Crowds Roam Jackson County Fair Grounds for Big Thursday Event
Thousands gathered at the Jackson county fair grounds near Brownstown for Thursday programs as Farm Bureau day boosted attendance. A heavy crowd filled grandstands for horse pulling and harness racing with winners named from Indiana towns. Page 7.
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Jackson County
Indiana
Igrounds
Brownstown
Farm Bureau
Harness Cay
Charlies Whisman
Arora
Walford Buchanan
Eway
J. D. Allman
Downstown Rl
Herman Man
Butlerville
T. J
Hay Trucks Overwidth Cleared At U S Route 31 Check
Authorities halted a load of baled hay from the north to the drought affected south as 17 hay trucks were found over width during a weight check east of Amour. In total 26 drivers faced charges or court summons from the Seymour state police post after a five hour probe.
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Ates
U. S. Road 31
Amour
Cpl
Ack Curry
George Loy
Harry Meillin
John Sime
Seymour
Indiana
Seymour City
Justice of the Peace Courts
Seven In Area Buy $50 Wagering Tax Stamps
A Seymour man and six others in the area are listed as purchasers of $50 Federal wagering tax stamps for the 1952 1953 fiscal year per the Associated Press. The buyers include Dallas Hubert Thomas of Seymour and Boaz Demaree, Robert B. Johnson, H. Bryce Shultz, Dolphin L. Williams of Columbus, and Russell Van Blaricum and Thomas Castor of North Vernon.
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Seymour
Associated Press Today
Dallas
Hubert Thomas
North Pine Street
Boaz Demaree
Robert B. Johnson
H. Bryce Shultz
Dolphin L. Williams
Columbus
Russell van Blaricum
Thomas Castor
North Vernon
Dr T E Conner Dies Noted Jackson County Physician
Dr Thomas E Conner 79 of Freetown RI Houston died at his sister’s Louisville home after two months illness. A longtime Jackson County clerk and physician of 47 years he served as county health officer and was active in Democratic politics. Funeral at Voss Mortuary with Masonic rites at Riverview Cemetery.
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Thomas E. Conner
Freetown
Houston
Amy Abraham
South Third Street
Louisville
Conner
Jackson County
Voss Mortuary
Riverview
Clearspring Lodge No
Kurtz
Dr. Conner
James F
Lucy P. Wilson Conner
This County
Indianapolis
Eleanor M. McClelland
Indiana University Medical School
Southern Indiana Gold Medal Calf Show Monday
The 14th annual Southern Indiana District Gold Medal Calf Show will be held in Loogootee Monday August 11. Over 200 calves meeting Hoosier Gold Medal gains are to be shown with participation open to all state exhibitors. Cooperating groups include Loogootee Lions Club Indiana Livestock Breeders Association B O Railroad Carnahan Manufacturing Purdue University Extension Vocational Agriculture teachers and county agents. The event starts at 9 o clock CST and the public is invited.
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Southern Indiana
Loogootee
W. P. Stall
Jackson County
Wallace Borders
Indiana
Loogootee Lions Club and Businessmen
Indiana Livestock Breeders Association
B & O Railroad
Carnahan Manufacturing Company
Purdue University Animal Husbandry Extension Department
Vocational Agriculture Teachers
National Guardsmen Near Close of Fifth Post War Training
Indiana National Guard's 38th Infantry Division including Company B 138th Tank Battalion near end of fifth annual post war training at Camp Grayling Michigan. Final day Friday then depart home stations across Indiana Saturday. Training featured overnight bivouacs and Army Field Forces tests across infantry tank engineers anti aircraft and artillery units.
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Indiana National Guard
38Th Infantry Division
138Th Tank Battalion
Camp Grayling
Mich
Michigan
Indiana
Army Field Forces
District Legion Meeting Set Here
Seymour hosts the ninth district American Legion meeting at Post No. 89 on Second and Walnut Streets at 8 p.m. Saturday August 9. Orrin Nowlin of Versailles is expected to appoint officers and committees for the coming year and outline district Legion activities. Legionnaires from all posts are invited. spouses will be entertained.
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Seymour
Ninth District
The
American Legion
Orrin “Red” Nowlin
Versailles
Second
Walnut Streets
Nowlin
Ninth District Legion
Legion
Local Man Joins Roanoke on Seven-Week Midshipman Cruise
Naval base Norfolk Va. light cruiser Roanoke sailed with 1500 midshipmen from 24 colleges for a seven week cruise to Northern Europe and Cuba. Among the crew is damage controlman second class Russell L Montgomery, son of Mr and Mrs Lloyd Montgomery of Seymour Indiana. The voyage includes stops at Antwerp Belgium Lisbon Portugal and Guantanamo Bay Cuba.
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Naval Base
Norfolk
Roanoke
Europe
Cuba
Russell L. Montgomery
USN
Lloyd Montgomery
Seymour
Indiana
NROTC
Liberty
Antwerp
Belgium
Lisbon
Portugal
Guantanamo Bay
Weather Readings for Seymour Official and Unofficial
Official maximum and official minimum temperatures recorded for Seymour, with a 2 PM downtown unofficial thermometer reading. Readings are sourced from Mrs. Ruth Eversart government weather observer, reflecting river level at 1.5.
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Seymour
Ruth Ever- Sart
Withdrawal from GOP slate opens county race
The entry notes that candidates for county offices in the November 4 general election may withdraw by September 1, with parties allowed to fill vacancies. Dr Willis A. Brown of Seymour has withdrawn from the Jackson County coroner race on the Republican ticket, leaving Dr L E Shaver of Brownstown unopposed on the Democratic ticket unless Republicans fill the vacancy before the deadline.
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Willis A. Brown
Seymour
Jackson County
Joe W. Goss
Brown
L. E. Shaver
Brownstown
Red Parking Lights Lead to Youth Citations in Collision
Dale Maschino 20 of North Vernon cited for displaying red front lights after a two car collision on U S Route 50 near Seymour. Maschino swerved to avoid a pass, striking Robert Hall 21 of Seymour R2. Damages totaled about 130 dollars.
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U. S
Seymour
Dale Maschino
North Vernon
William Eckstein
Maschino
Robert Hall
John Sime
Hall Auto
Mrs Munden to Teach In North Vernon Schools
Mrs Curtis Munden has accepted a first grade teaching post in North Vernon city schools, starting with the 1952 53 term. She previously taught nine years in the Clara D Carter School second grade in Jackson township.
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Curtis Munden
East Tipton Street
North Vernon
Munden
Clara D. Carter
Jackson Township
Paula June Sierp
Alfred Sierp
South Walnut Street
Former Local Man Active in Talks Over Railroad Strike
Lawrence W. Horning, former Seymour resident and NY Central vice president of personnel and public relations, led the company’s talks in New York City over the past three days with railroad union officials. Union leaders seek a conference with president William White to avert a strike east of Buffalo.
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Lawrence W. Horning
Seymour
New York Central Railroad
New York City
Hornung
Associated Press
New York
William White
New York Central
Buffalo
Adlai Urged To Hit Hatchet Men
Senator Blair Moody of Michigan urges Governor Adlai Stevenson to make the hatchet men around Dwight D. Eisenhower a campaign issue. Moody names Senators McCarthy Kenn Johnson and Jenner and invites Stevenson to start his drive with a Labor Day address in Detroit, echoing Truman in 1948.
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Springfield
Blair Moody
Michigan
Adlai Stevenson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Moody
McCarthy
Wisconsin
Kenn
Missouri
Jenner
Indiana
Stevenson
Detroit
Truman
Eisenhower
Millard Alwes Begins Air Force Basic Training at Lackland
Airman Millard Alwes, 20, son of Mr and Mrs Elmer Alwes Seymour Indiana, is completing his basic airmen indoctrination course at Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio. The program assesses aptitude for a future Air Force vocation and prepares him for technical training and specialized assignment.
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Lackland Air Force Base
Texas
Millard Alwes
Elmer Alwes
West Jackson Street
Seymour
Ind
Air Force
Lackland
San Antonio
Air Force Base
Human Resource Research Center
Air Force Technical
Rain saves some crops as drought lingers in the South
Rain across New England and parts of the South brings relief for corn tobacco cotton and vegetables still suffering from drought. Government loans aid Farmers Home Administration says relief is available while prices rise and some rural trade slows. List of disaster areas expands to 10 states and 44 Missouri counties with Okla homa and Texas carried over from 1951 drought.
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Associated Press
New England
South
Missouri
Department of Commerce
North Carolina
Arkansas
South Carolina
Tennessee
Alabama
Georgia
Kentucky
Mississippi
Massachusetts
Maine
Oklahoma
Texas
Atlanta
Hungarian Athletes Withdrawn From Olympics Story
Stockholm's Nyheter reported nine Hungarian Olympians refused to return home and sought refuge in western cities after Helsinki sources failed to confirm the tale. Rechecks by Nyheter and AP found no basis for the report, and the story was pulled from the edition.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Helsinki
Nyheter
Associated Press
Hungary
Finnish-born mill worker ordered deported under McCarran Act
Carl A Latva, a 49 year old Wendell New Hampshire mill worker born in Finland, who joined a Communist party membership in 1934 to help a strike, was deported by Federal Judge Charles E Wyzanski Jr. The judge said Latva paid 50 cents and heard nothing more, and must leave for Finland despite his two Navy veteran sons. Latva lamented his immigration status and love for the country as his family faces separation.
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Boston
Wendell
N. H
Charles E. Wyzanski Jr
Carl A. Latva
Finland
Wyzanski
McCarran
Latva
U. S. Navy
Two Columbus Women Back in Indiana Prison for Vagrancy
Gietta Carmer and Hester Ann Jarvis, both from Columbus, were jailed in Indiana on vagrancy charges after failing to pay a $60 fine. They had helped two men escape from Jackson county jail at Brownstown last December and were previously released after six months for aiding the two men in the jail break.
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Columbus
Jackson County
Brownstown
Indiana Woman's Prison
Gietta Carmer
Hester Ann Jarvis
Clermont
Smith A. Garries
Hayden W. Dowers
Kelso Fleetwood
Seymour
Truman Hints Extra Session On Price Controls
President Truman said he may call an extra session of Congress to push for a stronger price control law and will decide after further developments. He declined to comment on reports that Ellis Arnall plans to resign as price stabilizer, noting Arnall recently carried his resignation for September 1. Admin sources say the President is reluctant to see Arnall depart and would try to keep him in the post.
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Truman
Congress
Washington
Ellis G. Arnall
Arnall
White House
Steel Strike Halts Arms Production By 25 Million Man Days
A Defense Mobilization report to President Truman by John R. Steelman estimates 25 million man-days of work lost in the steel strike. Idle time rose to about 1.4 million workers across steel-using industries before the 54 day dispute ended.
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Washington
Defense Mobilization
Truman
Defense
John R. Steelman
Steelman
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National Guardsmen
T Tribune
Leigh Peters
Melvin Peters
Marjorie Hallow
Victor Hallow
District Legion
GOP
Nyc
Adlai
Dillard Lasseter
Farmers Home Administration
Tribune
Henry Fountain
Fountain Hereford Farm
Jackson County Fair
Jackson County Fairgrounds
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