City Budget Measures Get Second Readings
Seymour city council held second readings on three ordinances setting salaries for 1969 employees, approving budgets and a $3.24 tax levy. Total expenditures rise to 1,719,037.22 with savings found in department transfers. Nearby issues included traffic signage and railroad crossing improvements. Five Boy Scout merit badge candidates attended with Mayor Laupus welcoming them.
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Neal Green
Seymour
Elder Bobb
Charles L
Board of Aviation Commissioners
Raymond Corbin Jr
Second
North
O’brien
U. S. 50
John M. Lewis
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
Boy Scout Troop 528
Central Christian Church
Don Hallett
Tony Sweet
Mike Hill
David Terrell
Rickie Schleibaum
Tom Haley
James L. Laupus
Local Group Seeks Cable TV Franchise in Seymour
A Seymour Cable Television Corporation proposal was presented at the city council meeting seeking a franchise for cable TV. Officers listed are Thomas R. Haley Robert E. Luecke and Russell Williams. The six channel plan includes two educational channels weather and up to six FM signals with a possible emergency system. Cost estimates propose about 30 000 for the tower 150 000 to 300 000 for equipment and 4 000 per mile for coaxial installation with a 5 monthly service charge.
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Seymour
Seymour Cable Television Corporation
Thomas R. Haley
Robert E. Luecke
Russell Williams
Indianapolis
Marion
Harvard William Nolting, Jr
Seymour Group
Haley
July Police Report Details Seymour Activity
Seymour city police logged 426 calls in July and investigated 41 traffic accidents. The month saw 13 injuries across 10 personal injury crashes and 18 arrests on 20 charges, with a single city traffic fatality reported the prior year. Property damage topped $17,510.
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Seymour City
Robert Gill
Heaviest Mekong Delta Battles Kill 151 Viet Cong
U S and South Vietnamese forces report 151 Viet Cong killed in four battles near Saigon with 15 Americans killed and 30 wounded. The 9th Infantry Division and allied units launched a wide sweep north and south of Saigon, capturing 13 prisoners and 36 weapons as remaining enemy fled. Government raids uncovered a munitions cache near Tan Son Nhut. two Vietnamese drivers for US commands were arrested amid sabotage probes.
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Saigon
U. S
Mekong
U. S. 9Th Infantry Division
9Th Division
Americal
Long An
Tan Son Nhut Air Base
Pentagon East
Tan Son Nhut
Office Closure Notice for Dr. Robert L. Peden
The office will be closed from August 11 to August 18 for a scheduled break under the supervision of Dr. Robert L. Peden. Regular operations resume on August 19 with return to full service.
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Robert L. Peden
Weather records for Seymour show noon 67 unofficial
Downtown Seymour noon temperature listed as unofficial while other readings from Ruth Everhart at Rockford are official. Recorded figures include 79 high and 51 low with river stage at 7 am 8.4 feet and sunset at 7:44 pm EST and sunrise at 5:56 am on Wednesday.
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Seymour
Ruth Everhart
Rockford
Funds Set For Flood Damages In Indiana
Farmers in Jackson and 25 other Hoosier counties may apply for federal flood relief funds with 12 600 allocated to Jackson County. Programs cover cropland shaping, stream banks, drainage systems, debris removal, sod waterways, terraces, and fence restoration. Federal share is 80 percent. crop damage is excluded. funds target land damage only.
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Jackson
Hoosier
Jackson County
Rural Utilities Meeting Tonight
An organizational meeting of the Rural Water Association, Inc., will be held tonight at 7 30 p m in the council chambers at the city building. Members of any utility funded through the Farmers Home Administration are invited to attend. The association plans to seek exemption for FHA funded utilities from gross income tax before the 1969 Indiana General Assembly.
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Rural Water Association, Inc
Farmers Home Administration
Indiana General Assembly
Police Abandon Watts Command Post After Daybreak
In Watts Los Angeles police ended a 24 hour saturation patrol at Alain Locke High School dawn. Three men died and 48 injured in Sunday night violence with 35 arrests. fires caused $35 000 damage to a quilting plant nearby.
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Los Angeles
Watts
Alain Locke High School
Will Rogers Park
County Welfare Seeks 22.5 Cent 69 Tax Levy
Stanley E. Owen announced a 22.5 cent Levy to raise 133 233 direct tax to fund estimated 1969 public welfare expenditures of 462 370. With a 59 213 630 valuation, this rate would fund 28.8 percent from local taxes and 71.2 percent from state and federal sources. Recipients total 416 in 1969, up from 411, with 145 dependent children and other categories listed.
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Stanley E. Owen
Jackson County Department of Public Welfare
County Council
Tax Adjustment Board
State Tax Board
Public Welfare Service
County’ Welfare Board
State Department
State Welfare Board
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U. S. Treasury
Dudleytown
Tribune
Ind
Joe Darlage
Gary Wischmeier
Scott Sales and Service
Brownstown
Plummer Sales and Service
Ronnie Stahl
Kevin Burbrink
Salem
Steven Klinge
Richard Vondielingen
Boyd Peters
Jim Brackemyre
Rural Utilities Meeting
103Rd Street
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