Seymour Next Traffic Code Updates City Rules
A new city traffic code adopted on Nov 24 1969 goes into effect today in Seymour. The 100 page ordinance standardizes regulations from Ordinance 1556 and Council Bill 6 1969, repealing 39 older rules. Changes include new overtime parking penalties and restricted no parking areas, one way alley in front of the post office, crosswalk pedestrian rules, and tailored speed limits across districts.
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Seymour
General Assembly
Robert Weekly
Crothersville School District Wins Building Fund Approval
The Crothersville school board won State Board approval for a 12 year cumulative building fund starting next budget year. A 25 cent levy per $100 of property will fund new construction land acquisition remodeling and renting of space with first tax in 1970 payable 1971. Enrollment has risen 58 students in four years signaling need for a new classroom roughly every two years.
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Crothersville
State Board of Tax Commissioners
Robert Gingher
Vernon Township
Gingher
Seymour Post Office Extends Hours to 2 P.M. Saturday
Seymour residents are reminded that the local Post Office will keep mailing windows open until 2 p m Saturday to help last minute parcel post packages and greeting cards reach their destinations. Regular Saturday window service closes at noon.
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Seymour City
Seymour
Christmas Basket Fund Nears $1 000 Total
A local Christmas Basket Fund nears the $1,000 mark with $977.75 raised from 24 donors today. Officials say the season’s total shows strong support and hope that all basket requests can be fulfilled, though the drive remains $217.92 behind last year’s pace. Proceeds from the fund, Turn to Page 9, Col.
Wreath Adorns Door Amid Gulf Coast Destruction
In Pass Christian Mississippi Shirley Carpenter places a wreath on a door slab from her demolished home after Hurricane Camille. The scene captures a coast still scarred with devastation and slow recovery as officials report over 5,600 homes lost and $1 billion in damage while Red Cross aid reaches $15 million.
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Pass Christian
Miss
Carpenter
Camille
Shirley Carpenter
Long Beach
Mississippi Gulf Coast
Biloxi
Pacific Islands
U. S. Naval
Gulf Coast
the Riviera of America
Horace Spradley
North America
Gulf of Mexi
America
West Virginia
American Red Cross
The
Red Cross
Congress Races Toward Christmas Adjournment
Washington Congress pushed toward a Christmas adjournment amid stalled tax and spending bills. President Nixon threatened a veto on the $21.4 billion Health Education and Welfare appropriation, while Congress sent the $69.8 billion defense bill to the White House with a Laos Thailand troop ban.
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Congress
Nixon
Health Education and Welfare Department
White House
U. S
Laos
Thailand
Pentagon
House-Senate
Tax Objection Petitions Complete Say Assessor
County assessor Garrett Fee announced that enough local property owners signed petitions in 12 of 17 taxing units to seek a new hearing on reassessment values. Petitions were to be mailed to the State Board of Tax Commissioners, but a new date likely won’t be set until late January or February due to the board’s schedule.
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Garrett Fee
State Board of Tax Commissioners
Crothersville
Seymour
Clearspring
Fee
Medora Corporation
Washington Township
State Board
Weather Records for Seymour City
Official and unofficial readings compiled for Seymour show noon temperature for downtown as unofficial while other readings come from Ruth Everhart Rockford observer records. Data include Thursday maximum and minimum temperatures river height at 7 am and times for sunset and sunrise on Saturday.
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Seymour
Ruth Everhart
Rockford
Special Election Meet Set for Jackson County Chair
A special meeting to elect a new Jackson County Democratic chairman is scheduled for 1 p.m. Saturday December 27 at the county courthouse in Brownstown. The meeting follows the resignation of Lester E. Greathouse who led the party for eight years. Potential candidates include Thomas V C Stewart Donald E Manion and Billy K Trisler.
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Jackson County
Brownstown
Marie Buse
Seymour R
Democratic Central Committee
Democratic
Lester E. Greathouse
Thomas VC. Stewart
Seymour
Seymour City
Donald E. Manion
Billy K. Trisler
Crothersville
Vernon Township
Auto crash injures three on I 65 near Seymour
Three members of a local family were hurt when their 1969 sedan rear-ended a large tank truck on Interstate 65 about six thirty morning three miles north of Seymour. Driver Glen Ahlbrand and his wife Patricia along with son George Deems were treated at Schneck Memorial Hospital.
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O’brien Street
Schneck Memorial Hospital
Patricia
George Deems
Robert Burns
Indianapolis
Seymour
Ahlbrand
Dencil G. Haycox
Tribune
Interstate 65
Glen A. Rhibrand
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