The Tribune from Seymour, Indiana • Page 1

vtb i mm wmm SEYMCMR DA "Prejudice corrupu the cam, at pervert the judgment, in alltht concenu of Itfe." Jean Racine WEATHER Clear and cooler tonight, lows in the mid to upper 60s. Sunny and warm Sunday, highs in the mid to upper 80s. tTTH YEAR-NO. 174 SEYMOUR, INDIANA SATURDAY, JULY 24. 1H 522-4871 irDlEsoiriiinrsiiic 1 mmMiiatj.jmtmim.mm"MB- mjmu.i.

mf i i i fiiiu wiuiijcji 9'A)Kf's4 VRTOerjf Heir money. The shotgun had been concealed under the spread. After putting approximately 115 in bills and change into a bag provided by the intruder, Fielder told police be was ordered to lie on the floor, along with a guest who was in the lobby at the time, while the intruder fled. Witnesses outside the motel told police they observed a male subject racing in a westerly direction across the park- lot, et into an automobile and leave the lot at a high rate of speed. The vehicle was last seen heading west on Fourth street near the intersection with Walnut street, police said.

From various sources of information obtained by police this morning, it is believed 1 i am --e. A workshop on economic development- for elected officials in Jackson, Bartholomew, Brown, Jennings and Decatur counties will be held Friday, Aug. 6, at Columbus. Region XI Development Com- mission (RDC) has invited more than 700 persons to attend the conference to be held in the Imperial House. Purpose of the meeting is to explain Title IV of the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, as amended.

Under this act Jackson, Bartholomew ana Jennings counties were'among 26 Hoosier counties recently qualifying to be designated as redevelopment areas as a result of high unemployment. A county qualif ies when its unemployment rate reaches an average annual rate of six per cent or more, as certified by the U. S. Department of Labor. The highest unemployment rate of the three counties in 1975 was in Jackson, where 14 per cent, or 2,100 of the total 15,000 labor force was unemployed.

Arvin Industries, a long-time Seymour firm, closed down during the year which contributed to this figure. The rate for Bartholomew county was 8.8 per cent, with 2,250 persons unemployed out of a total labor force of 25,300 persons. Unemployment rate in Jennings County was 7.6 per cent, with 690 of the total of 9,030 laborers unemployed. Brown county statistically qualified in the late 1960s and Two suspects are in custody and a third is being sought in connection with an ained robbery early this morning at the Chestnut Motor Inn, 401 North Chestnut street, city police reported today. Police declined to reveal the names of those in custody, stating only they were each 19 and taken into custody in the 700 block of Pershing street shortly after the incident which occurred at 12:54 a.

m. Leonard D. Fielder, night clerk at the motor inn, told investigating Officers Calvin Simpson and John Hill a subject with a bedspread draped over the upper half of his body entered the lobby shortly after midnight, aimed a shotgun at him and demanded all his Cast Announced Pageant "Star Spangled Days," an hour and 45-minute Bicentennial pageant that wQI re-enact county, history, will be presented at 8:30 p. m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in front of the grandstand at the fairgrounds in Brownstown.

The production is the main attraction of the Jackson County Bicentennial Celebration and wiU highlight the colorful history and heritage of Jackson County and the United States in dance, song and drama in front of a specially built, 300-f oet settingrTh pageant will include the his Begins Tuesday AP Wirephoto Looking For Evidence Officers from Alameda and Santa Clara counties in California sift through material at a warehouse in San Jose, Friday in search for evidence in the abduction of 26 Chowchilla school children and their but driver. The driver, Ed Ray, was flown to San Jose Friday in an attempt to iden tify vans officials say they have recovered. They are trying to identify the vans as those used to transport the children from Chowchilla to the quarry in livermore, Calif. One of three suspects, Richard Allen Schoenfeld, 22, has surrendered and local arrest warrants have been issued for Schoenfield's brother, James 24, and Frederick N. Woods, IV, 24, son of the owner of the rock quarry where the kidnapped victims were imprisoned.

Pre-Fair Activities Scheduled For Week Council faces Busy Session PathologistSurgeon Added PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS was designated a redevelopment county in 1975. i Unemployment rate in Brown county for 1975 was 5 per cent, with 290 of the total 5,780 labor force unemployed. Brown county, however, maintains its designation. Only Decatur county in Region XI has not qualified or been designated a redevelopment area, district or county. In Decatur county, the 1975 unemployment rate was 5.1 per cent, with 550 of the total 10,875 workers not working.

Richard Fields, RDC executive director, said the commission would like to have Decatur county designated an economic growth center, which would make it eligible for funds from the Economic Development Administration (EDA), which provides funds to the redevelopment areas. In order to become a designated area and be eligible to receive the EDA funds, counties must complete an Overall Economic Development Plan (OEDP). This plan analyzes each county's economic strengths and weaknesses, and will be discussed at the program. Fields said the program will give the public an opportunity to hear the benefits of Title IV assistance. Aid is provided in the form of grants for public works and development facilities (to include utilities and roads for industrial parks), direct loans up to 100 per cent to assist in financing public works, loans up Col.

8, back page 7 Ordinancjto. 20, amending the traffic code, regarding the intersection of Seventh and Blish streets and Stadium Drive, with will be given a second reading. Also given a second reading will be Ordinance No. 22, authorizing the changing of due date on sewer bills. The council also is expected to introduce two new ordinances, one establishing salaries of non-elected department heads for 1977 and the other setting the tax levy for the 1977 city budget.

The council also is expected to hear a Cot 8, back page WEATHER RECORDS Hra art th. weather rtcord tor Seymour. The downtown Seymour noon temperature to unofficial. Other readings are from the record of Mrs. Ruth Everhart, government weather observer at Rockford, and en official.

Down to wa Seymour 9 a. m. today 85 Maximum Friday 92 Minimum Friday 68 River at 7 a. m. 1.7 Sunset today 8:06 EST Sunrise Sunday 5:37 EST Administration, three for engineering for bridges, one for $64,200, one for $21,000, and one for one grant for construction of bridge and approaches for $353,000 and two grants for engineering and relocation, one for $14,000 and one for $7,000.

Quinco Consulting Center, seeking a four-year renewal from Health, Education and Welfare. $351,138. Developmental Services, seeking a grant for $98,640 for six small buses from Urban Mass Transportation Act. Sett Recruit mens three persons were involved in the incident. In addition to a male and a female in custody, police suspect a third person, possibly 20 or 21 years of age, also was connected with tne robbery.

Recovered at the time the two suspects were taken into custody on Pershing street was a portion of the money believed stolen and the bag in which it was believed to have been carried. The weapon has not been recovered; although police said they believe the female knows of its whereabouts. No formal charges have been filed against the two suspects, pending notification of County Prosecutor Jeffrey A. Nier-man. Police are continuing their investigation.

School Swing Choir; Wednesday, Seymour Senior Citizens band and choir; and Thursday, Psi Iota Xi sextet, from Brownstown. The following items, which are all from the county, wQI be used in the production-covered wagon, buggy, hay wagon, steam fire engine, hearse drawn by horses, antique cars and horses, mules and ponies. Tickets may be purchased at all county banks. Reserve seating may be obtained by calling Jack Montgomery, 358-Col. 4, back page' Here who also have gone on into medical careers, such as Dr.

Mark Bevers, Dr. Roger Jones, Dr. John VanScyoc and Sally Groub, RN. Dr. Wiethoff and his wife, Nancy, and daughter, Kinv beriy, two and one-half, live it 641 Thorndike Court.

Additional medical personnel are expected to be drawn to the community in the next several years as a physician recruitment program goes into active gear. George H. James, hospital administrator, said the "most critical need of the local medical community Is doctor recruitment." The hospital board has given recruitment top priority. The Hospital Foundation has allotted 3500 towards the recruitment program and interested local citizens are invited to add SAMA program, leftand local surgeon, look on. rV i Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights at 8:30 p.

m. Special grandstand entertainment is also planned for 8 p. m. each' night of the pageant Barrow carcass judging will take place at 7 p. m.

Tuesday. On Thursday, from 8 a. m. to 4 p. m.

project exhibits other CL 2, back page Bridge Bids To Be Opened By Commission Sealed bids for bridge repair at New Farmington south of Seymour and for painting pavement markings on roads throughout the Seymour District will be opened Tuesday at 10 a. m. by the Indiana State Highway Commission in Room 1313, state office building. Bridge repairs on the present structure located on County Road 275N, 2.5 miles south of U. S.

50 at New Farmington, over Interstate 65 include portions of beam, railing and slab. The bridge is a continuous steel beam and reinforced concrete girder in four spans two 38-foot sections, a 68-foot section and a 24-foot roadway. Also bids will be opened Tuesday for painting center-lines, edgelines, no-passing lines, and special pavement markings in the Seymour District. Highways to be painted in various counties include: Jackson, Bartholomew, Johnson, Dearborn, Decatur, Jefferson, Lawrence, Monroe, Orange and Shelby. Plan; and proposals may be examined at the state office building.

escorts for the queen candidates, who will be briefed on their duties. Merrilee Hill, the 1975 fair queen, will be present to teQ the girls of her experiences in state fair queen competition, and queen contest committee members Mrs. Larry R. Spurgeon Mrs. Tom Bollinger, Mrs.

John H. Robertson and Mrs. Gerald Hackman will be present to assist in the briefing. A new feature of the queen contest this year is the participation in the Bicentennial Parade by this year's nominees and past fair queens on the opening day of the fair, Aug. 1.

The queen nominees will appear before the grandstand in swim suits near the close of the afternoon horse show and will appear again near the close of the night horse show in evening gowns on that day. While the fair proper will not get under way until Sunday, Aug. 1, pre-fair activities will open with presentation of Jackson County's Bicentennial pageant, "StarSpangled Days," B'town C. Of C. Annual Dinner Tuesday More than 50 reservations have been received for the annual dinner of the Browns-town Chamber of Commerce to be held Tuesday at the American Legion Home there.

A catered dinner will be served 6:30 p. m. followed by a program to include installation of officers and a talk by Edwin J. Boley. Boley, a Seymour teacher and historian, is expected to cover the history of the Brownstown community.

tory of every township in 'the" county. In case it rains on one of the three scheduled nights, the pageant will be given Friday night The Jackson County Fair Association has obtained the directing services of the Rogers Company, which has produced more -than 5,000 pageants throughout the United States since 1903. The director is William Dawes, of Florida. The following pre-show entertainment is planned for 8 p. Tuesday, Seymour High tory services and in-service training.

He and his wife, Debbie, and their two-year-old son, Jason, live on Seymour R7. Dr. Wiethoff is associated with his father, Dr. Clifford A. Wiethoff, in the practice of surgery with offices at 1131 Medical Place near the Jackson Park Shopping Center.

He did his undergraduate work at Indiana University in Bloomington, his graduate work at the IU School of Medicine in Indianapolis, and his residency at Wishard Memorial Hospital, Indianapolis. A native of Seymour, Dr. Wiethoff worked at the local hospital during the summer of 1972 between his senior year at medical school and his internship. While in high school, he was a member of a medical Explorer Scout Post, which Included a number of other local youths i V- J) A. 1 Need Will Four ordinances are scheduled for public bearing when the city council meets Monday at 7:30 p.

m. in the council chambers, city hail. Six other ordinances, including a reading of the budget ordinance for the city next year also will be heard. The council also is expected to act on resolutions regarding the steam engine at the Blish Mill and the. transfer of money within the police department.

Ordinances which are set for hearing Monday are Nos. 19, 21, 23 and 24. Ordinance No. 19, which will be given a second reading, deals with past due bills of the Seymour aviation commission. Ordinance No.

21, which will be given a -second reading, deals with the transfer of funds from revenue sharing to the local housing authority. Also given a second reading is Ordinance No. 23, which deals with a special appropriation from revenue sharing for past due bills in various city departments. Ordinance No. 24, which will be given a first reading, deals with the establishment of a cumulative fire fighting equipment fund.

The fund, which is expected to take in about $14,200 annually, will be raised with the levying of an additional five cents to each $100 of assessed valuation of taxable property. Ordinance No. 17, amending the zoning code to include approval from the administrative building council will be heard on a final reading. Two new physicians have been added to the medical staff at Jackson County Schneck Memorial Hospital, bringing the total number of doctors to 23. They are Wesley Whltler, the first full-time, in-residence pathologist for the local hospital, and Dr.

Richard "Rick" Wiethoff, a general surgeon. A native of Jeffersonville, Dr. Whltler did his under-graduate work and medical studies at the University of Louisville and his residence with the University of Louisville affiliated hospitals. Both he and Dr. Wiethoff were among residents working in the emergency room at the local hospital week nights and on weekends.

Dr. Whitler will be'ln charge of the laboratory and will serve as a consultant to local physicians on. lab tests. He will be responsible for tissue examinations, for developing labora 1. 'V Forty nominees for the title of 1978 Jackson County Fair Queen will meet at 6:30 p.

Monday at the grandstand at the fairgrounds for publicity pictures and instructions concerning the contest, which this year has a record number of candidates. Also present will be the four Resurfacing Of U.S. 50 Starts Monday Repaving of S. SO from Seymour to North Vernon will begin Monday, according to Indiana State Highway officials at the Seymour district. L.

P. Cavett Construction Company, of Seymour, will do the repaying from the Intersection of U. S. 31 east of Seymour to the intersection of Ind. 3 and 7 and U.

S. 50 at North Vernon. The repaying will be completed in 45 working days and flagmen will direct one-way traffic at the work sites. According to highway' officials, the road will not need to be closed at any time during the repaying. Yf.

Tribune Photo Dr. Richard Wiethoff, new i. Hear Annual Report RDC To Air Projects ration, 86,300 for preliminary engineering for intersections and $14,000 for preliminary engineering for traffic signal and control devices. -Jackson County Commissioners, seeking five grants from the Federal Highway Administration, four for installation of automatic railroad flashers, one for one for one for and one for and one grant for a bridge over the East Fork of White River, $31,500. Indiana State Highway Commission, seeking six grants from the Federal Highway A number of projects of interest to Jackson County residents will be reviewed at the July meeting of Region XI Development Commission at 7:15 p.

m. Thursday at the Commons meeting room, Columbus. Also Richard Fields, executive director, will give his annual report and the 1976-77 work program and budget will be discussed. Among '-projects to be reviewed are: Seymour Board of Public Works and Safety, seeking from, the Federal Highway Administ- Examine Slide Dr. Wesley Whitler, new pathologist at Jackson.

County Schneck Memorial Hos pttal, views a tissue specimen as Tom Barbour, of the.