Trial Ruling Favors Vigo Council Reapportionment Case
Indiana Supreme Court reverses lower court, ruling Vigo County Council need not fund the Area Plan Commission without a formal request. Remanded to reverse Judge Lowdermilk’s finding and determine if the council acted improperly in 1960 to withhold $37,857.60.
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Indiana Supreme Court Today
Vigo
County Council
Lewis and Lewis
John H. Beasley
Area Plan Commission
Council
Trucker Injured In Crossing Crash Near Auburn
A 52 year old Indianapolis truck driver Herman K Skaggs was critically injured when his semi entered a fog bound crossing on Ind 427 hitting a 56 car freight train. Three freight cars derailed one opened spilling tires on the ground. Skaggs was treated at Souder and Parkview Hospitals for injuries attributed to fog obscuring warning lights.
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Auburn
Ind
Indianapolis
Herman K. Skaggs
Souder Hospital
Parkview Hospital
Fort Wayne
Skaggs
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Evansville Man Joins State Beverage Board
Morris Knaub of Evansville will become investigator for Vanderburgh County Alcoholic Beverage Commission on June 1. He replaces Henry Roberts who resigned after winning the Republican nomination for Evansville mayor. Chairman Joe Harris announced the change on Tuesday.
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Evansville
Morris Knaub
Vanderburgh County Alcoholic Beverage Commission
Joe Harris
Indiana Abc
Knaub
Henry Roberts
Roberts
Typhoon Polly Leaves Japan After Killing Eighteen
Typhoon Polly swept into the Pacific, killing 18 in Japan, with 1 missing and 17 injured. Police warned casualties could rise as searches continued.
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Pacific
Tokyo
Polly
Japan
Weather Map Report Local Conditions and River Stage
Noon readings show temperatures 64 at 11 then 67 at 2 pm with daylight highs and lows. River stage listed at 2.2 feet and falling. yesterday’s high reached 90 and low 62 with .63 inches of precipitation.
Forecast for Terre Haute and surrounding areas
Partly cloudy and warm through Thursday with scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers. High Thursday in the upper 80s, low tonight in the low 60s. Indiana outlook also shows warm humid conditions with similar shower chances and overnight lows 63 to 70. Illinois remains generally fair and warm with a few isolated storms. lows near 70 and afternoon highs in the 80s. Street thermometer readings at 6 am 65 and 2 pm 77.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Illinois
Kennedy warns on nuclear war as he visits Air Force Academy
President Kennedy tells graduates that nuclear stalemate makes war likelier and urges faith in human dignity while touring four Western states and Hawaii. He notes massive retaliation weapons deter war but national security requires more than stockpiling bombs.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Kennedy
U. S. Air Force Academy
Academy
Hawaii
Birthday Baby Rounds Bonneur Family Milestone
In Chail France Augustin Bonneau 83rd birthday marks a family milestone as his 11th child was born to him and Marguerite Migaut, who wed in 1946. The mayor had once wished them luck and many children.
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Chail
France
Augustin Bonneau
Marguerite Migaut
Bonneau
Kennedy drives integration push as nation watches
President Kennedy urges 100 business leaders to speed integration in southern establishments as he tours west for space defense and political outreach. Anxious families await word on 101 aboard a military chartered airliner lost at sea off British Columbia. A panel orders immediate reapportionment suits in Indianapolis, speeding a long realignment dispute.
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Kennedy
British Columbia
Clinton Man Suffers Fracture in Mine Accident
Andrew Roth, 56, of 1032 Black Man Street, was injured last night at Green Valley Mine. He sustained a broken leg and was taken by Ambu lance Service Inc. to Union Hospital in good condition around 10:30 p.m.
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Clinton
Green Valley
Andrew Roth
Blackman Street
Union Hospital
Ambulance Service, Inc
Let Freedom Bells Ring Across Wabash Valley July 4 1963
Lenhardt E Bauer leads Strawberry Hill Cannoneers in a plan to ring bells for four minutes at 1 p m on July 4 1963 and every year after to renew patriotism The Vigo County Courthouse bell will ring by proclamation as part of Special Orders No 5 authorizing the Let Freedom Ring Again program
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Paul Dresser
Harding Avenue
Fairbanks Park
Wabash
Strawberry Hill
Wabash Valley
Lenhardt E. Bauer
Indiana
Claims error in report on teachers pay
Robert Fiess, president of Vigo County Teachers Federation Local 734, disputed Everett Acree's claim that all WCSC teachers would automatically receive the 1963 64 increment of 225 dollars. Fiess said forty five percent at top scales get no raise and new hires miss base pay increase. He estimated over 100 teachers affected. A protest meeting was postponed to tomorrow at Woodrow Wilson Junior High.
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Robert Fiess
Vigo County Teachers Federation
Everett J. Acree
Vigo County Taxpayers Association
Fiess
Acree
WCSC
VCTA
VCFT
Three-Judge Panel Will Hear Case In Indiana Reapportionment
A three judge federal panel in Indianapolis will hear suits filed by the Indiana Civil Liberties Union and former State Sen. Nelson Grills seeking immediate reapportionment of Indiana's 150 legislative seats. Judge Roger J. Kiley will preside with Judges Steckler and Holder. Trial set for Friday at 10 a.m. with post trial briefing about 30 days.
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Indianapolis
Indiana General Assembly
Indiana
Indiana Civil Liberties Union
Nelson G. Grills
Edwin K. Steers
Steers
Liberties Union
Matthew E. Welsh
General Assembly
Roger J. Kiley
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Chicago
William E. Steckler
Dale J. Holder
U. S. District Court
Steckler
Hoosier
Union
Charles O. Hendricks
Indiana Election Board
Grills
Assembly
Tyrannosaurus Rex Weight and Length Cited by Museum
The American Museum of Natural History states the Tyrannosaurus rex was the largest meat eater, weighing about 10 tons and reaching 50 feet in length. This description highlights the immense size of the prehistoric predator based on museum research.
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American Museum of Natural History
Judge Orders Governor Not To Interfere In Desegregation
A federal judge barred Gov. George C. Wallace from interfering with court ordered desegregation at the University of Alabama. The injunction prohibits Wallace or anyone allied with him from physically blocking enrollment procedures, while not barring campus access. The ruling asserts federal authority over state actions and rejects Wallace’s sovereignty claims.
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Birmingham
Ala
George C. Wallace
University of Alabama
U. S. Dist
Seybourn H. Lynne
Wallace
Montgomery
Ecuador Fines Tuna Fishermen for Waters Violation
Ecuador convicts two San Diego tuna boats for violating territorial waters and orders combined fines and fees totaling 26 272 dollars. Development Minister Jose Salazar says no appeal is allowed. nonpayment within five days will lead to confiscation. Ecuador asserts 200 mile exclusive rights while the boats claim 12 miles off the coast.
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Quito
Ecuador
San Diego
Jose Salazar
Tax Adjustment Board Named for Vigo County
Four court appointed members join school representative Arch Dunbar and city officials to form the Vigo County Tax Adjustment Board. Judges H Ralph Johnston Albert R Owens and Harold J Bitzegaio selected Ward Blocksom Otis Jamison Carl Bopp and George Mansholt. The seven member panel meets starting September 9 with County Auditor A Leroy Lewzader serving as clerk.
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Vigo County Board of Tax Adjustment
Harold J. Bitzegaio
Ward Blocksom
Otis Jamison
Carl Bopp
George Mansholt
Arch Dunbar
Ralph Tucker
Ray Thomas
Vigo County Council
Vigo Circuit Court
H. Ralph Johnston
Albert R. Owens
Superior Court No. 2
Bitzegaio
Superior Court
A. Leroy Lewzader
Garfield High School holds fifty first commencement
Two hundred nineteen Garfield High School seniors receive diplomas at the fifty first annual commencement in the Student Union Building Auditorium at 8 p.m. The program opens with Pomp Circumstance by the school orchestra under Leslie Evinger. Charles R. Hopper gives the pledge. Jo Ann Barr delivers the invocation. The senior girls’ vocal ensemble, directed by Eugene Esperson with Barbara Young, performs Let There Be Song. Kristine Agertt offers a flute solo Polonaise. Talks titled Rendezvous with Destiny are given by Barry Brow Ruth Callecod Kenneth McClara Joseph Bankoff and Mary Bruder.
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Elks State
Terre
Grace DeVaney
Garfield High School
Martin
Leslie Evinger
Charles R. Hopper
Jo Ann Barr
Brenda Carson
Sandra Davis
Leonarda Davitto
Marilyn Deighton
June Hallett
Rayetta Hoke
Lynn McIntosh
Connie Moody
Sandra Olds
Ethel Humphrey
Frances Rice
Kathie Smock
Ellen White
Elaine Zerr
Eugene Esperson
Will
Barbara Young
Kristine Aggertt
Destiny
Barry Brow
Ruth Callecod
Kenneth McClara
Joseph Bankoff
Mary Bruder
Max P. Gale
Hope Fades for 101 Aboard Plane Off British Columbia
Anxious families waited as a military chartered DC7 crashed into the North Pacific near British Columbia. Rescue ships reported no survivors amid debris and evidence of a high impact. The 101 aboard included 58 servicemen, 22 dependents, 15 civilians, and 13 women with 20 children, many from McChord Air Force Base en route to Anchorage.
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Pacific
Northwest Orient Airlines
Defense Department
McChord Air Force Base
Wash
Anchorage
Alaska
Red Cross
M. Set
Michael P. Almose
Army
Alaska Support Command
J. C. Robert D. Scott
Elmendorf Afb
Q.C
Robert E. Smith
Elmendorf
Scott
Madeline
Panama City
Fla
S. Sgt
Joseph I. Whipkey
Army Sp5
Frank B. Mann
William G. Partington
Air Force
A. J. Messner
Tehran Mobs Demand Shah Abdication Amid Clash
Heavy police and troops clash with armed mobs in Tehran demanding the Shah step down. Hospital reports exceed 20 dead in the first hour and about 1,000 injured. The Shah and Queen, protected, remained distant from the royal palace ringed by tanks and machine guns. Continuous gunfire reported as rioters attacked vehicles and a bus.
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Tehran
Iran
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Tech
State traffic deaths rise 24 percent in midyear toll
Indiana traffic deaths are 24 ahead of last year as urban fatalities climb 21.9 percent. State police report midnights toll at 453, up from 429 in 1962. deaths inside incorporated communities total 139 versus 114 a year earlier.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Escapee from Lewes jail cites tobacco barons fear
Ex prisoner Pli-Anthony Osborne, 19, escaped from Lewes jail with a month left to serve claiming he feared the tobacco barons who control contraband cigarettes. He told a court he owed $2.80 for five ounces of tobacco and was sentenced to four months to begin at the end of his remaining term.
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Lewes
England
Anthony Osborne
Osborne
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