Mercury proves man can operate space capsule
Project Mercury proved man can perform useful tasks in space after weightlessness. The program cost over 400 million and yielded a wealth of experience guiding the two man Gemini effort and the Apollo moon project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anatyr Opypave
Mercury
Gemini
Air Force
Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr
Jerome B. Hammack
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Manned Spaceflight Center
Navy
Malcolm Scott Carpenter
Ostrex Tonic Ad Promises Youthful Vigor
An old style advertisement claims people at 40 50 or 60 feel weak due to debility and iron lack. It touts Ostrex Tonic Tablets as a quick remedy to restore pep for both sexes with an 8 day trial size offered at low cost.
Jamaica protests brutality over doctor beating in New Orleans
Prime Minister Bustamante instructed Ambassador Neville Ashenheim in Washington to protest the reported beating of Jamaican Dr John McHardy by New Orleans police. McHardy said he was assaulted and jailed without charge for five days after an arrest in a bar.
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Kingston
Jamaica
Alexander Bustamante
Neville Ashhenheim
Washington
New Orleans
Bustamante
John McHardy
Man Claims He’s With Joe After Break-In At Dallas Station
A security patrolman caught a man fleeing a closed Dallas service station. The suspect claimed to be with Joe and directed the officer inside where he found a broken cigarette machine and missing change. no Joe was found.
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Dallas
Pip
A. M. Hurl
Joe
Hurl
Tire Blast Injures Station Attendant
Walden Rose a 21 year old of 925 Locust Street was treated and released from St Anthony Hospital after a tire he was servicing at Cities Service Station Seventh and Locust blew up in his face Police said he was found lying beside a car and was alone at the time of the accident The incident occurred Tuesday according to the report
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walden Rose
Locust Street
St. Anthony Hospital
Srvice Station
Seventh
Locust Streets
Optimist Club set to hear Daggett on steel products
Frank E. Daggett general sales manager for Straw-Steel Corp will be guest speaker at the Optimist Neon Club luncheon at Hotel Deming on Wednesday. He will discuss new steel industry products and trends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank E. Daggett
Straw-Steel Corporation
Optimist Neon Club
Garbage Trash Bill Heads to City Council
The proposed ordinance, guided by Dr Milton Rubin and the Indiana State Board of Health, tightens trash burning and garbage disposal rules to zones away from properties. If approved, it updates waste and land fill laws and replaces the current fire code and bus rate measures.
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Indiana State Board of Health
Milton Rubin
Crawford
Indiana behind on recreation in state study finds gaps
Indiana's two year study shows inadequate outdoor and indoor recreation facilities across many counties. The Governor's Committee on Recreation, led by Walter Fisher, urges more facilities and professionally trained leaders to keep pace with population growth. Only taverns appear in every county as the sole commercial recreation facility.
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Indianapolis
UPD
Indiana
Welsh
Muncie Park
Longshoremen Defy Court Order in Grain Load Dispute
Chicago June 18 1949 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association refused to load grain onto the Canadian ship Howard Shaw owned by Upper Great Lakes Shipping Co Ltd Toronto despite a Federal Court order. Twenty eight members and two officials faced possible contempt citations amid an ILA stand in sympathy with the Seafarers International Union in a dispute with the ship operators.
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Chicago
WUP
International Longshoremen’s Association
ILA
Howard Shaw
Upper Great Lakes Shipping Co. Ltd
Toronto
Indiana University Creates Water Resources Research Center
President Elvis J. Stahr Jr. announced the establishment of a water resources research center on the Indiana University Bloomington campus. The center will integrate IU water research activities and coordinate with state and federal agencies on water problems.
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Bloomington
Ind
Indiana University
Elvis J. Stahr Jr
Stahr
Former prison warden urges keeping death penalty for police shooters
Alfred Dowd, 72, former Indiana State Prison warden, urged Hoosier police chiefs to retain the death penalty as a deterrent against shooting officers. He spoke at the opening session of the Indiana Police convention in South Bend, which runs to Wednesday and includes officer elections despite his opposition to capital punishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Bend
Ind
Alfred Dowd
Hoosier
Indiana
Dowd
Jury Awards Ligons More For Property
The Vigo Superior Court jury in the City v Julius and Margaret Ligons awarded $9,500 for the city’s acquisition of 723 Harding Avenue after a one hour five minute deliberation. The Ligons had appraised $10,500 and rejected the city’s $8,500 offer from the Department of Redevelopment.
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Vigo Superior Court
Julius
Margaret Ligon
Ligons
Southwest Area
Harding Avenue
Department of Redevelopment
David E. Rosenfield
James Sullivan
Gambill, Cox, Zwerner, Gambill and Sullivan
Richard Swain
Romeo J. Toffolo
Robert M. Tryon
William J. Welch
Guy Brammer
Lyle W. Harris
Walter E. Eisenhuit
Georgia Carlton
Norman Hoppingarner
Harry A. Romoser
Edward Lark
Harley A. Norris
Special venire drawn for burglary trial in Vigo County
A special venire of 25 Vigo county residents was drawn for a burglary jury trial in Circuit Court, scheduled to begin next Monday. Defendants include three Indianapolis men Jesse J. Howard Wilbur C Morton and Willie King charged with second degree burglary at Launderama 1900 Locust street on Feb 9. Curtis Graham and Herman Blow pled guilty and were sentenced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vigo County
Indianapolis
Jesse J. Howard
Wilbur C. Morton
Willie King
Locust Street
Curtis Graham
Herman Blow
Walter C. Stinson
Thomas Joseph Bridges
Harvey B. Brubaker
Earl Lee Cash
Ruth Rocksberry
Mary Jeanne Holler
Daniel N. Torpy
Fred McWilliams
James W VanHook
Alvin J. Adams
Morris Trotter
Charles Thomas Lawson
John A. Daniel
Simone Shake
Fred C. Davis
Ward C. Hargis
Bryant FE. Cartwright
Samuel Norris
Ruth Ee
Bloomfield Boys Held In Theft At Linton Drive-In
Three 18 year olds from Bloomfield face petty larceny charges over the theft of speakers from the Linton Drive-In Theater. Bond set at 500 dollars each pending arraignment. arrests followed tracing a license number supplied by owner Charles Cassida to a Bloomfield drive-in restaurant. State Trooper Kenny Wolfe recovered two speakers in the Workman vehicle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linton
Ind
Bloomfield
Robert Lester Fury Jr
Larry Joe Workman
James Orville Titus
Kenny Wolfe
Charles Cassida
Wolfe
Workman Auto
City Councilman to Speak at High Twelve Club Meeting
City councilman Lawrence R. Jones, a research chemist with Commercial Solvents Corporation and chair of the Wabash Valley Section of the American Chemical Society, will be the guest speaker when the High Twelve Club meets at noon Wednesday in the Terre Haute House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence R. Jones
High Twelve
Terre Haute House
Jones
Commercial Solvents Corporation
Wabash Valley
American Chemical Society
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Rerire
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Ross Hunter
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Lana Turner
Phaida
Tokilla , Mockingbird
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Pakula Mulligan
Brentwood Productions
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Eva As
Columbia Pictures Presents
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Big Teen
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