Fontanet Bean Dinner Recall Highlights Local History
The Fontanet Nevins Township Vestry celebrates a 71st Bean Dinner amid memories of the Powder Mill explosion and Old Settlers Union. The event showcases the town’s pioneer spirit, a memorial to veterans, and a push to prevent Fontanet from becoming a ghost town as mines closed.
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Vigo County
Nevins Township
Fontanet
Jeremiah Nevins
Coal Bluff
Ehrmandale
Burnett
Powder Mill Woods
All Ft Wayne Blast Victims Recovered
Police say bodies of all victims recovered in the $5 million explosion at the Phelps-Dodge Copper Products Corp building in Fort Wayne. Five people died and two rescuers died of heart attacks during the search. Names include Earl Smith Ruth De Young Mrs Everett Jackson Virginia Becher and Margaret Sleesman. Gas smell reported. utility denies responsibility in Hammond.
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Fort Wayne, Ind
Phelps-Dodge Copper Products Corp
Paul Kleber
Wayne Warden
Earl Smith
Ruth de Young
Everett Jackson
Virginia M. Becher
Margaret Sleesman
Hammond
Ind
Northern Indiana Public Service Co
Fort Wayne
President Johnson blames Congress for inflation stance
President Johnson says Congress must share responsibility if inflation fighting measures are escalated, warning that if spending continues without restraint the government may impose wage price controls. He awaits action on more than a dozen appropriations bills and cautions on future steps.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Congress
White House
New England
Apollo Spaceship Launch Set Today
An unmanned Apollo spacecraft atop a Saturn 1 rocket aimed for a 12 30 p m EDT launch to test heat shield rockets and stabilization before a manned flight planned for December. If successful it preserves America's lunar program and the crew of Grissom White and Chaffee.
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Cape Kennedy
America
Wake Island
Space Agency
Virgil Grissom
Edward White
Roger Chaffee
Suspects Car Found Near Scotland
Sheriff's officials and Trooper Robert Kirk conducted a late search for a wanted man charged with assault and battery with intent to kill in Southern Indiana. The suspects car was found abandoned a mile north of Scotland. the fugitive was reportedly captured the next day.
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Sheriff's
Robert Kirk
Bloomield
Indiana
Scotland
Amateur Rocket Launch Site Considered at Camp Atterbury
INDIANAPOLIS AP A meeting was set to review renewing Camp Atterbury as a rocket and missile firing range for amateurs. Indiana Aeronautics Commission Director Robert J Winter cited renewed activity among young scientists and urged establishing a permanent supervised range at Atterbury with available equipment and a range coordinator.
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Indianapolis
API
Camp Atterbury
Robert J. Winter
Indiana Aeronautics Commission
Indiana
Atterbury
Winter
Train Service Restored To Sullivan By Railroad
The Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad announces passenger service to Sullivan. Trains 54 and 93 will stop there with northbound 54 due 7 11 a m CST and southbound 93 due 8 45 p m DST. Service is effective immediately. No reason given for prior suspension.
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Sullivan
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad
Sulivan
Chicago
Film cost of Johnson presidential film abroad
The US Information Agency says A President's Country costs 87612 dollars. The 23 minute color film features President Johnson and his native Texas and was shown overseas during a news conference after a questioner sought its cost.
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Washington
UPI
US Information Agency
USIA
Johnson
Texas
Five Die In Hoosier Traffic
Five people died in Indiana traffic incidents on Wednesday elevating the 1966 toll to at least 992. Victims include Steven Dantic a 15 year old Indianapolis cyclist struck by Thomas F. Cairns. Darrell Michaels 14 of Jaypool hit on a Kosciusko County road. Gerald Robertson 18 of Hope rear ended by Ottis Meadows. Roy Russell 33 of New Trenton crushed by a state highway department truck. and Delbert Philippe 65 of Waldron killed when his car hit a train.
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Indiana
Stven Dantic
Indianapols
Cig
Thomas F. Cairns
Indianapolis
Institutional Life Insurance Co
Darrell Michaels
R.R. 1
Jaypool
Kosciusko
Mentone
Curtis R. Binkley
Warsaw
Gerald Robertson
Hope
Ottis Meadows
Robertson
Roy Russell
New Trenton
State Highway Department
U.S. 52
Franklin County
Greene County Council set Sept. 6 meeting on budget requests
Greene County Council members will meet September 6 to consider spending requests from county offices and begin work on the 1966 budget. The proposed tax rate is 2.09, but cuts may lower it below 1.99 as 1965 rate. Highway and court items total thousands, including repairs, fuel, signs, and juror per diems.
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Greene County Council
Oscar Kramer
Armand Jacques
William McKee
Dennie A. Bays
Charles E. Bedwell
Frederic Sloan
Highway Department
Greene County
Greene Circuit Court
Four Tennessee Men Questioned
Greene County sheriff's office says three state police brought four Tennessee men to Bloomfield jail for questioning after stops at Worthington businesses seeking drugs without prescriptions. Ages 19 to 31, held overnight then released. Driver Leon D. Linder, 22, Chattanooga, found guilty of carrying a pistol without a permit and speeding. weapons found in the car.
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Greene County
Leon D. Linder
Chattanooga
Tenn
Richland Township
Justice of the Peace Court
Humphrey Sees Viet Ballot Victory in South Vietnam
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey told the Jewish War Veterans convention that the Viet Cong will lose in South Vietnam's upcoming election and that the Vietnamese vote will reflect democracy. He tied the ballot to broader American concerns, defended war expenditures, and noted the U.S. is reducing the federal deficit.
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Atlantic City
N.J
UPI
Hubert H. Humphrey
Humphrey
Jewish War Veterans of the
U.S.A
South Viet Nam
U.S
Constituent Assembly
Viet Nam
Southeast Asia
America
Nine County Mental Health Programs Set
Westville Indiana officials from Porter LaPorte Lake Elkhart Jasper Marshall Newton Starke and St Joseph will join legislative candidates at Beatty Memorial Hospital for a program on mental retardation. Attending groups include the Indiana Association for Retarded Children and the Indiana Mental Health Association.
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Westville
Ind
Indiana
Beatty Memorial Hospital
Indiana Association For Retarded Children
Indiana Mental Health Association
Counties
Porter, LaPorte, Lake, Elkhart, Jasper
Marshall, Newton, Starke
St. Joseph
Linton Resident Aaron Gentry Dies at 49
Aaron Raymond Gentry 49, manager of the Cine theatre in Linton, died at 11 15 am at Freeman Greene County hospital after an overnight admission. A World War II veteran and longtime Linton resident, he belonged to Elks Lodge 866 Masonic Lodge 560 American Legion Post 22 and First Methodist Church. He was born February 17 1917 in Warrick County to Charles and Laura Polk Gentry and married Lilan Lynch Gentry on June 4 1940. Survived by widow two daughters JoAnn and Barbara Keller two sons John Evansville and Tom Linton one sister and one brother and two grandchildren. Burial at Welch and Cornett Funeral Home pending.
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Aaron Raymond Gentry
Cine Theatre
Linton
Freeman-Greene County
Elks Lodge
Masonic Lodge
American Legion Post
First Methodist Church
Warrick County
Charles
Laura Polk Gentry
Lilan Lynch Gentry
JoAnn
Barbara Keller
John
Evansville
Tom
Trophia Elizabeth Ramponi
Salinas
Calif
Welch and Cornett Funeral Home
Indiana State Fair Opens Sesquicentennial Edition
The 1966 Indiana State Fair opens Friday with a yearlong observance of the state’s 150th anniversary. Exhibits showcase progress in agriculture industry and education since 1816, with Hoagy Carmichael, Perry Como, the King Family and others performing. The 11 day program includes auto and harness racing, parades, contests, the Young America Fair, international displays, and daily themed days from Indiana Day on Aug 26 to Labor Day Sept 5.
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Indianapolis
UPI
C. Melvin Young
State Fair Board
Gary
Evansville
Terre Haute
Richmond
Hoagy Carmichael
Star Dust
King Family
Perry Como
Fess Parker
Daniel Boone
Tommy Steiner
Wil
Indiana
Armed Forces
Farmers and Future Farmers
Fox Stake
Steel
Barrow
Two Bicycle Mishaps Reported in Linton
Greene county emergency unit responded to two bicycle accidents in Linton. At 1 p.m. Wanda Warner 38 fell after a dog crossed her path and was transported to Freeman-Green County Hospital. At 1 45 p.m. Jerry Cross was thrown over handlebars at A and Second Street and treated at a local clinic for facial injuries.
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Greene County
Leon Hubble
Wanda Warner
Linton
Jerry Cross
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