Indiana to replace letter prefixes on license plates in 1963
Indiana will switch to numeric county prefixes for auto plates in 1963, removing SJ SK SL designations tied to counties. Jackson County will bear 36, Marion 49 and 93 94, Lake 45 and 95, with a new fee schedule raising most licenses by about one dollar. Plates will show gold numerals on blue, retaining several special prefixes and nonprofit or state designations.
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Indiana
Allen Nutting
State Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
Jackson County
Seymour
Brownstown
Crothersville
Marion County
Lake County
Nutting
Democrat Party
Republican Party
National Guard
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
Indiana General Assembly
May Parking Meter Revenues Fall Short of Earlier Years
May parking meter receipts totaled 1258.87, down from 1597.38 in May 1961 and 1697.90 in April. The weekly average was 314.72 with four collections in May versus five in prior months. Cited by Miss Gaynelle Moritz the city clerk treasurer, the meter fund totals year to date 6672.50. Parking fines dropped to 34.00 in May from 44.00 in April and 63.00 last year.
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Gaynelle Moritz
Weather Records Downtown Seymour Update
Official report lists Friday temperatures with a maximum and a minimum. The 10 a.m. reading showed a high and another at 2 p.m. The river gauge at 7 a.m. recorded 2.8 feet with a minimum precipitation of .07 inches.
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Seymour
Ruth Everhart
Rockford
No Change In Total Number Of Accidents
Seymour city police investigated 27 traffic accidents in May matching April 1962 and May 1961. Vehicle damage and injuries varied. total arrests and juvenile incidents fluctuated. Police handled 340 calls, filed 18 case reports and 21 case reports in May with larceny vandalism and assault among noted crimes.
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Seymour City
City
Youth Arrested For Grand Larceny In Seymour
Danny J. Burke age 18 of Seymour Rhode Island was arrested at 10 40 am Friday in the 600 block of West Sixth Street on grand larceny charges. He was linked to the theft of a chain power saw and turned over to Detective Sergeant Harold E. Chambers at the Seymour state police post.
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Danny J. Burke
Seymour RI
West Sixth Street
Burke
Charles W. Freeman
Paul M. Cooper
Harold E. Chambers
Seymour State
Seymour police pass two thousand seven hundred vehicles in safety check
Seymour city police report 2,807 vehicles inspected since May 1, with 2,507 passed (2,247 cars and 260 trucks) and 300 rejected (256 autos and 44 trucks). Captain Nowling aims to beat 3,000 by mid next week as NSC extends the program. State police and county sheriff also conducting checks in multiple counties.
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Seymour
Jackie R. Nowling
National Safety Council
Seymour State Police
Jackson County Sheriff's Department
Sheriff's Department
Jackson
Jennings
Johnson
Bartholomew
Con
May brings busier month at Schneck Memorial Hospital
Schneck Memorial Hospital reports May as busier than April with 55 tonsillectomies the month’s high and 298 bed patients. Outpatients reached 379, births rose to 93, and total patient days totaled 2,461 as surgeries and trauma cases increased while deaths fell from April.
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Suborn
Turkey Referendum on Marketing Order Set for June 18 22
Eligible turkey producers must file a certification of turkeys marketed last year with the Jackson County ASC in Brownstown before June 8. The national referendum runs June 18 22 via local ASC offices to decide on nationwide marketing regulations. Ballots go to eligible producers before June 18, with voting at ASC offices or by mail.
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Jackson County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Office
Brownstown
Fred Krumme
ASC
Turkey
Krumme
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Cooperative of
Turkey Producers
Indiana State
Indianapolis
Office Closed for Vacation Until June Ninth
Our office will be closed for vacation until June 9. Dr. E A Hampton will be unavailable during this period.
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E. A. Hampton
Norman Man Hurt In Car Mishap
A 57 year old Norman Alman was treated as an outpatient after an auto accident near Norman. Several others were treated at Schneck Memorial Hospital on Friday for injuries from a brick mishap, a fall, a BB gun incident, a pool injury, and an ink in the eye accident.
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Norman Alman
Norman
Schneck Memorial Hospital
John McHargue
Karen Grim
Hugh Grim
West Fifth Street
Deborah Kay Jaynes
Roger Jaynes
Ash Street
Kemuel Badger
Gerald Badger
Seymour
Joseph Defibaugh
Carl Defibaugh
Brownstown
Kent Bell
Paul Bell
West Fourth Street
Raymond Edmonds
Bernice Edmonds
Don Richart
North Vernon
Youth Pinned In Wrecked Car Near Freetown
Brady Eugene Stogdill 22 of Nashville R2 was hurt in a one car crash on Ind 135 two miles north of Freetown. The 1955 coach overturned after striking a ditch and skidding about 20 feet. He received head and left arm injuries and was treated at Schneck Memorial Hospital. A fence on Ira Greathouse property was damaged.
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Brady Eugene Stogdill
Nashville
Freetown
Stogdill
T. L. Schlegelmilch
Seymour
Schneck Memorial Hospital
Ira Greathouse
Freetown R1
Postponed High Altitude Nuclear Test Over Pacific
Cloud cover over Johnston Island forced the United States to delay the first high altitude nuclear test in the Pacific. The blast, originally set for 10 p.m. local, was rescheduled to 3 a.m. EST Sunday, with officials citing weather and photography needs. The test aimed to create a hole in the ionosphere and would be the first of several planned detonations with expected visibility in Hawaii if skies clear.
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Honolulu
United States
Pacific
Weather Bureau
Johnston
Hawaii
Court Order Sought To Block Construction Of Power Plant
INDIANAPOLIS AP A court injunction is sought to halt a 60 million co op power plant on White River near Petersburg two utilities claim the project duplicates existing systems and circumvents public expense Public Service Co of Indiana and Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Co filed suits in Marion Circuit Court The plan involves Statewide Rural Electric Cooperative a 39 REMCs group with a Rural Electrification Administration loan Grounds broken but none started Indianapolis Power Light also has a related suit in Pike Circuit Court at Petersburg
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White River
Petersburg
Statewide Rural Electric Co-Operative, Inc
Rural Electrification Administration
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Indiana
Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Co
Marion Circuit Court
Southern Indiana
Public Service Co
Rural Electric
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Remcs
Hoosier Co- Operative Energy Inc
Public Service Commission
Hoosier
PSC
Indianapolis Power & Light Co
Pike
Berlin Teens Lured Into East German Trap Fire Kills One
Two 17 year old West Berlin girls Ursula and Karin walked toward East Germany where guards yelled to join a contact across the border. Karin was dragged through the fence and vanished after gunfire opened on Ursula who fled to a border post wounded in the hip.
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West Berlin
Ursula
Karin
East Germany
Lichterfelde
Automobiles Damaged in Friday Evening Crash
Two cars were damaged totaling 375 dollars in a 7 02 p m intersection crash at Seventh street and Broadway. No injuries. Kenneth Black 34 of 1015 Buish street drove a 1953 sedan. James E Miller 17 of 413 West Tipton street drove a 1957 sedan. Police officer Donald S Hickey investigated.
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Kenneth Black
Buish Street
James E. Miller
West Tipton Street
Donald S. Hickey
Two Men Arrested For Public Intoxication
City police held two men in jail on public intoxication charges filed in Seymour City Court. Ervin F. Simmons 36 of Indianapolis was arrested at 1 20 am in the 200 block of East Tipton Street by Sgt James P Flynn and Officer Calvin W Theele. Ira Andrew 33 of Seymour was arrested at 8 32 pm Friday in the city parking lot by Officer Donald S Hickey.
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Seymour
Ervin F. Simmons
Indianapolis
East Tipton Street
James P. Flynn
Calvin W. Theele
Ira Andrew
Donald S. Hickey
Accused Slayer Captured After Family Tragedy Near Sigourney
Gayne Gilbert Smith, 24, is held on five murder counts for the slayings of his uncle, aunt, and three cousins near Sigourney Iowa. He was found hiding in a hayloft after an intensive manhunt days after his car was abandoned. He denies killing the Andrew Mc Beth Family.
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NEA
Gayne Gilbert Smith
Sigourney
Iowa
Smith
Andrew McBeth
Irvin To Testify In Hearing In Sullivan Ind
Jurors in Leslie Irvin's second murder trial enjoy a day off as Judge Joe W. Loudermilk and defense and prosecution continue a hearing on whether a purported confession is admissible. Defense says coercion. Irvin may testify.
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Hudson
Loudermilk
Parking Ban Placed for Brownstown Pool Season
Brownstown town board bans parking on the north side of Bridge street from the Heideman property to the park entrance during pool season. South side parking remains allowed. The ban ends after pool season. Present were President Omer Terkhorn and trustees Schneider Butt Schleter Reynolds with town clerk Hazel Mitchell.
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Bridge Street
Brownstown
Omer Terkhorn
Harold Schneider
Russell Butt
James Schleter
Curtis Reynolds
Allan H. Nierman
Mitchell
Drum Of Explosives Found Near Kennedy Estate Beach
A 55 gallon drum of metallic sodium was found on a Palm Beach beach near the Kennedy estate. Navy experts exploded the drum at sea after sealing it with a time device. Investigators say the container likely fell from a ship and drifted ashore. a similar drum was found at Key Largo.
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Fla
Kennedy
Navy
Naval Ordnance Facility
Key Largo
Miami
White House
Pierre Savinger
Secret Service
Florida
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