Bloomfield pool opens as regional sites ready safe swimming
The Bloomfield pool opened last weekend amid heavy crowds along with nearby Linton Sullivan and Bicknell pools plus Shakamak. A federal housing program may help remove blighted homes in Linton, while residents are urged to claim a $6.00 state sales tax credit by June 30. Mrs. Arthur Lechien demonstrated a Gauffrette French wafer iron and shared a traditional Christmas wafer recipe.
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Bloomfield
Linton
Sullivan
Bicknell
Arthur’ Lechien
Commissioner of Revenue
Revenue Department
Senate Ave
Indianapolis
Cty
Terre Haue
Carnival Rides Set for July 4 in Linton
Ernie Allen of Allen Amusement Co plans a July 4 carnival at Humphreys Park with midway rides and concessions set on July 3 and operating after the parade on July 4. Rides stay through July 11. Parade entries are accepted at the Linton Chamber of Commerce. Kenneth Smith warns bicycle entrants prize money for best decorated bikes honoring Our 150th Year.
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Ernie Allen
The
Allen Amusement Co
Linton
Humphreys Park
Allen
Chamber of Commerce
Kenneth Smith
Chamber
Cecil Shelton Heads Linton Civitan Club Installation
Cecil Shelton was installed as president of the Linton Civitan club at a dinner at Klusmeier's dining room. Installing officer Dale Courter, candidate for international Civitan president, oversaw rites. Other officers named include Homer Donagher president elect Malcom Clippinger vice president Dr Cecil Alumbaugh vice president Richard Fields secretary Fred Place treasurer and Paul Steele Edgar Greene as directors. The program featured music by Triad and the Barbershoppers and a dinner for about eighty five members and guests.
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Cecil Shelton
Linton Civitan Club
Klusmeier
Dale Courter
Civitan
Homer Donagher
Malcom Clippinger
Cecil Alumbaugh
Richard Fields
Fred Place
Paul Steele
Edgar Greene
Ershel Miller
Midwest
Steve Stefancik
Richard Page
Kenneth Medlock
Wayne Wakefield
Carroll Wright
Triad
The
Barbershoppers
Donna Scott
Doris Thornton
Kay Barnard
Jack Shelton
Blanche Duncan
Ralph Bench
Mary Jane Bedwell
Bloomfield Opens Public Pool for Summer Use
Bloomfield’s Swimming Pool Inc opened Saturday with over six hundred guests and more than 800 on Sunday. The facility near Bloomfield’s north side operates daily from 1 to 9 p.m. and is managed by Eugene Sandburg with lifeguards Ted Carmichael Terry Glover Ronne Hull Tommie Workman David Haseman and Barbara Richeson on duty. The community project, begun last fall, relied on wide local support.
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Bloomfield ‘Swimming Pool, Inc
Eugene Sandburg
Ted Carmichael
Terry Glover
Ronne Hull
Tommie Workman
David Haseman
Barbara Richeson
Bloomfield
922 Attend Girls State honors citizen at Hoosier event
Bloomington Indiana UPI reports Vicki La Follette, 17, of New Albany was named Outstanding Citizen at the Hoosier Girls State. A total of 922 girls participated in the week long program ending with the honors day program. Runners up were Sandra Young of Indianapolis Pam Middleton of Bloomington and Leslie...
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Bloomington
Ind
UPI
Vicki la Follette
New Albany
Sandra Young
Indianapolis
Pam Middleton
Leslie
Linton Girl Enrolls In Training School
Toma Carpenter daughter of Mr and Mrs Leon Carpenter of Linton Indiana has enrolled in the Indiana College of Business and Technology in Indianapolis for machine automation as a career student. She is a Linton Stockton High School graduate who participated in many activities.
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Toma Carpenter
Leon Carpenter
Linton
Itc. 3
Indiana College of Business & Technology
Indianapolis
Miss Carpenter
Linton-Stockton High School
DePauw Receives $2 Million Ford Foundation Grant
DePauw University in Greencastle Indiana announced a 2 million unrestricted Ford Foundation grant the largest in its 129 year history The gift requires a 3 to 1 matching fund raise and Ford will start with 324000 to help meet the terms The grant was among 11 totaling 39.5 million announced by Ford in New York.
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Greencastle, Ind
UPI
DePauw University
Ford Foundation
William E. Kerstetter
DePauw
Ford
New York
Hot Dry Weather Persists Across Indiana
A spell of hot dry weather droned on unabated in Indiana with no relief expected before next weekend. Except for the far north where a weak cold front arrived, heat to continue with daily highs likely in the 90s. Few thundershowers possible today and tonight, but chances under one third and any rain would raise humidity.
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Indiana
Bond Sales Reported Higher Than Year Ago
Art Snyder of Greene County U S Savings Bonds Committee released May sales figures showing Greene County at 64531 versus 72374 last year. Statewide May sales reached 11522657, up 18.4 percent from May 1965, with 66 of 92 counties reporting gains.
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Art Snyder
Greene County U. S. Savings Bonds Committee
Beach Facilities Near Monroe Reservoir Partial by July
Officials said the new Monroe Reservoir beach facilities will not be ready for the Fourth of July weekend. Only camping will be possible at the site with no swimming permitted.
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Bloomington
Ind
UPI
Monroe Reservoir
Here
Copter Crashes Spoil Success in Viet War
In Vietnam, U S forces report new ground and air gains but a second helicopter disaster in three days kills eight. Marine units sweep north of Hue amid heavy fighting with North Vietnamese troops as Thieu pledges possible victory in 1966 if political lines align.
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Saigon
UPI
United States
Central Highlands
Juy Hoa
U.S
Hue
U.S. Navy
Constellation
Navy
Nguyen van Thieu
Mississippi Freedom March Ends After Three Week Trek
Foot weary participants in the Mississippi Freedom March begin returning home after a three week protest. Organizers say the focus is safety and preventing violence as they close the event at the heavily guarded state capitol. The march followed the Selma to Montgomery route and echoed concerns over earlier civil rights clashes.
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Jackson, Miss
UPI
Mississippi
Selma
Bedford Man Killed in Peoria Motel Shooting
Carl A. Yeager a 44 year old Bedford Indiana man was shot and killed early Sunday in a Peoria motel following an argument over money. William Ashland 34 of Midlothian Illinois admitted the shooting after police found Yeager and said Yeager tried to take 430 dollars from him. Ashland underwent surgery later at St Francis Hospital for a bullet in the left leg. Yeager used the alias Lewis and gave a Memphis Tennessee address. Ashland was at the Illinois Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention and said he carried the gun due to large cash on hand from running a bar in Midlothian.
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Peoria
UPI
Carl A. Yeager
Bedford
Ind
William Ashland
Midlothian
Ashland
Yeager
St.Francis Hospital
Lewis
Memphis, Tenn
Chicago
Hay Baler Death Shocks Indiana Farmer
Roy Brace aged 65 of Holland was killed on his Huntingburg area farm when he was caught in a hay baler on Saturday. The incident occurred seven miles west of Huntingburg.
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Huntingburg
Ind
UPI
Roy Brace
Holland
Here
Ray Singer Tapped to Lead Salvation Army Campaign
Wesley Hensley announces Ray Singer a longtime Linton resident and retired bank executive has accepted the general chairmanship of a $100000 capital funds drive for a new Salvation Army headquarters. The drive runs July and August with a campaign executive committee and a building committee outlining a new site at F and 3rd streets northwest and a Grand Theatre district campaign HQ on Ast northeast.
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Wesley Hensley
Linton Corps of the
Salvation Army
Ray Singer
Linton
Singer
Jack Wheeler
Ronald Brown
Homer Donagher
Warren Oaken
Homer Moore
Cecil Alumbaugh
Jack Cravens
Ovid Greenwood
Harold Scott
J. W. Briggs
Bernell Turpen
F and 3Rd Streets
Grand Theatre
Ast
Shirley B. Younts
State Records Bloody Weekend On Highways
Indiana logged at least 19 highway deaths over a deadly weekend raising the yearly toll to 720, with five double fatalities and a Sunday car bus crash near Palmyra killing two Louisville women. A Star reporter covering skid row was also among the dead.
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Indiana
Bobby Crutcher
Richmond
David W. Scott
Goshen
Ohio
Louisville
Indianapolis Star
Skid-Row
Alice Hornemen
Lena Ruth Towers
U.S. 150
Palmyra
Greyhound
Hornemen
Towels
Floyd County Hospital
New Albany
Area students earn academic honors across Purdue system
One thousand three hundred fifty six Purdue undergraduates earned distinguished status this spring, including eight from our area. Named from Clay City are John Bickel in industrial education Joseph Hasler in agriculture Mark Schlegel in Aeronautical engineering Donald Yegerlehner in agricultural engineering Thomas Ellis in electrical engineering and Jamie Street in home economics. Bloomfield students William Moore in science and Jamie Street also cited. Ronald Hasler from Newberry and Joseph Ellis from Jasonville also recognized for high grades and credit hours.
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Purdue University
John Robert Bickel
Jasonville
Joseph Nathaniel
Mark Owen Schlegel
Donald Lee Yegerlehner
Clay City
Thomas David Ellis
Ronald Lee Hasler
Newberry
William Michael Moore
Jamie Suzanne Street
Bloomfield
Auto Crash At Brazil Kills 1
Mrs Pauline Fall about 39 R R 1 Thorntown was killed in a head on collision on U S 40 about six miles east of Brazil. She died on arrival at Putnam County Hospital Greencastle. Mrs Ann Owens 53 Cincinnati was in critical condition at Union Hospital Terre Haute with injuries.
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Pauline Fall
Thorntown
U.S. 40
Brazil
Putnam County Hospital
Greencastle
Ann Owens
Cincinnati
Union Hospital
Terre Haute
Shawnee Cast to Stage Show at Jasonville
The Wednesday Research club of Jasonville announces a 2 p.m. Saturday July 2 program at the Jasonville gymnasium featuring a Shawnee Summer Theatre cast from Greene county. The entertainment includes ballet, fun, thrills, and races. Tickets at the door are 75 cents with all proceeds to the Jasonville Community home.
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Research Club
Jasonville
Shawnee Summer Theatre
Greene County
Johnson and Beagles Attend White House Youth Party
President Johnson joined a White House lawn gathering with 500 youths for Mrs. Johnsons beautification drive. His three beagles barked as Kim led the interruptions while Johnson urged dreams into action and idealism for conservation and air and water pollution abatement.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Lady Bird
White House
First Nations
America
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