New Ridgeview Housing Units Set for July Opening
The Federal Housing Project at Ridgeview near Seymour will begin occupancy in early July. Four blocks provide 350 family units with 150 in the first completed block. Prefabricated, insulated structures house eight or six families, on twenty acres by Freeman Field.
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Ridgeview
Seymour
Towell Construction Company
Jackson County
Freeman Field
Don A. Bollinger
Airport Road
Freeman
Freeman Field Open House Invites 17 Year Olds
Freeman Army Air Field announces an open house on Sunday July 4 from 9 am to 12 noon for seventeen year old youths in Seymour and vicinity. Cadets and officers will conduct tours of line maintenance hangars mess hall barracks theater gym chapels and other areas while an aerial review and cadet parade are featured.
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Seymour
E. T. Rundquist
Freeman Army Air Field
Freeman Field
Rundquist
U. S. Army Air Forces
Air Corps Enlisted Reserve
Air Corps
Aviation Cadet
United States Army
Flying Training Command
Army Air Forces
Schricker Names Col Rundquist To Nurses Recruitment Week
Col. E. T. Rundquist is invited by Gov. Schricker to join a general committee for Central Indiana nurses recruitment in the week of June 27 to July 3. The climax is a July 3 nurses meeting on the Ball estate in Indianapolis with Capt. George E. Crum and Lt. Winifred J. McKinny present. The drive aims to recruit 500 more nurses to meet the annual quota.
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E. T. Rundquist
Freeman Field
Henry F. Schricker
Indiana
Schricker
Ball Estate
Indianapolis
Rundquist
George E. Crum
Base
Winifred J. MccKinny
Capt. Crum
Hoosiers Named on Prisoners of War List
The War Department released an additional list of American prisoners of war. Seven Indiana men are named including six held by Germany. Evansville’s James Choate is noted as interned by Japan. Interned by Germany are Sgt Kenneth Balbridge Bloomington Sgt Peter Brasic Gary Lt Haldron Haywood Terre Haute Lt John Lember son Straughn Sgt Maynard Spencer Rockville Lt John Winchell Indianapolis.
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Washington
War Department
Indiana
Germany
James Choate
Evansville
Japan
Kenneth Balbridge
Bloomington
Peter Brasic
Gary
Haldron Haywood
Terre Haute
John Lemberson
Straughn
Maynard Spencer
Rockville
John Winchell
Indianapolis
Indiana Congressmen Vote to Override Roosevelt on Strike Bill
Indiana lawmakers including Rep Earl Wilson join in overriding the President's veto on the Connally labor bill. Senators Raymond Willis and Frederick Van Nuys supported the override, while reps Ludlow Madden LaFollette voted to sustain. Absentees were Johnson and Landis.
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Rep. Wilson
Roosevelt
Earl Wilson
Indiana
House
Senate
Forest Harness
George W. Gillie
Charles A. Halleck
Raymond&. Springer
Robert A. Grant
Raymond E. Willis
Frederick van Nuys
Louis Ludlow
Ray J. Madden
Charles M. LaFollette
Noble Johnson
Gerald Landis
Johnson
Maine
Enigin
Joseph Eugene Campbell
Terre Haute
Astoria
Willis
Dcol
Wallace
Gillie
Fort Wayne
Harness
Funeral services for Hugo Claycamp
Hugo Claycamp died Monday at McCaw General Hospital Walla Walla Washington. Funeral will be held 1 PM Sunday from his parents home Jonesville then 1 30 PM at Jonesville Lutheran Church Rev Edward Hoeferkamp in charge. Burial in Jonesville Lutheran cemetery. Friends may call at the home anytime.
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Hugo Claycamp
McCaw General Hospital
Walla Walla
Wash
Clarence Claycamp
Jonesville
Jonesville Lutheran Church
Edward Hoeferkamp
Jonesville Lutheran Cemetery
Son Born Friday Night at Schneck Memorial Hospital
A son was born Friday night at Schneck Memorial Hospital to Mr and Mrs Jean Tumbrink.
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Schneck_ Memorial Hospital
Jean Tumbrink
State Bar Meet Set for July 17 in Claypool Hotel
Indiana State Bar Association to hold a one day wartime meet in the Claypool Hotel with principal speakers Senator Millard E. Tidings of Maryland and George Maurice Morris of Washington. Past presidents to be honored include Samuel Parker, Thomas E. Davidson, William E. Hough and others. Officers up for election include James R. Newkirk as president and Carl M. Gray as vice president with a nominating committee proposal to advance Gray and name Hugenard as vice president. Board nominees include Hershman, Larue, Bloom, Wickens, and Grabill.
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Jackson County Bar Association
Indiana State Bar Association
Claypool Hotel
Millard E. Tidings
Maryland
George Maurice Morris
Washington
American Bar Association
State Association
Samuel Parker
South Bend
Thomas E. Davidson
Greensburg
William E. Hough
Greenfield
William J. Moran
Portland
George O. Dix
Terre Haute
James A. VanQosdel
Anderson
Henry B. Walker
Evansville
James M. Ogden
Indianapolis
Frank N. Richman
Columbus
Frank H. Hatfield
Eli F. Seebirt
Wilmer T. Fox
Jeffersonville
Fred C. Gause
Albert H. Cole
Peru
L. L. Bomberger
Hammond
Milo N. Freightner
Huntington
Roscoe C. O’byrne
Brookville
Carl Wilde
James R. Newkirk
Fort Wayne
Carl M. Gray
Petersville
Thomas C. Batchelor
Gray
Aaron H. Hugenard
George E. Hershman
Crown Point
Emmet M. Larue
Rensselaer
Benton Bloom
Columbia City
Hubert E. Wickens
Harvey A. Grabill
Weather Records for Seymour Day Include Official and Unofficial Readings
Official minimum and maximum temperatures for Seymour are reported from local observers and downtown instruments. The official low comes from Miss Louise Abhlert, government weather observer, while the official river level is provided by the Seymour Water Co. pumping station at Rockford.
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Seymour
Louise Abhlert
Seymour Water Co
Rockford
Lions Club Committees Announced For 1943 44
Seymour Lions Club president Paul W Rigsbee announces standing committees and program groups for the year beginning July 1 1943 The lists include Membership Publicity Constitution House Civic Safety Program Extension Finance Citizenship Education Lions Education Work and more plus a note on weekly dinners at the Elks Club and a war photo caption from the Salween canyon front.
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Paul W. Rigsbee
Seymour Lions Club
Elks’ Club
William A. Morgan
L. D. Robertson
S. F. Tower
Perry Wesley
Miles T. Goddard
Paul R. McGuire
Alfred C. Tower
J. C. Huffman
Will H. Hughes
House
Frank Mattox
Noble K. Foster
Fred N. Fouts
Harlan Montgomery
Shields High Band Plans Sunday Park Concert
Paul W. Rigsbee announces Shields High School Band program for Sunday at Shields Park at 4 p.m. The program features Hall of Fame Concert March, Transcendence Overture, Angels of Mercy, selections from Prince Charming, His Honor March, Stratoswing, Childhood Fantasy, Phantom Trumpeters, and U S Field Artillery March.
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Paul W. Rigsbee
Shields High School
Shields Park
Hall of Fame
Olividot
Angels of Mercy
Berlin
Prince Charming
Fillmore
Walters
Lillya
Gillet
U. S. Field Artillery
Sousa
White Convicted In Murder Trial
Bernard White was found guilty of first degree murder in Indianapolis after an eight man, four woman jury verdict. The jury recommended life imprisonment despite Prosecutor Sherwood Blue seeking the death penalty. Judge Erwin McClure to sentence at 9:00 Monday. defense claimed a signed confession was fake.
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Indianapolis
Bernard White
Sherwood Blue
Erwin McClure
White
Edward Brennan
Draft Schricker movement targets Indiana Senate seat
North Vernon hosts the second district draft Schricker meeting led by William Hillenbrand as supporters push Governor Henry Schricker for higher public service. Bays, state Democratic chairman, says sessions build party unity across districts and counties.
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Indianapolis
Ninth
Indiana
Henry F. Schricker
United States Senate
Frederick van Nuys
North Vernon
William Hillenbrand
Ninth District
Friends of
Capital City
van Nuys
Hoosierdam
Democrats
Sullivan
Fred F. Bays
Bays
Democratic State Committee
Hoosier Sentinel
Infant Burial in Riverview Cemetery
Burial rites were held at 9:30 this morning in Riverview Cemetery for a premature infant born to Earl and Dorothy Morris Hamilton of Seymour R2 at Schneck Memorial Hospital Friday. Surviving are the parents two brothers Richard Dale and Robert Lee and the maternal and paternal grandparents.
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Riverview Cemetery
Earl
Dorothy Morris Hamilton
Seymour R2
Schneck Memorial Hospital
Richard Dale
Robert Lee
Rebber Funeral Sunday for Amil Rebber in Knoxville death
Funeral services for Amil Rebber a former Seymour resident who died Thursday in Knoxville Tennessee will be held Sunday at 3 30 PM from his parents home 600 East Fourth Street and at 4 PM from Immanuel Lutheran Church with Rev E E Streufert officiating Burial will be in the Lutheran Cemetery Friends may call after 5 o'clock this afternoon
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Amil Rebber
Seymour
Knoxville
Tenn
Fred Rebber
East Fourth Street
Immanuel Lutheran Church
E. E. Streufert
Bombers Missing After Night Raid On Ruhr and Mediterranean
Allied air actions across Europe and the Mediterranean report renewed heavy bombing. Thirty B 17s unaccounted for after Ruhr attacks on Bochum and Gelsenkirchen, with American losses rising to 37 for the week.
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Associated Press
Royal Air Force
Germany
Bochum
Gelsenkirchen
Ruhr
Air Ministry
North Sea
Mediterranean
Boechum
Britain
United States
Huls
Sicily
Sardinia
Messina
Olbia
Moscow
Donets
Balakleya
South Pacific
Vila Plantation
Kolombangara Island
Solomons
Guadalcanal
Tokyo Radio
Indiana man wins Soldier's Medal for rescue in Alaska waters
Washington reports the War Department awarded the Soldier's Medal for heroism to Technician Fifth Grade Reuel Rolens of Spurgeon Indiana and a companion. They rescued a soldier who fell from a landing barge in Alaska waters on February 28.
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Washington
War Department
Indiana
Fifith
Reuel Rolens
Spurgeon
Alaskan
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Lions Club
Service Club
Wesley R. Dixon
J. Hugh Taylor
Glenn M. Keach
J. Robert Blair
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R. S. Wilson
Harry H. McDonald
DeWitte Ogan
W. A. Kreinhagen
T. Harlan Montgomery
Lions Education
Edwin F Shake
Ray G. Wieder
Fred N Fouts
Noble H. Parker
Charles Schneck
Arthur J. Johnson
Roger J. Shepherd
A. L. Jackson
Emrole Spurgeon
L. H. van Voorhies
G. B. Bottorff
Louis H. Meyer
W. Cal
Salween River
China
Burma
Chungking
Frank Cancellare
Acme
War Picture Pool
Transcendence
Franckiser
Cally
Rebber
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