County Begins Wheat Harvest Looks Good Across Jackson County
First loads entered Davis Feed and Grain in Seymour and Farm Bureau Co op and Helwig Grain Elevator in Cortland show the 1977 harvest starting. Purdue notes Spring conditions good, with Indiana winter wheat projected at about 50 million bushels, near 10th highest on record, amid lower prices and strong yields in some fields.
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Jackson County
Davis Feed and Grain
Seymour
Farm Bureau Coop
Helwig Grain
Cortland
Jackson
South
Indiana
Purdue University
U.S
General Motors Corporation
Farno Green
Dry spell raises farmers’ caution in Jackson County
County grain elevator managers report anxious farmers amid a dryer than normal June with about 2.5 inches below the monthly average after nine dry days. Some fields are spotty while others have adequate rain, and forecasters predict heavy showers this weekend as a cold front passes.
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Jackson County
Crothersville
Dudleytown
Cortland
Seymour
Father Son Hurt In Accident At Halfway Bridge
Lawrenceburg man Earl R Justis and his son Gordon C Justis were injured when their pick up and camper flipped on U S 50 at the Halfway Bridge after the driver reportedly dozed. The 14 year old was freed from the wreckage. Damage was about 6000 dollars. Both were treated locally.
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Lawrenceburg
U.S. 50
Halfway Bridge
William A. Leadens
Seymour Post
State Police
Earl R Justis
Justis
Gordon C. Justis
Jackson County
Seymour Weather Records Report
Noon temperature in Seymour unofficial while other readings come from Ruth Everhart Rockford weather observer records. Friday maximum 88 and minimum 65 with river level at 1.5 feet. Sunrise at 5 17 EST and sunset today. Falling trend noted from 7 am to 1 pm.
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Seymour
Ruth Everhart
Rockford
Sey
Sentencing Set For Ball In Triple Murder Case
Mikey Steven Ball, 25, of Indianapolis, was found guilty by a Madison Jefferson Circuit Court jury on three counts of second degree murder for the Dec 28 1975 shotgun slayings of Steven Nichter Ricky Burke and Eugene Lillico. The six man six woman jury recommended three life terms. Sentencing tentatively slated for June 23 by Judge Joseph L Hensley follows a three week trial with a pre sentence investigation underway. Ball faced trial after venue change from Hamilton Circuit Court Noblesville.
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Mikey Steven Ball
Indianapolis
Jefferson
Madison
Ball
Seymour
Joseph L. Hensley
Jefferson Circuit
Hamilton
Noblesville
Steven A Nichter
Ricky J. Burke
Eugene Lillico
Nichter
Burke
Space Shuttle Enterprise Piggyback Flight Scrubbed at Edwards
Engineers tuned the Space Shuttle Enterprise guidance and its four computers for a piggyback flight on a Boeing 747 at Edwards Air Force Base California. The mission was postponed after a computer malfunction and hatch restraint issues delayed takeoff.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Donald K
Deke” Slayton
Fred W. Haise Jr
Air Force
Gordon Fullerton
Slayton
Haise
Fire destroys vehicle and damages homes in city
Firefighters from Station Two answered at 4 25 a m to Steve Gilley at 713 West Eighth Street discovering a 1972 station wagon fully engulfed. The car was destroyed and smoke damaged a nearby residence and shed. A separate fire at 203 South Park Drive caused smoke from a space heater short in wiring.
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Steve Gilley
West Eighth Street
Gilley
Edward Turpin
South Park Drive
Jackson County to Hear $140000 Revenue Sharing Funding Plan
Jackson County commissioners schedule a public hearing Monday at 9 a.m. at the courthouse to consider a $140,000 federal revenue sharing appropriation. Plans include $114,000 for highway bituminous materials, $12,000 for a jail roof and engineering, $12,000 for courthouse furnace and engineering, and $2,000 for mosquito control. They will also open bids for reflective traffic signs funded by federal state and county sources.
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Jackson County Board of Commissioners
Harry Schepman
Delmar Ault
John Emily
County Health Department
Revitalization Of Aging Group Discussed Here
A Seymour Community Center meeting led by Tom Ross focused on reviving the Jackson County Council on Aging formed in 1975. Citizens plan to recruit representatives from Seymour Wallonia Brownstown Medora Crothersville and Freetown to rebuild the council and set priorities including housing nutrition transportation telephone reassurance and health services.
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Jackson County Council On Aging
Seymour
Tom Ross
Region 11 Area Agency
Area Agency On Aging
State Commission
Wallonia
Brownstown
Medora
Crothersville
Freetown
Re-Enactment At Corydon Draws Indiana Legislators
About 200 spectators watched a Friday re-enactment of the first Indiana General Assembly on Corydon courthouse square. The event featured 42 legislators including Rep. Thomas W. Hall and Sen. James W. Spurgeon. Sen. W. Richard Miller complained of high official salaries, noting $1,000 for the governor and $700 for the three supreme court justices.
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Indiana General Assembly
Corydon
Thomas W. Hall
Medora
James W Spurgeon
Brownstown
W. Richard Miller
Plymouth
Supreme Court
Virginia Dill McCarty Becomes U.S. Attorney
Virginia Dill McCarty was sworn in as U.S. attorney for southern Indiana in a White House ceremony led by President Carter. The Indianapolis attorney becomes the first woman to hold a full term as U.S. attorney, with her son Michael assisting at the oath and her daughter unable to attend.
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Washington
Indianapolis
Virginia Dill McCarty
U.S
Southern Indiana
White House
Carter
McCarty
Eleanor Norton
New York
Patricia Derian
Mississippi
A. Leon Higginbotham Jr
Philadelphia
Annette Adams
California
Michael
Janet
Norton
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Derian
State Department
Galloway Named President of Indiana Association of Public School Superintendents
Dr Conrad Galloway superintendent of Seymour Community Schools is elected president of the Indiana Association of Public School Superintendents for this year. He will lead a 16 member executive committee and preside over three to four annual meetings while guiding efforts to improve educational administration and student opportunities in Indiana.
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Conrad Galloway
Seymour Community Schools
Indiana Association of Public School Superintendents
Galloway
IAPSS
Dr. Galloway
Charles Fields
LAPSS
Indiana School Boards Association
Indianapolis
Hoosier
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Johnson Funeral Home
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Chin Goon
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Chinatown
Stanley Foreman
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Space Shuttle
Secur
James A. Lovell
John L. Swigert
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Fullerton
NASA
Pentagon
Manned Orbiting Laboratory
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