Seymour council weighs street closing and airport lease
Seymour city council meeting drew a large crowd but ended with no action on the Seymour Municipal airport lease as two members were absent. Proposals to vacate West Oak street and to pursue WPA alley and street improvements moved forward with investigation and court preparation discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Oak Street
Poplar
Pine Streets
Seymour Municipal Airport
Seymour City
Seymour Aviation Ind
Charles W. Frey
Henry Huber
W. W. Stradley
Edward P. Elsner
Jackson Circuit Court
Brownstown
Seymour Woolen Mills
C. W. Burkart
Steadier jobs assured here at Seymour Manufacturing
About half of Seymour Manufacturing's 110 workers own their homes per a local Economic Research Bureau survey. The plant's management cites stable wages and a new warehouse system that stores supplies to keep workers employed, with timber purchases from within ninety miles paid in cash and orders planned months ahead. The workforce averages over forty seven years old, with many veterans including McNelly, Allman, Holloman, Sutherland, Hill, Emley, Schrenck, Sallee, Humes, Rebber, Eckler, Lange, and Moritz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Seymour Manufacturing
Economic Research Bureau
Ernest N. Birge
Seymour
Charles McNelly
Charles Allman
George Holloman
Sam Sutherland
Frank J. Hill
Charles Emley
Joseph Schrenck
William Sallee
Minnie J. Humes
William Rebber
John E. Eckler
Herman Lange
Fred Rebber
Clara Moritz
Traffic toll record of local fatalities in 1938
The notice asks if residents are helping to reduce local traffic deaths in 1938. It recalls 1937’s toll of 14 fatalities and urges public caution to lower this figure.
Cathedral High to Play Shields High in Indiana Tonight
Cathedral High School of Indianapolis faces Shields High School in a two game night at Shields High. The preliminary contest starts at 6 45 and the main game at 8 00. Officials urge punctuality and on time starts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cathedral High School
Indianapolis
Shields High School
Death Of Young County Man In Car Crash
Robert Henry Stockelman twenty died at 10 30 this morning at Sehneck Memorial Hospital from internal injuries after a Saturday automobile crash near Seymour. He lived with his parents Henry and Minnie Speaker Stockelman on Seymour Route 1 and leaves two brothers John Bh WH Stockelman Edward B Stockelman and sister Amelia Hehman all of Jackson County. He was a member of St Pauls Congregational Church born March 4 1918. Funeral at St Pauls Church Monday 2 pm Rev Kenneth Murphy. Burial Riverview Cemetery. Friends may call Voss Mortuary Saturday afternoon.
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Robert Henry Stockelman
Sehneck Memorial Hospital
Seymour
Young Stockelman
Seymour Greenhouses
Seymour R1
Henry
Minnie Speaker Stockelman
John Bh
WH. Stockelman
Edward B. Stockelman
Amelia Hehman
Jackson County
St. Paul’s Congregational Church
St. Paul’s Church
Kenneth Murphy
Riverview Cemetery
Voss
Three injured as light truck rear-ends coal truck on US 60
A crash seven miles west of Seymour on US 60 left Woodrow Wilson 21 with a compound leg fracture and his wife Dorothy 19 with a leg fracture and facial injuries. Delbert Pillman 22 received facial cuts. Stanley Maddux 41, driving the coal truck, was uninjured. he had placed flares after a battery cable failed, and a mechanic arrived shortly after. Both Wilsons were admitted to Schneck Memorial Hospital.
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U. S. Road 60
Seymour
Woodrow Wilson
Ewing
Dorothy Wilson
Schneck Memorial Hospital
Delbert Pillman
Shale Hill
Wilson
Pillman
Stanley Maddux
Westport
Starve Hollow Lake Stocked With Thousands of Bass and Trickies
More than 6,000 bass and trappies were released into Starve Hollow lake near Wallonia as part of early stocking. About 27,000 fingerlings were added earlier. the lake now spans roughly forty acres and will reach 208 acres when full. George Chambers says the lake rises daily and will take about eleven and a half more feet of water to crest the spillway.
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Starve Hollow
Wallonia
Indiana
George Chambers
Fisher Body Strike Halts Plant Operations in Flint
Unionized workers at Fisher Body Company Plant No. 1 walked out forcing a full plant shutdown and partial Buick disruption. GM claims the strike violates the CIO contract and centers on about 900 men’s day work versus piecework terms.
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Flint
Mich
Fisher Body Company
Buick
General Motors Corporation
Fisher
Detroit
United Automobile Workers Union
CIO
Corporation
Grand Jury to Probe Reports in Chrysler Strike
A New Castle Indiana grand jury met to review violence reports tied to the CIO and AFL union clash at the Chrysler parts plant. The plant closed after picketing and power shutdowns. UAW officials claim most workers are union members and negotiations await Detroit signals.
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Associated Press
New Castle
Ind
Congress of Industrial Organizations
American Federation of Labor Unions
Chrysler Corporation
United Automobile Workers of America
CIO
M. M. Edwards
AFL
AFL Electric
Arnold Atwood
UAW
Atwood
E. Welch
Detroit
UAWA
Welch
Quarantine Updates In Seymour Homes For Contagious Disease
The city health authorities posted the Rust residence at 727 Ewing street for diphtheria and released Francis Endaly of 405 Kessler Boulevard from quarantine for scarlet fever. Endaly’s son James has recovered as the home, under quarantine since November 11, now joins a second diphtheria quarantine within the city.
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Seymour
Andy Rust
Ewing Street
Rust
Francis EnDaly
Kessler Boulevard
James EnDaly
Three Women Lay Claim ToHeiress Mother Of 10 Yearold
Newark judges a custody dispute over Eu gene, a 10 year old with uncertain paternity. Lena De Angelo says she adopted him as an infant, Gilda Cataldo claims he was born to her and entrusted to De Angelo, while a third woman alleged to be his mother failed to appear in court. Judge Bigelow postponed the case to subpoena the absent claimant.
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Newark
N. J
Solomon’s
John O. ‘Bigelow
Eugene
Cataldo
de Angelo
Travers
Lena de Angelo
East Orange
Gilda Cataldo
West Orange
Miss Houghland Called By Death in Louisville
Miss Mable Houghland of Louisville and former Seymour resident died Thursday afternoon at her Louisville home after an operation in February from which she did not recover. She was cousin to Miss Ethel Lewis of this city and visitor in local homes. Survivors include four sisters Ivy Fern Amy Houghland and Grace Loyd. Funeral conducted Monday in Louisville with burial in a local cemetery.
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Mable Houghland
Louisville
Seymour
Miss Houghland
Ethel Lewis
J. Robert Blair
Rose Hamilton
North Lynn Street
Tampico
Ivy Houghland
Fern Houghland
Amy Houghland
Grace Loyd
Jackson
Texas
French Labor Unrest Surges Amid Mass Discharges
Paris reports say labor leaders claim more than a million workers were discharged or suspended after a one day general walkout. Daladier battles strikes while tensions rise over Tunisia and potential Italian expansion. Guards kept order as labor strife compounds France's wider European crisis.
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Paris
Africa
Edouard Daladier
Daladier
General Confederation of Labor
Socialist Party
St. Nazaire
le Havre
Tunisia
Galeazzo Ciano
Bonnet
Djibouti
Corsica
Italy
Austria
Czechoslovakia
France
Great Britain
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Germany
Kingsley Wood
Maurice Gamelin
National Defense Staff
Libya
Labor
Leon Blum
le Populaire
Bus Train Crash Toll Confirms Many Dead and Injured
Authorities report twenty two dead and seventeen injured after a Denver Rio Grande Western train plowed into a Jordan High School bus near Salt Lake City. Most victims were local teens. driver Farrold Silcox died, others identified, morgue scene described.
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Salt Lake City
Salt Lake General Hospital
Denver
Denver and Rio Grande Western
Midvale
E. L. Rehmer
Farrold H. Silcox
Riverton
Jordan High School
South Jordan
Bluffdale
Crescent
Training School Ends Tonight in Seymour Religious Classes
Tonight marks the close of Seymour's Community Leadership Training Course held at Trinity Methodist Church under the Seymour Ministerial Association. Church workers teachers department heads and group leaders have attended since Monday night with a commencement following the final class.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour
Trinity Methodist Church
Seymour Ministerial Association
Kidnapped Girl Reunites With Father After Abduction
Oxon Hill Maryland December 2 Mary Brown a 15 year old business school student returned home after a 30 hour disappearance. Her father William B Brown says she was abducted by men who believed he could pay a ransom but she convinced them he could not pay any ransom and was released unharmed.
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Oxon Hill
Mary Brown
Robert L. Manning
Washington
Mary
Manning
Brown Farm
Lucy
Associated Press
William B. Brown
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T. Harlan Montgomery
Woolen Mills
Ife
EuDaly
Oak Street
Don A. Bollinger
Ile
H. M. Anderson
North Chestnut
Grand Jury
Silcox
Marjorie Groves
Rehmer
Alfred Elton
Washington, D. C
Disnay
Seymour Water Co
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