County Ranks Eighth In High Unemployment
Jackson County shows an April unemployment rate above 9.8 percent, ranking eighth among Indiana counties. Seymour's Larry Krukewitz counters that local unemployment is among the lowest for similarly sized cities, with no new layoffs for five weeks and notable backlogs in recalls. statewide claims fall 2.4 percent to 156,856 as processing improvements speed benefit payments.
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Indiana Employment Security Division
Jackson County
Indiana
Larry Krukewitz
Seymour Chamber of Commerce
Seymour
Jackson
Ohio
Howard
Henry
Scott
Franklin
Crawford
White
Krukewitz
Columbus
Bedford
Coppes
Ten Accidents Probed During Weekend Here
Weekend traffic in Jackson County included ten accidents and six citations by state and city police. One minor injury occurred to Judy A. Perko after a 7:27 a.m. crash on Ind. 258. An unattended-running car rolled into Gladys M. Buchell’s car on U.S. 31, with David L. Roth cited for leaving a vehicle unattended. A third incident involved George Pfaffenberger backing into Helen Royalty on U.S. 31 near U.S. 50. no injuries. City police investigated three mishaps damaging five autos, with Irene Nieman and Carolyn Greathouse among the drivers involved.
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Jackson County
Judy A. Perko
Seymour
Indiana
William A. Leadens
Seymour Post
U.S. 31
Gladys M. Buchell
Seymour Rl
Park
David L. Roth
Scottsburg
Roth
Irene E. Nieman
Summer Classes Planned Across Indiana Schools
Indiana will fund summer sessions in about 300 schools including four county high schools. Seymour High plans two sessions from June 9 to August 1 with a driver education class and no tuition, plus a reading program for elementary students. Crothersville and Medora offer driver education and elementary reading math and recreation programs with schedules in June and July.
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Indiana
Harold H. Negley
Seymour High School
U.S
Seymour
Emerson and
Washington
Crothersville High School
Medora High School
Weather Records For Seymour Downtown Noon Reading
Weather records for Seymour show downtown noon temperature unofficial while other readings by Mrs. Ruth Everhart official. Data include Sunday maximum and minimum, river level at 7 a m, sunset at 8 07 EST and sunrise at 5 18 EST Tuesday.
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Seymour
Ruth Everhart
Rockford
Ford Sadat end talks seek peace plan in month
President Ford and Anwar Sadat wrap intensive Salzburg talks with plans to unveil a Middle East peace formula within a month and to extend bilateral economic aid to Egypt. Sadat looks forward to Cairo visit while Kissinger calls talks “in the upper range” of expectations. Israel's Rabin announces troop and tank withdrawals near the Suez Canal as a peace gesture and schedules canal reopening.
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Salzburg
Austria
Ford
Egypt
Anwar Sadat
Middle East
United States
Sadat
Cairo
White House
Henry A. Kissinger
U.S
Israel
Yitzhak Rabin
Jerusalem
Suez Canal
May Ends Hot and Dry, Then Storms Sweep Indiana
The Indiana month of May featured unusually hot and dry periods with weekend readings up to 69 and 75 degrees. Rainfall totaled 3.84 inches for the month, while Jackson County saw 17 inches of rain Friday and .5 inches Saturday, followed by a dreary June 1 as cool fronts and minor troughs move through Central Indiana.
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Smokey
New Jersey
Indiana
Jackson County
Kansas
Illinois
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Leadens
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Robert Lewis
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Christopher D. Moritz
Ford-Sadat
Rabin
United Nations
Ani
Weather Service
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