Special Judge Vacates Sentence in Jackson County Case
Special Judge Fred S. Matthews set aside Cecil Perry Jr.’s two to five year sentence for second degree burglary after finding the prosecuting attorney Moritz was not licensed. Perry was ordered returned to Jackson County sheriff custody and allowed to withdraw his guilty plea. A certified copy of the order was to be mailed to the Indiana Reformatory. The ruling also notes Moritz’s temporary disqualification and a special prosecutor was appointed. Judy Sutton was granted divorce and custody in a separate August trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Jackson County
Fred S. Matthews
Jennings
Cecil Perry, Jr
Seymour
Indiana State
State Reformatory
State of
Indiana
Christopher D. Moritz
Matthews
Moritz
Perry
Indiana Reformatory
Indiana Supreme Court
Judy A. Sutton
Edward D. Sutton
Jackson County Bank Votes to Increase Capital Stock
Stockholders at a special meeting voted to raise capital stock from 200 000 to 300 000 while a 50 percent stock dividend was declared for holders registered August 19 and payable by October 1. Directors also moved 100 000 from undivided profits to capital stock and 100 000 to surplus, boosting total capital and surplus to 700 000 to support deposit growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson County Bank
Board of Directors
Jackson County
Department of Financial Institutions
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Girl Hurts Foot In Indiana Crash Near Kurtz
Jo Ann Stilwell 17 of Kurtz injured with left knee and abdomen after her 1962 coach collides with a 1949 sedan driven by Noble Nowland Jr. near Kurtz on Indiana 58. Damage tallies about 900 dollars. Wet road conditions noted by Trooper Lewis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jo Ann Stilwell
Kurtz
Noble Nowland, Jr
Miss Stilwell
Schneck Memorial Hospital
Stilwell
Robert N. Lewis
Seymour Post
Freetown
Fred Harnirch
Noblesville
Dale E. Swider
Harnirch
Swider
Columbus
Ralph Stine
Seymour
Stine
Lutherans Open Workshop Here
A three day workshop for Lutheran teachers opened at Immanuel Lutheran School drawing 125 registrants from southern Indiana Ohio and Kentucky Sessions cover philosophy religion and music Dr Robert Schnabel of Concordia Senior College Fort Wayne leads philosophy Dr E C Sieving of Concordia Teachers College River Forest Illinois heads religion David J Wilson Seymour director of music at Immanuel runs music Attending is Dr E Younghouse Fort Wayne superintendent of the central district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Immanuel Lutheran School
Robert Schnabel
Concordia Senior College
Fort Wayne
E. C. Sieving
Concordia Teachers College
River Forest
David J. Wilson, Seymour
Immanuel
E. Younghouse
Central District
Freetown Man Pleads Guilty to Disorderly Conduct
Earl Fry 75 of near Freetown, a parolee after 18 years of a life sentence for a wife’s shotgun death, changed his plea from not guilty to guilty on a disorderly conduct charge in Jackson Circuit Court. He was fined 50 dollars plus costs after the plea, and the court warned it could affect his parole. Fry was jailed for nonpayment, with bond set at 500 dollars and seven days to appeal through an attorney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Fry
Freetown
Jackson
Fry
Bedford
Jackson County
Weather contrasts: 99 years ago and present forecast
The report notes that 99 years earlier temperatures reached 99 degrees, while Monday saw a high of 73 and a cool morning 61. White River at Rockford stood 1.1 feet, with 0.53 inches of rainfall recorded in the local area. Wednesday is forecast sunny and warm with upper 80s statewide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White River
Rockford
Commissioners Accept Grader And Gravel Bids
Jackson County commissioners awarded contracts for a 1963 model tandem motor grader with trade-in and for pea gravel for county highways. Six bids were submitted, with the low bid at 14 211 dollars including trade-in, from an Indianapolis firm for the grader. Gravel bids ranged around 1.85 per yard or 1.35 per ton, with all commissioners present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson County Board of Commissioners
Indianapolis
Reid-Holccomb Company
Municipal Equipment Company Adams
Deeds Equipment Company
J. L Burks and Company
Panke Machinery Company
Spray Sand and Gravel Company
Tion
Jackson Jennings Site Considered for Federal Wild Life Refuge
A Jackson Jennings county area site is proposed as a possible federal wildlife refuge with a large lake and recreation potential. The Wabash Terre Haute plan faces strong local opposition over land acquisition costs and farmer displacement, while Jackson Jennings offers fewer families and a smaller footprint for development and fishing access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson-Jennings
Possible Wild Life Refuge
Jackson
Jennings Counties
Federal Bureau
Terre Haute
Wabash Refuge
Jackson-Jennings County
Wabash Valley
Jackson- Jennings
Wabash
Indiana
Middlewest
Monroe
Monroe Reservoir meeting to review lake development
Indiana University hosts a Thursday briefing at 1 30 p m in Whittenberger Auditorium featuring federal and state leaders. The event, linked to the Monroe Reservoir project due for completion in 1965, covers access roads zoning sanitation land use and potential low flow regulations with officials from IU the state and federal agencies in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D.C
Indiana University
Monroe Reservoir
Whittenberger
I.U. Memorial Union
Bloomington
U.S
Vance Hartke
Birch Bayh
William G. Bray
Indiana
Earl Wilson
Willard Roper
Louisville
U.S. Corps of Engineers
Warren H. Nord
Minneapolis
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Howard H. Cook
Bedford
U.S. Forest Service
Matthew E. Welsh
Arthur York
State Department of Commerce
Richard O. Ristine
Donald L. Folz
State Department of Conservation
State Highway Commission
Charles Dawson
George Goodwin
Walter Frick
Division of
B.A. Poole
Chester Canham
State Board of Health
John E. Mitchell
Indiana Flood Control and Water Resources Commission
Brown
Jackson
Lawrence
Monroe
Midwest
Governor
Paul Vermillion
State Highway Department
Warren Hobson
Indianapolis
Longardner
Pore Brown Associates
Uss
Com
Pany
Corps of Engineers
Kenneth Schellie
Kenneth Schellie & Associates
Willam Wayne
N.U
Monroe County Planning Commission
Foltz
Henry Prange
Joseph T. Perrey
Indiana Flood Control & Water Resources Commission
Colonel Roper
Maurice Chase
Southern Indiana, Inc
Flood Control and Water Resources Commission
Elvis J. Stahr, Jr
I.U
Elmer Congram
Brown County
Hospital Treats Collar Bone Arkle Injuries
Two people were admitted to Schneck Memorial Hospital on Monday for injuries from the prior weekend. Jo Ellen Rudolph, 11, fractured her right collar bone and shoulder after a tree swing fall, while Laverne Ault, 45, Medora, injured her right ankle stepping in a hole.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schneck Memorial Hospital
Jo Ellen Rudolph
John Rudolph
West Third Street
Laverne Ault
Medora
Southern Governors Adopt Unanimity Rule at Conference
At White Sulphur Springs West Virginia eleven governors backed a unanimous vote rule to adopt any resolution. Governor Wallace of Alabama backed the change and will veto resolutions he opposes. The move followed civil rights protests at the Greenbrier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Wallace
Donald Russell
South Carolina
Orval E. Faubus
Arkansas
Ross Barnett
Mississippi
Elbert N. Carvel
Delaware
Carl Sanders
Georgia
John B. Connally
Texas
Terry Sanford
North Carolina
Greenbrier
Barnett
Washington
W. W. Barron
West Virginia
Barron
Kennedy
Orval Faubus
Henry Bellman
Oklahoma
Faubus
Resolutions
Department of Labor
Dixie
George Wallace
X Ray Survey Moves Into Second Day In Jackson County
A two week chest X ray survey continues with the mobile unit on East Third Street near Arvin Industries through today from 8:30 to 11:30 a m and 1:30 to 4:30 p m. The Jackson County Tuberculosis Association sponsors free screenings for residents over 15. The unit previously toured in 1961 and will return to Circle Street and Freeman Field in coming days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Third Street
Arvin Industries, Inc
North
Tuberculosis Association of
Jackson County, Inc
Circle Street
Thompson Dairy Company
H. O. Canfield Company
Freeman Field
Butts Awarded 3 Million in Libel Suit Against Magazine
Federal court jurors awarded Wally Butts 3.06 million dollars in his libel suit against the Saturday Evening Post over a March 23 article alleging he fixed a football game. The verdict included 60 thousand in general damages and 3 million punitive damages, marking the largest libel award in a Georgia federal case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butts
Magazine
Atlanta
Wally Butts
Saturday Evening Post
Curtis Publishing Co
The
Post
Alabama
Paul Bear Bryant
Georgia
Miners Trapped 400 Feet Underground Face Long Rescue
Rescue workers drill toward three miners trapped 400 feet below the Hazleton coal seam. One trapped man, David Fellin, 58, spoke to his wife from the surface hole saying he was cold but all right as efforts continue. Louis Bova remains separated by debris and Unconfirmed status amid fog and dampness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazleton
David Fellin
Louis Bova
Bova
Pattersonville
Anna Fellin
Fellin
Steve Horan
Henry Throne
Hora
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Solodine
Brownstown
Ruth Everhart
Ohio
Kentucky
Freetown Man
Federal Building
U. S. Post Office
J. W. Bateson Construction Company, Inc
Dallas
Tex
Tom Williams
Monroe Lake
University of Georgia
Frank Graham Jr
New York
Clay Blair Jr
the Post
Bryant
Frank Scoby
Chicago
O. C. Aderhold
William H. Schroeder Jr
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