Purcell To Preside Over Mine Inspectors Convention
Terre Haute's Charles A. Purcell will preside over the Mine Inspectors Institute of America three day convention in Columbus Ohio opened Monday. Purcell served as director of the Indiana Bureau of Mines 1951 to 1961 and is president of the national group promoting coal mine safety. He and his wife host a dinner Sunday at Nationwide Inn with their daughter attending. He was elected president at last year's Springfield Iowa meeting. first Hoosier in top post since the 1908 Indianapolis founding. Delegates from across the nation and foreign countries attend. officers to be elected Wednesday.
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Terre Haute
Charles A. Purcell
Mine Inspectors Institute of America
Columbus
Ohio
Purcell
Indiana Bureau of Mines
Nationwide Inn
Springfield
Indianapolis
Russia May Put Woman In Outer Space
The article notes NASA ending Project Mercury after four one man orbital flights and delays to Gemini. It reports cosmonaut Bykovsky, a 28 year old fighter pilot, launched from an unidentified base and broadcasting greetings to the United States. Moscow radio and a Moscow TV station covered the event.
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U. S
Washington
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Bykovsky
Moscow
Moscow Radio
United States
Prison Term Given For Forging Drug Prescriptions
Mark Corbitt, 59 of Bowling Green Kentucky, described as a habitual user of drugs, was sentenced to 214 years in Indiana State Prison for forging prescriptions to obtain narcotics. He pleaded guilty at arraignment and was fined 1000 dollars plus costs. Corbitt wrote prescriptions for cocaine and morphine using slips from trash near doctors offices. He admitted to passing four in Columbus and fifteen in Shelbyville.
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Columbus
Ind
Mark Corbitt
Bowling Green
Corbitt
Bartholomew
Indiana State
Shelbyville
Seminole Indians of Florida Origins
The Seminole Indians of Florida sprang from remnants of other tribes from farther north and runaway slaves.
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Florida
Crow shooting singles winner to eat crow dinner
In Anna Illinois on June 15 the loser of the national crow shooting singles competition will receive a baked crow dinner as a humorous public wager.
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Anna, Ill
Memorial Service Honors Medgar Evers in Terre Haute
NAACP members in Terre Haute held a memorial march and service for Medgar Evers at the Courthouse. Rev Samuel Jones urged orderly departure as police observed no incidents. Churches joined the tribute with bells tolling in tribute to the slain civil rights leader.
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Terre Haute
NAACP
Medgar Evers
Samuel Jones
Saulers Methodist Church
Evers
Mississippi
Kay Thomson
Roude bush to address Hamilton County GOP women
Rep. Richard L. Roudebush of Indiana was slated to speak at a Hamilton County Republican women's workshop in Forest Park on June 15. The event aims to energize local GOP women and discuss party priorities.
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Noblesyville
Ind
Richard L. Roudebush
R-Ind
Hamilton County
Forest Park
Blast Victim Seeks 75000 In Gas Blast Case
Tommy Patrick, 39, of 2505 Fenwood Drive, sues Terre Haute Gas Corp for 75000 in personal injury damages filed in Vigo Superior Court. Patrick, a service repair man, claims burns and hearing loss from a February 4 explosion at 904 South Seventeenth Street, injuring five. Also injured were Homer Dowden, his wife Lillian, and two gas company employees. The suit accuses the company of negligence and improper inspection and maintenance of service lines. Total gas company damage suits approach 65 million linked to two blasts.
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Tommy Patrick
Fenwood Drive
Terre Haute Gas Corporation
Vigo Superior Court
Patrick
Paitson’ Brothers Heating and Air Conditioning Company
Robert J. McPeak
Homer Dowden
South Seventeenth Streeet
Dowden
Lillian
Gas Company
Home Packing Company
Boys' State Opens at Bloomington
Hoosier Boys' State opens at Indiana University Bloomington with 900 high school juniors attending. The program, directed by B W Breedlove, runs for a week teaching government from governor to local units. Students form Nationalists and Federalists, create laws, and run courts and agencies.
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Bloomington
Ind
UPI
Hoosier Boys’ State
American Legion
Indiana University
B. W. Breedlove
Indianapolis
The
Injunction Averts Railway Strike in Chicago Area
A temporary injunction halts a planned strike by the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers and Express and Station Employes against the Chicago and Western Indiana Railway and Belt Railway. Judge Sam Perry ordered the delay as bargaining continues under the National Mediation Board. about 1,000 workers are affected.
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Chicago
Chicago and Western Indiana Railway and Belt Railway
U. S
Sam Perry
Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship
Perry
National Mediation Board
Wife files divorce suit over abusive husband in Seattle
Ruth Grove, wife of Paul Grove formerly of Crawfordsville Ind., seeks divorce in Seattle accusing him of habitual drinking and forcing her to pay bills including $100 monthly alimony to a former wife. The filing notes no mention of Grove's murder conviction.
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Seattle
Crawfordsville, Ind
Ruth Grove
Paul
Grove
New Parents Herb Jeffries and Tempest Storm Welcome Daughter
Hollywood announces the birth of Patricia Ann to Herb Jeffries and Tempest Storm. The 7 pound 9 ounce baby girl was born Thursday. Storm, 31, and Jeffries, 48, wed in 1959.
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Hollywood
Herb Jeffries
Tempest Storm
Patricia Ann
Miss Storm
Sale Announced for Sanitary District Bonds
The City Sanitary District announces a 4 400 000 general obligation bond issue to be sold at 10 am Wednesday June 26 bids to be received in the City Controller Ray Thomas office. Bonds are payable from taxes on all taxable property in the district to fund interceptor sewers repair of drains and relief sewers serving unserved areas.
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City Sanitary District
Sanitary District
Ray Thomas
Terre Haute
CWA Votes to Expel Five Members at National Convention
The Communications Workers of America voted to expel five members for allegedly attempting to hand their units to the Teamsters. The expelled were R. C. Arnold A. D. Bigler and C. L. Whobrey of Local 5790 Evansville Indiana and J. W. Hightower and Ralph Staenen of Local 9490 San Francisco.
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Kansas City
Communications Workers of America
Teamsters Union
Joseph A. Beirne
CWA
Teamsters
R. C. Arnold A. D. Bigler
C. L. Whobrey
Evansville
Ind
J. W. Hightower
Ralph Staenen
San Francisco
Indiana PSC OKs $50 Million Bond Issue by Illinois Bell
The Indiana Public Service Commission authorized Illinois Bell Telephone Co to issue 50 million dollars in bonds to reimburse AT&T for funds advanced. The Illinois Commerce Commission has already approved the bond, while the agency ruled Suburban Lines fares in Indianapolis are just and reasonable. It also authorized Northern Indiana to extend natural gas service to a rural Fulton County area.
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Indianapolis
UPD
Indiana Public Service Commission
Illinois Bell Telephone Co
American Telephone and Telegraph
At&t
Illinois Commerce Commission
Fulton County
Eighth Avenue Church Adopts Summer Service Schedule
The Eighth Avenue Baptist Church moves to summer hours per pastor Rev. Donald Edwards. Morning worship runs from 9 to 10 a.m. and Sunday School from 10 to 11 a.m.
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Eighth Avenue Baptist Church
Donald Edwards
Randall Gaddis Opens Carrier Career at Age Twelve
A report on Randall Lee Gaddis, a 12 year old Robinson Til resident, beginning his carrier role in the north area. The piece notes his sixth grade status and early entry into newspaper delivery duties.
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Tribune
Randall Lee Gaddis
Robinson, Til
Victim in Crash Sues for 150000 in Vigo Court
Richard Lee Stanbaugh, grade student at Robinson Lincoln Grade School and Little League member, seeks 150000 in personal injury damages from Norman Lee Ricketts Claude Bender and Moor man Trucking Company for injuries from a May 11 collision on U S 41 north of Boswell. He resides at 209 South Prairie street Robinson.
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Robinson’s
Lincoln
South Prairie Street
Robinson
Richard Lee Stanbaugh
Norman Lee Ricketts
Bellmore
Claude Bender
Moorman Trucking Company, Inc
Bloomington
C. William Allen
Stanbaugh
U. S. 41
Boswell
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