Provisions of Auto License Law Explained
The article outlines a two year license cycle keyed to birth dates, with expiration rules and applications handled at a local license branch. New plates go on sale January 5 in Seymour with white numerals on blue, including M D designations for physicians.
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Bruce K. Combs
License Bureau
Seymour
Butler University
State House
Indianapolis
Remington Rand
Tom Bath
United States
Indiana
Indiana Insurance Companies
Fair Weekend Forecast for Indiana Region
The forecast predicts fair weather across the Indiana section with no temperature change over the weekend. Friday's official high reached 40 degrees melting most snow and ice left from Christmas. Friday night’s minimum was 21 degrees with unofficial readings about two degrees above freezing this morning.
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Indiana
Ruth Everhart
Secondhand Gift Makes Jimmy Wisehart World's Happiest Boy
Jimmy Wisehart, once burned by a model airplane propeller and confined to Riley Hospital, regained his ability to walk and now enjoys Christmas mobility again. He lives with his parents in Arizona, after earlier living in Medora, with doctors predicting full recovery.
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Jimmy Wisehart
Medora
Jimmy
Riley Hospital
Indianapolis
Santa
Arizona
Transfer of Two Pipelines Made in Jackson County
Recording in Jackson County completes the transfer of the Big Inch and Little Inch pipeline properties. Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. holds a $120 million mortgage from Manufacturers Trust Co. for lines running through Jackson and Redding Town ship. The pipelines, built for war effort, stretch from Beaumont to Linden and Longview to Linden with connections to Baytown and Texas City.
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Jackson County
Brownstown
Gaynelle Moritz
Recorders
Redding Township
Manufacturers Trust Company
New Jersey
Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation
Houston
Texas
Texas Eastern
Longview
Arkansas
Missouri
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Phoenixville
Linden
N. J
Marcus Hook
Beaumont
Baytown
Texas City
Louisiana
New York-New Jersey-Pennsylvania
Defense Plant Corporation
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
War Assets Corporation
Federal Power Commission
Big and Little Inch
Philadelphia
Appalachian
Indiana Gas and Water Company
Millhousen
Greensburg
Decatur County
Names Draw For Jackson Circuit Court Jury Term
Jackson County jury commissioners will meet at the courthouse Monday at 10 to draw the petit and grand jury names for the January term. The October term, totaling 72 days, closed today after the two week first degree murder trial of David E. Edman, who was acquitted. The court recesses for holidays with no sessions next week and a one week between terms vacation. the January term opens Monday January 5.
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Jackson Circuit Court
Jackson County
David E. Edman
Bartholomew County
Withholding Tax Law Cited by Indiana IRS Official
F Shirley Wilcox, Collector of Internal Revenue for the District of Indiana, cites Pub Lic Law 384 approving withholding from January 1 1948 on wage payments to U S citizens abroad and certain U S residents outside the United States with specific expatriate and territorial exceptions. Further notes withholding statements may require pagination.
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F. Shirley Wilcox
Internal Revenue
District of
Indiana
United States
Wilcox
Weather Records Reported Official Min and River Stage
Official weather record shows a minimum around 0.0 and a maximum near 40. Reading at 16 GTA indicates river stage at 1.9 with noted river condition. Citizens advised to monitor updates as readings vary.
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GTA
Five New Past Masters Earn Master’s Degree in Jackson County
Five newly elected worshipful masters from Jackson County lodges received the Past Master’s degree at a meeting of the Jackson County Past Masters Association held Friday night in Washington Lodge No. 13 Brownstown. Bruce Hanners conferred and presided, with about 30 past masters in attendance.
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Jackson County
Washington Lodge No
A. M
Brownstown
Bruce Hanners
Clearspring Lodge No
Kurtz
Charles R. Mayfield
Jackson
Seymour
Woodrow Hanner
Clearspring
Stanley R. Hartley
Crothersville
Wharton Reynolds
Washington
Herman Callahan
Medora
Steve Miller
Warren Lodge
Connersville
Washington Lodge
James E. Cummings
Wilbur F. Biggs
N. D. Short
Ernest E. Truex
Charles R. Brown
Bruce K. Combs
Honeytown Grange to Confer Antioch Work
The Honeytown Grange second degree team, the only Grange in Jackson county, will travel to Antioch Indiana on Wednesday night December 31 to perform the degree. The Columbus degree team will present the first degree. A New Year party will follow the conferring.
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Honeytown
Jackson County
Antioch
Ind
Raymond Ritz
Columbus
Hagana Attacks Arabs as Toll Rises in Palestine
In Jerusalem on December 27 the Hagana carried out a reprisal raid on Silwan killing one Arab and wounding two as four Jews and six Arabs died in the latest clashes since partition was announced. Fighting pressed near Tel Aviv Jaffa and at a Jewish children’s home in Katamon with no casualties reported. Police tallies show 379 total dead in Jewish Arab violence and 500 across the region since November 29.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
Middle East
Hagana
Silwan
Mount of Olives
Tel Aviv
Arab Jaffa
Katamon
Negev
Topie to Lead Seymour Rotary Program Monday
William Topie will oversee the Rotary Club dinner program at 6 15 Monday night at the Elks Club. The event marks the last meeting of the current club calendar year and Topie is arranging an interesting program.
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William Topie
Seymour Rotary Club
Elks’ Club
Nearly 3000 Hunting Licenses Sold In Jackson County 1947
Final 1947 licensing report shows 2984 male hunting and fishing licenses issued and 872 fishing permits to women in Jackson County. Eight non resident licenses and 73 14 day permits also sold. veterans receive permanent free permits not counted. New 1948 licenses now on sale with dates January 1 and available at county clerk and local hardware stores. Prices stay at 1.50 for men and 0.50 for women.
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Jackson County
Albert H. Horstman
Seymour
Indiana
Greeks Move to outlaw Red Revolutionists amid battles in Greece
Fighting rages in the Konitsa Ioannina region as Greek forces press to reinforce a garrison under siege. Government plans to outlaw the Communist party and allied groups surface while Athens seeks U.S. support.
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Athens
Konitsa-Ioannina
Greece
Communist Party
Ioannina
Bourozani
Konitsa
Kalpaki
Unites
Bourozani Bridge
Albania
U. S
Panamanian Ex Foreign Minister Criticizes US Base Pact
Ricardo Alfaro, recently resigned Panamanian foreign minister, accuses the United States State Department of three fundamental errors in negotiating the defense base agreement, which Panama’s national assembly rejected. He calls for a clear stance on 1942 treaty expiration, objects to sovereignty-privilege clauses, and opposes making the pact a permanent base instrument. Alfaro also notes U.S. troop withdrawal is underway and warns against any illegal retention of bases.
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Panama
Ricardo J. Alfaro
State Department
United States
Panamanian National Assembly
A. S
Alfaro
Panama Canal
Quits
U. S
Bedford Firm Wins State Road Contract in Dubois County
Indianapolis dispatch reports the Indiana state highway commission awarded Stone City Construction Company of Bedford a contract worth 202,568.94 dollars to improve two sections of State Road 162 in Dubois county. The project covers a compacted aggregate surface from one mile south of Road 64 near Brettville to 2.6 miles further south and from Mastersville north 1.2 miles.
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Indianapolis
State Highway Commission
Dubois County
Stone City Construction Company
Bedford
Brettville
Mastersville
Food Speculators Evade U S Probe
Officials of the agriculture department said they plan to include 71 government workers in the next public listing of commodity traders. A list of 1,240 people active in wheat futures in Chicago on April 30, 1946, was released, but offered no new clues for congressional investigators.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Chicago
J. M. Mehl
Commodity Exchange
Anderson
Indiana wheat traders list names Floyd Stark from Medora
A Jackson county man Floyd Stark of Medora appears on the Department of Agriculture released list of Indiana wheat traders. Stark is 2,000 bushels long and is the sole county resident named among 11 traders Congress has requested.
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Jackson County
Indiana
Department of Agriculture
Floyd Stark
Medora
Congress
List of commodity traders includes Edwin W Pauley
The only government official named among 1951 traders is Edwin W Pauley special assistant to the Army secretary who disclosed his commodity trading. He said he held under a million dollars in commodities when joining the government and was divesting holdings. The Agriculture Department released the list as of October 31 1946 and October 1 1947 with Pauley on it.
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Edwin W. Pauley
Secretary of the Army
Senate Appropriations Committee
Pauley
Methodist Pastor Dies at 92 in Indianapolis
The Rev. William G. Morgan, 92, a Methodist minister who served churches in Orville, Huntingburg, Evansville, New Albany, Bloomington and Indianapolis, died at Methodist Hospital. He leaves a widow, two sons, two daughters, four grandchildren and one great grandchild. Funeral and burial are Monday in Bloomington.
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Indianapolis
William G. Morgan
Orwell
Huntingburg
Evansville
New Albany
Bloomington
Snowbound New York Dwarfs Blizzard of 1888
A record 25.8 inch storm paralyzed New York City and surrounding states, delaying trains and buses, stranding harbor craft, and closing streets. Mayor William O Dwyer cut short a California trip to return as the city reels from the heavy snowfall and ongoing transportation standstill.
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New York
New England
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Washington, D. C
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
New Hampshire
O'Dwyer
California
William O’dwyer
el Centro
Calif
Los Angeles
Manhattan
la Guardia Field
Harbor
Coy Now New FCC Chairman
Wayne Coy rad io director of the Washington Post and former Indiana newspaperman assumed the chair of the Federal Communications Commission effective immediately. He succeeded Charles R. Den ny who resigned October 31 to join NBC. President Truman announced the appointment Friday night. Coy has held roles in Indiana state government and federal agencies before joining the Post in 1944.
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Washington
Wayne Coy
Washington Post
Indiana
Federal Communications Commission
Coy
Charles R. Denny
National Broadcasting Company
Truman
Shelby County
Ind
Franklin and
Delphi
Paul V. McNutt
Indiana State Welfare Department
WPA
Philippines
McNutt
Federal Security Agency
Roosevelt
Budget Bureau
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Northern State Parkway
Lake Success
N. Y
County Recorder's Office
Seymour Business College
G.I
Sary
Amour
Topie
Rotary
U.S
Assimaskis
Macedonia
Constantine Dovas
Coordinating Council
Themistokles Sophoulis
Karl Rankin
Dubois
Navy
FCC
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