Nine Drownings Hit Indiana Over Weekend
United Press International reports nine people drowned in Indiana during a hot weekend as families sought relief at lakes rivers and recreation areas. Victims ranged from 7 to 15 years old with several incidents on Sunday including Bixler Lake Rockport Lake Michigan and Bass Lake.
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United Press International
Indiana
Curtis Simpkins
Evansville
Rockport
Ohio River
Andrew Hayden
East Chicago
Lake Michigan
Gary
Cecil Albert Henry
R. R
Camden
Logansport
Cecil
Crash Kills Child Near Carlisle Friday
A 7 year old girl Marcia Stultz of Carlisle died from injuries after a collision Friday afternoon between a big semi trailer and a pickup on US 41 two miles south of Carlisle. The pickup was driven by Doris Stultz 28, mother of the deceased. The semi driver Julian Lankford 41 of Vincennes was not injured. Six other people were injured but expected to live.
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Carlisle
Marcia Stultz
Sullivan
Doris Stultz
Julian Lankford
Vincennes
Scandal hits Britain as PM Macmillan faces crisis
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan returns from holiday to confront a widening sex and security scandal linked to War Minister John Profumo. Fallout traces to the Cuban crisis and Soviet efforts to fracture Western unity, with Ward and Keeler central figures in the case.
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London
Harold Macmillan
Macmillan
John Profumo
Profumo
Earl of Home
Earl of Arran
London Daily Mail
Arran
Eugene Ivanov
Stephen Ward
Washington
Ivanov
Christine Keeler
Ward
Miss Keeler
News of the World
Lord Astor
Cleveden
Scotland
R. A. Butler
Martin Redmayne
Negotiators Move to Avert Nationwide Railroad Strike
Washington negotiators sought to head off a national railroad strike as a 30 day cooling off period under the Railway Labor Act neared expiration at midnight EDT Tuesday. Labor Secretary Wirtz joined talks as unions warn work rule changes could trigger a walkout on 195 railroads.
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Washington
W. Willard Wirtz
Congress
Presidential
U.S
Judge Seal Rules On Lattas Creek Conservancy District
In Greene circuit court at Bloomfield Special Judge Ralph Seal of Knox County established the Lattas Creek Conservancy District for flood prevention and control drainage improvement and soil erosion prevention after a May 23 ruling following evidence from petitioners and objectors and a site tour.
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Greene
Bloomfield
Ralph Seal
Knox
Lattas Creek
Bloomington Motorist Tagged After Wreck
Carl Edward Shields 22 was ticketed for failing to stop at a stop sign after a Sunday wreck at 5 50 pm at the intersection of Tulip Road and Tippit Mill Road five miles northeast of Bloomfield. He struck a pickup truck driven by James R Noel 37 of Bloomfield causing the bed to eject two children James Russell Jr 9 and Dianna Louise 17 who sustained cuts and abrasions and were treated at Freeman-Reenee County hospital.
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Carl Edward Shields
Tulip Road
Tippit Mill Road
Bloomfield
Shields
James R Noel
Noel
Tom Ranges
Ty Pole
James Russell Jr
Dianna Louise
Freemanreene County
Ann Toney
Guardsmen and Police Clamp Down at Alabama University
In Tuscaloosa a force of 800 police and 1700 National Guardsmen work to maintain order as two African American students Vivian Malone and James Hood prepare to enroll. Governor Wallace plans to block their entry while pledging law and order. Police arrest 15 white men and seize weapons amid tense preparations.
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Ala
wPp
National
University of Alabama
George C. Wallace
Montgomery
Wallace
Vivian Malone
Oop Hood
Col
al Lingo
Department of Public Safety
Alabama
Alfred Harrison
Ft. Benning
Harison
Autherine Lucy
Congress Schedule Shows Busy House Agenda This Week
The House plans a packed week with three major measures. An appropriations bill funding Congress operations excludes the Senate and key facilities. A second measure seeks a 456 million dollar boost to the Redevelopment Administration's ceiling. A tax extension bill would renew corporate income and excise rates for another year.
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Senate
Library of Congress
Government Printing Office
U. S. Capitol
House Natural Resources Subcommittee
Soap and Detergents Manufacturers Association
House Ways & Means Committee
Kennedy
State Revenue News on Retail Merchant Registration
The Indiana Department of State Revenue requires wholesalers manufacturers hotels motels government charitable and educational organizations to register as retail merchants under the Sales Tax Program. Application forms are available at local banks and must be filed by midnight June 14.
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Indiana Department of State Revenue
Kennedy backs no more atmospheric nuclear tests
President Kennedy announced the United States will not conduct further atmospheric nuclear tests while other nations pause. He said high level talks in Moscow with the Soviet Union and Britain will seek a general nuclear test ban treaty, with discussions starting mid July without a summit. The address at American University emphasized civil rights and urged Congress to act to protect freedom.
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Kennedy
United States
Russia
Britain
Moscow
Nikita S. Khrushchy
Harold A. Macmillan
American University
London
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Congress
Birmingham
Legislative Branch
America
Geneva
Hoffa Faces New Charges Linked to Last Trial
James Hoffa and ten others appear in Nashville federal court to answer charges of attempting to bribe jurors in Hoffa’s previous $1 million conspiracy case. Indictments allege bribes totaling at least 75,000 dollars were offered to sway jurors, with Hoffa pledging innocence. The nine week trial earlier ended in mistrial due to jury deadlock.
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Nashville
Tenn
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Frank Gray Jr
Teamsters
United States
Dong
Henry F. Buster Bell
Bronx
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Bell
Hofffa
Lawrence Medlin
Thomas Ewing Parks
Ewing King
Teamsters Local 327
Highway Patrol
Hoffin
Allen Dorfman
Chicago
Larry Campbell
Teamster Local 299
Detroit
Nichlas J. Tweel
Huntington
W. Va
Herman A. Frazier
Alfred Paden
Albert P. Cole
Nashville Banner
Owen Bert Brennan
International Teamsters
Commercial Carriers, Inc
Smathers Predicts Senate Passage of Civil Rights Bill
Senator George Smathers a Democrat from Florida predicts the Senate will override a Dixie filibuster and pass President Kennedy’s civil rights program this year. He cautioned that cloture may be hard fought. Vice President Johnson urged a total commitment to equal opportunity.
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Senate
Kennedy
George A. Smathers
D-Fla
Smathers
Mutual
Lyndon B. Johnson
Tufts University
Medford
Mass
Jacob K. Javits
Rn.w
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Shortage Found In Lake County Auditor's Accounts
Indiana report cites a $56 184 shortage in Lake County auditor Samuel E Brownsten's accounts after his death on December 28. The special audit covering 1958 to December audited by the State Board of Accounts found $53,569 in fees not reported or paid to the county general fund and $2 614 in dividends on funds that should have gone to the general fund but were deposited in surveyor trust accounts. Field examiners note no proper records were kept for Brownsten's period as auditor.
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Lake County
Grand Jury
Edwin Steers
Samuel E. Brownsten
Hammond
Brownsten
County General Fund
Surveyor Trust
Lake Cou
Orust
Bowneten
Hot Spell Named to Break Tuesday Across Indiana
A ten day heat wave that began in June was expected to ease tonight and Tuesday with a wave of cooler air. Sunday highs neared 100 in places, with Greene County hitting 94 and statewide readings ranging from the high 80s to the upper 90s. Overnight lows stayed in the 70s as showers and scattered storms lingered, and rainfall this week was anticipated mainly in the north with totals from Fort Wayne to South Bend around a half to one inch.
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United Press International
Indiana
Greene County
Elliston
White River
Terre Haute
Chicago
Evansville
Fort Wayne
Lafayette
Louisville
South Bend
Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Mercury
Hit and Run Suspect Sought After Nighttime Collision
State Police and the sheriff’s office hunt for a 1957 cream over bronze Chevrolet driver who fled after a head on crash with Jasonville youth. The suspect was stealing gas at C Calvert’s residence three miles north of Worthington on Hwy 67 when spotted by neighbors. Beadle 20 and passenger Osborn 18 were treated and released for minor injuries at Freeman-Greene County Lee.
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Jasonville
Kenny Wolfe
C. Calvert
Worthington
Hwy. 67
Billy Lee Beadle
Beadle
Kenneth Osborn
Freeman-Greene County
Lee
Ny Wolfe
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