Alma Strikes Florida West Coast Causing Minor Damage
Alma moved up the Gulf of Mexico with 90 mph winds striking St. Petersburg and brushing Tampa. The storm dumped heavy rains across peninsular Florida and Georgia, caused two Florida deaths, while Cuba and Honduras reported dozens more killed and extensive damage.
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Florida
Panhandle
Gulf of Mexico
St. Petersburg
Alma
Tallahassee
Weather Bureau
Apalachicola
Apalachee Bay
Fort Walton Beach
South Georgia
Tampa
Florida Peninsula
Georgia
Caribbean
Cuba
Florida Straits
Key West
San Rafael
Honduras
Death notices from Indiana towns list many survivors
A long list of obituaries from Sullivan Brazil Martinsville and surrounding areas reports numerous deaths and survivors. Details include Olive Searcy Snyder Clifford husband and children in Terre Haute. Georgia Rahmeyer and Dallas Kay with families. Roger Maher and Lucille Nesbit with relatives. Doreen Price Ethel Chambers and James Crague. Addie Maring and Arthur Davis among others. Services many Friday at local funeral homes with burials at Roselawn Grandview or other cemeteries.
Two Die in State Crashes In Fort Wayne and St Joseph
An Associated Press report says a Fort Wayne woman Avis Joy Gerken 43 died after her car skidded on a mud covered road and struck a tree near St Fran cis College campus. A St Joseph County motorcyclist also died from injuries in another crash reported today.
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Fort Wayne
St. Joseph County
Avis Joy Gerken
St. Francis College
Fort
Indiana Traffic Deaths Rise to 622 Last June
Indiana traffic fatalities reached 622 during June of last year with 577 recorded in the previous period. Officials caution on roadway safety amid ongoing concerns and urge drivers to exercise care to reduce deaths.
Motorcycle Crash Kills 16 Year Old in Wayne
Wayne youths report a fatal motorcycle collision after striking a stopped car. Charles F. Stoll, 16, Granger, died of injuries. Rex Pellow, 16, South Bend, was hurt, and car driver Thomas L. Allen, 19, was uninjured. A bystander identified a youth as his mother and noted several other children at home.
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Thomas L. Allen
South Bend
Marshall High School graduate enlists in Marines
Denzil W. Stepp 19 son of Mr and Mrs Elsie Stepp of Marshall Illinois has enlisted in the U S Marine Corps for three years. He began basic training at the Marine Corps Depot in San Diego California as announced by local recruiter Gunny Sgt Frank Sikora.
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Frank Sikora
Denzil W. Stepp
Elsie Stepp
Marshall, Ill
Marshall High School
U. S. Marine Corps
Marine Corps Depot
San Diego
Calif
Services Set For Mrs. Marie M. Willasey In Brazil
Services for Mrs. Marie M. Willasey 37 of 217 Ringo Street will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Lawson Funeral Home with Rev. Earl Cummings officiating. Burial will follow in Cottage Hill Cemetery. Friends may call after 4 p.m. Thursday.
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Roger M. Maher
Barbour Ave
Union Hospital
John Brentlinger
Thomas Funeral Home
St. Mary’s Village
Pauline Ball Steward
S. 18Th St
Callahan Funeral Home
Albert W. Mitchell
Roselawn Memorial Park
DeBaun Funeral Home
Homer Summitt
Grandview Cemetery
Mary Lovelace
6Th St
Gillis Memory Chapel
Highland Lawn Cemetery
Brazil
Ind
Doreen Price
RR 5
Clay County
Order of Eastern Star
Harmony Eub
Arnold
Voris
Blanche Morden
San Antonio
Tex
Frances Kinsey
Portland
Joe Rohrig
Lansing
Ill
George Rohrig
Harmony
Dan Rohrig
U.S. Navy
Moore Funeral Home
Jewell Pee
Clearview Cemetery
Ethel Chambers
National Ave
St. Anthony Hospital
Terre Haute
Patricksburg
Ruth Chambers
Milton Troth
Everly Troth
Bloomington
Hazel Keck
Franklin
Faye Haltom
Edith Laswell
Ruby Bilderback
Clay City
Miller and Sons
Virgil Romans
Summit Lawn Cemetery
Shelburn
McHugh Funeral Home
K. E.spencer
Westlawn Cemetery
James H. Boysaw
Chicago
Edna May King
James
Dayton
Cottage Hill
Edward Smith Torbert
Cincinnati
Ohio
Kate Torbert
Margaret Walington
Hollywood
Fla
John Torbert
New York
William Wimberly
Martinsville, Ill
Addie Maring
Rudd
Casey
Fred
Roxanna, III
Freda Fasig
Casa Grande
Ariz
Bertha Calvert
Martinsville
Greenwell Funeral Home
J. C. Bennett
Butternut Cemetery
Arthur Davis
Marie M. Willasey
Ringo St
Lawson
Earl S. Cummings
Cottage Hill Cemetery
Pan Am seeks Moscow route via Tokyo clearance
Pan American World Airways asks the Civil Aeronautics Board for authority to fly from San Francisco to Moscow via Tokyo. Pan Am has long been certified for New York to Moscow pending a bilateral air agreement. Western airlines have increased Moscow service, while Japan and the USSR signed a trans Siberia route agreement.
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San Francisco
Pan American World Airways
Civil Aeronautics Board
Moscow
Tokyo
Pan Am
New York
Japan
Ussr
Judge Owens Rites Friday
Funeral services for Judge Albert R. Owens 84 retired Vigo County jurist are set for Friday at 2 p.m. at Patrick J. Ryan Funeral Home with Rev. Carl Bosse officiating. He died after an attack at his home and will be buried in Highland Lawn Cemetery. Memorial services will be held in Superior Court and a resolutions committee led by Stanley E. Stohr will honor him.
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Albert R. Owens
Vigo County
Superior Court
Superior Court No. 2
N. 8Th St
St. Anthony Hospital
Patrick J. Ryan
Carl Bosse
Highland Lawn Cemetery
Terre Haute Bar Association
Owens
Stanley E. Stohr
Resolutions Committee
Sam Beecher
Ernest Causey
Leonard Kincaid
Ernest J. Zwerner
H. Ralph Johnston
Harold Bitzegaio
Charles McCrory
Johnston
Bitzegaio
McCrory
Edward S. Everett
H. de Witt Owen
Ralph Berry
Ralph Tucker
Ernest M. Causey
Frank Fisher
Bert F. Wood
Terre Haute Elks Lodge to Hold Memorial Services
Hansford Mann C Weir Kirk David I Day and D Joe Gab bert are named. Terre Haute Elks Lodge No 86 will hold memorial services at the funeral home tonight at 7 30 o clock. Friends may call at the funeral home after 11 a m Thursday.
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Hansford Mann
C. Weir Kirk
David I. Day
D. Joe Gabbert
Terre Haute
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Mrs
Olive Searcy Snyder
E. Wall Sr
Sullivan
Mary Sherman Hospital
Clifford
Wilma Barnes
Leona Jones
Elden Searcy
Everett Smith
Staunton
Frank Smith
Joe Smith
North Carolina
Lois Britton
Louisiana
Jeanette Matney
Orville Rader
Georgia Rahmeyer
S. 19Th St
Avenue Club
White Shrine No. 7
Daughters of the Nile
First Baptist Church
John
Sheldon Hornbuckle
Jackson, Fla
Theron Hornbuckle
Miami
Dallas
Shaker
Kay
Bell and Bracken Funeral Home
Flora Bowman
Edmun Bowman
Grosse Point
Mich
Gordon E. Hulman
Schenectady
N. Y
Pauline Ball
Harry Blouch
S. 8Th St
Ball-Porter Funeral Home
Lucille M. Nesbit
Pimento
Arthur W. Heine
Appleton, Wis
Robert Delong
Mrs. Mary Lovelace
James L. Crague
James LeRoy Crague
Reelsville
James F. Jr
Jack
Tessville
Violet Cummings
Carbon
Maxine Adams
Hobart
Naomi Hunt
Whiting
Esther Mooney
Hessville
Retha
Hayes
Hazel Wright
Miller and Sons Funeral Home
Edward Torbert
Emmett J. Brown
Gli Ro Ai Ng Sai A
Maya Moore
Homer Heaterley Armory
Chuck
Mike
Margie
FISH
Conroy
Locust Terre Haute
THE
Associated Press
Indiana
Marie M. Willassey
Bob Cousey
BEN Becker
Mid-America
Sears
Verorreet
Beng Hg
Craftsman Carpenter’s Design
Sears and
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Sears, Roebuck and CO
Wabash Ave
Terre Haute, Ind
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