Record Stream Of Mail Pours Through City
A Seymour post office report shows a Christmas mail surge from Dec 10 to Christmas with 367000 outgoing cards and 6500 packages, up from 1955 peaks. Incoming mail totaled 444471 letters plus 9755 parcels, with 52219 letters on Dec 17. 900 undeliverable cards were destroyed. staff added eight delivery vehicles including two National Guard jeeps.
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Seymour
Chester C. Droege
Seymour Post Office
W. H. Droege
Chester Droege
Seymour City
National Guard
Droege
Thomas A. Droege
Oneida
N. Y
Lions Club Yule Tree Sale Nets $1400 for Civic Projects
The Seymour Lions Club reports selling about 600 Christmas trees for 1400 dollars. A portion of proceeds goes to the Seymour Boys' Club and Girls' Club, with the remainder funding Lions civic projects next year. The group thanks patrons and volunteers for support.
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Seymour Lions Club
Seymour
Lions Club
Car and Truck Collision at Seymour Crossing
At 10:26 am a northbound car and a westbound truck collided at the North Chestnut and West Sixth streets intersection in Seymour. Fred Ollis drove a 1949 half-ton truck. Elsie Callahan, who stopped at the stop sign, allegedly struck the left rear of the truck. Estimated damages: $25 to the truck, $5 to the car.
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North Chestnut
West Sixth Streets
Seymour City
Charles W. Freeman
Fred Ollis
Seymour
West Sixth Street
Elsie Elizabeth Callahan
Chestnut Street
Callahan
Ollis
Rev George Steinkamp Dies Across Illinois County
The Rev. George Steinkamp 70 longtime Dudleytown Lutheran pastor died Thursday night at his Moline Illinois home after several strokes and prolonged illness. Funeral 2 pm Monday at St. Peter’s Lutheran Columbus with burial in Lutheran Cemetery. Survived by widow eight sons one daughter and many relatives. He previously served Hawarden Iowa and Dudleytown Indiana.
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George Steinkamp
Dudleytown Lutheran Church
Seymour
Jackson County
Moline
St. Peter's Lutheran Church
Columbus
Mr. Steinkamp
Dudleytown
Jonesville
Hawarden
Iowa
Lutheran Pastors’ Organization
Farm Bureau Officers Attend Purdue Meeting
Two Jackson county Farm Bureau representatives joined about 250 attendees at Purdue University for a leadership training program held Wednesday to Friday. Mrs. Floyd Birge of Medora and Russell Mack of Medora Carr township outlined public relations policy development youth activities membership and leadership during sessions, with graduation scheduled for Friday morning.
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Jackson County Farm Bureaus
Purdue University
Floyd Birge
Medora
Russell Mack
Carr Township
Jackson County Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
Mobile Laboratory To Patrol Highways This Weekend
State police from Seymour Post No. 7 will again deploy a mobile laboratory on highways in Jackson Jennings Bartholomew and Johnson counties during the New Year weekend. Trooper Maurice L. Wright will operate the device in his patrol car testing drivers for intoxication with the Breathalyzer. The unit will support pre holiday enforcement from Saturday through Monday to reduce alcohol related accidents and fatalities.
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Seymour Post No. 7
Maurice L. Wright
Wright
Jackson
Jennings
Bartholomew
Johnson
Bloomington
Seymour Post
Holiday highway toll shocks nation with record deaths
Chicago reports provide grim tallyes for Christmas and New Year driving. 706 killed and about 24,000 injured over the holiday weekend, with Illinois 56 fatalities and Texas 43. Officials blame speed and weather, with drinking cited in many Chicago crashes. NSC warns of 490 deaths expected for New Year’s.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
J. O. Musick
The
Texas Safety Assn
Outer Space
United States
Texas
Illinois
California
San Francisco
Texas City
State Division of Traffic Safety
William G. Stratton
Philip McGuire
NSC
Burglars Ransack Wallonia School
Investigation into a Wallonia School break in led by Sheriff Lester E. Great House and Detective Don Winn. Roughly $10 taken from a soft drink and a milk machine, entry via a rear basement window with tools, widespread desk and file disruption, two burglars likely involved, but the school safe untouched.
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Wallonia
Lester E. Greathouse
Jackson County
Don Winn
Seymour
Sheriff's Department
Wegan Lutheran Minister Prepares Farewell Sermon
The Rev. Kenneth Martin of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Wegan will preach his farewell sermon Sunday before leaving for Zion Lutheran Church Wabash Indiana where he begins in January. He led Wegan since August 1954, improved the church building and chaired a centennial observance this fall.
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Kenneth Martin
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Wegan
Zion Lutheran Church
Wabash
Ind
Martin
St. Paul's
Mt. Zion's
Malibu brush fire roars across 25000 acres threatening monastery
The Malibu blaze raged in two fronts, covering about 25000 acres and threatening a 75 room Franciscan monastery and 20 homes. Firefighters stopped spread toward a celebrity sandspit and evacuated residents including stars such as Jane Russell and Louis Hayward as Governor Knight declared a Los Angeles County disaster. One man died in the inferno amid massive evacuation and battle conditions.
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Malibu
Calif
Sacramento
Goodwin Knight
Los Angeles
County Board of Supervisors
Malibu Township
Santa Monica
Carbon Canyon
Las Flores Canyon
Sandspit Colony
Horace Heidt
Louis Hayward
Jane Russell
Bob Waterfield
June Havoc
Peter Potter
Increase Set For Stamped Envelopes
The Post Office Department announced an average 18 percent rise in stamped envelope prices effective law. The rate hike targets envelopes with printed postage fixed by law remaining unchanged. Large-volume buyers will feel the impact, while single envelopes still carry the printed postage plus one cent. A 50‑count No 8 envelope would cost $1.88, up from $1.83, reflecting higher costs since 1953.
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Post Office Department
Chester C. Droege
Seymour Post Office
Seymour
Court Ruling Sought In Segregation Dispute
In Tallahassee Florida two parties clash over bus seating rules as Cities Transit Inc seeks a federal ruling on whether it must follow city and state segregation laws. The city seeks an order forcing segregated seating or loss of its franchise. Police guard operations amid arrests of nine drivers and a midnight franchise suspension.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Florida
Cities Transit Inc
Cities Transit
City Commission
Charles L. Carter
Colder Weather Predicted For Here And Indiana
The Indiana Weather Bureau forecasts colder weather for tonight and Saturday with five day temperatures averaging seven degrees below normal. Snow flurries are possible tonight with light snow or rain Sunday through Wednesday. Temperature highs and lows vary from the mid forties to mid twenties, and roads in northern Indiana are slushy and icy.
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Indiana Weather Bureau
Oaay
Indiana
Lake County
Indianapolis
Gas Tank Fire Kill Driver In Indiana Town
Flaming gasoline from a wrecked tank truck killed driver Robert Metzger 34 Mount Vernon and destroyed a home in Gentryville Indiana. The blaze melted lines isolated the town blocking U S 231 as six towns aided firefighting efforts through the night.
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Rockport
Ind
Gentryville
U.S. 231
Chicago
Florida
Robert Metzger
Mount Vernon
Carl Heffens
Indiana
Kentucky
Spencer County
Metzger
Evansville
Huntingburg
Ducers Transport, Inc
Benton Harbor
Mich
Dale
Owensboro
Boonville
Chrisney
Jasper
Nixon sees no bottleneck at Camp Kilmer for Hungarian refugees
Vice President Richard M. Nixon toured Camp Kilmer New Jersey the final stop of the Hungarian refugee airlift. He observed efficient processing lines two person rooms and active recreation while noting a target of 500 refugees daily and a projected pass through by January 22. He cautioned no bottleneck would form if processing goals are met and said immigration policy will be decided by Eisenhower and lawmakers.
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Nixon
Hoover
Richard Nixon
Herbert Hoover
New York City
Camp Kilmer
New Jersey
N.J. W
Richard M. Nixon
Army Center
Freedom
Army
America
Austria
United States
Kilmer
Eisenhower
Patrick J.hillings
Rcalif
Washington
Europe
Far East
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Yule Tree Sale
Steinkamp
Ilinois
Purdue
Keith Klinger
Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu Canyon
NEA Telephoto
A. H. Thome
Ramera Canyon Road
Frank Stoutamore
C. K. Steele
Negro Inter-Civic Council
Mian
Ohio
South Bend
Hamilton County
Townsend
Skiba
Citizens State Bank of
Bristol
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