Government Reports Gain in Employment Item
Washington reports May employment up 1.2 million and unemployment down 200,000 to 4.904 million with the seasonally adjusted jobless rate at 7.2 percent. Manufacturing shed 67,000 jobs as durable goods hit hardest. overall May total employment reached 64.1 million amid gains in agriculture, services, and construction.
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Southern Baptist Mission Revival Near Linton Begins June 9
A series of revival services will be held at the Southern Baptist Mission 39 Sixth Street Southeast Linton starting Monday evening June 9 at 7 30 every night Rev Graham Roberts will deliver the messages and Rev Truman Yates of Hutsonville Ill will lead the song services at each session The revival continues nightly through the week with Roberts as preacher and Yates directing songs.
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Linton
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Hutsonville, Ill
Underhill Jericho fire dept asks residents to wait after alarm
The Underhill Jericho fire department urged residents to wait at least 15 minutes after hearing an alarm before calling the station for the fire’s location. Fire Chief Maitland Root said calls tied up lines and delayed assembling volunteer firefighters.
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Underhill
UPI
Underhill-Jericho
Maitland Root
Smiley Receives Navy Promotion to Electronics Technician First Class
Bob E. Smiley of Bloomington has been promoted to Electronics Technician First Class in the U S Navy. He serves aboard the submarine US Toro at New London Connecticut. He lives at 386 Walker Hill Road Groton with wife Effie Mowery and son Brent. prior to enlistment in October 1954 he worked at the RCA plant in Bloomington.
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Bloomington
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Gary
James R. Smiley
Toro
New London
Conn
Walker Hill Road
Groton
Effie Mowery
Linton
Brent
Ibefore
Navy
Smiley
RCA
De Gaulle Presses End the War Campaign in Oran
General Charles de Gaulle arrives in Oran on the final day of a North Africa tour. He pushes for peace under Muslim equality while facing rejection from the Algerian National Liberation Front and rising domestic opposition from far right elements in Algiers. He plans a Paris cabinet meeting to review the Algeria crisis and broader North African tensions.
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Paris
Fourth Republic
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Bone
Morocco
Indiana Weather Fluctuates Across 55 Degree Span
UPI reports Indiana temperatures swung 55 degrees in 12 hours from a Thursday high of 93 to a Friday morning low around 38 to 55 in Evansville. Indianapolis 86 Thursday, 40 South Bend, 44 Fort Wayne lows. Five day outlook calls for mild, variable temperatures with scattered showers and no major extremes.
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Hoosierland
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Indianapolis
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South Bend
Democratic Women to Host Speaker Thomas Lemon in Greene County
Thomas Lemon, Democratic candidate for Seventh district congressman from Bloomington, will be guest speaker at the Greene County Democratic Women's club meeting at Humphreys park shelter house on Wednesday evening. A 6 30 p m covered dish dinner will be served and attendees should bring their own table service. All candidates urged to attend. P H O'Hern, newly elected county chairman, will introduce the candidates and speaker.
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Bloomington
Greene County
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Humphreys Park
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Two Hymera youths charged in Jasonville Linton burglaries
Jasonville and Linton thefts spurred state and local police hunt. Douglas Marshall 15 and Ronald Haviland 16, both of Hymera, face Greene circuit court charges after breaking into Brewers Package Liquor in Jasonville and multiple tavern burglaries in Linton.
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Oscar Suthard
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Joe Feeney
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Sullivan County
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Radioactive Rain Reported Near Pacific Testing Zone
Moscow Radio said a Soviet expedition ship reported radioactive rain 1800 miles west of a U S atomic testing base. The Vityaz recorded radioactivity May 23 with a May 29 peak several hundred times normal, during IGY observations north of the Caro line Islands. No immediate crew illness reported.
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Kress Named Trustee of Saron United Church of Christ
Reverend Harold Kratzat reports Jack Kress has been appointed trustee of the Saron United Church of Christ by the consistory. Walter Freund previously held the trustee role at the time of his death.
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Jack Kress
Saron
Defense Links GOP Leader to Road Scandals in Indiana Trial
The defense said it will try to show 11th District GOP Chairman H Dale Brown promised witnesses to secure testimony damaging to Elmer W Sherwood and others in the highway bribery case. Juror selection continued as prosecutors accepted seated jurors while defense struck two more, delaying a verdict.
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UPI
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Indiana
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Sherwood
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James Rocap Jr
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GOP
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Handley
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Linton merchant Pete Olinger found dead with gunshot wound
The body of P. R. Pete Olinger, a retired Linton merchant, was found near a pond in southeast Linton. Police say the death was a gunshot wound from a rifle found beside him, likely occurring earlier today, with funeral plans pending. Survivors include his widow and son Jack.
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Bob Hemmerling
Mike
Bob
P. R
Pete” Olinger
Greene County
Olinger
Delmar Hasler
Coroner Returns Verdict In Fatal Shooting Here
Fort Knox Kentucky coroner reports a verdict in a fatal shooting case. Pvt Marvin L Garrett 23 son of Mr and Mrs E E Garrett Pine Top Arizona completed an eight week parts supply course at the Army Armor Training Center Fort Knox. Garrett entered the Army December 1957 and is a 1953 Jasonville High School graduate.
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AHTNC
Marvin L. Garrett
E. E. Garrett
Pinetop
Ariz
Army
Armor Training Center
Fort Knox
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Jasonville High School
Senate Is Expected To OK Foreign Aid Changes Studied
The Senate likely will pass a 3.713 billion foreign aid authorization bill before recess, with amendments debated after a near midnight session. The House overrode an Army strength proposal and committees prepared testimony from Dulles and McElroy as lawmakers sought defense funding and labor reform measures amid ongoing investigations into a publishing venture and a fatal shooting in Indiana.
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Washington
UPI
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Eisenhower
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John Foster Dulles
U.S
Neil H. McElroy
Senate Appropriations Committee
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Raddock
William L. Hutcheson
D Day Anniversary Observed At Omaha Beach In Normandy
Living crowds gathered on torn Normandy beaches to honor American British and French soldiers who died in the 1944 invasion. U.S. and British embassy attaches joined locals as memorials unfold on Omaha and Utah beaches with a French English inscription recalling June 6 1944. Next year ceremonies shift to British beaches Sword Juno and Gold.
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UPI
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Utah
Church of Christ in Cass Plans Gospel Meeting
The Church of Christ at Cass announced a gospel meeting from Sunday June 15 to June 22 inclusive. M F Cottrell of Terre Haute will speak each evening starting at 7 30. The public is invited to attend for singing and lessons from the word of God.
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