Elwood License Bureau Head Resigns Post
Mrs. Marjorie Bammer, manager of the Elwood automobile license bureau, resigns effective June 1 to move to Evansville with her husband Richard Bammer who has bought a business there. The office will close Saturday at noon and reopen after a new manager is appointed, with Memorial Day causing an extra closure on Monday. The successor will be named by the secretary of state and approved by the township Republican chairman.
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Elwood
Marjorie Bammer
Elwood Automobile License Bureau
Evansville
Bammer
Richard Bammer
Millls Brothers Circus
Joseph Hancock
18Th St
Fort Wayne
Huntington
Wabash
Marion
Roberson
Lavone Roberson
Robert Roberson
S. Q St
St. John’s Hospital
Anderson
South Side Tabernacle
Wesley Delk
Joseph McClain
Elwood City Cemetery
Mrs. Roxy Long Dies In Hospital
Mrs. Roxy Mae Long of Alexandria, 66, wife of J. J. Long, trucking firm owner, died Tuesday at St. John's Hospital Anderson after three weeks’ illness. Surviving are two daughters, two sons, two brothers, three sisters, 14 grandchildren, and 2 great grandchildren. Funeral services 2 p m Wednesday at Alexandria First Baptist Church. burial Park View Cemetery.
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Alexandria
Roxy Mae Long
J. J. Long
St. John’s Hospital
Anderson
Long
Frankton
Orestes
Baptist Church
Valparaiso University
Gertrude Mae Watson
Indianapolis
Marion Coonse
Houston
Tex
Joy
Leotas Long
Oscar
Lotas Powell
Brooklyn
Ind
Donna Forbes
Beverly Crawford
Mary Rohn
Davis
Toastmasters Meet at YMCA with New Member Enrolled
Anderson Toastmasters Club held a regular session at the YMCA. Pierre J. Nimax served as toastmaster and Roscoe Graves was topicmaster. Speakers included James Wright, Harold Gaddis, Ned Stephenson, and William Rosecrans. Stephenson won the Golden Gavel. Carl Young won table topics. Guests were Richard J. Anderson and William Riethmiller. Harold Gaddis joined as a new member.
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Anderson Toastmasters Club
YMCA
Pierre J. Nimax
Roscoe Graves
James Wright
Harold Gaddis
Ned Stephenson
William Rosecrans
Stephenson
Carl Young
Richard J. Anderson
William Riethmiller
Nila Bright Receives Kiwanis Scholarship at Montpelier
Elwood Nila Jo Bright daughter of the Rev and Mrs Joseph Bright graduated from Montpelier high school among 27 graduates. She won a Kiwanis Club scholarship for future teachers and plans to enter Ball State Teachers College this autumn. Grandmother Mrs Ralph Hartsock and Elwood relatives attended the commencement along with Mr and Mrs Ambers Bright Jr.
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Elwood
Nila Jo Bright
Joseph Bright
Montpelier High School
Bright
Kiwanis Club
Ball State Teachers College
Ralph Hartsock
Hartsock
Ambers Bright Jr
Elwood Legion To Give Flags Memorial Day
War veterans families in Elwood are asked to contact the American Legion this week or pick up a flag at the Legion home for graves. Legion members will mark graves at the cemetery at 5 p.m. Saturday. Proceeds from nearby events fund the battery’s needs during training.
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Elwood
American Legion
Legion Home
Legion
Final Red Trial Pleas Start
Closing arguments began Tuesday in a lengthy trial of five Communists in St. Louis. Government counsel B Franklin Taylor said the defendants used fascism as a smoke screen to hide red fascism. He noted four leaders from the Communist Party in the 1930s, including Sentner Manewitz Murphy and Forest.
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ST. Louis
B. Franklin Taylor
Lafayette E. Broome
Taylor
William Sentner
Robert Manewitz
Marcus A. Murphy
James F. Forest
Communist Party
Forest
Dorothy Rose Forest
United States
Bunche Examined on Loyalty by U N Board
Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, UN official and Nobel laureate, testified before a five member International Organizations Employees Loyalty Board in New York. Officials offered no comment on the appearance, while Bunche’s role and past achievements are noted amid the era's loyalty investigations.
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New York
Ralph J. Bunche
United Nations
U.S
Bunche
U.n.’S Department of
U. S
Eisenhower
U.N
FBI
Detroit
U. N
Political era officials listed across late 19th to mid 20th century
The passage catalogs a sequence of mayors and officials with tenures from McClure 1887-90 through 1933-42. It names John Terhune 1891-94 and 1906-09, M. M. Dunlap 1895-1902, John L. Forkner 1902-05, Henry P. Hardy 1909-7, Frank P. Foster 1910-13, Jesse H. Mellett 1914-18 and 1930-32, William J. Black 1918-21, Blanchard J. Horne 1922-25, Andrew J. Jones 1925-7, Francis M. Williams 1925-29, Harry Baldwin 1933-42, C. D. Rotruck 1943-47, G. Lester McDonald 1948-51, and Mr. Wright, Anderson's present mayor.
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Blanchard J. Horne
Andrew J. Jones
Francis M. Williams
Harry Baldwin
C. D. Rotruck
G. Lester McDonald
Mr. Wright
Anderson
Alexandria Social Activities and Garden Club Notes
Alexandria area social items record Gilman lodge gatherings with Edith Curts Grace Chaplin and Marie Foust as hostesses. Meeting led by Mrs Thelma Cranfield featured readings by Mrs Agnes Featherston and prize winners Donna Jean West Chloe Seybert and Beverly Busby. A June 28 return at Mrs Nondal Millers home is planned. Garden Club Tea to celebrate Anderson Garden Club Silver Anniversary on June 5 at Bill Wilson Boys Club in Anderson invites Alexandria Garden Club members to enter the flower show. Mrs Russell Mittendorf, Indianapolis, is moving to Phoenix for a home with her ill husband. she visited Alexandria with sister Mrs Jack Beard.
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Alexandria
Edith Curts
Grace Chaplin
Marie Foust
Mesdames
Cora Collier
Viola Evans
Dorothy Likens
Laura Ellen Modlin
Vida Templeton
Cecil Tuttle
Phyllis Good
Marjorie Waymire
Hazel Gustin
Bill Wilson
Anderson
Anderson Garden Club
Alexandria Garden Club
Arizona
Russell Mittendorf
Indianapolis
Phoenix
Ariz
Mittendorf
Jack Beard
E. van Buren St
Elwood Club Programs Highlight Holiday Music and PTA News
Elwood Fine Arts clubs theme Music for Special Holidays with Miss Mabel Digel leading and a trio performance. Osborn PTA installs officers and honors students, plus safety patrol awards. Memorial Day dance at Elwood Country Club features Chili Childers band and 500 mile race theme. Co operative Homemakers plan rug making lesson. Legion Auxiliary hosts poppy sale youngsters burger fry. Loyal Women Mother Daughter dinner at First Baptist with devotions and program.
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Elwood Country Club
Chili Childers
L. L. Squier
W. A. Seea
Merle Hoppenrath
Homer Chase
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion
Jane Jester
Joyce Cockerham
Esteleen Arnold
First Baptist Church
Army Unveils 107 Ton Rail Road Rotary Snowplow
Washington reports a new 107 ton Army rotary snowplow capable of throwing about 300 tons of snow per minute and projecting snow up to 110 feet in any direction. The electrically driven machine marks a significant enhancement to snow clearing capaciteit. Hartford data show 1953 work accidents caused 315 million lost days and about three billion dollars in economic losses.
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Washington
Hartford
Conn
Birth time and place petitions filed in Madison Superior Court
Several individuals including Raymond Glen True Ruby Agnes Chew Clara Ethel Tranbarger and Dorothy Ann Macaulay filed petitions in Madison County Indiana seeking court orders to determine their exact birth times and places. Hearings are set for May 28 1954 in the Madison Superior Court in Anderson Indiana.
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Raymond Glen True
Madison Superior Court
Madison County
Indiana
Anderson
Ruby Agnes Chew
Williamson
Clara Ethel Tranbarger
Monroe
Joseph H. Armington
Dorothy Ann Macaulay
Berger
Madison
Joseph H.armington
Arms Reach Nicaragua Officials Say
The State Department said planes carrying American arms to counter Guatemala’s leftist support arrived in Nicaragua. Airlift to Nicaragua and Honduras began Monday with two C124 Globemasters. One plane landed in Managua with weapons for Nicaragua, another reached Nicaragua for transshipment to Honduras. No further details released. A prior shipment from Stettin in Poland was reported. The arms move is under mutual defense accords and described as light infantry equipment. A Mystic museum home opened by the Denison Society has housed 11 Denison generations since 1717.
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Washington
State Department
Guatemala
Nicaragua
Department
Honduras
Managua
The
Denison Society, Inc
Mystic
Conn
Denison
Subcommittee to Hold Closed Session on Army Call Records
Washington Mundt announces a closed subcommittee session for Wednesday afternoon to decide whether to admit and publish monitored telephone calls involving Secretary of the Army Stevens and other figures in the McCarthy Army row controversy.
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Washington
Mundt
R-Sd
Use Of Cornstalks For Building Shown
Purdue University展示ed a small building built from aluminum-sheathed panels with cornstalk cores. Biochemists devised plastic adhesives to bond stalks inside the panels. The panels insulate heat and sound well but are too costly for practical use.
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Lafayette
Ind
Purdue University
Purdue Biochemists
Purdue
Real estate man dies during Burbank library site hearing
Horace V Thompson of Sun Valley collapsed and died after testifying at a Burbank police commission hearing on crime conditions. The 57 year old former city councilman suffered a heart attack while describing facts about the 1951 purchase of a site for a public library.
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Burbank
Calif
Horace V. Thomp
Sun Valley
Thompson
Allen Rites Set For Saturday
Funeral services for Orville Allen former Alexandria resident who died in Indianapolis will be held Saturday at 10 o clock in the Orestes Christian Church. Burial follows at Park View Cemetery with Dr Raymond Miller leading the rites. Friends may visit at Davis and Striker Funeral Home after 7 p m Thursday. A half-brother from California pending arrival.
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Alexandria
Orville Allen
Indianapolis
Orestes Christian Church
Donald Dickel
California
Raymond Miller
Park View
Davis and Stricer
Clegg
Francis Clegg
Davis and Strider
Clayton Steele
First Methodist
Park View Cemetery
Achievement Day honors at Alexandria High School
Alexandria Tuesday’s Achievement Day recognized a large slate of students for scholastic, activity, and athletic achievements. Rosemary Jackson named valedictorian. Barbara McCarty salutatorian. Honors included Latin medals for Rosemary Jackson, Caroly Lawson, and Ann Grahame. Bausch-Lomb Medal to Robert Brobst. Kiwanis KBF pin to Joyce Lurber. Lions Club blanket to Ralph Flecker. drama and stagecraft awards to Beverly Toms and Thomas Thomas. $100 loan to Joan Warren from BPW. livestock judging trophies to Dallas Thomas. FFA Letter to Jerry Cranfield. 4H judging emblems to Walter Cray, John Janney, Don Disque, Dallas Thomas. music keys and choir emblems awarded. and many athletic honors presented.
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Alexandria
Alexandria High School
Rosemary Jackson
Barbara McCarty
Mary Kay Garst
Indiana University
Caroly Lawson
Ann Grahame
Eta Sigma Phi
Robert Brobst
Indiana
Michigan Electric Service
Jerry Cranfield
Walter Cray
John Janney
Don Disque
Dallas Thomas
Madison County
Lions Club
Beverly Toms
Prison Chess Expert Seized After Breakout
Norfolk Mass. prison escape tale ends as William Couture Taunton 40 is captured in Bellingham walking along railroad tracks. He allegedly led seven convicts who climbed a 20 foot wall with an improvised ladder and disappeared in fog. 200 police and guards pursue remaining six escapees. Mexico has a coastline longer than that of the United States.
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Norfolk
Mass
Bellingham
William Couture
Taunton
Frank D. Coughlin
Couture
Rhode Island State
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Ralph Ploughe
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