Anderson teacher sues for back pay in tenure case
Mary Ethel Thurston, long time Anderson High English teacher, sues the School City of Anderson for 29000 dollars plus costs claiming permanent tenure and pay through 1956 57 after her 1953 contract renewal was cancelled. Jury seated yesterday as trial resumes today before Judge Sid Cleveland with City Attorney Jack Campbell and school board attorney Lee Fidler representing the defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Ethel Thurston
Anderson
Anderson High School
Miss Thurston
Philip Cooper
Busby, Davisson, Cooper and Farr
Horace Holmes
Tipton
State Supreme Court
Anderson School Board
Pflimlin Wins Key Vote Amid Resignation Offer
Premier Pierre Pflimlin secured a surprising victory in the French National Assembly while hinting at resignation. He withdrew the offer after President Rene Coty urged him to stay, as Coty signaled the need for a new government.
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Paris
Pierre Pflimlin
French National Assembly
Rene Coty
Coty
Govel
Ment
Pflimlin
Charles de Gaulle
National Assembly
Dejé ‘Gaulle
France
de Gaulle
Pflimin
Anderson College student first woman accepted to medical study
Miss Hanna Hardt an Anderson College biology senior has been accepted by the Kirksville School of Osteopathy in Missouri becoming the first woman to begin medical study after undergraduate work. Dr Zylpha Hurlburt and Dr Robert A. Nicholson announced the milestone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anderson College
Hanna Hardt
Kirksville School of Osteopathy
Missouri
Zylpha Hurlburt
Robert A. Nicholson
Miss Hardt
Grietermen
East Prussia
Robert’ McCurdy
Alexandria
Raymond Bostwick
Grand Rapids
Mich
Midwest Medical
Indiana University
McCurdy
Farmingdale
N.Y
Air Force
Bosickeseplanes
Wayne University
Zoll Re elected Maplewood Cemetery Association Chief
Frank K. Zoll won re election as president of the Maplewood Cemetery Association at its quarterly meeting. Paris remained quiet as the YMCA meeting proceeded with other officers chosen.
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Frank K. Zoll
Maplewood Cemetery Association
Guarterly
Paris
YMCA
Flease
Patrol Picnic Theater Party Set for Thursday
The annual safety patrol picnic and theater party for Anderson Schools will be held Thursday with more than 1,000 patrols attending. The event includes a movie at the State Theater and a procession to Shadyside Park led by the South Side Junior High School Band.
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Tool
John Jatras
Roseville
Calif
Carl Whitinger
McCurdy
Anter
Dwight McCurdy
Police Department
Alexandria Church of God
Alexandria
Meridian
Jackson St
Asj
Shadyside Park
Bostwick
South Side
John
Grand Rapids
Mich
Sion
Capt
Whitinger
College Haven
Anderson
Ohio Governor Will Call Jobless Session
Republican Gov. C William O Neill announced a special session for the week of June 30 to seek a 39 week extension of state unemployment benefits for workers whose benefits expired between June 20 1957 and April 1 1959.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus, Ohio
William O'Neill
Radio TV Equipment Stolen In City Burglary
Police investigate two break ins, one at O and S Television Sales and Service and another at Decker's Inc. Detectives say about $1000 in radios and TV gear stolen, including six portable radios and a 17 inch TV. A truck is suspected. hub cap thefts also reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noble Higgins
O. Jj and
S. Television
W. 29Th St
Decker’s Inc
11Th St
O. and S. TV
Rex Toombs
Paul Coryea
Decker
Phil Decker
4 Cent Letter Charge Will Start Aug 1
Washington AP President Eisenhower signed into law the largest postal rate increases and pay rise. First class letters rise to 4 cents from 3, air mail to 7 cents, post cards to 3. Raises apply to newspapers magazines and advertising circulars. The bill expands pay for non supervisory staff but skews benefits to high level postmasters and others. Eisenhower urges Congress to provide more revenue to fund modernization.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Post Office Department
Department
Mother Charged With Slaying Two Children in Dayton
Dayton Ohio AP reports Mary Margaret McFadden aged 37 faces two counts of first degree murder after police found her two children Darlene 18 months and Margaret Helen 11 stabbed to death in first floor bedrooms Monday night. Each child had been stabbed more than a dozen times.
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Dayton, Ohio
Mary Margaret McFadden
Darlene
Margaret Helen
Local man injures himself attempting TV gun draw
Adrian Michigan resident Travis Fortner, 27, says he dropped Westerns from his TV list. He tried a cross over gun draw from a holster on his right side with his left hand and accidentally shot his right thigh with a .22 caliber pistol.
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Adrian, Mich
Travis Fortner
Fortner
Camping Trailer Found By Running Want Ad
An Arrow Avenue family used a Want Ad to locate a camping trailer for a three week summer trip starting June 20. The ad requested a small trailer to sleep 2 to 4 with basic cooking facilities, offering contact via the listed phone number. The clipping notes a busy season for classifieds and urges businesses and households to cash in.
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Arrow Avenue
Nuclear warcraft capability and court actions described
The report details a nuclear capable craft capable of delivering a hydrogen bomb globally within hours. Gen P P Weyland and Republic Aviation officials discuss speed and firepower including missiles bombs napalm and a 20mm cannon. The piece also covers a postponed pre-trial conference in Indianapolis related to an annexation remonstrance and a death penalty case delay with references to court proceedings and a dinner meeting at Plant 1 cafeteria.
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P. P. Weyland
Tactical Air Command
Republic Aviation Corp
Simmons
Blackford Coun
Hartford City
Anderson City
Jack Campbell
Woolbert
Victor Hloun
Tianal
Anderson Retail Association
Diana Supreme Court
Mike Martin
Richard E. Kiefer
Retail Association
Fort Wayne
Navy Vanguard rocket launches into orbit over Florida
Cape Canaveral reports the Navy Vanguard rocket lifted off at 10 47 p m sending a 214 pound satellite skyward as part of the International Geophysical Year plan. The 72 foot olive drab craft carried a sun oriented ultraviolet measuring instrument and aims to relay data on solar alpha rays and ionospheric effects. Observers described a successful blastoff despite a low overcast and noted the sat tucked a 20 inch gold plated sphere comparable to Russia’s larger capsule.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Sputnik
Navy Vanguard
Earth
Washington
United States
Vanguard
Russia
Florida
Press Corps
IAAF Bans Controversial High Jump Shoe Used by Russians
London AP reports the IAAF ruled the thick soled high jump shoe illegal worldwide removing a potential one inch advantage for Soviet jumpers Yuri Stepanov Vladimir Sitkin and Igor Kashkarov following the U S Soviet dual meet in Moscow. Charlie Dumas remains the world record holder at seven feet one half inch.
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London
International Amateur Athletic Federation
IAAF
Stockholm
Yuri Stepanov
Vladimir Sitkin
Igor Kashkarov
United States
Soviet Union
Moscow
Stepanov
Leningrad
Litkin
Odessa
Kashkarov
Charlie Dumas
Dumas
Los Angeles
Local Police Study Newest Probe Methods
Local Police Officers and detectives study traffic investigation techniques under Capt. Floyd Kline and Police Chief John Heiden. The program trains officers to interview drivers politely to ease tense accident scenes and improve public relations while gathering critical details.
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Floyd Kline
Anderson Police Department
John Heiden
Kline
Phil Seybert
Don Pickett
Dwight Mills
Harry Boxe
Ernest Barth
Russell Hiatt
Herald
Anderson
John L. Heiden
Ways
Heiden
Warner
GOP Women Meet Hear Fall Candidates
Madison County Women Republican Club draws over eighty attendees for May meeting at Durbin Hollingsworth home Norwood Hillis. Speakers include seventeen Republican fall candidates with Mrs. C O Davisson presiding and program by Mrs. Robert Heaton. Summer plans announced include June 24 meeting at River Forest hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Heaton with County Surveyor Harold E. Smith as speaker. Also scheduled are a July 22 picnic at Fall Park Pendleton and August 26 Beulah Park Alexandria 4H Fairground meeting, plus September Calloway Park Elwood gathering. Accordion duet by Ronnie Massey and James McPhearson closed the program.
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Madison County Women's Republican Club
Durbin Hollingsworth
Melody Lane
Norwood Hillis
C. O. Davisson
Robert Heaton
River Forest
Harold E. Smith
Fall Park
Pendleton
Beulah Park
Alexandria
Calloway Park
Elwood
Ronnie Massey
James McPhearson
Frank Allis
New Grid Field Lights Placed At Madison Heights
Madison Heights High School has new football field lighting placed in readiness for use. Rogers Electric Company, the lowest bidder, built the system at about 9945 dollars, raising nine wooden poles with three rows of lights. Four poles with lights line each sideline and one at one end, plus two flood lights on the school building.
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John Boone
Anderson
Madison Heights High School
Rogers Electric Company
Paul Bradford
Madison Heights
New Arrivals In Anderson And Vicinity
At St. John’s Hospital three families welcome newborns. Robert and wife at 141 College Haven have a boy. William and wife at 910 Laurel St have a boy. Max and wife at 2559 Thayer Ct have a boy. Robert and wife at Fairmount have a girl. Robert and wife at 1420 Alexandria Pk have a girl. Gerald and wife at 1644 W. 6th St have a girl. Melvin and wife at 244244 Broadway have a girl.
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St. John’s Hospital
Robert Hall
College Haven
William Randolph
Laurel St
Max Mitchell
Thayer Ct
Robert Dauenhauer
Fairmount
Robert Faucett
Alexandria Pk
Gerald Rigsby
W. 6Th St
Melvin Dietz
Broadway
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U.S. Navy
Glenwood Clark
U.S.S. Galveston
Robert James Craig
Naval Base
Philadelphia
Galveston
Marine Corps
Robert Craig
Marine Barracks
Westvale
Wanda Flatt
Wanda
C. R. Flatt
Louise Sr
Zoll
Cemetery Head
Kimo A
Kuna
Ane
Gacau
Canaday
George W., Griffith
Harry X. Jenkins
Frank 4
Allis
William R. Class
Sheldon B. Cooper
C. C. Davisson
H. D. Dawson
Thomas C Fisher
Funk
Griffith
H. E. Hudson
Charles S. Hughes
G. Brooks Sefton Jr
George H. Aur
E. C. Toner
Toll
Ohio
Delco-Remy
Navy
GOP
Anderson and Vicinity
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