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Linton Daily Citizen

Location

Linton, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Jun 18, 1976

Page

3

Violence Rips Through South Africa Suburbs and Townships

In three days of rioting sparked by clashes over Afrikaans language teaching, at least 58 people are dead and 778 wounded. Racial violence spread from Soweto to white suburbs like Sandton and to six black townships and universities in Natal and Johannesburg area. Police imposed bans on public meetings. some campuses were attacked and burned while polices used gunfire and arrests neared six to eight hundred.

Johannesburg South Africa UPI Polce Soweto Zululand University Natal Brig. J. Visser Alexandra Boksburg Ngoye University of Zululand Empangeni

Park Attracts Big Crowd in Humpreys Park East Linton

Humphreys Park on Highway 54 in East Linton draws visitors nationwide. The park, run by Mr. and Mrs. Bob Settle with Leo O Bara aid, offers shelters picnic tables playgrounds courts and bandshell. The Fourth of July week is the peak period with concerts and carnival activity as volunteers maintain clean facilities and paint park buildings.

Humphreys Park Highway 54 East Linton United States Linton Bob Settle Leo O’bara CETA Flo Settles Settles O'Bara

Pony Express Bicentennial Race Starts Across Two States

Utah and California governors launch a re enacted Pony Express challenge with 79 California riders and 39 Utah riders racing 756 miles from Salt Lake City to Sacramento. Commemorative mail pouches carry 500 pieces as riders endure desert sections and crowds observe in Salt Lake City and Sacramento.

Salt Lake City UPI Troy Austin Main St Austin Pony Express Sacramento Calif Utah Cal Rampton California Edmund G. Brown Jr Scramento California State Horseman's Association Weber County Sheriff's Mounted Posse Nevada Tribune

California Scout Leader Named Acting National Chief Scout Executive

Harvey Lee Price, 61, of La Canada California, longtime BSA executive, was named acting national chief scout executive of the Boy Scouts of America. He replaces Alden G. Barber who resigned May 1. Price has 39 years in scouting and will lead until a permanent chief is chosen. He hails from Fort Wayne Indiana and has served in Dallas, Waco, Oklahoma City, San Francisco, and Oakland before settling in Los Angeles in 1968.

Harvey Lee Price la Canada Calif BSA Los Angeles Area Alden G. Barber Arch Munson Jr San Francisco Price Fort Wayne Ind Uniondale Dallas Waco Tex Oklahoma City Oakland Los Angeles

County claims listed for Greene County Commissioners meeting

Greene County Board of Commissioners will consider claims at a special meeting on Monday June 21 1976 at 10:00 AM in the Court House Commissioners Room. The list includes numerous individuals and businesses such as Moody's Automotive Bloomfield Auto Supply Ellis & Co Switz City Water Work Stello Products Fitchs Auto Electric Rollison Lawn & Garden Curtis Noel Corp and others with individual amounts noted.

Greene County Board of Commissioners Commissioners Room Court House Ovid Herald Richard Gregg Hilary Buckley Jeri Whaley Cyril Luther Nat Horn Bernard Calvert Willard Sherman Charles Keller Silas Jackson Roy Norris Robert Wilson Steve Smith Loren Bays Garry Powell Russell Landis Danny Schulz Carl Killian Samuel Hill Harold Combs Renos Scott William Reed Willie Davis Doris A. Rowe Curtis Hall Chester Powell William Bredeweg John Himebrook Charles Meier Dennis Lind Henry Harstine Moody’s Automotive Bloomfield Auto Supply Ellis & Co Wilson Building Supp Advance Supply Co Ralph Rogers & Co Stello Products Dvisi Smithville Telephone Switz City Eastern Heights Utility Fasco Hardware & Automotiv Fitch’‘s Auto Electric Rollison Lawn & Red Curtis Noel Corp A. & B. Equipment Co Mechanics Laundry & Wean Bee Federal Franklin E. Foley Bettie L. Hasier Donl K. Craig Marvin W. Johnson Chester L. Miller Roger W. McIntosh Robert J. Neal Valis D. Bingham Gary M. Corbin Marsha Walton Norman F. Sullivan Chevyl Neidigh M. Lynn Corwin Eskel Beasley Robert Lee Neal Thelma Tryon David D. Rotman Pauline Bays Raymond L. Saude Mary Jo Smith Richard R. Murray Juanita Campbell Paul C. Burris Ricki Pickard Jerrell L. Burch IBM Corp Robert L. Lorimer Danny Lowder Jerry D. Barger Oaklene Mcintosh William H. Ketchem Joy Stone Robert Don Brinson Maxine Ramsey Stephen W. Hash Shirley Pullen Gerald A. Swinney Patsy Ann Swan William J. Ketchem Orval C. Byers Harry Young Bill Collins Al’s Michael Holtsclaw Wolfe’s Melvin Biggs Amoco Oil Co David West Hasler Oil Company Greene County Court Clint A Bohley Mineweld Co. of Indiana Maurice Haag Dyna Med, Inc Indiana Tell Telephone Eastern Fire Dept David Holt Earl W Joan C. Worthington Judy Krueger Federal Revenue Sharing Ann Parkes County Court Pauline Bedwell James B. Sparks Sandra Stonehill Dianna Long Ida Wright Delbert Pounds Deronda Fish Welfare Phyllis Moehlmann James J. Riester Paul Noel Wanita Wheeler John Sutphin John Bogan Emily J. Johnson Frank Todd C.E.T.A Bloomfield Jerry L. Sullivan Arthur B. Inman Marjorie Byers Donna Goad Paul Barnard Jerry Barger David Gaither John Cary Johnny R. Burris Garry Dean Gregory Roudebush Russell Ewers John B. Owen James Falk Paul Penna James Hartsburg William Ketchem Peoples Gas & Power Co Merle Kayton Danny Orr van Carnegie Terry Sims Western Auto Store Gene Waskom Bradfield Landscaping Brenda Cochrane Edwin B. Long Carol Condor Billie J Fitzpatrick Mary Gainey Andrew Bennie Teresa Guthrie Ruth D. Owen Karen Hagaman Gina Alexander David Lifford Stephen Michael Dennis Miller Paul Norris James Rawley Bobby Richardson John Smith Dennis Turner Cecil Waddell Thomas Wools Robert York Homer F. Donagher Shirley Ault Velva Hudson Mary Mann Deborah McCraney William Pearson Lessalee Pickard Thomas Strange Lawrence Ailmose George Anderson Jerry Carmichael Donald Flanigan Ernest Hill Wayne Jones Fredrick McClure Norman Miller William Pilk Kenneth Roach Thomas Robinson Delbert Vowell Gary Webb Xerox Corp Health Dept M.S. Mount Mary Aice

Appropriations being sought in Greene County Indiana

Taxpayers are told a 1:30 p.m. July 1 1976 meeting will consider additional appropriations for County General Election Registration and related charges. Final action goes to the State Board of Tax Commissioners with a hearing for objections. Also notices a Greene Circuit Court sale of three eight wheel trailers on July 26 1976 at 10:00 A.M. at the Bloomfield courthouse third party.

Greene County Indiana State Board of Tax Commissioners Punty State OF County OF Greene Greene Circuit Court John Daniel Ax George Jones Bloomfield United States

Vincennes Opens Five-Week Bicentennial Festival

Vincennes Indiana will inaugurate a five week Bicentennial Festival with a Saturday ceremony led by Governor Otis R Bowen. A three planting event at Vincennes University marks the start, featuring a Hoosier tree from the five states once carved from the Northwest Territory. A parade with 200 units opens the festivities in a town founded as Fort Sackville, site of George Rogers Clark’s Revolutionary War victory and a national monument.

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