith Love
Hymera
Reuther and Big Three Back One Auto Union
United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther joined General Motors in telling the National Labor Relations Board that auto workers should be represented by a single union. Reuther charged that the companies are bargaining in bad faith, a claim immediately rejected by GM vice president Louis G. Seaton as without merit. The day featured intense auto bargaining activity ahead of contract expirations for GM on May 29 and for Ford and Chrysler on June 1.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers
Walter P. P. Reuther
National Labor Relations Board
Auto Workers
Reuther
General Motors
Louis G. Seaton
Seaton
UAW
Ford
Chrysler
Frank Thomas Dies in Madison County at 90
Frank Thomas, 90, died at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in Goebel Nursing Home Anderson after a career as a Madison County contractor. Born December 20, 1867 near Alexandria, he married Emma Lowry, who died in 1940. Surviving children include four daughters Inez Coy Hazel Smith Muriel Lowe Esther Thomas and son Francis D. Funeral home is Davis and Strider Alexandria with arrangements pending. He belonged to local Masonic bodies.
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Alexandria
Q. Frank Thomas
Goebel
Anderson
Monroe Township
William
Mary Jane Perry Thomas
Emma Lowry
Madison County
Masonic Temple
Thomas
Masonic
Davis
Plainfield slaying suspect arrested in Bowling Green
Police arrested 20 year old Roland Butler at his girlfriend home on suspicion of slaying an Indianapolis hardware store owner. He admitted shooting LW Symons with a .22 rifle then took money merchandise and his car. Butler waived extradition to Indiana.
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Bowling Green
Roland Butler
Plainfield
Ind
Wilmington
Del
LW. Symons
Butler
Indiana
Romeo
Samuel Cardinal Stritch
Robert Stritch
Chicago
Sam
Cardinal Stritch
Rome
Sanatrix Clinic
Aden Protectorate
Multiple vehicle defects found in state road check drive
Over 1,000 cars have been found with defective rear license plate lights during the campaign. A three hour blockade checked 416 cars in Guide Lamp's parking lot, yielding 91 defectives including 105 rear lights and eight mufflers. State police say 1,157 cars were checked in Anderson and Alexandria over two days, with totals expected to reach 12,000 by month end.
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Page One
Robert Baker
Charles Trogdlen
Harold Boicourt
Bill Recob
Doyle Crosley
Phil Seybert
William Breece
Anderson Auxiliary Police
Guide Lamp
Cpl
Gene Jarrett
Pendleton
Princess Margaret Townsend engagement denial reported in London
London reports denial from Buckingham Palace that Princess Margaret will wed Group Captain Peter Townsend. A press statement says claims of an engagement are false and Margaret’s 1955 declaration of love remains superseded by royal duties. Obituaries note service details for Robert Massey Roy Decker and Beulah Shelton with funeral times and burial plans.
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Margaret
Townsend
London
Buckingham Palace
Peter Townsend
Queen Elizabeth
Princess Margaret
Church of England
Deaths In Madison And Nearby Counties
Rev Dr Walter Bradley Morgan of Middletown died Monday in Fayette Missouri at age 78 a retired Methodist minister and former district superintendent Survivors include wife Viola one son William Norman Jokla one sister Mrs Tykley Becker Services were held Wednesday in Fayette Graveside rites will be Thursday 11 am at Miller Cemetery near Middletown Ballard and Shirey Funeral Home Middletown in charge of arrangements
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Walter Morgan
Middletown
Walter Bradley Morgan
Forerly
Fayette
Morgan
Viola
William
Norman
Jokla
Tykley Becker
Miller Cemetery
Ballard and Shirey Funeral Home
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Rip van Winkle
Best Better Club
Mothers
Meadowbrook
Fort Wayne
Leo High School
St. Joseph
Grabill
James Briley
Mart M. Fowler
Dean
Chester Lowman
ST Miles
Iidney
Fon Place
Lattack
St. John’s Hospital
Calvin Wilson
Grand Ave
Dorothy Schmalfieldt
Arlie. Cravens and Son
Columbus Watson
Joan Zent
Eugene Martin
Cresi
Jennie Smith
Theresia Albrecht
Chestnut St
Luke Superior
Explorer II
Explorer Tl
Davis and
Strider Funeral Home
California
Texas
Tbwa
Emma Floyd
Trafalgar Square
Floyd
Ihe
Single Auto Union
Labor Board
Plymouth
Mobilgas
Frank Thomas
Andrew Carnegie
jSentland
U.S
Auto. Recheck
Marion
Gregory Lee Blackbur
Glenn Blackburn
Russell Blackburn
Marion General Hospital
Centralia
Jil
Southern Railway
Bruce Cox
Princeton
Senate
Anna Surbaugh
Scott Air Force
Lincoln St
Helleville
Monwreck
St. John's Hospital
Robert Massey
Robert Charles Massey
Kempher
Brown and Butz
Arthur Proctor
Mounds Baptist Church
Maplewood Cemetery
Roy Decker
Roy Allen Decker
Broadway
Wally and Hiday
Joseph Espey
North Anderson
Beulan
Shelton
Beulah Shelton
7Th St
Harold E. Rozelle
Madison
Fleetwood
LEATH
Meridian Street
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