Farm Bureau Board Airs Plans and Installs Officers
The Jackson County Farm Bureau held its annual December board meeting to install 1970 officers and approve a nearly $8,000 budget. Willard Wischmeier presided as members from 1969 and 1970 boards reviewed a tentative program including the district achievement banquet, rabies clinic, youth programs, fair, Farm City Week, and various committee appointments across numerous county groups. The budget provides for travel, district meetings, and other operational allocations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson County Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
Brownstown
Brock’s
Willard Wischmeier
Everett Christopher
Malcolm Singer
William Krumme
Virgil Klosterman
Lawrence Otte
Gerald Goecker
Curtis Mellencamp
Lawrence Pottschmidt
Rich
Nixon signs sweeping tax bill with broad scope
President Nixon signed the largest tax revision in a generation, closing loopholes and delivering more reductions than advised while warning he will act to balance the next fiscal year’s budget. A landmark coal mine safety bill awaits his signature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nixon
Autos Collide Damage Heavy on Base Line Road
Two late model autos were heavily damaged in a near head on collision on Base Line Road four miles west and seven miles north of Cortland. No injuries were reported.
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Base Line Road
Cortland
Charles E. Conrad, Sr
Seymour State
Kerkhof Auto
Cook
Charles W. Leffler
The
Sey
Mour Post
Seymour
William R. Friel
Gary
Ind
Friel
Muscatatuck River
Weather Records for Seymour and Rockford Observer
Official and unofficial readings show Seymour downtown noon temperature unofficial while other data come from Ruth Everhart, government weather observer at Rockford. River height at 7 am 2.8 feet precipitation 0.50 inch snow on ground 4 inches. Sunset 5:29 EST sunrise Wednesday 8:06 EST.
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Seymour
Ruth Everhart
Rockford
Guild Presents Concert Tonight at First Baptist Church
The Seymour Civic Arts Guild hosts a holiday concert at 8 p m in the First Baptist Church. The program features sacred music from all periods for choir voice and instruments along with traditional Christmas carols. An ensemble of high school and college students sings traditional and contemporary choral pieces directed by Steven Nichter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour Civic Arts Guild
First Baptist Church
Steven Nichter
Indiana Toughens Drunk Driving Rules After New Law
Indiana's new implied consent law takes effect January 1. Police must arrest before administering breath tests and witnesses must be present. officers face liability for false arrest if tests show no intoxication. Summers notes rural testing challenges and permits motorists to seek a second test.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
State Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Dave Summers
Robert K. Konkle
Summers
Supreme Court
Atty
Theodore L. Sendak
Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Credit Bureau Sold To Columbus Firm In Jackson County Change
Mrs. Mary Cox announces the sale of the Credit Bureau of Seymour to Creditors Protective Bureau Inc of Columbus Indiana. Beginning January 1 1970 the bureau will operate as the Credit Bureau of Jackson County with R L Kehrt as manager, reflecting broader service and smarter credit decisions.
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Mary Cox
Credit Bureau of
Seymour
Tipton and
Chestnut Streets
Creditors Protective Bureau, Inc
Columbus
Indiana
William J. Tackett
Credit Bureau
Jackson County
Tackett
R. L. Kehrt
Kehrt
Jennings County
North Vernon
Harvey Carey
Robert Weekly
The Credit Bureau Aids Local Commerce and Consumers
Leary cites the Credit Bureau as the best source of factual credit information for daily lending decisions. Tackett notes it enables merchants to access consumer credit quickly via coded phone calls, benefiting both lenders and borrowers and supporting Seymour and Jackson County's economic growth.
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Credit Bureau
Bureau
Tackett
Jackson County
Seymour
Five Mystery Gunboats Near Israel's Chief Port
Haifa witnesses a flotilla of five French built gunboats en route to Israel near its main port. The vessels slipped from Cherbourg on Christmas day in defiance of a French arms embargo and were sighted by an Italian trawler east of Sicily. Authorities weigh how they escaped and the broader political fallout.
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Haifa
Israel
France
Mt. Carmel
Cherbourg
Sicily
Crete
Cairo
U. S
Washington
U. S. 6Th Fleet
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Paris
National Recreation Area Proposed West of County
A federal official and Army Corps of Engineers officials floated creating a 20000 plus acre national recreation area in southern Indiana. The plan centers on a large permanent lake on the East Fork of the White River near Shoals and would be run by the National Park Service.
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Indiana
White River
Jackson County
U. S. Department of Interior
Army Corps of Engineers
Bedford
Wabash Valley Association
Fred Wampler
Cincinnati
Department of Interior
John H. Rhett
Louisville
Corps of
Army
Shoals
East Fork
Wampler
Federal Recreation and Water Pro
National Park Service
Hoosier National Forest
Monroe Reservoir
Indiana hunting licenses delayed in 1970 shipment switch
Jackson County business recipients have not received 1970 Indiana hunting fishing and trapping licenses due to a new delivery system. Licenses are mailed to individual business locations rather than county clerks. Officials say arrests by conservation officers are not anticipated if licenses miss the January 1 deadline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Jackson County
Indiana Department of Natural Resources
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Ard Isaacs
Roswald Zaring
Ronald Otte
Earl Pottschmidt
Richard Kiewitz
Richard Huber
Irving Wait
Russell Cross
Kenneth Miller
Wilbert Otte
Richard Isaacs
Roland Hackman
Byron Wetzel
LeRoy Wischmeier
Wilbert Pollett
Roger Ni
Roger Nierman
Harry Elliott
Willard Peters
Jerry Densford
David Cunningham
Melvin Bishop
Marvin Bobb
Charles Stahl
Brownstown Corporation
Arthur Darlage
Elvert Redicker
Noble Wischmeier
Robert
Mann
Crothersville
Landis Bottorff
George Metz
Edwin Patman
Maurice Schepman
Delbert Tormoehlen
Medora
Russell Mock
Jerry Plummer
Renaldo Gilbert
Oren Schneck
Willis Pollett
Ralph Wineinger
Tribune
Pet and Hobby
Christopher
Wischmeier
Bulletin
Guild Presents
Clearing House of Credit Information
By Leary
Charles de Gaulle
Beirut
Starboat and Weill S. A. Oil Shipping Services
Panama
Oslo
Cpl
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