Safety Checks Set in County For Vehicle Inspections
American Legion Post No. 89 organizes voluntary safety checks in Crothersville and Medora with four man teams inspecting lights tires mirrors glass exhaust systems horns windshield wipers and steering. Passing vehicles receive Indiana safety tickets while defectives can be rechecked after repairs. Inspect dates and times are 6:30-8 pm Crothersville Tuesday and 6-7:30 pm Medora Wednesday.
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American Legion
Post No
Seymour
Raoper
Bert J. Reed
Crothersville
Medora
U. S. Road
Main Street
Meora
Indiana
Legion
City Fire Dept Extends Coverage to Annexed Areas
Mayor Donald L. Herwig ordered Chief Tom Bryant and the fire department to respond to calls from areas being annexed, bringing those outskirts under city fire protection for the first time. The council had begun annexation steps, previously leaving outlying districts unprotected by the department.
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Donald L. Herwig
Tom Bryant
Outlyfe
Town Board Eyes 225 Dollar Old Age Insurance Funding
Brownstown town board will meet at 7:30 PM on July 11 to consider an additional appropriation of 225 dollars to cover the town portion of Old Age and Survivor's Insurance contributions for 1955. Taxpayers may appear at the hearing.
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Town Board of
Brownstown
Brownstown Chamber of Commerce Elects Officers
The Brownstown Chamber of Commerce annual meeting at the Brownstown Methodist Church elected Joe Nierman president for the coming year, succeeding Wendell Hunsacker. Carl Plummer became vice president and Noble K. Foster secretary treasurer. Directors for two year terms are John Hamer Herschel Hamilton and Clarence Spurgeon with holdovers Dallas Lyons Clarence Ball and M. K. Summers. A 6:30 dinner opened the meeting and reports from committees outlined past activities and plans for next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownstown
Dallas Lyons
Clarence Ball
M. K. Summers
Chamber of Commerce
Robert Lahrman
Indiana Leads Nation in Savings Bonds Gains in May
Dr. A. A. Cohn reports Jackson county May bonds at 373,202 down from 431,056 last year while statewide May sales reach 13,292,498 up 23 percent. Sixty four of 92 Indiana counties show gains as state nears its 169,400,000 annual quota with widespread thrift by Hoosiers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. A. Cohn
Jackson County
Su. S. Savings Bonds Committee
Indiana
Indiana meeting promotes hospital trustee interest growth
Twenty two hospital trustees and administrators from Columbus Bedford Salem Jeffersonville New Albany Martinsville Seymour attended a seven county gathering at Seymour Home to promote interest and cooperation in Indiana hospitals. The group plans a state wide hospital trustee manual and will present a program at the Indiana Hospital Association meeting in Indianapolis in October.
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Indiana
Indiana State Board of Earth
Seymour Lks
Atolumbus
Bedford
Salem
Jeffsonville
New Albany
Martinsille
Seymour
State Board of Health
W. F. N. Martin
Fara of Health
Indiana Hospital Association
Indiana University Medical Center
Indianapolis
E. M. Boss
Brownstown
Jackson County Schneck Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees
Schneck Board of Trustees
Hugh Grim
Martin Bergsieker
Roy Chasteen
Crothersville
Ralph W. Keyes
Schneck Memorial Hospital
Southeastern Council of Indiana Hospitals
Keyes
Civil Defense drill simulates city bombing fallout
Seymour and Jackson County ran a paper scenario of a Louisville air strike during Operation Alert-1955. The exercise staged 75 hospital casualties and 15,000 evacuees, tested at Jeffersonville and county dispersal points with CAP liaison and local volunteers.
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Seymour
Louisville
Jackson County
Jeffersonville
U. S. Roads
Floyd and
Clark
Fulton R. Meyer
James H. Hedden
Hedden
West Second Street
Civil Air Patrol
CAP
Freeman Field
New York
Chicago
Baptist Youth Center
Schneck Memorial Hospital
Seymour Summer Band Concert Tonight at Gaiser Park
The Seymour Summer Band directed by Frank D. Cofield presents its first concert of the season tonight at 8 on the tennis courts of Gaiser Park. The program, postponed from Shields Park last Thursday due to weather, includes Sousa marches and classical pieces with intermission before the Star Spangled Banner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour
Frank D. Cofield
Shields High School
Gaiser Park
Shields Park
Bennett
Morrissey
Royal Gorge
Little
Ivanovici
Walters
Frank
Manhattan Beach
Sousa
Roman Forum
Canera
Scott
Dance With
Henry
Rogers
Washington Post
Key
Shields and Gaiser Parks
Seymour Park Board
Weather records for Seymour day official and unofficial
Official readings from Ruth Everhart government observer and unofficial 2 PM temperature from downtown thermometer. The report notes multiple readings for Seymour with authorities and local observer data.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour
Ruth Everhart
Intruders Take $527 In Judd's Market Break-in
Robbery at Judd's Market 501 Ewing street used a meat cleaver to pry open a safe. Cash totaling 527.52 was stolen while checks and merchandise were left. Entry gained by breaking a window. store opened by Kenny Parr. insurance reportedly covering part of the loss.
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Judd
Ewing Street
Robert Gill
Kenny Parr
Donald Winn
Seymour
New Trial Denied in $60,000 Jackson County Verdict
Joy Natalie of Bloomington had a $60,000 judgment upheld by Judge John M. Lewis after a Jackson Circuit Court jury found her liable for injuries in an accident that left Mrs. Edward G. Bixter unconscious for over two years before her death. The case came from Monroe county. In other actions Frank P. Smith received 30 days at the state penal farm for guilty plea to interfering with an officer.
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Joy Natalie
Bloomington
Jackson
John M. Lewis
Natalie
Edward G. Bixter
Jackson County
Monroe County
Frank P. Smith
State Penal Farm
Smith
Frank O. Davidson
Seymour
Davidson
Merl Early
Illinois
Early
Indiana
Blake L. Burns
Charles T. Reinbold
Justice of the Peace Court
Brownstown
Rollan Burton
Insurance Men Install Officers at Seymour Dinner
Tri County Association of Life Underwriters installed new officers at a Wednesday dinner meeting at Seymour Country Club. Riley Hash became president, Eugene Fin chum Vice-president, and W E Kleine secretary. Paul W Prior spoke on "What Is the Payment" as several Seymour and Columbus members attended. Next meeting slated for fall.
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Tri-County Association of Life Underwriters
Seymour Country Club
Seymour
Columbus
Riley Hash
Ralph Barnett
Eugene Finchum
Dewey Young
W. E. Kleine
Russell Shouse
Paul W. Prior
Mr. Hash
Mr. Shouse
Mr. Kleine
Dennis Durkoop
Roy Dailey
J. Robert Klein
Dunlap Bid Wins Columbus Contract for High School
Dunlap and Co of Columbus and Seymour won a 1.163 million dollar contract to build a Columbus high school. Their base bid was 816,415, underbidding J. L. Simmons Co of Indianapolis by 42,485. B and G Electric of Indianapolis and Freya Brothers of Indianapolis also won trades, with equipment moving to the site this week and work to start immediately toward a fall 1956 occupancy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunlap and Co
Columbus
Seymour
J. L. Simmons Co
Indianapolis
B. and G. Electric Co
Freya Brothers
Dunlap
Woman Found Along Highway Receives Hospital Treatment
Mrs. Mary Baker, 33, of Austin wife of Louis Baker, was admitted to Schneck Memorial Hospital after being found unconscious along U S Road 31 near Austin about 10 15 PM Wednesday. X rays showed no back fractures and she was expected to be released today.
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Mary Baker
Austin
Louis Baker
Schneck Memorial Hospital
U. S. Road 31
Infant Drinks Kerosene. Good Condition
Duane Jolly an 18 month old son of Mr and Mrs Marvin Jolly Cortland Alabama was admitted in good condition to Schneck Memorial Hospital after swallowing a few mouthfuls of kerosene from an open filling can left by his mother on the kitchen stove.
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Duane Jolly
Marvin Jolly
Cortland al
Schneck Memorial Hospital
Ike and NSC Hold Hideaway Mock Atomic Crisis
President Eisenhower leads the Defense Department session with the National Security Council at a hidden underground White House site to review a simulated 61-city atomic attack. The mock briefing covers relief, price and wage controls, rationing, and war production with 15,000 government workers mobilized.
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Eisenhower
White House
Defense Department
National Security Council
Congress
Security Council
Washington
Airliner crashes near Asuncion in heavy fog
A Brazilian airliner with 24 aboard crashed five miles from Asuncion in dense fog. Fifteen dead or missing, nine known survivors. Notables among the passengers include Time magazine's John Dowling and Vesillo Bartoli, coach of Italy's Torino club, both seriously burned. The flight was Buenos Aires bound from London via Paris and Rio de Janeiro.
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Asuncion
Paraguay
Unace
Panair Do Brasil
John Dowling
Time Magazine
Buenos Aires
Sao Paulo
Brazil
Cuatro Mojones
London
Paris
Lisbon
Dakar
Recife
Rio de Janeiro
Vessilio Bartoli
Italy
Torino
Panair
Pan American Airways
Europe
Latin America
Rites Set Friday for Mrs Nettie A Wagner
Funeral services for Mrs. Nettie A. Wagner 77 Columbus R7 will be Friday at 2 pm at Barkes and Inlow Funeral Home with Rev. Robert Atkins of Bethel Baptist Church presiding. Burial will be in Daugherty Cemetery. She died Tuesday night at Shanklin nursing home after years of ill health. Survived by son Percy Wagner and daughters Mrs. Wallace Ray and Mrs. Frances Harris. brothers Ephraim and other siblings. several grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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Nettie A. Wagner
Columbus
Barkes
Shanklin
Two-Car Crash Causes Minor Damage in City
A 1951 kasper two-door driven by Jeanette Kasper 31 of Seymour was struck by a 1952 two-door driven by Walter Lunte 60 of 819 West Fifth Street as Kasper attempted to park on South Chestnut Street. Damage: $40 to Kasper, $2 to Lunte. Offic e notice indicates closure until July 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeanette H. Kasper
Walter H. Lunte
West Fifth Street
South Chestnut Sreet
Bruce Street
Kasper
Chestnut
Lunte
Bruce
Lante
Revolt Escalates in Buenos Aires as Government House Attacked
Riot erupts in Buenos Aires amid Peron government clash. Bombs explode near Government House while mortars and machine guns fire on presidential guard. Reports say clashes spread to Rosario as navy and air force units contend for control. Casualties noted as streets clear.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Government House
Peron
Juan D. Peron
Vatican
Rosario
Queen Mary Sail Halted by Wildcat Strike
Britain faces disruption as the 81,000 ton Queen Mary cancels New York sailing after 120 crew members join a walkout. About 1,100 passengers, including 50 D'Oyly Carte company members, disembark as Cunard's plans crumble. Striking crew seek a 48 hour week and higher shore allowance. union refuses to endorse the action.
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Southampton
England
Britain
New York
Cunard
D’oyly Carte Opera Company
United States
Canada
Liverpool
Seamen’s Union
Social Security Revision Bill Heads for Early House Action
Democratic leaders win approval for a bill to revamp Social Security focusing on women and disabled workers. Proposals include lowering the women’s eligibility age to 62, immediate benefits for insured disabled workers, maintaining benefits for incapacitated children, and potential voluntary coverage for some professionals.
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Washington
Rayburn
Texas
McCormack
Massachusetts
Ways and Means Committee
House
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Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Ike
Mr. Eisenhower
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