Council Deadlocks Over School Post
The Seymour Common Council deadlocked on appointing a school board member to fill a forthcoming vacancy. Nominee Rodman C. Pruitt received three votes with two abstentions and Millard F. Topie was absent. Mayor Isaacs declined to break the tie and action was postponed to June 24.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rodman C. Pruitt
Millard F. Topie
John C. Isaacs
Isaacs
A. R. Jones
Athol P. Woolls
Clyde D. Hill
Pruitt
Glen C. Manion
Clarence Stark
Clarence Moenning
Brownstown Board Weighs Parking Meters Plan
The Brownstown town board met Monday in the Foster Story Insurance building to discuss parking meters. Members debated revenue and congestion relief versus potential trade discouragement and postponed a final decision for further study with the Browns Town Chamber of Commerce. Plans also covered oiling gravel streets and possible paving of other streets. Regular claims were approved before adjournment.
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Brownstown
Foster Story Insurance
Shields High Band Plans First Summer Practice
Shields Memorial Gym Band Room hosts first summer rehearsal at 7 p m tonight announced by Frank Cofield director of instrumental music. Current and former band members are invited to join to perform together and prepare for next school year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shields High School
Shields Memorial Gymnasium
Frank Cofield
Legion Banquet Plans Completed for Seymour Post 89
Reservations for the American Legion Installation Banquet on Wednesday are being taken through tonight announced Bruce Kramer commander. Call the Legion Home JA 2-1846 for reservations. A large turnout is expected with two past state commanders and several past Ninth District leaders on the guest list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
Bruce Kramer
Seymour Post No. 89
Legion
JA 2
Ninth District
Rotary Club Hears Instrument Flying Program manager Compliments Field
Seymour Rotary heard Norman Jeffries of Central American Airways praise Freeman Field facilities and runways. He noted the Seymour and Tennessee schools train instrument pilots, with about 18 students every two months from the Fifth Army Area, and explained the program costs about one third of Air Force training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman Jeffries
Central American Airways
Freeman Field
Seymour Rotary Club
Jeffries
Seymour
Phil Cordes, Jr
Ralph Keyes
Phil Cordes
Elks Club
United States
Edward P. Elsner
Indiana Senate
Seymour Elks Club
E. P. Elsner
The
Elk Club
Indianapolis
Elsmer
Tennessee
Fifth Army
Methodists Convene for 126th Indiana Conference in Bloomington
Seymour and Jackson county Methodists head to Bloomington for the 126th Indiana Annual Conference. Sessions open with memorial service and Holy Communion, then 2 p.m. meetings at Indiana University auditorium. The event runs through Sunday with ordination, love feast, youth rally, and massed choir.
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Seymour
Jackson County
Bloomington
Indiana
Methodist Church
First Methodist Church
Hiram C. Weld
North Methodist Church
Indianapolis
Richard C. Raines
Indiana University
Raines
Emery Parks
Thomas G. Scott
Trinity Methodist Church
W. E. Siders
Brownstown
Mild Humid Weather With More Rain Forecast
Warm humid weather with showers and thunderstorms is in prospect through Thursday per the Indiana Weather Bureau. High Monday reached 82 degrees while the low was 69, with only a trace of rain locally but heavier rainfall in some state sections.
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Indiana Weather Bureau
Weather Clock Hits Seymour With Mixed Readings
Official and unofficial readings mark Seymour weather for the day. The 2 AM temperature comes from the downtown thermometer as unofficial while other readings, including the 2 PM river stage at 4.68 feet, come from Mrs Ruth Everhart the government observer.
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Seymour
Ruth Everhart
Lawyers Present Girard Case To District Judge
Washington case over Army Specialist 3.C. William S. Girard seeks a writ of habeas corpus to block being tried by Japanese courts. Government argues U S foreign relations would suffer and courts cannot review executive decisions.
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Girard
Washington
William
U. S
Ing
Japan
Eisenhower
United States
Far East
Supreme Court
Justice Black
Progress Report On Welcome Signs In Seymour
The Seymour Chamber of Commerce public relations committee heard updates on three large welcome signs to be placed at highway entrances. Signs are being assembled and planned for erection around July first with emblems from six local groups. Location specifics will be decided by next Monday night meeting as ideas to benefit the community were discussed.
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Seymour Planning and Zoning Commission
Metropolitan Planners, Inc
Metropolitan
Tom G. Voss
Seymour Public Library
Seymour Board of Public Works and Safety
Pine Street
Seymour
Edward S. Lustig
Bruce Street
Jones
Park Commission
West Side Park
Shields Park
State Highway Department
Broadway
Harry Patton
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad
North O'Brien Street
East Second
East Fourth Streets
Patton
Seymour Chamber of Commerce
C. of C
E. O. Stark
Robert Shippee
Shippee
Eisenhower Returns to Office After Stomach Upset
President Eisenhower, virtually recovered from a stomach upset, returns to his White House desk in good spirits. He jokes about needing steaks as photographers briefly record his first in-office moments since Monday illness. Doctors report no findings on cause and note no engagements today.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Eienhower
Howard M. Snyder
Mayflower Moving After Calm Night
Prov town, Mass. The wind improved and the tiny bark Mayflower II began moving again after a be calmed night. At 9 30 am Capt. Alan Villiers reported he was 15 miles west of Nantucket Lightship and would try to estimate arrival time in Provincetown later today.
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Provinceton
Mass
Alan Villiers
Nantucket
Provincetown
Atlantic
Plymouth
Civil Rights Bill Moves Toward Vote in House
The House nears the amendment stage of its civil rights bill amid Southern resistance as debate opens to amendments. Supporters say the measure protects voting rights and would allow federal court injunctions. Southern critics push for a jury trial provision they claim would derail the bill’s aims. Southern Democrats need Northern Democrat and Republican backing, with estimates of at least ten Republicans and ten Northern Democrats required for passage.
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Washington
House
Senate
Senate Judiciary Committee
Justice Department
Senate hearing links Hutcheson to Indiana land profits
Senate Roads subcommittee hearings in Washington implicate Maurice Hutcheson president of the Carpenters Union and two top officers with $80 000 in quick turnover land profits for an Indiana expressway. Hutcheson and others invoke the Fifth Amendment and may face federal state and union actions.
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Washington
Sen
Gore
D-Tenn
Justice Department
Maurice A. Hutcheson
Carpenters Union
Senate
Indiana Highway Department
Gary
Ind
Indiana
Federal District Attorney
Lake County
Harold Handley
Senate Rackets Investigating Committee
Hutcheson
Afl-Cio
Dave Beck
Teamsters Union
Ref
William
Big Bill) Hutcheson
George Meany
Executive Council
Chicago
Carpenters
Frank M. Chapman
O. William Blaier
Virgil W
Red) Smith
Indiana Highway Commission
Harry V. Doggett
Canadian Conservatives win ends Liberal 22 year rule
John Diefenbaker leads the Conservatives to a plurality in the House of Commons with 110 seats to 103 for the Liberals, signaling a possible minority government and a cabinet change after Louis St Laurent resignation. The Liberals lose pivotal ministers while pledging prosperity and tax policy disputes.
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Liberal Party
Canada
Torontop
John Dieferbaker
House of Commons
Louis St. Laurent
Vincent Massey
Diefenbaker
Liberals
Socialist Ccf
Cooperative Commonwealth Federation
Social Credit Party
CCF
St Laurent
St. Laurent
Lester B. Pearson
Finance
Walter Harris
Pearson
Paul Hellyer
Revenue Mins
Defense
Ralph Campney
James McCann
Robert Winters
Labor
Milton Gregg
Justice
Stuart Garson
Hughes Lapointe
Tories
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O'Brien
Hill
Manion and Woolls
George Crowder
Arvin Industries
B’town Board
Rotary Club
Jameson Jones
Nashville
Paul Blanshard
Ralph W. Lockman
Christ Methodist Church
New York City
Alan Walker
Australia
Boston University School of Theology
Charles D. Patterson
Merrill B. McFall
NEA Telephoto
Itsuro Hayashi
William S. Girard
Hayashi
Maebashi
Department of Justice
Ike
Mayflower
Senate Group
Hutchinson
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