Tax Distribution In County Is Made
Jackson county auditor James E. Cummings mailed December tax distribution checks totaling 428 855 46 to taxing units. State received 24 663 49 and the county 106 728 09. Township poor funds stay in county, 8490 67, disbursed by township trustees. Seymour civil city 49 796 49 Seymour school 77 427 06 Library 4346 25 Brownstown civil town 6376 05 Brownstown Consolidated 277 10 Medora 2 077 10 Crothersville 2 793 01 township shares follow listed amounts for all 12 townships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour
Office of
County Auditor Cummings
Seymour Civil City
Seymour School City
Seymour Public Library
Brownstown
Brownstown Consolida- Medora
Crothersville Town
Local Seamen Begin Training at San Diego Navy Center
Seaman recruits George H. Emily and Noah F. Bowman Jr. study at the U S Naval Training Center in San Diego. Training covers seamanship, fire fighting, gunnery, signaling and other Navy life courses. After 11 weeks, graduates join Fleet duty stations or Navy service schools for advanced training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Naval Training Center
San Diego
Calif
George H. Emily
USN
Wiliam H. Emily
Seymour R2
Noah F. Bowman
North Bush Street
Seymour
Navy
Bowman
Shields High School
Two Local Students Active in Hanover College Music Groups
Hanover Indiana reports two local students join Hanover College music groups for the current year. Jack Jackson son of Mr and Mrs A L Jackson 439 Carter Boulevard is a member of the Men's Glee Club. Morton S Prime son of Mr and Mrs George H Prime 346 Calvin Boulevard is active in the Men's Glee Club and the college chorus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanover
Ind
Seymour
Hanover College
Jack Jackson
A. L. Jackson
Carter Boulevard
Morton S Prime
George H. Prime
Calvin Boulevard
Pre-Holiday Rush Expected in Seymour Stores Tonight
Sunny weather and improved surface conditions aid last minute shoppers as Seymour stores stay open until 9 pm today. Many plan weekend trips or hosting visitors while schools close until January 7. Stores close Christmas Day and largely remain shut Wednesday. Monday’s Daily Tribune to publish early for holiday break.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour
Daily Tribune
Commissioners To Meet Monday In Browns Town
Jackson county board of commissioners will convene in special session Monday at the county courthouse in Browns Town to consider closing period claims for 1951. It will be the last 1951 meeting and Don ley B. Hill will depart the board. Matt Bersicker Dallas Spray remain on the board. Everett Lutes will begin a three year term at the 1952 first meeting in January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson County Board of Commissioners
Brownstown
Donley B. Hill
Matt Bersicker
Dallas Spray
Everett Lutes
Board of Commissioners
First Official Day of Winter Arrives in Indiana
The first official day of winter arrives at 10 01 this morning as cold waves sweep Seymour and Rockford. Temperatures run 11 to 22 above with a 8 6 foot rise on White River and highways in Jackson County open. The AP forecast calls for fair but colder today and Sunday with snow in the northwest by night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour
Hugh
Rockford
White River
Indiana
Associated Press
Jackson County
Union Worship Service Set for Christmas Eve
The Seymour Ministerial Association announces a union Christmas worship service Monday at 11 pm in the First Methodist Church, with the Christian Church choir and a Christmas message by Rev. R. J. Hazen. Rev. Florence presides, with prayers led by Rev. Ivy, and carols including O Come All Ye Faithful Joy to the World and It Came Upon the Midnight Clear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Methodist Church
Central Christian Church
Christian Church
Hazen
R. J. Hazen
Church of God
George L. Florence
Seymour Ministerial Association
Grote Employees Take Holiday Vacation at Freeman Field
Grote Manufacturing Company workers at Freeman Field began a holiday vacation that lasts until January 2. The shutdown follows a Christmas party Friday afternoon attended by 115 employees with gifts prizes and a lunch provided by manager Paul Scully.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grote Manufacturing Company
Freeman Field
Paul Scully
Knott Home on Leave-On Air Today
Sgt Lawrence M Knott son of Mrs Edgar Frischie of Seymour will be broadcast on Radio WLW Cincinnati at 3 30 this afternoon from the U S Army Hospital Camp Atterbury. He is home on convalescent leave after wounds in Korea and will return January 4 for surgery on his right arm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence M. Knott
Edgar Frischie
East Tipton Street
Seymour
U. S. Army Hospital
Camp Atterbury
WLW
Cincinnati
Knott
Korea
Weather Records for Seymour and Local River
Official and unofficial temperature readings are listed for Seymour with a 7 P.M. downtown thermometer. Mrs Ruth Everhart, government weather observer, provides official readings including maximum and minimum for Friday. The river level is reported at 6.6 feet.
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Ther
Seymour
Aay
Ruth Everhart
Post Office Rush Eases After Record Holiday Cancellations
Seymour post office reports its busiest day of mail cancellations in history earlier this week with 52 189 on Monday and 46 070 on Tuesday. Weather slowed local mailing but Friday and today promise heavy parcel and letter volume. airmail and special delivery urged for sure Christmas delivery. city routes to be served Sunday morning. office to close Wednesday afternoon per December custom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour
Walter H. Droege
Dreege
Ing
Droege
Company agents awarded S72,760 profit sharing at Crothersville
Employes of the Red Cross Shoe Co. at Crothersville received profit sharing checks totaling 72,760.82 dollars. Those with five years service got 14.124 percent, three to four years 7.936 percent, one to two years 5.954 percent, plus Christmas bonuses equal to one week’s earnings. Nathan Sticks and Raymond Kaske credited work quality for the payouts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross Shoe Co
Crothersville
Cecil E. Parr
South Vine Street
Nathan Sticks
Raymond Kaske
Auto Crash Near Tampico Injures Several
At noon Friday a two car collision one mile west of Tampico in front of the Elizabeth Collins residence left multiple injuries. Roy Lee Hudson and Florence C. Hudson suffered cuts and bruises while Jerrell Hudson and others in the Hudson and Bowling vehicles sustained minor injuries. Damage totaled about $900.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tampico
Elizabeth Collins
Roy Lee Hudson
Brownstown
Darve Chester Bowling
Hudson
Florence C. Hudson
Jerrell Hudson
Clyde Bowling
Doris Mae Bowling
Roy Bowling
Alexis Rice
Frank B. Gray
Auto train crash claims life at Jonesville crossing
A collision at a Jonesville crossing with a northbound Pennsylvania train killed Carl Meyer 45 of Columbus, driving a Farm Bureau gasoline tank truck. The truck burned, the train damaged, engineer Elmer Grammer and the fireman burned mildly. both were treated at Schneck Memorial Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jonesville
Carl Meyer
Columbus
Farm Bureau
Pennsylvania
Elmer J. Grammer
Jeffersonville
Millionth traffic death near noon as toll nears one million
The Associated Press notes the National Safety Council’s forecast of one million U S traffic deaths by noon, 1951 totals at 999 990. The nationwide tally shows winter ice and snow and holiday travel driving the numbers, with 36 000+ deaths this year and 39 969 in 1941 as a record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
National Safety Council
H. H. Bliss
New York City
Local Woman's Brother Awarded Medal of Honor
Master Sgt. Hubert L. Lee of Leland Mississippi brother of Mrs Royce Stewart and Mrs James Plezo earned the Congressional Medal of Honor for actions in Korea. He led his platoon at Ipo ri and Hill 333 after their leader was wounded on February 1 1951, was wounded twice more, and refused aid while the hill changed hands eleven times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hubert L. Lee
Leland
Miss
Royce Stewart
West Ninth Street
Seymour
Washington
Sgt
Lee
James Plezo
Greenville
23Rd Infantry Regiment
Second Infantry Division
Ipo-ri
Korea
Ir High Yale Program Highlights School Christmas Pageant
Shields Junior High students presented their annual Christmas program in the girls gym. George Collens announced the event with performances including The Christmas Story by Joann Toppe and a Christmas player by Tommy Dunn. Diane Borcherding and Barbara Bedel sang Star of the East. Aleatha Miracle played O Santissima. Jimmy Murray recited A Good Boy and Merlin Bell played Rudolph on sax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shields
George Collens
Joann Toppe
Tommy Dunn
Diane Borcherding
Barbara Bedel
Aleatha Miracle
Santissima
Jimmy Murray
Merlin Bell
Rudolph
Page
Office Closure Notice From Dr Gillespie
The office will be closed until December 27. Dr. Gillespie issues the temporary shutdown and advises patients to contact for urgent matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Gillespie
Millionth Traffic Fatality Reported by AP
The nation’s traffic death toll reached one million with the death of Miss Elma Wischmeier, 52, in a Cleveland hospital at 7:20 p.m. EST. AP reported the death at 10:27 a.m. CST.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Elma Wischmeier
Cleveland
Ohio
Frankfort Family Dies in Violence After House Fire
In Frankfort Indiana a 65 year old man James Powell killed his mother Nora Powell 84 and sister Lillian Everman 55 before setting a house fire. Powell fired on rescuers and there were minor injuries to two youths and damage to a doctor’s car. The sister had been visiting from Albuquerque New Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankfort
Ind
James Powell
Nora Powell
Lillian Everman
Everman
Albuquerque
N.M
Michigantown
Maynard Lewis
Powell
J. O. Ashley
Neil Perrel
Mike Wayt
Ashley
Overill Barnett
Elrod Funeral Arrangements For Uriah Elrod
Funeral services for Uriah E. Elrod aged 74 will be held Monday at 8 o clock from Voss Mortuary with Rev. Amos Bastin and Rev. F. E. Andrews officiating. Burial will be in Riverview Cemetery. Elrod, born in Sey mour area, died Wednesday in Comfort Texas after years of poor health from an injury in Indiana. He was a retired railroad employee who served 12 years as engineer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uriah E. Elrod
Seymour
Voss Mortuary
Amos S. Bastin
First Methodist Church
F. E. Andrews
Indianapolis
Riverview Cemetery
Elrod
Comfort
Texas
Indiana
Bud
Rescue teams struggle as 60 feared dead in West Frankfort mine
In West Frankfort Illinois a mysterious explosion trapped more than 60 miners deep in a coal shaft. Rescue crews faced a race against time as dawn revealed about 14 dead with several bodies seen further in the mine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Frankfort
John R. Foster
Foster
Walter Eadie
Springfield
State Department of Mines and Minerals
Murphy declines head of government reform commission
Federal Judge Thomas F. Murphy reportedly decided against leading a three man commission to expose government wrongdoing. Reports in The New York Times and The New York Herald Tribune cite protests from colleagues, lack of subpoena powers, and concerns about being window dressing as reasons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Thomas F. Murphy
Truman
Threeman Commission
New York Times
New York Herald-Tribune
The
Times
Murphy
Federal Commission
Herald Tribune
Commission
Washington
UN Proposes Exchange of Sick and Wounded Prisoners
United Nations negotiators in Munsan Korea urged an immediate swap of ill and injured prisoners while announcing 37,500 South Koreans held in Allied camps would be released. Red negotiators signaled doubt about agreement amid list discrepancies reported with the Red Cross.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munsan
Korea
United Nations
Red
Panmunjom
Red Cross
Adm
R. E. Libby
Geneva
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James E. Cummings
Carr
Driftwood
Grassy Fork
Hamilton
Jackson Township
Owen Township
Pershing Township
Redding
Salt Creek
Vernon Township
Washington Township
First Methodist
Grote
Weeetees
Mont
Agnes Sasser
Cullman
Ala
Pfc
Bill Sasser
Walter Dixon
Sasser
Man
Schneck Memorial Hospital
Millard Weir
Louisville
U.S
U. S
Council
Ir. High
Yale
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