Lights on for Safety and Other Local Weekend Notes
Community analysis urges drivers to keep low beam headlights on during Labor Day weekend to reduce highway deaths. Local airport reports Keith Anderson flying a gyrocopter from Lyons, market for new flying machines. Shawnee Summer Theatre reports strong attendance but struggles with debt and funding while competing with Avondale and other theaters.
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Indiana
Coure
Keith Anderson
Lyons
Anderson
Linton
Chiefs to Testify On Treaty Before Senate Committee
The Joint Chiefs of Staff will testify at a joint hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees on the nuclear test ban. Generals Wheeler LeMay Shoup and Admiral McDonald are set to speak as U S. leaders push for potential resumption of atmospheric space and underwater nuclear tests if Russia violates the pact. The session also covers widows' pay and fiscal balance questions with Proxmire demanding full budget estimates amid tax-cut debate.
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Washington
Senate
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services
Earle G. Wheeler
Army
David L. McDonald
Naval Operations
Curtis LeMay
Air Force
David M. Shoup
Marine Corps
United States
Russia
House
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Congress
Proxmire
Old Settlers at Odon Set for Aug 21 24
Odon Indiana prepares for the 78th annual Old Settlers celebration at the city park August 21 24 with free admission and acts. Highlights include band concerts baby show contests and a 50 Year Club meeting. Exhibits are judged Friday along with awards for home making and agriculture.
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Odon
Ind
Stan Cardinal
Savings Bonds Sales Drop in Greene County
Arthur F. Snyder, Greene County U S Savings Bonds Committee chairman, reports July sales at 107 632 down from 187 860 last year. State sales reached 13 273 001 versus 12 337 365 in 1962, a 7.6 percent gain. Forty one of 92 counties showed gains for July 1963.
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Arthur F. Snyder
Greene County U.S. Savings Bonds Committee
NFO Withholding Promised for Higher Meat Prices
National Farmers Organization members briefly gathered at Kansas City and East St. Louis stockyards but left without a full withholding action. The group later said withholding began in St. Louis and East St. Louis to pressure processors into minimum price contracts, with potential for dairy withholding later. Officials cautioned that national authorization was not confirmed and actions depended on member activity.
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ST. Louis
National Farmers Organization
Kansas City
East St. Louis
National Farmer's Organization
Ill
NFO
Missouri Valley
National City
Iberg
Berg
Oren Lee Staley
NFC
Corning
Iowa
Staley
Midwest
Baldwin
Wis
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Moonshiner Kills Sheriff and Chief Then Flees With Daughter
In Alabama a moonshiner fatally shot Colbert County Sheriff Herman Red Cook and Police Chief Neil Pace with a shotgun and fled with his teenage daughter after wounding another officer. A massive manhunt of over 250 lawmen found him later inside the ruins of his home, where he had been living with cancer and a plan to escape with a rifle and pistol.
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Littleville
Ala
WPDA
Troy Thornton
Thornton
Colbert County
Herman Red Cook
Neil Pace
Don Files
Ray Murray
Carolyn
Murray
Cook
Pace
Greene County Nurses Association Picnic Meeting Planned
The Greene County Nurses Association will hold a picnic meeting at Dee Miller's cabin near Coal City Tuesday. Members are invited after 3 p.m. and can call the hospital front desk for directions. Attendees should bring children, life jackets, and table service.
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Greene County Nurses Association
Dee Miller
Coal City
Commodities Distribution Planned by Stockton Trustee
The Stockton township trustee Murl Cullison announces commodities will be distributed from the office at 146 South Main Street on Friday August 23. Recipients must bring their cards.
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Stockton Township
Murl Cullison
South Main Street
Missionary From Linton Dies in Nairobi Kenya
The Rev. Jean Paul Bordenet 52 a Maryknoll missionary and Linton native died Friday in Nairobi Kenya He served 12 years in Tanganyika and Kenya as regional Maryknoll leader and later directed the Catholic Relief Service program for Tanganyika His overseas work began in North Korea where he and others were interned by the Japanese during World War II He was a former Marine Corps chaplain and participated in the Guam invasion and Marshall Islands attacks He will be buried near his Africa work Survivors include two sisters and four brothers all in various U S locations
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Jean Paul Bordenet
Maryknoll
Linton
Nairobi
Kenya
Father Bordenet
Tanganyika
East Africa
Catholic Relief Service Program
North Korea
Marine Corps
Guam
Marshall Islands
St. Meinrad
Ind
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
New York City
Africa
Maryknoll Chapel
John J. Donovan
The
Maryknoll Society
Howard van Alzen
Margaret Bordenet
Terre Haute
Jerome Bordenet
Little Rock
Ark
Gustave Bordenet
Seattle
Wash
Armand Bordenet
Spokane
R. A. Bordenet
Paris
Cool temperatures linger across Indiana for a week
Indiana faces another week of below normal temperatures with a forecast average 4 to 8 degrees below normal through Saturday. Readings Sunday ranged from 41 at South Bend to 88 in Indianapolis, with a rainy front bringing lows in the upper 50s to low 60s and scattered showers expected across the state.
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United Press International
Indiana
Mercury
South Bend
Lafayette
Fort Wayne
Indianapolis
Evansville
Cincinnati
Louisville
Jasonville Girl Hurt In Wreck Saturday
Eleanor June Mitchell twenty listed in good condition at Freeman Greene County hospital after a wreck at 4 55 p m fifteen miles east of Bloomfield on highway 45. She was ticketed for reckless driving. Passengers Linda Hollingsworth Carolyn Thompson Elaine Hardesty treated and released. Mitchell suffered a broken collarbone facial lacerations and bruises. Car total loss.
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Eleanor June Mitchell
Rtc. 1
Jasonville
Freeman Greene County Hospital
Bloomfield
Robert Kirk
Mitchell
Linda Hollingsworth
Linton
Carolyn Thompson
Switz City
Elaine Hardesty
Carlislette
Three Miners Found Alive In Pennsylvania Shaft
Three coal miners trapped over six days in a Hazelton shaft were contacted through a six inch hole and reported in good condition. Rescue plans include a 28 inch bore to reach them and lower ropes and supplies as efforts continue.
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Hazelton
Upl
Fellin Coal Co
David Fellin
Joseph
Louis Bove
Pattersonville
Henry Throne
Joseph Fellin
United Mine Workers
UMW
Alabama Towns to Submit Desegregation Plans
Alabama officials in Birmingham and Mobile must present court ordered desegregation plans today for the states first post‑college integration step. Birmingham has begun desegregating some downtown facilities under a local agreement. Mobile has started desegregating other downtown facilities.
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Alabama
United Press International
Birmingham
Mobile
South
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
George Wallace
Chicago
William L. Dawson
D-Ill
New York
Roy Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People Naacp
Wilkins
NAACP
Washington
White House
Women’s Committee
Three Odousn Children Shot By Accident In Odon Backyard
Three Odoun children were hit by pellets from a 20 gauge shotgun in a backyard in Odon Friday evening. Ricky Parsons 10 Nadine Howard 8 and Ronnie Howard 13 suffered pellet wounds but were not seriously hurt. The shooter Tom Wilson 13 told deputies he fired thinking the gun was unloaded and fled to his home.
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Ralph Morgan
Ricky Joe Parsons
John Parsons
South Elm Street
Odon
Nadine Howard
Ronnie Howard
Dexter Howard
Elm Street
Tom Wilson
Vivian Beasley
Gum Street
Howard
Young Wilson
Morgan
Daviess County Hospital
Ricky Parsons
Young Parsons
Ronnie
St Peters School Opens With Returning and New Staff
The Siders return to form the teaching staff as St. Peters reopens on Tuesday Sept 3. Sister Mary Jerome will be principal and teach Grades One and Two. Sister Robert Marie covers Three to Five. Sister Joseph Monica handles Six to Eight. Sister Robert Marie joins from the Midwest after four years in California, replacing Sister Gertrude Eileen who moves to Japer. Call the convent to enroll if you have not yet registered. The Sisters anticipate a busy year at St. Peters.
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Siders
St. Peter’s School
Linton
Mary Jerome
Robert Marie
Joseph Monica
Midwest
California
Gertrude Eileen
Japer
St. Peer’s
Father and son named as school principals in two states
A father and his son will serve as principals of schools 12 miles apart in two states this fall. Fred Glancy heads a Georgetown Indiana grade school while his son Perry leads the North Vermillion Community School Corp at Cayuga Indiana.
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Cayuga, Ind
Fred Glancy
Georgetown
Perry
North Vermillion Community School Corp
Cayuga
Auto Races Draw Indianapolis Crowd in 1963
The 1963 Indianapolis 500 drew well over a quarter-million spectators contributing to a record $494,000 drivers' share.
Pope Calls for Council Unity and Reforms
Pope Paul VI urges Eastern Orthodox churches to end their boycott and help unite Christendom. He spoke at Abbey of St Mary et Grottaferrata near Castelgandolfo, calling to send observers to the Ecumenical Council opening Sept 29 and to clarify doctrinal points while preserving Eastern rites. The Russian Orthodox Church attended the last session as an observer.
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Vatican City
Paul VI
Ecumenical Council
Vatican
Paul
St. Mary Et Grottaferrata
Castelgandolfo
Christ
Boy Scouts Meet Tonight After Postponement
The Troop 50 swimming party is postponed tonight. Scoutmaster W. H. Oaken said scouts will hold a meeting at the Scout hall at 7 p m tonight.
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Boy Scouts
Troop 50
W. H. Oaken
False Fire Alarm Reported in Linton Rest Haven Area
A false fire alarm was reported to the Linton Fire Department at 11 p.m. Sunday. The alarm originated from the Rest Haven area of Linton.
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Linton
Rest Haven
Scotland Yard Seeks Links in $7.3 Million Train Robbery
Police checked London Airport passenger lists for a tall dapper man possibly tied to Britain's famed heist. A black sports car found near the airport may have been bought by a gang member the day after the August 8 robbery. Detectives examined a card for fingerprints and clues while others searched outbound flights. Five arrests have been made and $677,420 in stolen bills recovered. The rest of the loot remains missing amid ongoing searches and a police information blackout.
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London
Scotland Yard
Britain
Dugger Seeks Bond Issue for Water System Upgrades
Dugger petitions the Indiana Public Service Commission for authority to issue 182000 in revenue bonds to refinance debt and fund improvements in the town water works. The filing also requests rate increases.
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Indianapolis
Dugger
Indiana Public Service Commission
Auxiliary Meeting Planned by Linton Legion
The Linton American Legion Auxiliary will hold a meeting at the Legion home at 8 p m Tuesday evening. Officers announced today and a social hour will follow the business session with all members asked to attend.
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Linton American Legion Auxiliary
Legion
Atend
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Shawnee Summer Theatre Board of Directors
Avondale
Shawnee
Konrad Adenauer
Gerhard Schroeder
Bundestag
Eugen Gerstenmaier
West Berlin
Willy Brandt
Archie
Ed Gardner
Pennsylvania
St. Peter’s
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