Linton News Highlights Local Sports and Growth Efforts
The community prepares for football with three home games starting August 30 against Brazil and a busy schedule including Terre Haute matches. Local officials back stricter state education standards set for fall 1964, while small schools fear expansion costs. Southern Indiana Inc delegates discuss Monroe Reservoir, industry prospects, and a new brochure. Rodeo action at Lyons Fair continues with riders facing injuries yet the show proceeds amid tough luck.
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Brazil
Linton
Wiley
Schulte
Terre Haute
Indiana State Commission On General Education
Paul Blackemyre
Linton-Stockton
Indiana Civil Rights Commission May Seek Laws on Contractors
The Indiana Civil Rights Commission discussed extending anti-discrimination rules to cover firms with state contracts, not just the contracts themselves. A Sept. 10 housing access conference with Governor Welker is planned, and a report notes fewer unskilled workers on highway projects but a similar white to Negro worker ratio as 1962.
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Indianapol
Wpp
Indiana Civil Rights Commission
Commission
Richard Peterson
Lane Commission
Welsa
Statehouse
Harold Hatcher
Hatcher
Blue Skies Across Most of Nation Amid Light Thunderstorms
United Press International reports mainly sunny conditions and warm temperatures across the country with storms limited to the Southwest and northern Plains. Overnight lows reached the 60s in the North and 70s to 80s in the South as showers moved through the Dakotas to Utah. Overnight rain hit several cities with Tampa Florida noting a tornado sighting west of Lake Worth and funnel clouds near Lafayette Louisiana, but no damage reported.
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United Press International
Plains
Southland
Dakotas
Utah
Victoria
Tex
Richmond
Biloxi
Miss
Ocala
Fua
Tampa
Fla
Lake Worth
Lafayette
Two Greene County Homemakers at Indiana State Fair
Two Greene county home makers will take part in state fair style shows. Mrs Zetta A Anderson says one will appear in the young homemakers show on Sunday September 1 in the Women's Building at 3 PM. Mrs Roy Ellett with two of her family will model a cranberry red wool dress in the adult homemakers show on Sunday August 25 at 3 PM.
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Greene County
Zetta A. Anderson
D. W. Hanauer
Bloomfield Inc
Hanauer
Roy Leilett
Ellett
Saigon Tension and Beauty Amid Buddhist Crisis
The dispatch portrays Saigon as a city of beauty and danger under a Buddhist government clash. It notes Ngo Dinh Nhu's threats to burn the city if a coup occurs, U S pressure accusations, and the Dinh family's tight grip as Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. arrives as ambassador amid rising tensions with the Buddhists and communists gaining ground.
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Saigon
Orient
Ngo Dinh Diem
Ngo Dinh Nhu
Nhu
Mme, Nhu
United States
South
Viet Nam
Presi
U. S
Mm. Nhu
South Viet Nam
Southeast Asia
Dinh
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
U.S
PTA Plans Book Sale at Dugger School
The Cass township PTA in Sullivan county will run a book sale of new and used books for the Dugger school for 1863 64. Patrons with used books urged to bring them to the gymnasium west entrance of the high school. Sale runs 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug 27 to Aug 30 and 9 a.m. to noon on Aug 31.
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Cass Township
Sullivan County
Dugger
Budget Bureau to Release Indiana Burns Ditch Report Soon
Governor Welsh expects the Budget Bureau to publish the Burns Ditch port report within 30 days after White House talks. Welsh, Sen. Bayh, and Indiana officials push for federal funding while planning a bond financed port if feasible without $25 million in federal aid. They aim to secure reimbursement later once funds are available.
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Indianapolis
WPP
Welsh
Budget Bureau
Indiana
Burns Ditch
White House
Lee C. White
Kennedy
White
Birch Bayh Jr
D-Ind
Indiana Port Commission
Lake Michigan
Army Corps of Engineers
Army
Washington
Clinton Green
J. Manfred Core
Democratic
Tax Cut Plans Delayed Until After Labor Day
Washington sources say final action by the House Ways and Means Committee on Kennedy tax cut legislation may be postponed after Labor Day. The panel plans to meet to discuss language on a estate tax provision while avoiding a bill vote that day. The measure targets a net $11 billion income tax cut over two years as the committee finalizes the draft.
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Washington
House
Ways & Means Committee
Kennedy
Indiana Soldier Wounded in Korean Patrol Incident
An Indiana soldier Specialist 5C Philip L. Cox from Swayzee was wounded during a Korean truce line patrol. Raymond Kapp Jr., 19, of Cloquet, Minnesota, was killed when a disoriented side-fire exchange occurred as two 8th Cavalry patrol members approached from an unexpected direction.
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Seoul
Korea
Wpp
Indiana
Philip L. Cox
Swayzee
Raymond Kapp Jr
Cloquet
Minn
United Nations Command
8Th Cavalry
Mrs Kathryn Clark Patient at Good Samaritan Vincennes
Mrs Kathryn Clark of Linton rests as a patient at the Good Samaritan hospital in Vincennes for her son. Her room number is not listed in the readable text.
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Kathryn Clark
Linton
Good Samariote Hospital
Vincennes
Public Hearing Planned on Greene County Route 59 Widening
A September 13 public hearing in Midland School Gym, Indianapolis, will discuss widening 6.837 miles of SR 59 in Greene County from 19 to 24 feet with wider right of way and added shoulders. Indiana State Highway Commission officer Oral S. Craig will conduct the session, inviting Greene County residents to present economic impact statements and views on the proposed construction and bid process.
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Indianapolis
Midland
Indiana
Indiana State Highway Commission
Greene County
Oral S. Craig
Jasonville
Linton
Joe Brogdon
State Highway Commission
Brogdon
State
Miners Trapped Drill Misses Target in Hazleton Rescue Bid
In Hazleton Pennsylvania a 24 hour drill failed to reach three miners trapped 331 feet underground after a roof collapse on August 13. The drill stopped at 315 feet with officials saying the team may be in bedrock and missing a chamber. The trapped men Fellin Throne and Bova could hear surface activity yet could not locate the probe.
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David Fellin
Henry Throne
Hazleton
Louis Bova
H. Beecher Charmbury
State Secretary of Mines
Charmbury
Fellin
Throne
Bova
Charmisury
Gordon Smith
Dave
Smith
Aout
State GOP Head to Appear in County for Precinct Talk
Robert N. Sewart Republican State chairman will appear in Greene County on Friday September 6 at 8 p.m. in the old gymnasium at Switz City for a public meeting of precinct committee men and vice-committeemen. Attendees include Republican city and town candidates. Sewart a longtime Bartholomew County resident born March 7 1929 in Rock Creek Township and married to Barbara. they have daughter Rachel Ann. He owns Stewart Agricultural Limestone Service and runs a 600 acre farm with Black Angus cattle. He has held multiple party posts and is a Columbus Rotary Club member.
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Robert N. Sewart
Greene County
Switz City
Stewart
Rock Creek Township
Bartholomew County
Indiana
Columbus
Meadowlark Lane
University High School
Chicago
Franklin College
Phi Delta Theta
Phi Alpha Theta Historical Honorary
Blue Key
Franklin
Republican Central Committee
Stewart Agricultural Limestone Service
Bartholomew
Decatur
Columbus Township Farm Bureau
National Grange
Epoxy glues warned as toxic to skin and lungs
Poison experts in Rochester warn boat owners and hobbyists about epoxy resins used to seal surfaces. University of Rochester pharmacology reports these resins combine desirable gluing properties with potential toxicity when in contact with skin or inhaled. Dr. Harold H. Borgstedt notes benefits but possible hazards.
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Rochester
N.Y
University of Rochester Department of Pharmacology
Harold H. Borgstedt
Florence Scott Hospitalized in Danville Report
Mrs. Florence Scott of 195 East Main Street Danville is listed as a patient at Hendrix County Hospital in Danville according to a report received by her parish.
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Florence Scott
East Main Street
Danville
Hendrix County Hospital
Paresas Lace
Jasonville JP Court Hears Traffic Charges
Jasonville Justice of the Peace court under Roy Allaway recently heard traffic cases. Byron Bell 19 was fined 1 and costs 18.75 for speeding by Jasonville police. Everett Killion 56 of Linton was fined 10 and costs 27.75 with license suspended for one year for DUI. Harold Keller 20 of Midland faced 5 and 22.75 for reckless driving. William Anderson 35 of Jasonville paid 1 and 18.75 for no operator license. Roger Hibbard 17 of Jasonville charged by Jasonville police.
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Justice of the Peace
Roy Allaway
Jasonville
Byron G. Bell
Everett Killion
Linton Itc
Harold Keller
Midland
Indiana
William Anderson
Roger Hibbard
Jazonville
Jasonvilie
Fage Two
No Pavilion for Indiana at New York World's Fair
Governor Welsh has closed the files on Indiana’s pavilion project for the New York World’s Fair. He said funding shortfall and lack of funds make a 700000 dollar pavilion impossible, despite hours donated by James Nicholas and Ken Wolverton.
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Indianapolis
UPM
Welsh
Indiana
James
Nicholas
Indiana Motor Truck Association
Ken Wolverton
Cook Walks Out of State Penal Farm
Norman Stinson, 27, of Edinburg serving 15 years for a parole violation escaped from the Indiana Reformatory at Pendleton after telling a guard he would fetch potatoes. He climbed a basement window and scaled a 10 foot fence from an outdoor dormitory. Superintendent John W. Buck called the escape a bad pattern.
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Pendleton
Ind
Wpi
Indiana Reformatory
Norman Stinson
Edinburg
Johnson County
John W. Buck
Reformatory
Stinson
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Bedford
Bloomington
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Monroe
Lyons Fair
UPS Foreign News
PTA
Scotland Yard
London
Samente Frou
Jasonville JP Court
Cook
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