Brownstown Board Acts To Aid Truckers And Free Up Downtown Parking
The Brownstown town board instructed marshals to assist truck drivers with off street deliveries via alleys and rear entrances to curb congestion. The street department will study no parking zones to create more downtown spaces while residents push for a graded street curb program. The board also noted a Midwest Natural Gas franchise is in place and pipe installation will begin soon after a pending PSC filing. Regular meeting minutes from May 11 and May 18 were approved along with standard claims.
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Brownstown
Bridge Street
St. Peter’s Lutheran Church
Midwest Natural Gas Corporation
Indianapolis
Indiana Public Service Commission
Midwest
Vernon
North Vernon
Salem
Brownstown faces pool funding drive aiming for next summer
Brownstown Improve ment Association members study methods to raise sixty thousand to sixty five thousand dollars in voluntary gifts for a town swimming pool modeled after Cincinnati designs. A park site is favored but engineering input and park commission consent will shape location with construction possible this year and use hoped at the start of next summer. Proposals and financing reports will be reviewed at the July 21 meeting.
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Brownstown
Cincinnati
Roy Paul
Paul
Rain and Heat Forecast for Area This Week
Rain cooled Jackson County and Indiana slightly but heat is expected to return Thursday and last through the weekend with scattered thundershowers. Temperatures near 80 today rising to around 90 by Thursday. Purdue crop report notes corn about 90 percent planted soybean about 80 percent with pastures generally good and tobacco planting half done. White River at Rockford 3.1 feet early this morning with a 62 degree low overnight.
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Jackson County
Indiana
Weather Bureau
Purdue
White River
Rockford
Bullet Narrowly Misses Manion At Freeman Field
Glen C. Manion Freeman Field manager escaped injury when a rifle shot passed near his head while he inspected aviation commission property. He chased three teen boys who admitted firing the shot claiming they were told weapon use was allowed at Freeman Field. Manion warned that firing is only permitted on the range and others may be prosecuted.
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Glen C. Manion
Freeman Field
Aviation Commission
Manion
Second Street
National Guard
Corydon Stage Coach Arrives En Route to Indianapolis
The famous Harrison County centennial stage coach travels from Corydon to Wallonia Brownstown and Seymour. It will reach Wallonia this afternoon and Brownstown tonight, with stops in Seymour Friday morning on its journey to Columbus Nashville and Indianapolis ending June 20.
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Corydon
Muscatatuck River
Wallonia
Brownstown
Seymour
Indianapolis
Harrison County
Columbus
Nashville
Isaacs and
Heiwig
Tipton Street
Chestnut Street
Chestnut
Second Street
Second
Broadway
Shields Park
Salem
Little York
Washington County
Muscatatuck
Jackson County
Indiana
Weather Records Official Tuesday Measurements
Official records show maximum and minimum readings for Tuesday with river level at 3.1 feet and a .00 value noted for precipitation. The fragment references the River at a specific height and indicates weather data were recorded but lacks full context.
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Seymour
Ruth Everhart
Rockford
Celebrity Series Announced for Seymour 1959 60
Seymour Chamber of Commerce reveals the full Jackson County Celebrity Series program to be staged in the new Seymour High School auditorium. Basil Rathbone opens on November 28 1959 followed by Jose Greco February 1 1960 Herman Clebanoff with Eileen Duncen March 31 1960 and the Dukes of Dixieland Jazz Americana closer the season. Season tickets go on sale June 11 with prices 25 front center 12 10 8 and student 4, all seats reserved and mailed in September.
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Seymour Chamber of Commerce Today
Jackson County
Seymour High School
Basil Rathbone
Sherlock Holmes
Jose Greco
Herman Clebanoff
Eileen Duncen
Robert H. Judd
The
Chamber
Judd
Cooperative Building and Loan Association
Home Federal Savings and Loan Association
Chamber of Commerce
Seymour
Tuberculosis Association Elects Officers in Jackson County
Robert R. Bell of Sunset Park was named president of the Tuberculosis Association of Jackson County Inc at the June board meeting. New officers include Harrell Forgey as first vice president Kelso Briner as second vice president and T S Sparks as third vice president. Harry B Fox was reelected treasurer. The group voted to skip July and August meetings and resume monthly sessions in September. Miss Mary Jane Gard Indianapolis discussed seal sales and noted the national board opposes United Fund campaigns for member associations, with 82 percent of real sale funds staying in the county.
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Robert R. Bell
Sunset Parkway
Tuberculosis Association of
Jackson County
Mary Jane Gard
Indianapolis
Indiana State Tuberculosis Association
James T. Lanham
Chamber of Commerce
United Fund
Miss Gard
National Associations For Tuberculosis Prevention, Detection and Control
Did You Know The School Bus Round Trip Distance
The note states the total daily mileage for all school buses is four miles round trip.
Trial Set for Thursday In Jackson Circuit Court
The May term jury trial for state versus Don Richard Stuckwisch 17 Seymour was waived as his case goes before Judge John M. Lewis unaccompanied by a jury. Other court actions include Frank Smith held on counts tied to a Rockford incident and Ronald Everett Lewis pleading guilty to public indecency with a June 22 hearing set for a criminal sexual psychopath petition.
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Jackson
Don Richard Stuckwisch
Seymour
John M. Lewis
Stuckwisch
Edgar D. Whitcomb
U. S. 50
Ronald Everett Lewis
Seymour R2
J. K. Miller
Robert Gill
Lewis
Local State Police Shoot In State Meet At Indiana University
Five officers from Seymour and Bloomington took part in the Indiana State Police pistol matches at Indiana University Bloomington. Cpl. Paul D. Christian placed 18th. the Lafayette district team won the team championship among twelve districts. Trooper Joseph A. Fitch of Valparaiso won the .38 caliber five shot slow fire match at 25 yards.
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Seymour
State
Indiana University
Bloomington
Eugene R. St. John
Malcolm Heuss
Jack Means
Seymour Post
Paul D. Christian
Harry Bolinger
Cpl
Christian
Lafayette
Joseph A. Fitch
Valparaiso
Erhard Adenauer quarrel ends with reconciliation vote likely
West Germany's Economic Minister Ludwig Erhard and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer failed to settle their dispute in private talks. A party caucus signaled unity and Erhard likely remains in office after a vote of confidence. The two leaders agreed to continue discussions in a full party meeting.
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Bonn
Germany
Ludwig Erhard
Konrad Adenauer
Christian Democratic Party
Erhard
Adenauer
Christian Democratic
West Germany
United States
Washington
Heinrich Krone
Hermann Hoecherl
Willi Rasner
Attackers Of Negro Coed Go On Trial Today
In Tallahassee four white youths aged 16 to 23 faced trial for the rape of a teenage Negro college coed. Spectators filled the segregated balcony while white onlookers were barred from the first floor to allow jurors. A veteran Florida judge pledged an unbiased proceeding regardless of race.
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Tallahassee
Fila
Florida
Geneva Talks Feared Doomed By Soviet Proposal
The Soviet Union offers a one year Berlin moratorium if the West starts German settlement talks on Soviet terms. Western officials call the plan unacceptable and say it undermines the Big Four talks. Gromyko signaled the proposal for public release.
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Geneva
Soviet Union
Berlin
U.S
West
Andrei Gromyko
Andrew H. Berding
Berding
Gromyko
Christian A. Herter
Herter
Selwyn Lloyd
Maurice Couve de Murville
West Berlin
German Democratic Republic
GDR
GFR
Supreme Justice Grants Killer Stay of Execution
Justice Charles Evans Whittaker granted a stay of execution to Charles Starkweather of Nebraska, delaying the electric chair date set for Friday. Starkweather's counsel have until June 17 to file a petition with the full Supreme Court for a review, with the stay continuing pending the court’s action.
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Washington
Charles Evans Whittaker
Supreme Court Today
Charles Starkweather
Nebraska
Starkweather
Whittaker
Supreme Court
Whittacker
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Harrison County Centennial
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Harrison County Agricultural Society
TB Association
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Kentucky
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Left Front
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Walter Albright
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