U S releases uranium for peacetime use
President Eisenhower announced a U S plan to release 40 000 kilograms of uranium 235 for atomic reactors and research at home and abroad as part of the atoms for peace program The move aims to bolster peaceful nuclear power while limiting military use and excludesAdassia and allied nations from overseas access
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Washington
United States
Eisenhower
Thomasville
Soviet Bloc
Adassia
Great Britain
Kremlin
U.S
Henry M. Jackson
Dash
Thomaseer
Greene County Board Redraws Six Precinct Boundaries
The Greene County Board of Commissioners met at Bloomfield courthouse and adjusted boundaries for Precincts 12 through 17 to equalize voter counts and reduce clerical staff needs in Precinct 15 Stockton township. Three viewers Joe Poe Sr Perry Poe and Lee Richardson were appointed to review a Wright township Lattas Creek road closure petition.
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Lintuen
Greene County Board of Commissioners
Bloomfield
Stockton Township
Lattas Creek
Wright Township
Joe Poe Sr
Linton
Perry Poe
Jasonville
Lee _ Richardson
Greene County
Switz City Soldier Finishes Mount Fuji Training
Specialist Harold E. Phegley of Switz City completes a winter training program on Mount Fuji Japan. A supply clerk in the 1st Cavalry Division 8th Regiment he entered service in 1953 and arrived in the Far East in 1954. He is a 1952 Switz City High School graduate.
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Mount Fuji
Japan
Harold E. Phegley
Alpha Phegley
Switz City
Phegley
1St Cavalry Division
8Th
Army
Fort Leonard Wood
Far East
Switz City High School
Brazil man killed by fire at his home in Brazil Ind
Brazil Ind authorities continued the investigation into the death of 54 year old Gilbert Melvin Danhour a day worker who died when a fire destroyed his three room home Tuesday night He lived alone four miles east of Brazil and officials have not determined the cause of the fire.
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Brazil
Ind
Gilbert Melvin Danhour
Joseph Johnson Dies at 79 in Jasonville
Joseph T. Johnson 79, a retired farmer of Jasonville route one, died at 7:15 p m Wednesday at home after a heart attack on January 14. Born in Illinois February 1877, he moved to Greene County in 1912 and later to the Jasonville area. Survived by son Joseph Johnson Jr and brother Jess Johnson of Lockport Illinois. Funeral set for 2:00 p m Saturday at McClanahan Funeral Home with Rev. William Simpson. burial in Pleasant Grove Cemetery south of Linton.
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Joseph T. Johnson
Jasonville
Mr. Johnson
Illinois
Greene County
Linton
Vicksburg
Johnson
Ivy Johnson
Joseph Johnson Jr
Jess Johnson
Lockport
McClanahan Funeral Home
William Simpson
Pleasant Grove
Rosa Altha Dunning
Freeman-Greene County Hospital
Dunning
Edmond
Nellie Moore Woolf
Robert E. Dunning
Delbert E. Myers
Europe Cold Wave Toll Rises Across Nations
The death of a 14 month old Portuguese infant in a haystack fire in Fafe raised Europe’s cold wave toll to 828. Reports from 17 countries list deaths by country, as freezing gales from Russia sweep Western Europe. Snow blankets the Atlantic coast and Italian landslides cut roads and destroy a bridge, mill, and power plant near Modena. A methane gas truck crash near Vicenza killed two.
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London
Fafe
France
Italy
Germany
Yugoslavia
Britain
Denmark
Belgium
Portugal
Sweden
Austria
The
Netherlands
Spain
Switzerland
Greece
Turkey
Norway
Finland
Russia
Europe
Atlantic
Modena
Vicenza
Eisenhower Plays Second 18 Holes In Two Days
In Thomasville Georgia President Eisenhower completed his second 18 holes of golf in as many days. His physician Maj General Snyder said he seemed to be improving though he hit across the ball and he noted knee discomfort not seen in years. The president rode in an electric cart for most of the round.
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Thomasville
Eisenhower
L Eisenhower
Howard McC. Snyder
West Point
Central Indiana Forecast: Snow and Rain Tonight
The local weatherman expects a brief break from the cold with rising temperatures. Tonight central areas may see snow with rain in the south, and north regions to stay around the mid-30s to low 40s as the system moves through Friday.
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Indiana
South Bend
Fort Wayne
Evansville
Indianapolis
Optimistic forecast amid Pacific Northwest storm damage
Forecasters expect partial clearing in Oregon and Washington with intermittent rain and snow in northern California. The storm left at least eight dead and caused severe flood damage. Oregon Governor Elmo Smith warned Grant Pass devastation could be three or four times worse than the December January floods. Brownsville saw 1.60 inches of rain as Gulf moisture spread across the southern Plains and Mississippi Valley. Snow dumped seven inches on Grangeville Idaho, while Dakota and Minnesota temperatures rose 10 to 30 degrees above zero.
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Pacific Northwest
California
Oregon
Washington
Elmo Smith
Grant Pass
Brownsville
Texas
Rio Grande Valley
Plains
Gulf of Mexico
Mississippi Valley
Idaho
Grangeville
Dakotas
Minnesota
Beverage funds totaled 24031 received in 1955 for Indiana
Greene county reported 24031.24 in alcohol license fees and gallonage taxes for 1955. Sullivan county totaled 19936.83. State distributions totaled 5848236.59 across three branches, with 2113510.96 returned to cities and towns, 2677965.59 allocated per capita, and 1056760.04 to schools. An additional 6106395.48 was diverted to the Postwar Construction fund.
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Greene County
Walter P. Weyland
Indiana Alcoholic Beverage Commission
Sullivan County
Weyland
Alcoholic Beverage Commission
Auditor of State
General Assembly
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
State Budget Committee
Commission de
Payrolls Rise 42 Percent in Linton Retail Sector
New York reports Mounting business activity in Linton retail stores with 129 establishments recording 1954 sales of 9,291,000 up from 6,817,000 six years earlier. Payrolls advanced 42 percent to 366,000 while employment reached 416. East North Central states rose 33 percent. U S overall 28 percent.
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New York
Linton
Census Bureau
United States
Hattie Carnegie Dies at New York
Hattie Carnegie, 70, an Austrian immigrant who helped put New York on the world fashion map, died Wednesday after a long illness. She designed women’s clothing from elite society outfits to the WAC uniform and a Carmelite nun’s habit. Born in Vienna, she moved to the U S as a teen and rose from poverty to fashion prominence with Rose Roth, whom she partnered with after starting a shop in 1909.
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New York
Hattie Carnegie
WAC
Miss Carnegie
Vienna
United States
Macy's Department Store
Rose Roth
Miss Roth
Brazilian Rebels Leave River Port at Belem
Air Force rebels abandoned Santarem on the Amazon River, giving the port to loyal officers who had held them captive. Rebel Maj Haroldo Veloso, who boasted of leading 5000 men and an improvised armored force, fled into the jungle as loyal amphibious units closed in.
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Belem
Brazil
Santarem
Amazon River
Haroldo Veloso
Month Old Baby to Lose Unusual Molar
New York report of a 1 month old baby named Robert Riddle Clinton expected to lose a molar the earliest known case. Doctors noted front teeth appear after birth but a molar at this age is extremely rare. The father, Robert Clinton, said the tooth loosened two weeks after birth and he worried the baby might swallow it.
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New York
Robert Riddle Clinton
Robert Clinton
Clinton
Negro Boycott Parade Planned in Montgomery
A prayer gathering near Montgomery aims to fuel a mass march through city streets in protest of arrests tied to the 11 week old racial boycott. Rev Abernathy says about 10 000 Negroes may assemble after tonight. The event follows the December 5 start of the boycott sparked by Rosa Parks’s arrest and expanded to protest seating rules and segregated transit.
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United Press
Montgomery
Ala
R. D. Abernathy
Rose Parks
Abernathy
Montgomery County Grand Jury
Linton Residents Return From Moody Founders Week
Four Linton residents Dr. and Mrs. 5. M. Cornell Miss Donna M. Cottrell and Missarah M. Pope returned home after attending the Moody Bible Institute Founders Week conference in Chicago Illinois. Christian leaders and laymen from across the nation and foreign countries gathered for the 50th annual event marking Dwight L. Moody's birth anniversary. Since its founding Moody Bible Institute has educated about 59 00 men and women over 69 years.
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Linton
Moody Bible Institute
Chicago
Ill
5. M. Cornell
Donna M. Cottrell
Missarah M. Pope
Dwight L. Moody
Mrs Ocie Fitzpatrick Admitted In Lin ton Hospital
Mrs Ocie Fitzpatrick of Lin ton is admitted to Freeman Greene County Hospital in serious condition today.
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Ocie Fitzpatrick
Linton
Freeman- Greene County Hospital
Infant Dies After Birth in Owensburg
Infant son of Mr and Mrs Leonard Vincent Owensburg died last night in Freeman Greene County Hospital a few hours after birth.
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Leonard Vincent
Owensburg
Freeman-Greene County Hospital
Reports Eisenhower Run Rumors Face White House Pushback
Thomasville Georgia reports and Washington chatter claim President Eisenhower will seek a second term. White House aides insist no decision has been made and announce to the public will come from the President, not GOP leaders.
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Thomasville
White House
Eisenhower
James C. Hagerty
New York
Washington
Hagerty
Sherman Adams
GOP
Leonard W. Hall
Adams
Hall
Dent Eisenhower
Georgia
Thomasville Plantation
190 Sudanese Die in Black Hole Case Riots
Khartoum reports 190 Sudanese cotton farmers suffocated after being jammed into a 20 by 65 foot ward at an army barracks in Kosti. Officials say autopsies confirm suffocation as the cause of death among 334 prisoners.
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Khartoum
Sudan
Cot
White Nile Tenants League
Kosti
Goda Agricultural Cooperative
White Nile
Tenant League
Calcutta
India
Police Issue Final Warning for Speeding in Town
Linton police issued a final warning to motorists speeding along North Main Vincennes Vincennes streets A Street and Fifth Street northwest. One driver reportedly used the traffic signal at H and North Main as a center for a game of ring around the rosie this week. Conviction for speeding violations would bring fines.
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Linton
North Main Street
Vincennes Street
Fifth Street
North Main Streets
Indiana Toll Fatalities Rise in Early 1956
Indiana State Police report 147 people killed on state and city roads from January 1 to February 19, 1956, up from 118 in the same period in 1955. Rural collisions accounted for 114 deaths and additional crashes occurred in urban areas.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Eisenhower Brother Predicts President Will Run Again
Earl Eisenhower stated in La Grange Illinois that he has no inside information but believes President Eisenhower will seek a second term. He spoke Wednesday night expressing his personal opinion on the matter.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Srothers
Earl Eisenhower
la Grange
Ill
Jasonville Lions Plan Leap Year Ball for Gals
Members of the Jasonville Lions club plan a Leap Year ball at the K of P hall. The event reverses dating norms with women issuing invitations for the Lions Club Leap. Proceeds fund the annual Easter egg hunt.
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Jasonville Lions Club
K. of P. Hall
Jasonville
Lions Club
Jasonville Lions
Dick McBennell
Wie Liens Elu
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