Indiana Holiday Road Deaths Reach Eighteen
Indiana's long holiday weekend added 18 traffic deaths during a 102 hour period from Wednesday to Sunday night raising the 1968 toll to 1,320. The final victim was Ronald Merrill 17 of Lebanon killed in a pickup crash near Lebanon on a Boone County road. Debris shows Nance 18 of Lebanon drove the truck. both others died in separate crashes near Noblesville Versailles Martinsville and Colfax. A Newark NJ passenger Kalambur 29 died in Martinsville. Ramachandran 33 injured and Ramchandran 23 critically in Martinsville. Other victims included DeCamp 61 New Haven Pierce King 81 Holton and three Air Force entries among many injured.
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Indiana
Ronald M. Merrill
Lebanon
Boone
Stephen P. Nance
Nance
Merrill
Bertram Nickelsberg
Colfax
Mahalia Bolling
Milan
Nickelsberg
Noblesville
Indiana 32
Bolling
Baxter
Indiana 101
U.S. 50
Versailles
Sankaran G. Kalambur
Piscataway
N.J
Martinsville
Kalambur Ramachandran
St. Vincent's
Indianapolis
Saraswathi R. Ramchandran
Betty Sink
Columbus
Ohio
Andrea Sink
Alonzo DeCamp
New Haven
Pierce King
Holton
Grissom
Air Force Base
C. Armon Izzo
Rochester
N.Y
Edward Crouse
Kenneth
Anderson
Bernice Crouse
Michael Johns
Henry Whetstone
Middlebury
Geraldine Schubert
Oaklawn
Ill
Pauline Dietrich
Naperville
Sylvia Meece
Monticello
David Clevenger
Muncie
Yetta Burnstein
South Bend
Four Teen Girls Critical in Sullivan Co crash
Four teenaged girls remained in critical condition at Mary Sherman Hospital after a three car crash on US 41 two miles south of Sullivan. A car carrying Candice Syester Sue Miller Elizabeth Monroe and Pauletta Myers was split at the firewall after rear ending Archie Hammonds and then hitting Leonard Timm’s car. Seven members of a Waukegan family were also injured, with one listed as serious. A second crash on State Road 54 injured Kathy Bowles and others, with Bowles charged for failure to yield.
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Waukegan
Candice L. Syester
Shelburn
Sue A. Miller
Elizabeth A. Monroe
Pauletta Myers
Leonard O. Timm
Ill
Fair
Lily Timm
Joseph
Darrell
Jennifer
Melody
Anita
Miss Syester
Archie Hammonds
Evansville
Timm
Hammonds
Syester
Sullivan
Kathy Bowles
Gerald W. Tolliver
Mitchell
Rose Staflford
Kathy Lynch
Miss Bowles
Miss Teen-age America Melissa Babish Proclaims Ordinary Life
CHICAGO AP Melissa Babish 16 new Miss Teen-age America says she is absolutely, positively normal though crowned as the nation’s outstanding teenage girl in Fort Worth Texas She holds Miss Teen-age Pittsburgh and plans a law career with an A average at South Fayette High School Babish objects to calling the contest a beauty pageant and states she will speak at a 4-H Club dinner honoring petroleum power award winners during the annual convention
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Chicago
Melissa Babish
America
Miss Babish
Pittsburgh
Fort Worth
Tex
United States
Ground Broken For Largest Atom Smasher
Ground breaking for the National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia Illinois drew about 600 people as officials led the ceremony. Seaborg called the project a catalyst for change noting open occupancy laws spread to 15 area communities, while residents displaced by the site protested peacefully.
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Batavia, Ill
Atomic Energy Commission
Glenn T. Seaborg
National Accelerator Laboratory
N.A.L
Weston
Seaborg
Salin Etherton Sworn In as Indiana GOP Inaugurals
INDIANAPOLIS AP The first Republican inauguration series Sunday saw Secretary of State William N. Salin and state auditor elect Trudy Etherton sworn in at the south half of the Statehouse. Orvas Beers administered Salin’s oath. Federal Judge Robert A. Grant swore in Etherton. Spectators came from Fort Wayne and South Bend. Gov-elect Edgar Whitcomb will be inaugurated Jan. 13. Salin succeeds Whitcomb. Etherton succeeds John Gallagher.
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Indianapolis
William N. Salin
Trudy Etherton
Statehouse
Orvas Beers
Allen County
Salin
Robert A. Grant
Indiana
Etherton
Fort
Hugh Green Rites Set for Wednesday
Jacksonville Illinois AP funeral services will be held Wednesday for Hugh Green 81 former speaker of the Illinois House who died Saturday in a Jacksonville hospital after pneumonia treatment. He was first elected in 1932 and served as a Republican representative through 1947 and led the house as speaker in 1945 and 1947. Survivors include his widow Lucille S and two sons William and James of California and a daughter Betty Ann.
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Jacksonville
Ill
Hugh Green
Illinois House of Representatives
Green
Lucille S
William
James
California
Betty Ann
Cartwright Funeral Tuesday in Chicago
Howard S. Cartwright 74 chairman of the Illinois Liquor Control Commission died Saturday of a heart attack at Passavant Memorial Hospital in Chicago. He underwent surgery Friday. Survived by wife Irene and daughter Jeanne Garvin.
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Chicago
Howard S. Cartwright
Illinois Liquor Control Commission
Passavant Memorial Hospital
Cartwright
Irene
Jeanne Garvin
Nurses Strike Shuts Peoria Nursing Home
In Peoria County, 88 AFSCME Local 241 workers walked out at Bell Wood Nursing Home after contract expired. Police cleared picket lines as relatives moved 20 patients. relatives and volunteers filled shifts while talks faltered over wage demands of about 7 percent this year and 6 percent next year.
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Peoria, Ill
Peoria County
Robert E. Manning
Nursing Home
American Federation of State
Bell Wood
Peoria
Robert Hunt
Trim with Leather Crochet Cozy Hat for Town Sportwear
1969 Needlecraft catalog offers quick crochet patterns for a leather look hat, beret, pillbox with bow, and mock leather band. Uses jiffy wool with large hook. pattern fits all sizes. 50c each pattern, plus 15c extra for mailing. Laura Wheeler in New York address for orders.
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Laura Wheeler
Terre Haute Tribune Needlecraft Dept
Old Chelsea Station
New York
WN. Y
Gospel Sing Set at Shakamak Gym
Jasonville Indiana special report says the Shakamak Ministerial Association will host a gospel sing at 8 p m Saturday in the Shakamak High School gymnasium. Proceeds go to the Shakamak Rest Home building fund with groups including Crusaders Quartet Terre Haute Bethel Ambassador Quartet Columbus and Songmasters Quartet Decatur Illinois.
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Jasonville
Ind
Shakamak Ministerial Association
Shakamak High
Shakamak Rest Home
Crusaders Quartet
Terre Haute
Bethel Ambassador
Columbus
Songmasters Quartet
Decatur
Ill
Perry Township Homemakers Christmas Party Planned
The Perry Township Homemakers Extension Club will hold its Christmas party at noon on Wednesday at the Blue Bonnet Restaurant in Brazil Indiana.
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Brazil
Ind
Perry Township
IU Faculty Statement on Czechoslovakia Invasion
Bloomington Indiana 218 Indiana University faculty members call Russia's invasion of Czechoslovakia a serious blow to world peace. They urge the United States to push for the withdrawal of Soviet and Warsaw Pact forces, oppose actions implying acquiescence, and aid exiles seeking asylum in the United States.
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Bloomington
Ind
Indiana University
Russia
Czechoslovakia
U.S
Indiana
United States
U. S
Legends Trace Japan’s Birth to Sun Goddess
A brief note outlines a mythic tradition that links the creation of Japan to the Sun goddess. It states that the island realm’s rulers and lineages descend from this deity, shaping imperial legitimacy and early mythic history. The piece reads as a concise cultural reference to ancient origins.
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Japan
Illinois Farm Boy Wins Scholarship
CHICAGO AP A rural Moneaqua Ill youth was named one of six National 4 H Field Crops Science scholarship winners at the 47th National 4 H Congress. Richard Hunter 18 won a 600 scholarship from Amchem Products Inc. he majors in agriculture at Milliken University Decatur.
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Chicago
Moneaqua
Ill
Richard Hunter
Amchem Products, Inc
Robert A. Hunter
Milliken University
Decatur
Karol Farley
James Farley
Metropolis
The
Tupperware Co
Farley
University of Kentucky
Community College
Paducah
Sharon Ray
Berwick
Earl Ray
Western Illinois University
Merck & Co
Hoosier Youth Wins 4 H Auto Scholarship
Tom Spohr a 17 year old from Avilla Indiana was named one of eight national winners of 4 H automotive scholarships at the 4 H Congress in Chicago He received 600 for promoting highway safety and his 1965 restoration of a 1931 Model A Ford He organized a hazard hunt to mark road dangers and his club sold over 100 slow moving vehicle signs for tractors.
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Chicago
Tom Spohr
Avilla
Ind
Young Spohr
Stanley Spohr
Spohr
Scientists Claim Aluminum Yields Surpass All Metals
Scientists assert that aluminum yields exceed those of any other metal on Earth, highlighting its abundance in distribution and potential industrial impact.
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Earth
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