Indiana faces special session over 2 percent sales tax ruling
Judge John L. Niblack of Marion Circuit Court declared the new 2 percent state sales tax unconstitutional delaying July 1 implementation. The AFL CIO suit prompted Gov. Welsh to return to Indianapolis as officials weigh a special session to address the ruling and defense of the act with backing from Atty. Gen. Steers.
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Indianapolis
Indiana General Assembly
John L. Niblack
Marion Circuit Court
Niblack
Indiana Afl-Cio
Indiana
Matthew E. Welsh
New Orleans
Welsh
State Department
Atty
Edwin K. Steers
Richard W. Guthrie
Guthrie
Senate
Marshall F. Kizer
Plymouth
General Assembly
Predicts Cut In School Tax Rate for 04
Vigo County School Corporation Board President Arch Dunbar indicates belief a 1964 school tax rate cut is likely for Terre Haute and Vigo County taxpayers. Board discusses 1963-64 budget and publication of the annual financial report at the 8 PM Administration Building meeting.
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Vigo
Ex President Hoover Seriously Ill at 88 in New York
Former President Herbert Clark Hoover, 88, was seriously ill at his Waldorf Towers suite with anemia and intestinal bleeding. Doctors said his age made his condition "reasonably satisfactory," after an earlier cancer surgery last summer.
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Herbert Hoover
New York
Herbert Clark Hoover
Hoover
Waldorf Towers
U. S
Chicago
West Branch
Iowa
Believe Youth Took Own Life After Minor Accident
Police report that 15 year old Donald Dee Lyle II died of a self inflicted gunshot at the family home 53 South Twenty fourth street shortly after a minor hit and run. The sawed off rifle was found near the scene and the coroner's office opened an inquiry.
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Donald Dee Lyle II
Lyle
South Twenty-fourth Street
St. Anthony Hospital
Donald Lyle
General Motors Acceptance Corporation
Young Lyle
Vigo County
D. M. Ferguson
Wiram
Bloomington man indicted in wife’s death over meals and insurance
Will Manse, 82, of Bloomington was indicted on a second degree murder charge by a Monroe County grand jury for the May 21 shooting of his wife Minnie, 72, with prosecutors citing an argument over meals and insurance premiums as the motive.
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Bloomington
Ind
Will Manse
Minnie
Monroe County
Funeral rites honor slain NAACP official at Jackson
Racial leaders gather in Jackson Mississippi for funeral rites of NAACP official Medgar Evers. The ceremony follows his death amid mounting civil rights tensions and national mourning.
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NAACP
Medgar Evers
Jackson, Miss
The Hawk in Moscow Calls Himself a Cosmonaut Nickname
The fifth Soviet cosmonaut, Val ery Byovsky, nicknamed The Hawk in radio exchanges with Earth, follows a tradition set by Gherman Titov who was The Eagle in 1961 and by Pavel Popovich and Adrian Nikolayev who used The Golden Eagle and The Falcon in their 1960s flight.
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Moscow
Valery Byovsky
Earth
Gherman Titov
Pavel Popovich
Adrian Nikolayev
Life Sentence For Convicted Vincennes Man
Sullivan, Ind. June 15 A 33 year old Vincennes man received a life term after being convicted of second degree murder in the shooting death of his cousin during a drinking party last November 21 in Vincennes. The jury moved the case from Knox County to Sullivan Circuit Court.
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Sullivan
Ind
Vincennes
Sullivan County
John Burns
James Burns
Burns
Knox County
Sullivan Circuit Court
Joe Lowdermilk
Leslie Irvin
Irvin
Thief Sentenced in Indianapolis
A federal judge sentenced Edward Zeilings, 33, of Indianapolis, to 2 1/2 years in prison for stealing 74 color television sets in August. It marked the third prison term in an alleged interstate theft ring, while a fourth defendant has pleaded innocent.
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Indianapolis
Edward Zeilings
Both Groups Respond to JFKs Appeal
Rail union and management negotiators agreed to keep bargaining until July 10 with no railroad shutdown after Kennedy urged one last major effort. The White House meeting lasted 15 minutes as both sides accepted the plan. A strike could have begun after midnight Monday, and Kennedy warned that an outside agency would settle the dispute if Congress blocked a national rail walkout.
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Washington
Kennedy
White House
Congress
Spellman to Seek High Court Fast-Track Trial
Attorney Jett says Indiana Supreme Court will hear a writ of mandamus to order an immediate trial for assistant city engineer James Spellman charged with second degree murder in his brother’s death. A Monday trial was delayed to September 17 due to a key witness’s Florida vacation.
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James Spellman
Indiana Supreme Court
John R. Jett
Spellman
High Court
Jett
Florida
Edward Hamilton
Vigo
H. Ralph Johnston
Mary Padgett
Circuit Court
State Supreme Court
Weather Summary for Terre Haute and Vicinity
Local conditions show a mild weekend with the river at 3.9 ft and falling. Highs reach the upper 70s to low 80s, lows in the 50s. Indiana forecasts partly cloudy skies with a chance of showers in the extreme southwest, Illinois expecting scattered showers and thundershowers tonight and Sunday.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Illinois
Memorial March Honors Slain Leader Medgar Evers in Terre Haute
A NAACP march in Terre Haute paid tribute to Medgar Evers with a proclamation presented to Vigo County Judge H Ralph Johnston at the Vigo County Courthouse. The event echoed Jackson Miss funeral services and urged local officials to protest in Washington for equal rights. Local officials Johnson and Mayor Ralph Tucker spoke of unity and justice. The procession drew many residents including women and children bearing signs advocating equality and civil rights.
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Robert Russell
Terre Haute
NAACP
H. Ralph Johnston
Ralph Tucker
Samuel Jones
Saubers Methodist Church
Wabash Avenue
Medgar Evers
Jackson
Miss
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Eighth Street
Vigo County
Vigo
Washington
Evers
Johnson
Johnston
Woman Held in Rifle Slaying in Gary Indiana
Elizabeth Aldrich 45 is jailed in the shooting death of Sam Massey 40 during a dispute at a drinking party in her Gary apartment. Massey was shot in the abdomen and died at Gary Methodist Hospital after officers were summoned by landlord John Wordene who rented the building and allowed the sublet.
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Gary
Ind
Upi
Elizabeth Aldrich
Sam Massey
Massey
Gary Methodist Hospital
John Wordene
Funeral for Medgar Evers Delays Civil Rights Tension
In Jackson Mississippi funeral services with a march of mourning honor Medgar Evers a 37 year old civil rights leader killed by a sniper. dignitaries including Dr Ralph Bunche and Roy Wilkins attend as mass demonstrations continue amid Supreme Court rulings and ongoing arrests.
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Jackson
Miss
UPI
Medger Evers
Ralph Bunche
United Nations
Evers
Roy Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Mississippi
World War I Veterans Average Age Reported
United Press International reports the Veterans Administration states the average age of World War I veterans is 68.1 years.
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United Press International
Veterans Administration
Russia May Put Woman In Outer Space
Bykovsky completes 24 hours aboard Vostok 5 as plans surface for a twin flight with a female cosmonaut Ludmilla. Tass reports he slept well and used manual controls, sending greeting to the United States as both nations eye future joint or parallel orbital missions.
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Moscow
Valery F. Bykovsky
Tass
Bykovsky
North America
United States
Ludmilla
Siberia
Khrushchev
Harold Wilson
Labor Party
Soviet Union
West
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Great Plains
JFK
U. S. Weather Bureau
By Howard Stevens
Wilkins
Capitol Street
M. B. Pierce
Russia
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