Rites for Bloomfield Father and Son Planned
A coroner's inquest will be held for Freeland Edwards 79 and his son Paul 47 of Bloomfield after their bodies were found. Investigators say the father was shot and beaten, the son likely killed himself with a shotgun. Funeral services are set for Saturday in Bloomfield.
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Freeland Edwards
Paul Edwards
Bloomfield
Greene County
Delmar Hasler Anneimerd
Lee Edwards
Paul
James O. Smith
Joe Feeney
Mr. Edwards
Edwards
Lee
Jenkins and Sons
Eugene Harwell
Grand
Weeks rejects talk of imminent economic bust
Secretary Weeks said the United States is not remotely close to a bust and opposed wage and price controls. He aligned with President Eisenhower on voluntary restraint and denied plans for inflation brakes, contrasting with Humphrey and Hoover who warned of a tailspin if inflation continues.
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Wasitngton Ap
Eof
Weeks
United States
Treasury
George M. Humphrey
Hoover
Humphrey
Eisenhower
Four Greene County youths inducted into the Army
Four Greene county youths have been inducted into the U S Army, announced by the county Selective Service Board. Inducted are Dallas Ray Miller Springville, Charles Ebron Crowe Jacksonville, James Russell Bogard Bridgeport, and James Howard Hollingsworth Linton.
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U.S. Army
County Selective Service Board
Bloomfield
Army
Dallas Ray Miller
Springville
Charles Ebron Crowe
Jasonville
James Russell Bogard
Bridgeport
James Howard Hollingsworth
Linton
Mrs Rebecca Chapman Returns Home From Hospital Stay
Mrs Rebecca Chapman returns to her home here after a seven week patient stay at Robert Long Hospital in Indianapolis.
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Rebecca Chapman
Robert Long Hospital
Indianapolis
Hoosier Heat Wave to Persist Into Midweek
The five day forecast shows above normal temperatures across Hoosierland through next Wednesday with highs from 35 to 46 and lows near 19 to 27. Rain or drizzle will total about a quarter to three quarters of an inch, mainly Sunday and Tuesday, with scattered showers elsewhere from the Pacific Coast to the Great Lakes.
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Hoosierland
Weather Bureau
South Bend
Fort Wayne
Lafayette
Eoansville
Evansville
Baker
Ore
Pacific Coast
Central Plains
Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes
Southern Plains
South Atlantic
Stores to Stay Open Across Greene County
The Greene county courthouse will be closed all day next Tuesday February 12 in observance of Lincoln Birthday. Most other businesses will operate as usual while the three Greene County branch offices at Linton Jasonville and Bloomfield remain open. The Daily Citizen will publish as usual and post offices follow the normal schedule. Auto license branch offices remind the public that the 1957 plate deadline is March 1.
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Greene County
Linton
Jasonville
Bloomfield
Daily Citizen
Governor Attacks Guard Ruling as Military Dictatorship
Alabama Governor James E. Folsom denounces an Army order requiring six months training for National Guardsmen as a step toward a military dictatorship. He warns such a regime could be overthrown only by bloodshed and accuses the Defense Department and Budget Bureau of downgrading the Guard while pushing reserves under Pentagon control.
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Washington
U.P
James E. Folsom
Alabama
Folsom
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
House Armed Services Subcommittee
Detroit Mystery Sniper Nabbed After Three Hour Rampage
Gary A. Taylor, 21, a factory worker, confessed he felt an urge to shoot at women. He wounded two, fired at seven others in four suburbs during a three hour spree before being captured in Royal Oak. The case linked to a Dec. 22 jolt when a woman was shot in the back.
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Detroit
Gary A. Taylor
Royal Oak
Taylor
Oakland County
William Lang
Mishawaka Man Killed as Car Breaks Apart on US 33
Joseph Wachs twenty two of Mishawaka died when his car broke apart at high speed on US 33. Debris struck two houses and the vehicle crashed into a porch of a third house, throwing him from the car.
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Mishawaka
Joseph Wachs
U.S. 33
Here
Wachs
Car overturns kill 17 year old in Indiana crash
Marvin Gillie, 17, Petersburg, died after a tire blew and a car overturned on Ind 57 north of Somerville. Five others injured in the crash late Thursday night. Also noted Culver Military Academy received a $50,000 gift in memory of Bertram B Culver of St Louis and Hanover College to host author and economist Stuart Chase February 14 on “Guides to Straight Thinking.”
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Princeton
Marvin Gillie
Petersburg
Ind
Somerville
Culver Military Academy
Bertram B. Culver
St. Louis
Culver
The
Culver Educational Foundation
Hanover IP
Stuart Chase
Hanover College
Dowell Faces Murder Charge Over Indianapolis Shooting
Indianapolis police say Gil liam Dowell 39 surrendered Thursday night and admitted shooting Dorothy Marshall 39 during a struggle for a gun. Marshall suffered fatal injuries in the incident.
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Indianapolis
Gilliam Dowell
Dowell
Dorothy Marshall
Three Runaway Teens Captured After River Chase
Three teenage boys who fled from the children's Aid Home Wednesday were found in custody after wrecking a stolen car and swimming the river. Police tracked them to near Centreville, Michigan, ending the escapade.
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Mishawaka
Children's Aid Home
Athe River
Centreville
Mich
Peru Chamber Forms Light Plant Committee
The Chamber of Commerce organized a Light Plant Committee to tackle Peru’s power problem after a Wabash River flood knocked out a pumphouse and caused a city wide power shortage affecting Peru and parts of Miami County.
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Peru
Chamber of Commerce
Miami County
Wabash
Rattay baby dies in Mercy Hospital blast
Linda Rattay one year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Andy Rattay dies in Mercy Hospital after an explosion and flash fire. Six other family members are injured.
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Garyip
Linda Rattay
Andy Rattays
Mercy Hospital
Russellville Boy of 12 Killed in Indiana Crash
Raymond D. Whitlock, 12, of Russellville, was killed when his car swerved to avoid a truck on Ind. 43, two miles south of Crawfordsville. His parents Roy, 38, Betty, 31, and sister Donna Sue, 11, were injured and admitted to Culver Hospital.
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Crawfordsville
Ind
U.P
Raymond D. Whitlock
Russellville
Here
Roy
Betty
Donna Sue
Culver Hospital
Indiana Senate debates right to work bill in labor panel
Indiana Governor Crawford Parker urged the Senate Labor Committee to advance the right to work bill for a floor vote as the panel neared a split decision. A House companion bill and other labor measures, including minimum wage proposals, faced uncertain prospects amid partisan tension and procedural moves in both chambers.
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Indianapolis
U.P
Crawford Parker
Senate Labor Committee
Indiana
Parker
Senate
Wendell Martin
House
Labor Committee
Consors
Senate Caucus
Jane Bainbridge
Munster
State Highway Department
Birch Bayh
West Terre Haute
George Diener
Bayh
Red Cross Kick-Off Set for Feb 11 in Bloomfield Library
A county wide kick-off meeting for the 1957 Greene County Red Cross fund raising campaign will unite chairmen and township, town, and city captains at 7:00 PM Monday February 11 in the Bloomfield Public Library basement. County Red Cross fund chairman Harvey Hannah announced plans to finalize arrangements for the annual drive.
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Greene County Red Cross
Bloomfield Public Library
Harvey Hannah
County Red Cross Fund
Ile
Hoosier Expelled By Soviet Officials
Fort Wayne educator-father says his son Captain Paul R. Uffelman 31 Fort Wayne and Lt William S. Lewis Guthrie Okla were ordered from the Soviet Union as spies after an incident in Leningrad January 26. Uffelman served in the Marines and Korean War. embassy protests noted.
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Fort Wayne, Ind
Usdp
Russia
Paul R. Uffelman
Fort Wayne
William S. Lewis
Gutherie
Okla
Leningrad
Uffelman
F. W
Paul
Lewis
Affleman
U.S
Moscow
PostmasterNominations Include Herman Funkhouser
President Eisenhower submitted 227 postmaster nominations to the Senate for confirmation on Thursday. Herman Funkhouser of Hymera is listed among the nominees.
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Washington
Herman Funkhouser
Hymera
Eisenhower
Senate
Alumni Group Elects Officers at Greene County Meeting
Indiana University athletic director Dr. Frank Allen spoke at the Greene County University Alumni Association dinner in Linton Stockton Elementary School. Officers elected for 1957 are Wayne Wakefield president How ard Stein vice president and Miss Norma Linton secretary.
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Frank Allen
Indiana University
Greene County
The
University Alumni Association
Linton-Stockton
Association For 1957
Wayne Wakefield
Linton
Howard Stein
Bloomfield
Norma Linton
Don Pope
J. Earl Bales
Bob Maas
I.A. Alumni
Indianapolis man faces one year for heroin conspiracy
Alfred Nunley, 23, of Indianapolis, pleaded guilty in federal court to unlawful conspiracy to purchase and sell heroin and was sentenced to one year in prison. His wife Jean, an expectant mother, received a three year suspended term and probation on the same charge.
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Indianapolis
Alfred Nunley
Jean
Ben Gurion rejects Eisenhower withdrawal demand
Premier Ben Gurion in Tel Aviv rejected the U S call for Israeli withdrawal from all Egyptian territory and said there could be no further retreat. Israel maintains its Gaza Strip and Aqaba Gulf area despite U N sanctions and deadlocked withdrawal talks with Dag Hammarskjold.
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United Nations
Eisenhower
Ben Gurion
Reeply
Israel
Tel Aviv
Gulf of Aqaba
U.N
Foreign Ministry
Walter Eytan
Gaza Strip
Aqaba Gulf
Eytan
Dag Hamarskjold
Tsraeli
Apba S. E
Jerusalem
Woman Sentenced For Bank Embezzlement in South Bend
Mrs. Magdelene Morene of South Bend, 40, was sentenced to five concurrent five year terms for embezzling 13132 from the St Joseph Bank and Trust Co. She pleaded guilty to five counts covering 1953 to 1956 and cried as Judge W Lynn Parkinson pronounced the sentence and ordered imprisonment at Alderson Federal Reformatory for Women in West Virginia.
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South Bend
Ind
Magdelene Morene
St. Joseph Bank and Trust Co
Moreno
Federal Reformatory For Women
Alderson
W. Va
School Lunch Menus Announced for Next Week
Mrs. Joe Lowe announced next weeks school cafeteria lunches. Monday features Sloppy Joe on bun with buttered hominy and salad. Tuesday offers meat loaf with mashed potatoes fruit jello and white cake. Wednesday serves beef steak cottage cheese salad plums corn bread. Thursday presents hamburger with spaghetti buttered peas carrots and brown bread. Friday includes vegetable soup with crackers egg salad sandwich pears and chocolate milk.
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Joe Lowe
North Korean Tax Pressure Targets Unmarried Women
Seoul Shinmun reports the Communist authorities in North Korea are imposing heavy taxes on unmarried women to coerce marriages with Chinese soldiers. The move appears aimed at boosting troop numbers and reinforcing border forces amid regional tensions.
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Seoul
Ipp
North Korea
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