Storm Arlene Aims Toward Gulf Coast Winds Rise Over Coast
Tropical storm Arlene approached the Gulf Coast with two to four foot tides and heavy winds near Port Arthur Texas. Gale warnings extended from Galveston to Grand Isle as small craft were told to seek shelter and residents prepared for possible impacts like Audrey and Hurricane Cindy in history.
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New Orleans
UPS
Arlene
Gulf Coast
East Texas
United States
Port Arthur
Tex
The
Weather Bureau
Audrey
Cameron
Galveston
Grand Isle
Bureau
Pensacola
Fla
Lene
Nation Will Make Grave Resort Journeys Today
Nation plans Memorial Day observances at military posts abroad and in national cemeteries and shrines, while beach and resort commerce starts as millions flee crowded cities for an early holiday. Veterans and families honor war dead from five wars dating to the Revolution.
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Gaveside
Chapel
Mountain Lake
America
Rindge
N.H
Bomb Hoax Evacuates South Side Junior High
Principal Clyde Williams ordered evacuation after a caller claimed a bomb was planted in the South Side Junior High School. The building was cleared without incident while police and FBI agents searched for explosives. no devices were found.
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South Side
Clyde Williams
Minte
Roy Smith
Don Bates
Bob Morris
FBI
Gov Long swears off profanity in committee rebuke
Gov Earl Long, known for forceful language, faced a sharp rebuke for profanity during a Louisiana House committee hearing. He apologized to the children in the gallery and quipped about sending for his Bible, then invited everyone including the nuns to swear off profanity as long as possible.
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Baton Rouge
Earl Long
House of Representatives
Long
Baccalaureate Rites For 400 Seniors Sunday
Baccalaureate services for more than 400 Anderson High School seniors will be held Sunday at 7 30 p m in the Warner Auditorium on the Anderson College campus The Rev George A Harris of East Lynn Christian Church will deliver the address titled Keep Your Trust The AHS orchestra will play Pomp and Circumstance to open the program Dr George Taggart of the First Presbyterian Church will pronounce the Invocation A community singing of Lead on a King Eternal will be followed by a Scripture reading by Rev Phillip Philbrook of Meadowbrook Baptist Church The Rev Monroe G Schuster of Central Christian Church
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Anderson High School
Warner
Anderson College
George A. Harris
East Lynn Christian Church
AHS
George Taggart
First Presbyterian Church
Phillip Philbrook
Meadowbrook Baptist Church
Monroe G. Schuster
Central Christian Church
Sizemore and Shaw Sentenced to Indiana State Prison
Delbert Sizemore 44, found guilty of armed robbery, drew a 10 year term at Indiana State Prison. Harold Duke Shaw 37, convicted of assault with intent to murder, received 11 to 10 years. Sizemore had long prison history including Alcatraz. Shaw cited epilepsy as context.
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Delbert Sizemore
Indiana State
Carl T. Smith Sizemore
FBI
Atlanta
Mills
Harold Goehring
Sizemore
Alcatraz
Smith
Harold
Duke) Shaw
Anderson
Indiana
Michigan City
Local Man Drowns After Mossy Pond Incident In Anderson
Clarence C. Turner, 27, of 912 Central Ave., father of five, drowned at a moss covered pond near the Ind. 109 bypass north of Ind. 32 yesterday. Eyewitness Hubert Hinkle, 29, said Turner jumped in after a failed swim, raised his arms as he disappeared, and did not yell. Rescue teams including firemen, sheriff deputies, and divers searched until Turner’s body was recovered at 6 p.m. He was pronounced dead at St. John’s Hospital. Turner, born July 19, 1931 in Knoxville, Kentucky, married Frances Louise in Lexington in 1950. He had moved to Anderson 16 months ago and served in Korea. Survivors include his wife, three daughters Hattie Elizabeth, Patricia Louise, and Linda, plus four brothers.
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Ind. 109
Ind. 32
Anderson
Clarence C. Turner
Central Ave
Hubert Hinkle
Brown St
Herald
Sylvia Fenwick
Larry Robbins
John Hepfer
Hepler
Turner
Hepfer
Jack Rector
Omar Duffer
Bill Tucker
Russ Davis
Bob Green
Bob Grant
Bob Martin
Russ Hiatt
Bob Morris
Harold J. Goehring
Paul Ravage
Mr. Turner
Knoxville
Hamm Turner
Frances Louise
Lexington
Hattie Elizabeth
Patricia Louise
Linda
Roy
Oscar
Hamm Jr
Mark
Ind
Fire Department
Rob Grant
Memorial Day Rites For War Dead Set Here
Memorial Day observances mark 2,500 Madison County war dead with flags at 92 cemeteries. Flags will be placed by American Legion and other groups. ceremonies on the 9th Street Bridge and courthouse lawn at 9 a.m. Speakers include Rev. David Cox. Government offices close for the holiday.
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American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
9Th Street
Woman's Relief Corps
David Cox
Madison County
Amvets
DAV
Anderson
Herald newsroom to operate on Memorial Day abbreviated schedule
The Herald announces an abbreviated newsroom schedule for Memorial Day with emergency news only after 9 p.m. Calls to the news department should be made after 9. All other Herald departments including accounting classified display advertising and circulation will be closed. Sunday delivery remains at the usual time.
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Herald
Anderson Loan Buys Old YWCA Building in Anderson
The Anderson Loan Association has purchased the Anderson YWCA building at 1011 Jackson St. James Lansberry, president, says possession will occur in 1960 after a new YWCA building is completed at llth and Chase. The property could become a future parking lot. the Norton home remains a key part of the site.
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Anderson Loan Association
Anderson Ywca
Jackson St
James Lansberry
Walter Bagot
YWCA
Lansberry
Llth and
Chase Streets
Loan Association
Anderson
M. C. Norton
Association
Bagot
Chester Lewis
Lth
Chase Sts
Indy 500 Preview Sees Heat and Rain Threats
Indianapolis fans brace for the 43rd Memorial Day 500 with heat potential highs around 89 to 90 degrees and a chance of showers delaying the start. Pit risk includes heat exhaustion, while 33 cars line up in 11 rows of three for a pace lap start.
Memorial Day travel sees peak traffic and deaths forecast
The Memorial Day weekend kicks off with an estimated 40 million car trips and up to 26 traffic deaths and 10,000 disabling injuries from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Sunday. New York reported the first holiday fatality during a thunderstorm. Weather forecasts warn of sun in the West and rain from the Mississippi Valley to the Great Lakes. Police will mount round the clock patrols in danger zones as nationwide death totals for the period are tracked.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
New York
Walden
Weather Bureau
Appalachians
Atlantic Coast
Mississippi Valley
Central Plains
Great Lakes Region
NSC
U.S
The
West Berlin crisis group shows small progress says UPI
The Big Four foreign ministers held an airborne summit over the Atlantic and a private Geneva session to discuss Berlin. U S officials report a small degree of progress and that the West is not bluffing on Berlin while seeking a summit with the Soviet Union. Gromyko's stance left no major commitments, but the talks raised Western hopes for a satisfactory accord within the peace package for Berlin and German reunification.
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Geneva
UPI
Berlin
Atlantic
U.S
Russia
Christian A. Herter
West
Andrei Gromyko
West Berlin
Gromyko
Herter
Selwyn Lloyd
Maurice Couve de Murville
Pendleton Robbery Suspects Brothers Arrested in Liquor Theft
Pendleton James C Martin Jr 19 was arrested Thursday charged with second degree burglary as a suspect in a break-in and liquor robbery at Idlewold Golf and Country Club near Pendleton early Wednesday. His younger brother Charles Richard 17 was later charged with juvenile delinquency after admitting purchases of intoxicating beverages. Both released on bond.
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James C. Martin Jr
Pendleton
Idlewold Golf and Country Club
Charles Epperson
Earl Caplinger
Howard Moone
Gene Brattain
Martin
Brown Street Road
Charles Richard
Westside
Anderson
Epperson
Madison County
Tito Rumor Denied Belgrade
Belgrade officials denied the rumor that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev proposed a reconciliation meeting with President Tito. The denial emphasizes Yugoslavia's independent stance amid Cold War tensions and avoids confirming any planned talks.
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Tito
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Nikita Khrushchev
New Arrivals Born at St John s Hospital
Newborns arrive at St John s Hospital to families in Alexandria Anderson Hannibal Missouri including eight infants a boy to Mr and Mrs Robert Stohler a girl to Mr and Mrs Gerald Jarvis a girl to Mr and Mrs Stephen Wallace a girl to Mr and Mrs Richard Kuklenski a boy to Mr and Mrs James Hodson a girl to Mr and Mrs William Shockene y a boy to Mr and Mrs Richard Isom a boy. One birth noted in Hannibal to Dr and Mrs Robert Cary a girl with Janet Haven former Anderson resident as the mother. Grandparents listed in Forest Hills and Anderson.
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St. John’s Hospital
Robert Stohler
Alexandria
Gerald Jarvis
Short Hazlett St
Stephen Wallace
Woodlawn Dr
Richard Kuklenski
Walnut St
James Hodson
Anderson
William B. Shockeney
Dewey, Sr
Richard Isom
Broadway
Hannibal, Mo
Robert Cary
Cary
Janet Haven
C. W
Red) Haven
Dresser Dr
Forest Hills
Lillian V. Haven
Main St. Anderson
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Harlan Fengier
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