Sidewalk Days Boost City Sales Across Downtown
With perfect weather shoppers filled downtown Northfield Shopping Center and Grant City for Sidewalk Days. Merchants offered clothing, furnishings, lawn and garden bargains as stores report brisk morning business. The event runs Saturday as part of the July 4 week festival, drawing homemakers and vacationers and signaling preparations for August Dollar Day ahead of school openings.
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Northfield Shopping Center
Grant City
City Building Inspector Quits Over Apartment Job Drama
Lebanon and Boone County Building Inspector Floyd Williams resigns citing overruled inspections by Mayor Robert Campbell. Campbell and Acton signed off on a 48 unit project by Price And Dixon Builders after Williams had red tagged the site for underfloor water leaks. Campbell says he and Acton were present when fixes occurred and asserts budget limits prevent raises. A new inspector will be named with permits to be issued from the Municipal Building starting Monday.
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Lebanon
Boone County
Floyd Williams
Robert Campbell
Williams
Campbell
James Acton
Price and Dixon Builders
County Planning Board
Chilean Army Revolts In Attack On Allende Palace
In Santiago a section of the motorized army backed by tanks attacked La Moneda palace and the defense ministry as gunfire raged in Bulnes Plaza. Allende urged calm on national radio while troops loyal to his government prepared to respond.
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Allende Palace
Santiago
Chile
UPI
Salvador Allende
Hemisphere
Defense Ministry
la Moneda
Bulnes Plaza
United Press International
Allende
Jose Toha
2Nd Division
Richmond fires scorch 21 businesses in racial flare up
In Richmond Indiana twenty one businesses were set afire in a predominantly black area of the northside with minor damage in most cases. The Motorcycle Shop suffered major damage after a delayed report. No arrests yet though suspects identified. Two teenagers were arrested at the Melody Roller Rink disturbance. Arrests also made at Huffman manufacturing plant where Fred A. Lewis and Brent J. Hogg faced weapons charges and July 26 trial date. Robbery reported at Miller Milk House with an attendant struck. Police mounted heavy patrols and deputies were summoned as pattern echoes past summers.
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Richmond
Ind
UPI
Melody Roller Rink
Huffman Manufacturing
Fred A. Lewis
Brent J. Hogg
Wayne Superior Court
Miller Milk House
Delinquent Tax Sale Looms Over 77 Boone Parcels
77 Boone County land parcels face August tax sales with over 37000 dollars in delinquent taxes. Properties belong to owners 15 months behind on payments across townships including Marion Washington Sugar Creek Thorntown Jefferson Center Union Vigo Zionsville Perry Harrison Jackson Jamestown Advance Whitestown and Lebanon.
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Boone County
Robert McCann
Auditor’s Office
McCann
Marion Township
Washington
Sugar Creek
Thorntown
Jefferson
Center
Union
Vigo
Zionsville
Perry
Harrison
Jackson
Jamestown
Advance
Whitestown
Lebanon
Two Boys Found Dead In Old Refrigerator Garage
In Indianapolis two boys Randy Dudley aged 5 and Herbert Goldsmith Jr. aged 8 were found suffocated inside a refrigerator in a garage near their homes. Police believe the children crawled in while playing and were trapped when the door closed. no foul play is suspected. The incident follows a two and a half hour search by parents who reported them missing. Indiana law bans leaving refrigerators without doors or safe equipment to prevent such accidents.
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Indianapolis
UPI
Randy Dudley
Herbert Goldsmith Jr
Anna Ray
Indiana
Boone Council Set To Discuss 1974 Local Option Tax
Boone County council members plan a Saturday meeting to consider a local option tax for 1974, despite a previous veto for 1973 and indications Marion County will not back a 1974 tax. Missing from the vote is council president Lloyd Miller due to hospitalization with a broken hip. Highway appropriations also on the agenda.
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Boone Council
Boone County Council
Marion County
Indianapolis
Lloyd Miller
Skyward Diarrhea Outbreak Aboard Caribbean Cruise Ship
The Skyward carries 1,000 passengers and crew as a diarrheal epidemic sweeps the ship. Coast Guard air-dropped 36 pounds of paregoric and a thirst quencher while two doctors aboard treat the ill. Authorities expect arrival in Miami around midnight with NCDC and Quarantine officials on hand. The cause is suspected to be a contagious intestinal virus and no evacuations are planned.
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Miami
APS
Coast Guard
Bahamas
Cape Haitian
Haiti
Dominican Republic
al Wolf
National
Communicable Disease Center
NCDC
Atlanta
U.S
Francis Scally
Scally
Wolf
San Juan
P.R
St. Thomas
Virgin Islands
New Red Cross Executive Secretary Is Named Boone County
The Boone County Chapter of the American Red Cross announces the appointment of Mrs. Ira Patsy Scott Jr. of Jamestown as the new executive secretary succeeding Mrs. Max Chambers who resigns after twelve years. Mrs. Scott will assume the post July 1 and attend training at National Headquarters. Don F. Morton, chairman, praised the appointment.
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Boone County
The
American Red Cross
Ira
Patsy) Scott Jr
Route 2
Jamestown
Max
Izzy) Chambers
Chambers
Scott
Brad
Brian
Brent
Bruce
R.R. Donnelley and Company
Crawfordsville
Western Boone School Board
Jackson Township
Wells School
A & I Homemaker Extension Club
CES of Jamestown
New Brunswick Church of Christ
Hanging Rock
Don F. Morton
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Acton
State Plumbing Commission
Grant
Luis Munoz
Wayne County
Red Cross
Ira Scott, Jr
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