Warning Signal Is Sought at Vogel Crossing
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Seymour Post of the American Legion won county approval to seek extra protection at Vogel Crossing two miles south of here. The petition asks for a flasher and warning bolt and will be sent to the Indiana public service commission with a hearing likely soon. Ten deaths in ten years at this crossing underscore calls for improved safety. Rowena Catherine Lewis and Daniel Lewis perished in a recent fatal accident, prompting local action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Seymour Post
American Legion
Pennsylvania
Vogel Crossing
Here
Auxiliary
Gladys Heintz
R. A. Zaring
Indianapolis
Indiana Public Service Commission
Public Service Commission
Rowena Catherine Lewis
Daniel Lewis
Ward Lewis
Mild Weather for Wednesday Predicted
Seymour residents who...dig deeply into coal supplies welcomed the forecast of milder weather for Wednesday. Skies may stay cloudy tonight with temperatures rising. A local observer reported a minimum of twenty degrees above zero, four degrees higher than the previous twenty four hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour
Edward C Snyder retired dairyman dies after stroke in Seymour
Edward C Snyder aged seventy a retired local dairyman and builder of residences died at Schneck Memorial Hospital shortly after suffering a stroke while working on a new home in Seymour He was born April 7 1876 in Dudleytown and lived in Jackson county His widow Magdalena Bishop Snyder died in 1945 He married twice with a later marriage in 1945 Funeral services are planned for 130 pm at his home and 200 pm at Immanuel Lutheran Church with burial in Lutheran Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward C. Snyder
Schneck Memorial Hospital
Seymour
South Chestnut Street
Immanuel Lutheran Church
W. A. Mack
South
Chestnut Street
Mr. Snyder
Jackson County
Dudleytown
Henry
Amelia Klinge Snyder
Dunleytown
Magdalena Bishop
4 H Corn Show Held at Dudleytown
The 4 H Corn Club Show for Jackson county with fifty two boys enrolled is under way at the Lutheran Club House Dudleytown. Exhibits will be brought to the club house by 6 pm tonight and judged tonight and Wednesday. The event closes with the institute program and a picnic supper Wednesday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson County
Dudleytown
Community Institute
Magician Delights Carrier Staff at Rotary Club Meeting
Gene Keeney of Indianapolis entertained Seymour Rotary Club members and Daily Tribune carriers at a Monday night dinner meeting. The magician demonstrated tricks and a comedic cake reveal as a reward for reaching city circulation of about 3,000.
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Magician Delights
Seymour
Keeney
John H. Conner
Conner
The
Tribune
Audit Bureau of
Gene Keeney
Tribune Carriers
Rotary Club
Rotarians
School Board Hears Bleacher Bids for Emerson Field
Seymour board of school trustees met at Emerson School to open bids for moveable bleachers with steel frames and wooden seats. No action was taken. a special meeting December 17 will finalize proposals. An appropriations hearing by the state tax commissioners will follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emerson Field
Seymour Board of School Trustees
Emerson School
State Board of Tax Commissioners
Wayne Iron Works
Pittsburgh
Levett Company
Champaign
Ill
A. P. Williams Iron Works
New York
Universal Bleacher Company
Rites Held for Patricia Sue Mahoney Stillborn Baby
Funeral services were held at Gorbett Chapel Cemetery near Freetown for Patricia Sue Mahoney daughter of Richard L. and Alberta Garbett Mahoney stillborn Monday night at Schneck Memorial Hospital. Survived by parents and one brother Ronald D. Mahoney of home.
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Gorbett Chapel Cemetery
Freetown
Patricia Sue Mahoney
Richard L
Alberta Garbett Mahoney
South Carter Street
Schneck Memorial Hospital
Ronald D. Mahoney
Bedford Stone Workers to Resume Grind in Indiana
About 1,000 members of the Journeymen Stonecutters Association of North America AFL will return to work Wednesday under the current contract while negotiations for a new agreement continue. The walkout fifteen days earlier halted mills of 24 building stone companies in the Bloomington Bedford area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bedford
Ind
Journeymen Stonecutters Association of North America
AFL
Bloomington- Bedford
Weather Records for Seymour Show Mixed Official and Unofficial Readings
Official and unofficial temperature readings for Seymour listed for the day. The 2 PM downtown thermometer shows an unofficial reading while all other measurements come from Willard N. Everhart Sr. as the government weather observer, with the forecast noting a Monday maximum and a river stage of 1.65 feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour
Willard N. Everhart, Sr
Commissioners Get Bid on Coal
Jackson county faces a coal shortage with about ten days of supply left for the courthouse and other county buildings. The county board accepted a coal bid for 1947 and discussed a request from Vigo county to seek a larger share of the state gasoline tax for roads. The board rejected a property tax levy for highway funds. A street resurfacing petition near Ross Street and Gaiser Park was filed for future consideration. New commissioners Martin Bergsieker and Earl Singer will join in 1947, with Floyd Hedrick continuing and Ireland under 1946 coal contract.
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Jackson County
Jackson County Board of Commissioners
Vigo County
Indiana General Assembly
Alvin Schroer
Ross Street
Gaiser Park
O'Brien Street
Seymour
Martin Bergsieker
Redding Township
Harry Dewey
Cortland
Earl Singer
Wallonia
Louis Schepman
Washington Township
Bergsieker
Schepman
Floyd Hedrick
Houston
Plane crash in Vosges Mountains leaves twelve dead
Officials report twelve charred bodies recovered after a Monday crash on the eastern slope of Ballon D Alsace Peak in the Vosges. The burned wreckage hampered identification, with authorities unsure if the aircraft was a French army transport coming from Germany and unable to verify victims' identities.
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Belfort
France
Ballon D’alsace
Vosges Mountains
Germany
Closing Out to Start at Freeman Field
Freeman Field begins a closing out sale with sixty two or sixty three small lots. Items include desks chairs work benches kitchen equipment a portable organ and metal goods. Bidding runs 7 39 am Wednesday to 3 30 pm Tuesday with awards on December 11. Warrant Officer D C Johnson 139 Freeman Field handles details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freeman Field
D C. Johnson
Minneapolis Teachers Accept New Contract
Minneapolis teachers approved a settlement that increases annual pay by 1200 dollars plus a 150 dollar cost of living bonus. The agreement, reached by a negotiatin g committee with the school board, was ratified by Locals 238 and 59 of the American Federation of Teachers and will be formally ratified December 10 by the board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
American Federation of Teachers
Charles E. Boyer
Willard E. Goslin
Pastor Niemoeller Arrives in New York
The Rev. Martin Niemoeller who spent eight years in Nazi concentration camps for opposing Hitler arrived in New York with his wife Else Bremer Niemoeller. He heads the church foreign office of the Evangelical Church in Germany and will speak at the Federal Council of Churches meeting in Seattle on Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Martin Niemoeller
Hitler
Berlin
Else Brener Niemoeller
Pastor Niemoeller
Church Foreign Office
The
Evangelical Church In Germany
World Council of Churches
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In
Seymour City Council Set to Consider Funds Tonight
The Seymour city council will hold a semi monthly session in the council chamber at the city building to consider additional appropriations and transfers of funds. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 7 30 oclock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour
Council Chamber
Byrnes to Ask Ministers for Austrian Terms
Secretary of State Byrnes and British Foreign Minister Bevin announced a British American economic merger plan for Germany and said they would seek discussions with the Big Four on Austria and Germany peace. They expect the merger to start Jan 1 and aim for German self sufficiency and eventual talks with Russia and France on broader unification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Byrnes
Bevin
Germany
Austria
Russia
France
Foreign Ministers Council
Italy
Romania
Bulgaria
Hungary
Finland
Saar
Ruhr
Georges Bidault
United States
Byrnes-Bevin Press
Judge Finds Contempt in UMW-Lewis Case
Federal Judge T Allan Goldsborough finds John L Lewis and the United Mine Workers in contempt of court over a labor dispute tied to the coal strike. Sentencing to be announced after Lewis asserts a public statement defending union actions and criticizing the 54 hour work week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
T. Allan Goldsborough
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
UMW
Congress
United States
Secretary of the Interior
Clayton
Norris-LaGuardia
Americal Federation of Labor
Schools Closing For Want of Fuel
Fires shrank in steel furnaces as a 13 day AFL UMW strike idled about 150000 workers nationwide. In Pittsburgh 23000 workers were eligible for jobless pay this week, many steelworkers seeking unemployment benefits for the fourth time in a year. Coal railroads laid off thousands while Illinois Central reported 1100 workers back on the job.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
AFL United Mine
Pennsylvania Employment Service
Southern Railroad
Washington, D. C
Baltimore & Ohio
Norfolk and Western
New York Central
Columbus
Legion Presses Inquiry Into Open to All Ballot
The American Legion demands an investigation of educators who signed an open letter to Governor Gates urging an open to all ballot with communist candidates. A four man committee will address Indiana University trustees to probe professors Fow er W. Harper Bernard C. Gavit Howard Mann and Professor John R. Shannon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
American Legion
Veterans’ Organization
Legion
State Legion
Indiana University Board of Trustees
Gates
I. U
Fower W. Harper
Bernard C. Gavit
Howard Mann
Indiana
John R. Shannon
Indiana State Teachers College
Terre Haute
Edwin K. Steers
William Steckler
W. S. Brunton
Scottsburg
William E. Sayer
R. Worth Shumaker
National Americanism
Glenn R. Hillis
Kokomo
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Lewis and
Legion Auxiliary
Rites
Bedford Stone
Cleveland
Lakefront
NEA
Freeman
Ernest E. Norris
Illinois Central Railroad
Communist Party
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