Farm Bureau Day Celebrated At Jackson County Fair
Farm Bureau Day at the Jackson County Fair featured a Pet Parade by Farm Bureau families. Arthur M. Rucker opened with the Wallonia High School band performing the national anthem. Judges included Mrs. Nierman and Mrs. Luedeman as youngsters displayed pets from rabbits to llamas. Eddie Ernest won in the pre school group with his dog and cat aboard a wagon.
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Pet and Hobby Club
Farm Bureau
Jackson County Fair
Bobby Klosterman
Gary Bobb
Eddie Ernest
Henry Bobb
Washington Township
Donald Ernest
Jackson Township
Donald Frederickson
Brownstown Township
Fairground
Arthur M. Rucker
County Farm Bureau
Gerald Hummerickhouse
Wallonia
Rucker
Herman Frischie
Albert Nierman
Harry Luedeman
Harry Pettit
Russell Vaught
Lovett Township
Jennings County
Eddie
Sandy
Petey
Dennis Holle
Vicki Pottschmidt
Tommy Emmons
Michael Pollett
Bobby Joe Kellermeier
Nickie Hubbard
George Rieckers
Mark Patman
Nancy Hackman
Donnie Frederickson
Michael Rittman
Barbara Lucas
Michaelee Frederickson
Brownstown
Susie Q
Doris Rieckers
Tommy Hallow
Judy Roberts
Gary Kellermeier
Roger Pollett
Vivian Kellermeier
Nelda Hubbard
Connie Sue Rotert
Glenda Ruth Peters
Rita Goecker
Janice Wischmeier
Danny Bobb
Wayne Dickmeyer
Bobby Turn
Stolen Flares Threaten Night Drivers on East 10th Street
Police report repeated thefts of safety flare pots on East Tenth Street, where night workers warn deep sewage project craters. Three flares were stolen earlier this week and two on Thursday night, endangering motorists and causing potential wrecks valued at twenty five dollars each.
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East 10Th Street
Don Milner
Bock and Knapp Construction Company
East Tenth Street
Bock
Knapp
First Baptist To Host Park Service
Dr Kenneth L Swank pastor of the First Baptist Church will deliver the message at a Sunday night union worship service at 730 pm in the shelter house at Shields Park The First Baptist Church serves as host church for the community service Miss Norma Barkman organist opens with a piano prelude followed by a choral call to worship directed by Robert M Taylor minister of music Other Seymour Ministerial Association ministers expected to participate in the worship service The congregation will be led in the hymn Stand Up For Jesus Announcements and the offertory will follow
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Kenneth L. Swank
First Baptist Church
Shields Park
Norma Barkman
First Baptist Church Choir
Robert M. Taylor
Seymour Ministerial Association
Jesus
Governor Hands Jackson County Fair Speech Opens 1958 Event
Governor Harold W. Handley hails Indiana fairs before the grandstand at the Jackson County Fair in Medora, praising 4-H participation and inviting residents to the State Fair. The program included parade honors for 4-H members, livestock judging, and remarks by fair board member Richard S. Robertson.
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Jackson County
Harold W. Handley
Indiana
Marcia Cummins
Jackson County Fair
Peggy Aiken
Betty Pollett
Gov. Handley
Handley
Richard S. Robertson
Fair Board
Unemployment Drops in United States in July
The government reported July unemployment fell by 143 000 to 5 294 000 while employment rose 198 000 to 65 179 000. The jobless rate climbed to 7.3 percent from 6.8 percent in June, with manufacturing payrolls down 23 000 to 15 165 000 and overall mood seen as unchanged in July by Weeks and Mitchell.
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Gov't
Washington
Hoffa Helped Racketeers Obtain Hotel Workers Union Charter
Philadelphia Hotel and Restaurant Workers Local 41 received a charter in 1956 amid intimidation charges and debt totaling about 23,000. Witness William Brennan, Pennsylvania labor leader, testified Hoffa aided the racketeers tied to Sam Feldman while Brennan led a failed drive against them.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
James R. Hoffa
Philadelphia
William J. Brennan
State Federation of Labor
Brennan
Senate
de Hoffa
Chicago
Paul
Ricca
William Brennan
Sam
Shorty) Feldman
Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union
International
State Council
Nuclear Sub Nautilus completes first trans polar undersea voyage
President Eisenhower announced at a White House briefing that the nuclear submarine Nautilus has completed history’s first submerged transit beneath the Arctic Ocean from the Bering Sea to the Greenland Sea. Cmdr. W. R. Anderson, 37, of Waverly Tennessee, led the crew. The voyage opens a potential submerged sea route for future cargo submarines.
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Washington
United States
White House
Eisenhower
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Bering Sea
Greenland Sea
North Pole
Cmdr
W. R. Anderson
Waverly
Tenn
Miller Noted as Sewer Delinquent At City Board Meeting
Menlo Miller of 826 South O'Brien Street was incorrectly listed as having failed to connect to the city sewer within the 90 day deadline. Miller connected to the system several months ago.
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Menlo Miller
South
O'Brien Street
Board of Works
Miller
U N Mideast Showdown Opens Emergency Session
The United Nations General Assembly begins an emergency special session on the Middle East in New York. The session, called by a unanimous Security Council vote, will defer real business until next week and may see the Soviet Union move to seat Communist China in place of the Chinese Nationalist delegate.
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United Nations
N.Y
U.N. General Assembly
Middle East
Soviet Union
Communist China
Special Assembly
Security Council
U.S
United Arab Republic
Lebanon
Jordan
Inquiry Probes Bribery Taint in 1955 Indiana General Assembly
Internal Revenue agents pursue evidence of bribery tied to a north south toll road fight during the 1955 Indiana General Assembly. The Star notes bribe reports emerged after promoters sought $10 million in state funds to back toll road bonds, a bid that failed.
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Indianapolis
Internal Revenue
Indiana General Assembly
Indianapolis Star
The
Star
Internal Revenue Bureau
Sterling M. Dietrich
the Star
Toll Road
Claypool
House
Weather Report for Seymour Officials and Unofficial Reading
Official and unofficial weather readings for Seymour noted. The 4 p.m. temperature comes from downtown thermometer and is unofficial while other readings are from Ruth Everhart, government weather observer, and are official. Precipitation trace. River at 7.1.
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Seymour
Ruth Everhart
Trace River
Gromyko to Lead Soviet Delegation to Middle East Session
Moscow radio announced Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko would head the Soviet delegation to the Middle East crisis emergency session. Valen tine Zorin Arkady Sobolev and Arkady A Sobolev named as members. Sobolev urged troop withdrawals while Lodge urged broad political economic measures. Khrushchev's Peiping visit cited as context for summit talks and Western push for a heads of government meeting.
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London
Moscow Radio
Andrei Gromyko
U.N. General Assembly
Middle East
Valentine Zorin
Arkady Sobolev
Arkady A. Sobolev
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Thirteen Year Old Driver Injured In Soap Box Racer Crash
A thirteen year old Seymour R4 driver named Steven Albert Seibert suffered a deep gash on his right leg when his soap box racer crashed while descending a hill. He received seven stitches at Schneck Memorial Hospital after the right wheel stuck, causing the accident.
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Steven Albert Seibert
Schneck Memorial Hospital
Steven
X Ray Of The City Budget Juggling Appropriations
The article explains public budget hearings, taxpayers' challenges, and the practice of shifting appropriations to fit tax limits. It details six funds, a $2.24 levy, and a $63,374 gap between appropriations and anticipated revenue, highlighting general fund manipulation and state examiners' oversight.
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Indiana
General
Firemen
Police
State Tax Commission
City Park
Seymour
Police Department
Fire Department
Common Council
Sanitation
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Tribune
First Baptist
Dr. Swank
Christ
Grandstand
Billy Paynter
Pekin
Paynter
Rick Meyer
Napoleon
Ind
Sonny Ates
Meyer
Ralph Piper
Rushville
Junior Speer
Dave Baldwin
Allen Barr
Columbus
Bud Montgomery
Commerce and Labor Departments
Commerce
Weeks
Labor
Mitchell
Hoffa
Holmes Thompson
Southwestern Indiana
U. N
General Assembly
U. S
Fano Casa
Gromyko
Lodge
Britain
U.N
Pierson Dixon
Khrushchev
Peiping
Macmillan
Sobolev
Indiana City
Vermont
State Capitol
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