Severe Thunderstorms and Winds Hit Seymour Causing Outages
A fast moving thunderstorm lighted up Seymour Thursday afternoon with cyclone like winds downing trees and limbs while a late night storm knocked out power to the Indiana Telephone Corporation home office for about three hours. Fire crews responded to several incidents including attic and building damage from lightning and a trash fire fan by strong winds. Utilities worked through the night restoring outages as street crews cleared downed limbs.
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Seymour
Indiana Telephone Corporation
Seymour City
Indiana Lines
ITC
William Steele
Steele
Fifth Street
North Broadway
Third Street
Lee Boulevard
City Street
David Brown
Brown
State Vocational Funding Plan Unveiled At Hearing
Indiana public education plan seeks to curb federal funding for Ivy Tech and place the state superintendent of public instruction in control of vocational education. The three part hearings proceed to the State Board and then Washington. The plan aims to create two new junior colleges and expand high school vocational enrollment by 1974. Community groups express concern Ivy Tech may be sidelined.
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Indiana Vocational Technical College
Ivy Tech
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Bedford
Richard Wells
Wells
Indiana
State Board of Vocational Technical Education
Department of Health
Leges
Vincennes
Aflcio
Indiana Hospital Association
Indiana Farm Bureau
Max F. Wright
Indiana Aflcio
Order Issued In Junk Yard Case In Jackson Circuit Court
A temporary injunction and restraining order were granted against Edison and Oscar Franklin doing business as Franklin Brothers Junk Yard. The amended petition seeks to redefine defendants and set a July 1 hearing. The suit alleges accumulation of junk and obstruction of streets. zoning noncompliance is also charged by Seymour City and the plan commission.
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Jackson
Edison
Oscar Franklin
Franklin Brothers Junk Yard
City of
Seymour
City Plan Commission
John M. Lewis
Edison Franklin
Jonathan J. Robertson
Lewis
Seymour City
Plan Commission
Social Agencies Board Outlines Summer Programs
At the June Jackson County United Fund Board of Social Agencies meeting held at Seaboard Finance, Boys' Club reports show summer baseball and softball leagues, leadership sessions with youth from Indiana Ohio and Kentucky, and a Camp Elk session through August 4. Girl Scouts list 175 girls in eight units at day camps near Seymour and Crothersville with Brownstown and Bradford Woods camping planned. Camp Tu lip Trace and Camp Friendly also used. Boy Scouts plan Camp Louis Ernst attendance, with James Noggle at a national camping school and the Order of the Arrow conclave opening this week.
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Jackson County United Fund
Seaboard Finance
Harry Cherry
Indiana
Ohio
Kentucky
Camp Elk
Don Prather
Girl Scouts
Seymour and Crothersville
Jackson State Forest
Brownstown
Camp Tulip Trace
Bradford Woods
Seymour-Redding School
Bedford
Neil Thompson
Boy Scouts
Louis Ernst
James Noggle
Seymour
Order of the Arrow
Sheryl Davis
U S Forces to Withdraw Riversides in Vietnam Reinforced by VN Troops
The U S Command announced two brigades of the 9th Infantry Division and a regimental landing team of the 3rd Marine Division will be withdrawn from South Vietnam by the end of August. They will be replaced by South Vietnamese soldiers.
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Saigon
U. S
U. S. 9Th Infantry Division
U. S. Marine Division
South Vietnam
Friday the 13th fears and old superstitions explored
The piece surveys Friday the 13th superstition and related beliefs from rabbit feet to knocking on wood. It traces origins of practices like handshakes, salt over the shoulder, and saying Gesundheit to show how ancient fears persist in modern gestures.
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Charlie Brown
Seymour Airports Board Seeks 296255 Budget Approval
The Seymour board of aviation commissioners tentatively approves a 296 255 budget and forwards it to the Seymour common council for review. The panel also considers a fast response to Colonial Village’s utility service proposal and orders traffic signs for Freeman Field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour Board of Aviation Commissioners
Seymour
Glen Manion
Freeman Field
Plan Commission Denies Variance To Vacate Street
A variance to vacate a dedicated but unopened street was denied at a plan commission meeting. Three Seymour R3 families petitioned for the street and utility easements on lots 12 and 13. The vote was 3 to 4 with two members absent. The panel also approved a home beauty shop special use permit in the city master plan.
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Plan Commission
Henry W. Snyder
Charles W. Yeager
Melvin Pollett
Seymour R3
E. P. Elsner, Jr
Snyder
Snyde Acres
Thomas J. Tracy
Kenneth Schneider
Tracy
Robert E. Shippee
Paul Rainier
George G. Graessle
Carol Scott
Board of Zoning Appeals
Northeastern Drive
J. Robert Klein
William D. Bateman
Baniwa_ Corp
Mutton Creek Estates
Commisssion
Bateman
Ex-Brown Pastor To Retire At South Indiana Conference
The Rev. Frank M. Templin, longtime Brownstown pastor, is among 10 veteran ministers retiring at the closing service of the four day South Indiana Conference in Bloomington. About 1,600 delegates from 54 southern Indiana counties attend the gathering on the Indiana University campus.
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Frank M. Templin
Brownstown
Templin
Wellston
Okla
Northwest Indiana Conference
Indiana Conference
Madison
Wall Street Church
Jeffersonville
Meridian Street Methodist Church
Indianapolis
Meridian Street
Richard E. Hamilton
Bloomington
Fund For Reconciliation
United Methodists
Conference
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Jackson Park Place
Glen E. Haley
South Chestnut Street
Dewey Hubbard
Haley
James Osterman
South Park Drive
Salem, Ind
Leon Brewer
Rock Creek
Salem
R. L. Fultz
Washington County
Social Agencies Board
Bulletin
By Jean Brownlee
Sherman McElfresh
Airport Board
Penses
Layne Northern Co
Henry B. Steeg
By Leary
Darwin
Ruth Everhart
Rockford
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