Editorial and Local Political Preview for 1962 Greene County
Spencer Evening World notes Mrs Pat Nasser escaped injury when her car hit ice on a new bridge on highway 46 near Spencer. It previews 1962 elections in Greene County with multiple offices up including sheriff and county clerk and discusses precinct committeemen reorganizing after the May 8 primary. It also mentions a 1916 photo postcard of a four-man barn frame in Vilas and humor verse.
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Spencer Evening World
Pat Nasser
White River
Highway 46
Spencer
Bloomington
U. S
Greene County
Stockton Township
State May Assume Plans For Schools In Greene Daviess
Indiana State Reorganization committee may take over Greene and Daviess counties school plans after two years of inaction. The commission plans to hire an educator to draft county plans with local input and seeks voter approval, with 14 counties yet to submit plans.
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Greene and
Daviess
Indiana State Reorganization Committee
State Board
Greene
Davies
John B. Kohlmeyer
Commission
Monticello
Kohlmeyer
Greene County Committee
Daviess County
Greene County
Brown, Floyd
Union
Vermillion
Vigo
Wabash
Warrick
Stores Offer Extra Hours In Local Merchants Plan
Linton stores will stay open until 8 00 tonight and Saturday as part of the extra hours program. Next week shops will be open until 8 00 p m on Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday December 20 21 22 23. Santa Claus will be at his headquarters in the former Kenneys Market building North Main and A streets from 5 00 to 8 00 this evening and from 2 00 p m Saturday inviting parents to bring their children to visit during these hours.
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Linton
Santa Claus
Kenney's Market
North Main
Sylvia Driver
Dagger
Linton Merchants
Cine Theater
Forrest Coulter
Local Merchants Association
Jim Hubbell
Mikey Lee Halderman
Jimmy Lee Halderman
Wayne Magner
Berniece LeCocq
Jasonville
Mae Spice
Joyce Gentry
Fred Risher
Christine Hall
Janet Doyle
Luciel Tannehill
Donald Phillips
Marl Gah Ward
Two Couples Apply for Greene County Marriage Licenses
Two couples filed applications for marriage licenses in the Greene circuit court clerk's office at Bloomfield. The applicants are Richard H. Ferguson of Bloomfield with Doris M. Hensley of Lyons and David Howard Norman of Switz City with Judith Ann Scott of Worthington.
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Greene Circuit Court
Bloomfield
Richard H. Ferguson
Doris M. Hensley
Lyons
David Howard Norman
Switz City
Judith Ann Scott
Worthington
Submachine Gun Robbery and Guard Killed in Brooklyn Bank
In Brooklyn a two man holdup at Lafayette National Bank ended with guard Henry Kraus dead and a rookie officer saved by his badge. The robbers fled with an estimated twenty to thirty thousand dollars after exchanges of fire with Patrolman Salvatore Accordi who aided bystanders and pursued the gunmen.
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New York
WPI
Brooklyn
Henry Kraus
Salvatore Accordi
Lafayette National Bank
IESD to Go to Court To Recover Funds
Indiana Employment Security plans civil suits to recover unemployment benefits improperly or fraudulently paid. Director Lewis Nicolini said despite a low wrongful payment rate the move strengthens fraud control and speeds repayments as the attorney general’s office prepares overpayment cases to seek judgments.
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Indianapol
Indiana Employment Security
Lewis F. Nicolini
Nicolini
Indiana
Kennedys Depart For Weekend Trip To South America
President Kennedy and Mrs Kennedy fly from San Juan Puerto Rico for a three nation weekend swing to Caracas and Bogota. They will meet President Betancourt in Caracas and return to Washington before Bermuda talks with Prime Minister Macmillan.
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Washington
Kennedy
Venezuela
South America
Air Force
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Luis Munoz
la Fortaleza
Kennedys
Caracas
Bogota
Colombia
United States
Bermuda
Harold Macmillan
White House
Pierre Salinger
Richard M. Nixon
Eagles Meeting Set At Terre Haute Lodge Hall
A district meeting of the Eagles lodge Aerie No. 291 will be held at the lodge hall in Terre Haute at 8 00 PM Monday night. District chairman D P Dixon of Linton urged all members to attend in today’s announcement.
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Eagles Lodge
Aerie
Terre Haute
D. P. Dixon
Linton
Negroes March On Capitol as Police Move In
Reports say demonstrators from Southern University began a march toward the state Capitol in Baton Rouge with police reinforcements arriving downtown. Scientists credit Explorer XII with revising ideas about Earth's outer radiation belt and deem it not hazardous to manned space flight.
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Baton Rouge
Southern University
State Capitol
Washington
Tragic Colorado bus train crash claims twenty children
In Greeley Colorado a school bus carrying Auburn district students collided with the Union Pacific City of Denver train. Twenty children died and about thirteen were injured. Weld County Hospital staff fought to save four in comas as families across the farming community mourn.
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Weld County
Greeley
Colorado
Denver
Delta
Big Sandy River
Prestonburg
Auburn
Union Pacific
Brantner
Heimbuck
Paxton
Craven
Man Slays His Girl And Ends Own Life in Gary
Charles Davis aged 23 fatally hurt Mattie Marks 21 in her Gary home then robbed a liquor store, forced a motorist to drive him to Chicago, and back to Gary. He later died in Methodist Hospital after a crisis at Creswell Funeral Home where he had admitted Miss Marks.
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Charles Davis
Chicago
Davis
Mattie Marks
al Thomas
Gary
Creswell Funeral Home
Miss Marks
Methodist Hospital
Hearing Delayed for Dugger Teacher Dixon
Federal Judge Dale Holder delayed the arraignment of Dugger high school teacher George Theron Dixon for sending obscene mail. Dixon appeared without an attorney and was given at least one week to secure counsel before the case is rescheduled. Dixon was arrested last week and released on his own recognizance. A Pennsylvania letter is the grounds for the charge. The Texas Rangers grew from 52 to 62 members, the largest force since the agency’s founding 138 years ago.
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Indianapolis
Dale Holder
Dugger
George Theron Dixon
Holder
Dixon
U. S
Terre Haute
Pennsylvania
Eichmann Is Formally Sentenced to Be Hanged
Indiana recorded the highest November U S Savings Bonds sales in five years with total sales at 10,690,091 up from 9,559,344 last year, an 11.8 percent rise. Sixty-seven of 92 counties showed gains, Greene County reporting 79,324 for the month versus 59,692 a year ago.
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Indiana
U. S
E. Kirby Ashcraft
Greene County
U. S. Savings Bonds Committee
Greene County Swine Meeting Seeks Growth Support
A Greene County swine industry meeting will be held in Bloomfield on Wednesday afternoon December 20 at 1 00 pm in the Bloomfield State Bank basement. Purdue expert Jim Foster will discuss profitable swine feeding as county agent Arthur Haseman notes rapid industry growth and a 1959 swine income of about 1.5 million dollars. The Extension Service aims to help farmers adapt new research and technology.
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Greene County
Bloomfield
Arthur Haseman
Bloomfied State Bank
Jim Foster
Life and Science Department
Purdue University
Haseman
Hoosier Weather Forecast Calls For Near Normal Temperatures
United Press International reports near normal temperatures across Indiana through next Wednesday after a cold spell with subfreezing readings. The 5 day outlook shows warmer conditions in the north with 2 to 3 degree above normal readings in central and southern areas, with snow likely in Lake Michigan regions and possible Saturday snow in central and southern Indiana.
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United Press International
Hoosierland
Lake Michigan
Lafayette
Evansville
Panama Breaks Ties With Castro Regime
Panama City reports Panama severed diplomatic relations with Cuba on Thursday night becoming the second of 22 New World nations to do so within a week and the 13th in three years. The move followed Fidel Castro's speech that prompted Colombia to cut ties last Saturday.
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Panama City
Panama
Cuba
Share of Market Shrinks Whats Ahead for Coal
Washington discussion notes coal’s share fell from 89 percent to 23 percent since the turn of the century. The Bureau of Mines predicts a stabilization and rise to about 670 million tons by 1975 with 400 million in current consumption, but world events and tech advances could alter the forecast.
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Washington
Bureau of Mines
Bureau
Eee
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P. H. O’hern
Irvin Pryor
Lester Bailey
Perry McIintosh
C. L. McIntosh
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Freedom
P. J. Briley
Lester
Webster McIntosh
Clyde
IESD
Oscar Niemtschik
Whhen Kennedy
Eagles
Bulletins
Elmer Sisk
Lula Phelps
Esther Wolford
Citizen Photo
Colo
Tri
Ind
Wip
Rangers Expand
Austin, Tex
Pih
The
Texas Rangers
Firistmas
Eichmann
Jerusalem
Israel
Adolf Eichmann
Robert Servatius
Wuld
Supreme Court
Dieter Wechtenbruch
Eienmann
Supeme
Kneset
Yitzhak Raveh
Benjamin Halevi
Landau
Castro
Joseph D. Hutman
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