Local reader letters and retirement fund questions in Greene County
Readers discuss Mine Run heritage and a Marine corporal from Linton thanking the Citizen. A Milford reader champions Linton football hero Catchy Oliphant and cites Purdue magazine remarks. another piece analyzes how 7 percent savings affect reaching 50000, 59000, or similar targets amid inflation and pension concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayne Reed
Milford
Michiigan
Linton
Purdue
Perry Williams
Whch
Elmer O'phant
Rose Pay
Reed
Oliphant
Greene County
Congress
Mezzanine Cooling System Installed at Delaware Park Grandstand
The enclosed mezzanine level off Delaware Park's grandstand is cooled by air conditioning equipment with a 1000 ton capacity, enough for 350 homes.
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Stanton, del
UPI
Delaware Park
Housing Board Elects Officers In City Hall Meeting
The Public Housing Board elected Norman Singleton as chairman Sherman Anderson as vice chair and Tom Wall as secretary at its first meeting in city hall. Members include Jesse Correll John Yaw with City Attorney Bill Hendren and architect Sherwn Troy reviewing housing project steps and next meeting set for January 9.
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Public Housing Board
Linton
A. M. Risher
Norman Singleton
Sherman Anderson
Tom Wall
Jesse Correll
John Yaw
Bill Hendren
Bloom!eld
Sherwn Troy
Martha Bressler
Indianapolis
Hendren
Troy
Chicago
Department of Housing
Martha Dressler
William Hendren
Sherwin Troy
Harold Harbin
Speck Trial Moved to Peoria Courthouse
Richard Speck will be tried in Peoria Illinois at a new $3 million courthouse for eight nurse killings in Chicago. Judge Herbert C Paschen ordered the move after defense claims of unfair Chicago-area proceedings. The Peoria site was chosen after surveys noting its distance from Chicago media markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoria
Ill
UPI
Richard Speck
Chicago
Cook County Criminal Court
Herbert C. Paschen
Speck
Gerald Getty
Paschen
Trio Jailed After Wreck At Lyons
A car carrying Mitchell Carter 21 Billy Clark 23 and Patricia Clifton 15 crashed at Lyons at 2 15 am total wreckage but no injuries were reported. Carter faces reckless driving and false registration charges while the runaway girl Clifton is held in Greene County jail awaiting her parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Lyons
Gene Gestineau
Mitchell Carter
Highway 67
Billy Clark
Patricia Louise Clifton
Grand Rapids
Mich
Greene County
Bloomfield
Carter
Miss Clifton
Soviet Chief Gets Cold Reception In Turkey
Soviet Premier Alexei N Kosygin arrived in Ankara for a seven day state visit to Turkey amid jeering crowds. Turkish demonstrators booed and tossed Hungary memorials at the motorcade signaling discontent with Soviet actions in Budapest 1956.
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Turkey
Ankara
UPI
Russia
Alexei N. Kosygin
Kosygin
Suleiman Demirel
Sibhiye Square
Hungary
Budapest
Kizilay Square
Anatolian
Plane Crashes Into Elkhart Home In Snowstorm
Elkhart Indiana pilot Harry George Howell 61 from Cincinnati survived a crash when a twin engined plane struck the kitchen of Mr and Mrs William Henley as it on approach to Elkhart Municipal Airport. The aircraft owned by Consolidated Metal Corp was a total loss with $10000 home damage.
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Elkhart
Ind
UPI
Harry George Howell
Cincinnati
William Henley
Henleys
Howell
Consolidated Metal Corp
Johnson orders Taft Hartley report on Kokomo strike
President Johnson appointed a three man board to advise on ending a six week strike at Union Carbide Kokomo. If the report is negative, a Taft Hartley injunction could halt the strike for 80 days. Defense work accounts for about two thirds of the firm’s contracts, says E R Behnke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kokomo, Ind
UPI
Union Carbide Corp
Johnson
Defense
E. R. Behnke
Kokomo
County Official Reported Fair
William McKee a 76 year old county councilman suffered a heart attack while attending a Greene County Council meeting at the courthouse in Boomfield. He was rushed to Freeman Greene County Hospital in Linton and is listed in fair condition at noon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William McKee
County
Counclman
Greene County Council
Boomfield
Freeman-Greene County Hospital
Linton
McKee
County Council Approves Requests for Greene County
Greene County Auditor Mil on Bogard notes the county council approved all requested appropriations at the monthly meeting in the court house at Bloomfield. Election expenses were allowed including inspector salaries 310, clerical assistants 249.80, mileage 34.89, printing 104.98, room rent 50, delivery of machines 695.72, highway department 2000 for bridge repairs, and 26000 from the accumulated bridge fund for Brewer Ditch on Marco Linen road. This was the last planned meeting of the county council for the year.
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Greene County
Bogard
County Council
Court House
Boomfield
Highway Department
U.S. Scientists Trigger Massive Nevada Nuclear Test
In PAHUTE MESA Nevada UPI reports U.S. scientists set off one megaton underground thermonuclear device. Ground zero lifted six inches to a foot while Las Vegas area felt shock waves seconds later. Beatty and Beatty Exchange Club were evacuated with signs swayed and antennas bent.
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Pahute Mesa
Nev
UPI
United States
Las Vegas
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Exchange Club
Beatty
AEC
Arctic
Novaya Zemla
U.S
Linton Council Holds Special Session on Year End Golf Claims
The Linton city council met in special session to approve year end golf course claims with proper signatures. They reviewed maps for the waterworks improvement project and voted to recall the federal grant application as amended. Attending were Robert Moss Robert Walters Jack Cravens Cork Treasurer Harold Harbin and Mayor A M Risher. Ora McCollister and Les Bailey were absent.
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Linton
Robert Moss
Robert Walters
Jack Cravens
Cork
Harold Harbin
A. M. Risher
Ora McCollister
Les Bailey
Protest in London Draws Four Hundred Youths
About 400 youths paraded through crowded central London on Sunday in a peaceful anti-Vietnam demonstration led by protesters known as the peace movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Protest Vietnam
London
UPI
Trucker dies as Indianapolis gasoline crash sparks probe
A three pronged investigation opened into Monday's fiery gasoline tanker crash on 38th Street in Indianapolis. Trucker Orval Hulley died after being severely burned. A local family of four and another man were killed, while a teacher suffered serious burns. Officials consider tanker safety revisions. Rubber bladder proposals from auto racing officials gain consideration. The crash followed a jackknife and tank rupture causing a citywide evacuation.
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Indianapolis
UPI
Orval Hulley
Marion County General Hospital
38Th St
Wallace Scheffee
Elizabeth Ann
Oaklandon
Sharon Roach
Roy G. Burris
Miss Roach
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States Auto Club
Hurley
St. Andrews Catholic School
Scheffees
Carter
Fremile
Vha
U S Planes Gamble with MIGS in Hanoi Area Clash
U S warplanes faced MIG 211s while attacking a Hanoi area petroleum dump near Ha Gia 14 miles from the capital. Bombs sparked fires darkening skies as B 52s again struck DMZ troop concentrations. No U S losses reported amid extensive raids along the Red River Valley and coast.
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Hanoi
U.S
Ha Gia
Phu Yen
U.S. Air Force
Red River
China
North Vietnam
Panhandle
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
North
South Vietnam
Monda
Shopping Center Planned East of Linton City
John R. Ax and Ralph Sprinkle announce sale of a 20 acre tract just east of Linton to a large Indiana firm for a shopping center to be built early in 1967. The project includes drug store supermarket variety and catalog outlets with large parking areas.
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John R. Ax
Ralph Sprinkle
Linton
Indiana
Plans Reported For Central Classic Basketball Night
Representatives from Bloomfield Linton Worthington and Central met to finalize details for the Central Classic at Switz City. Doors open at 6 pm with Bloomfield vs Worthington at 7 pm and Linton vs Central around 8 30 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Classic
Switz City
Richard Richeson
Guy Glover
Ralph Young
Bloomfield
Paul Brackemyre
Paul Oliphant
Linton
Tephen Campbell
Don Wells
Worthington
Homer Donagher
Larry Hasled
Central
Schiffler
Jacobs
Birge
Taberaux
Powell's Wife Fails To Answer Subpoena At Hearing
Washington reports that Yvette Flores Powell the estranged wife of Rep. Adam Clayton Powell did not appear to answer a congressional subpoena. Investigators led by Rep. Wayne Hays continued hearings on Powell's activities with word she was absent and whereabouts unknown.
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Washington
UPS
Adam Clayton Powell
Harlem Democrat
Wayne Hays
Ohio
House Administration
Powell
Yvette Flores Powell
Hoosier Marine Killed in Vietnam
The Defense Department reports Monday Marine Lance Cpl. Richard J. Hastreiter son of Mr and Mrs John W Hastreiter R R 1 Rome City Indiana was among those recently killed in action in Vietnam.
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Washington
UPI
Defense Department
Marine Lance Cpl
Richard J. Hastreiter
John W. Hastreiter
R.R.1
Rome City
Ind
Vietnam
Soviets Reject U.S. Peace Efforts in Vietnam
The Soviet Union dismissed a U S peace push as propaganda and said Washington seeks to mislead world opinion. Moscow Radio criticized U S appeals to U Thant and warned they bypass Geneva accords on Vietnam.
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United Nations, N.Y
UPI
Soviet Union
U.S
Vietnam
Arthur J. Goldberg
Thant
Moscow Radio
Washington
South Vietnam
Moscow
U.N
United States
General Assembly
Man Admits Shooting Wife and Her Mother in May
Willie Hill, 26, of Muncie surrendered to police after admitting to a neighbor he shot and killed his wife Bertha Hill, 23, and her mother Emma Garrett, 56, during a May argument. He allegedly gave the guns to the neighbor, was held on two counts of preliminary murder, and a hearing was set. The couple had two children not present at the scene.
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Muncie
Ind
UPI
Willie Hill
Hill
Bertha
Emma Garrett
Boyd Hall
Jasonville Signs Lighting Contract
Jasonville City Council met in regular session and signed a contract with Public Service Indiana for Main Street lighting installation. Four bids on a tractor-grader were received for street repair, and a special meeting was set for December 29 to close out the year and pay outstanding claims.
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Jasonville
Public Service Indiana
Main Street
Rollison Tractor Sales
Bloomfield
J and J Farm Sales
Sullivan Tractor Sales
Sullivan and Ferris
Worthington
Jasonville City Hall
Lewis McQuery
Gene Inman
Robert Austin
John Wilkes
Jack Ridinger
Don McNabb
Janice Enstrom
Inman
Terre Haute Newsman Named to Myers Staff
Republican Rep. John T. Myers of Covington named Terre Haute journalist Ronald Hardman as press secretary and legislative assistant. Hardman, a DePauw and Indiana State alumnus, previously worked for WTHI-TV and Terre Haute Star, served in the Army, and will join Myers in Washington after Christmas for the January swearing in. He spoke of rededicating efforts toward an honorable peace in Southeast Asia.
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Covington
Ind
UPI
John T. Myers
Terre Haute
Ronald Hardman
Greencastle
Hardman
DePauw
Indiana
Wthi-Tv
Germany
Myers
Washington
Southeast Asia
Construction Worker Killed as Ditch Collapses
In Westfield Indiana Phillip Toney Jr. 41 a construction worker was killed Monday when a two foot ditch collapsed. Fellow worker Ralph E. Martin attempted to uncover him and struck Toney in the head with equipment.
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Westfield
Ind
Phillip Toney Jr
Fantfort
Hamilton County
Toney
Ralph E. Martin
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