Seymour school levy approved at 3.99 rate for 1969
The Seymour Community Schools board approved a 1969 tax levy of 3.99, totaling 1 569 951, up from 3 67 in 1968. The split includes 3 48 for general fund 6 cents for debt service and 0 45 for the cumulative building fund. A projected $60 000 cut in state funds will affect local taxes. The budget goes to the Jackson County auditor and tax adjustment board for final approval.
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Seymour Community Schools
Indiana
Seymour
Russell Goen
Jackson County
Tax Adjustment Board
Indiana State Board of Tax Commissioners
Crothersville
Brownstown
Vernon Township
Chester Meisberger
Crothers
Brownstown Central Community School Corporation
William B. Sharp
Jackson County Tax Adjustment Board
Schools approve 1969 levies in Crothersville and Brownstown
Crothersville votes 92 cent cut bringing general fund levy to 5.84 and debt fund to 1.23 totaling 7.07 with 262 400 raised. Brownstown Central approves 4.95 levy total 613140 with general fund 4.64 and debt service 0.31. Budgets go to Jackson County tax board for adjustment before state review.
Richmond Youth Indicted for Second Degree Murder
Ronnie G. Siler, 19, of Richmond was indicted by the Wayne Superior Court grand jury on second degree murder for the Aug. 17 shooting death of James D. Brown, 24, also of Richmond.
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Richmond, Ind
Ronnie G. Siler
Richmond
James D. Brown
Wayne Superior Court
Immanuel Lutheran SchoolParents Meeting Review
About 80 percent of parents of future Immanuel Lutheran School students attended the Thursday night meeting at the school. Principal Robert M. Demske led sessions in classrooms where parents reviewed school policies and collected the 1968-69 handbooks and year book lists.
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Immanuel Lutheran School
Robert M. Demske
Dedicating Crothersville Masons Plan New Temple
Dedication for Crothersville Lodge No. 610 free and accepted masons set for Saturday September 7 with a 5 pm dinner. Grand Lodge officers from Indianapolis to lead the open dedicatory ritual. The brick temple measures 36 by 80 feet with lodge room lounge banquet hall kitchen and utility on first floor. public open house later this fall. The 200 member lodge chartered in 1896. current officers include Worshipful Master John D. Emily and other named officers.
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Crothersville
Grand Lodge
Indianapolis
Man fatally crushed while servicing truck at plant
Lester Garling 45 of Medaryville was killed near Cloverdale Indiana when a truck at the Standard Materials Plant was started while he lay beneath it. State police said he appeared to be greasing the vehicle when it lurched away.
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Cloverdale
Ind
Lester Garling
Medaryville
Standard Materials Plant
Here
Garling
Weather Records for Seymour Downtown and Ruth Everhart
Weather readings for Seymour include an unofficial noon downtown temperature of 74 degrees and a 47 degree reading from official records kept by Ruth Everhart, government weather observer at Rockford.
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Seymour
Ruth Everhart
Rockford
Seymour Pool to Close for Summer Monday
Seymour Municipal Swimming Pool in Shields Park will shut at 6 p m Monday after a season open daily from 1 to 6 p m Edwin J Boley pool manager said the likelihood of extended hours after Labor Day is low but could occur if temperatures stay very warm
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Seymour Municipal
Shields Park
Edwin J. Boley
Boley
Political Oddity at the 1968 Democratic Convention
The 1968 Democratic National Convention proved unpredictable with bitter debates over credentials a Vietnam plank and the nomination of a Maine senator as vice president. Polls wrongly favored Rockefeller for Republicans and McCarthy for Democrats yet neither secured their party’s ticket.
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Chicago
Maine
Richard M. Nixon
Hubert H. Humphrey
Humphrey
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Eugene J. McCarthy
Humphrey Sets Out To Restore Party Unity
Chicago aboard the Democratic National Convention nominates Sen. Edmund S. Muskie for vice president as Hubert H. Humphrey strives to heal party rifts after a week of discord and protests. Humphrey calls for unity in Vietnam policy and domestic reform while lawmakers debate party leadership and tribute to Robert F. Kennedy.
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Humphrey
Chicago
Hubert H. Humphrey
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
National Guard
Muskie
Johnson
Vietnam
America
National Party
John M. Bailey
Connecticut
John N. Dempsey
Lawrence F. O’brien
Kennedy Brothers
O’brien
Sen
Fred Harris
Oklahoma
Cochairman
Delton Houtchens
Missouri
Robert F. Kennedy
California
Kennedy
Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts
McIntosh Insanity Hearing Set for Sept 26
Bobby McIntosh 37 Seymour R2 faces second degree murder charges in his wife Wanda Lee McIntosh death. Hearing on his insanity plea scheduled for Sept 26 in Jackson Circuit Court Brownstown. He is held without bond, moved from jail to Pendleton reform school for the hearing prep.
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Bobby McIntosh
Seymour
Wanda Lee McIntosh
Jackson
Brownstown
Robert R. Brown
Jonathan J. Robertson
Montgomery
Jackson County
State Reformatory
Pendleton
Thurman Winburn
McIntosh
Trial Set for Indianapolis Man in Theft Case
William H. Fitzsimmons of Indianapolis faces theft by failure to produce charges in Jackson Circuit Court. Judge Jonathan J. Robertson scheduled October 8. Det. Sgt. Robert R. Pond arrested Fitzsimmons after affidavits from Seymour customers. he allegedly collected weekly layaway payments on men’s suits but delivered none after full payment.
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Indianapolis
Jackson
Brownstown
William H. Fitzsimmons
Jonathan J. Robertson
Fitzsimmons
Robert R. Pond
Seymour
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Tribune
Emerson School
Board
Ville
Immanuel
Masons
O’ville
John D. Emily
Rolland Mull
Don Monroe
Wally Monroe
Elmer C. Lory
David Monroe
Fred Dixon
Asbury Riley
Roscoe Reynolds
Jimmy Hickerson
Ray Waskom
Tyler
Emily
Varmer
Edmund Muskie
Seymour Senior High
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