Longevity Pay Proposals Considered by Seymour Officials
Seymour police and fire chiefs urged the common council to study two salary plans based on years of service. Mayor Isaacs sent the measures to the legislative committee noting the departments are the lowest paid in Indiana's fourth class. If accepted, the plans may be consolidated into one for both departments before next month’s city budget work begins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour Police and Fire Departments
Common Council
John C. Isaacs
Seymour
Indiana
Charles O. Koerner
Nelson J. Waldkoetter
Koerner
Waldkoetter
Indiana Municipal League
Madison
Citizens Committee
Gaiser Park
Arthur R. Jones
Council Committee On Parks and Recreation
Shields Park
Jones
Seymour votes to reappoint Donica to schools board and names Black to library board
Seymour City Council reappointed Everett Donica as president to the Community Schools board for four years amid a near quorum vote. Mary A. Black was unanimously named to the Public Library board for four years replacing Harvard Nolting. Council heard a request for two parking spaces for a library motor drop and discussed police and fire longevity pay plans. The panel reviewed a $100,000 pool project for Gaiser Park after reporting high park pool usage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour Common Council
Everett Donica
Seymour Community Schools Board of Trustees
Mary A. Black
Seymour Public Library Board of Trustees
Donica
John C. Isaacs
School Board of Trustees
Herman C. Norris
Lester W. Swengel
Don H. Ernest
Granger H. Smith
Black
Library Board of Trustees
Harvard Nolting
Nolting
Tom G. Voss
Library Board
Voss
H. Hobbs Miller
Thomas McGinley
Clay Snow
Walter Stone
Paul M. Cooper
Seymour
Rain Not Likely To Worsen Floods In Indiana
Muggy conditions with occasional showers affect Jackson County and Indiana. White River at Rockford stood at 8.2 feet, far below flood stage, with a 24 hour drop of five feet. Several state highways remain closed due to high water while officials predict rain and storms to ease by Thursday with cooler temperatures by week end.
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Rockford
Jackson County
Indiana
White River
Seymour
State Highway Department
Austin
Medora
Tampico
Indianapolis
Office hours resume regular schedule
The message notes that the office is now open during regular hours and references Dr. A. J. Stebbins. This terse notice signals standard operations with a named professional.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Stebbins
Funds For Monroe Reservoir Sought
A total of 3,723,800 is requested by the State Flood Control and Water Resources Commission toward Monroe Reservoir on Salt Creek in the White River Basin. The project costs 13,350,000 with the state covering 7,210,000 about 54 percent. Construction aimed for completion in 1965, with initial allocations dating to 1959.
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State Flood Control and Water Resources Commission
Monroe Reservoir
Salt Creek
White River Basin
State
Jackson
Monroe
Brown Counties
Army Corps of Engineers
Charles C. Noble
Louisville
East Fork
White River
Bloodmobile seeks B negative donations in Jackson County
The Louisville Region Red Cross Center issues an urgent call for B negative blood for major surgery on July 1. The Bloodmobile will visit Seymour and Jackson County at American Legion Post No. 39 from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thursday, with a regular quota of 110 pints.
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Jackson County
American Red Cross
Louisville Region
Red Cross Center
Seymour
American Legion
State Police Seeks Funds for New Headquarters Garage
Harold S. Zeis, Indiana state police superintendent, asked the state budget department for 817430 to build six new headquarters garages at Ligonier Lafayette Putnamville Conn ersville Seymour and Jasper. He also requested 379500 for a general Indianapolis garage with radio repair facilities and stockrooms plus 12 000 each for nine sub post garage and storage buildings including Bloomington.
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Seymour Post No
Indiana State Police
Indiana
State Budget Department
Harold S. Zeis
Supt
Zeis
Bloomington
Seymour
Ligonier
Lafayette
Putnamville
Connersville
Jasper
South Bend
Schererville
Fort Wayne
Kentland
Peru
Redkey
Terre Haute
Versailles
State Police General
Indianapolis
NYC Railroad To Acquire B&O Stock
New York Central Railroad directors announced a plan to acquire 1 550 000 shares of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad common stock. Central would offer B and O shareholders 1 1 2 shares of Central stock and $9 cash for each B and O share, with a offer expiration set for Sept 26 1960 unless extended.
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NEW York
New York Central Railroad
Road
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Central
Alfred Perlman
Baltimore & Ohio
Central Common
Weather Records for Seymour Report
Weather data for Seymour with unofficial downtown readings and 2 pm temperature. Official figures come from Ruth Everhart in Rockford as government observer. Maximum Monday and minimum Monday noted with limited readable values.
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Seymour
Ruth Everhart
Rockford
West Ends Collapsed Disarm Talks in Geneva
Western powers formally closed the collapsed disarmament conference in Geneva after a walkout by Soviet delegates led by Valerian Zorin. The five Western delegations held a rump session, sent records to the UN, and disputed the adjournment. Naszkowski denounced actions after leaving the table as illegal. The USSR asked the UN to place disarmament on the 1960 General Assembly agenda starting Sept. 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
U. N. Security Council
General Assembly
Valerian Zorin
Marian Naszkowski
David Ormsby-Gore
Zorin
Naszkowski
U. N. Secretariat
Soviet Union
U.N
Art Class Starts Thursday at Seymour Senior High
A summer adult drawing and painting class begins Thursday at 6 p m in Room 106 of Seymour Senior High School. The two hour sessions run seven weeks under art instructor Charles R Hun terman. Adults 18 plus may enroll with a seven dollar registration covering equipment. materials are extra. Registration is at the first class. call JA 2 4904 for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour Senior High School
Charles R. Hunterman
Hunterman
Ike Claims Major Gains From His Goodwill Visits
President Eisenhower defended personal diplomacy and said he would undertake another goodwill trip if necessary to promote free world unity. He cited Tokyo riots and Japan's ratification of a security pact as a setback for communism and praised tours for strengthening ties. Diplomats praised the speech as signaling waning use of high level tours while affirming support for diplomatic channels and unity against communism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eisenhower
Japan
Tokyo
United States
America
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Foreign Relations Committee
John Sparkman
Dala
Everett M. Dirksen
Iinois
Senate
Alexander Wiley
R-Wis
Free World
Seymour Board of Appeals Hears Tonight
The Seymour board of zoning appeals meets at 7 30 tonight in the city building council chambers. Hearings include two conditional use petitions for properties near Hilltop Trailer Court and Poplar Bruce streets and a variance request by Louis and Ruth Ann Wienhorst for a beauty parlor in their West Second street home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour Board of Zoning Appeals
Claude J. Quillen
Robert Tuggle
Hilltop
O’brien Street
Tuggle
Jackson County Sehneck Memorial Hospital Foundation
Poplar
Bruce Streets
Louis
Ruth Ann Wienhorst
Seymour
Wienhorsts
West Second Street Road
Motorcycle collision injures driver with minor abrasions
A 1959 motorcycle was damaged and its rider suffered minor abrasions after colliding with a 1955 pickup at Fifth and Chestnut streets at 5 08 p m Monday. Roy E Pollard 29 Seymour R4 was uninjured. the truck owner was Ernest Rittman 76 of 101 East Third Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifth and
Chestnut Streets
Roy E. Pollard
Seymour
Joe Schrink
Pollard
Ernest Rittman
East Third Street
Favorite Sons Discuss Merger At Democratic Convention
Four favorite sons representing 169 convention votes at the 52nd governors conference discussed ways to keep the Democratic convention open in Los Angeles. They emphasized deliberation over a Kennedy-dominated process while denying plans for a stop Kennedy movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glacier National Park
Mont
John F. Kennedy
Los Angeles
Kennedy
Robert B. Meyner
New Jersey
Edmund G
Pat) Brown
California
Herschel C. Loveless
Iowa
George Docking
Kansas
Meyner
Second Trial Opens for Doctor and Mistress in Murder Case
In Los Angeles the second trial of Dr. R Bernard Finch and his mistress Carole Tregoff opened with 22 jurors voir dire. The first trial ended in a hung jury over whether they killed Finch's wife Barbara Jean last July.
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Los Angeles
Carole Tregoff
R. Bernard Finch
Barbara Jean
Finch
Iy Grant B. Cooper
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State Conservation Department
Indiana State Library
NYC Railroad
B&o
West
Ike
Board of Appeals
Venezuela
Romulo Betancourt
Betancourt
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