Danner Bros. Inc, which operated 16 Danner’s 5- and 10-cent stores in Indiana, announced that its employees’ profit sharing trust was valued at $450,000. “To our knowledge,” said company President Harry Danner, “this is the most liberal profit sharing plan in the variety store industry. We give nearly one-half of our profits to our employees.”
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Robert A. Dale opened an accounting and tax consultant service in Beech Grove. The Butler graduate had previously been an accountant for National Land Corp.
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The St. Catherine Men’s Bowling League installed its officers: Gene Raftery, president; Frank Wuensch, secretary; Harold Thoman, treasurer; and the Rev. Carl Busald, Leo Budenz and Virgil Rohrman, directors.
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The Glass Front Bar, 1430 E. Raymond St. served T-bone or chicken dinners for $1.
Fifty Years Ago This Week – 1967
Theresa Hill, a graduate of Southport High School, and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Hill, was named a Hanover College Scholar.
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An open house to celebrate the 25th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. John Garrity was held by their children.
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A 1956 Buick Special with good tires and an automatic transmission was advertised for $100; 300 red bricks were priced at $10; and cottage cheese cost 19 cents a pound.
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Indiana Central College’s daytime enrollment was expected to exceed 1,000 for the first time in the school’s 62-year history.
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Boy Scouts Terry Caine, David L. Bonesteel, David E. Brown, Daniel Griesemer and George W. Lewis III were attending the 12th World Jamboree at Farragut State Park in Idaho.
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Forty Years Ago This Week – 1977
Annamarie Huber, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George F. Huber Jr. and a graduate of Perry Meridian High, was named Rainbow Girl of the Year at the Grand Assembly of the International Order of Rainbow for Girls.
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Diaz Realtors’ Southport office employed Zane Koester, Harold Beasley, Lana Smith, Mike Baxter, Carolyn Arthur, Dotty Shaw, Pat Waisner, Bob Bellmore, Carl Huber, Carol Hurst, Sandy Byers, Tom Robinson, Bob Vincent and Barbara Hobbs.
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The cost to make a phone call from a telephone booth in Florida jumped to a quarter.
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The Sluggers won the Southside Girls Softball League. Team members were Beth and April Lucas, Nedra Dinnis, Vicky Owens, Kim Handley, Kathy Wilson, Jinny McMillan, Shirley Browers, Lois Mobley, Dawn Browers, Robin Gray, Terri Speer, Lisa Guerra, Vonda Armour and manager Pat Browers.
Thirty Years Ago This Week – 1987
Indianapolis was cited for its failure to meet pollution control standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency. Two other cities – East Chicago and Jeffersonville – were singled out for virtually ignoring their air pollution problems.
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Perry Township junior 4-H leaders Joy Johnson, Greg Moebs, Angie DeBoor, Mark Heeringa, Julia Breathman and Marty Scholegl were selected to attend leadership conference at Purdue.
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The Dessert Basket, a specialty yogurt shop located at 932 E. Hanna Ave. was celebrating its grand opening.
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The summer heat and humidity didn’t keep Bart Brown, Ron Roembke, John Jacob, Cathy Buergler and Bruce Pettis from training at Zupancic’s Gym, 3143 E. Thompson Road.
Twenty Years Ago This Week – 1997
Marion County law enforcement officials were cranking up the heat on curfew violators. Students who didn’t take the law seriously could find themselves – and their parents – cleaning up litter at city parks.
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Chris A. Nielsen was promoted to corporal within the Marion County Sheriff’s Department.
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Siblings Tim and Jennifer Hull, who attended Southport Elementary, took first-place honors in the 400-meter dashes at the Hoosier State Games. They were the children of John and Lee Ann Hull and grandchildren of Bill and Renda Case and Len and Helen Hull.
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Students of Sevenish Martial Arts and Karate competed in the American Tae Kwon Do Association world championships in Little Rock, Ark. The participants were Paul Peaper, Ben Stovall, Katie, Emily and Matthew Brown, Bill, Whitney, Kelsey and Jordan Luallen, Kyle Kuntz, Alyssa and Randall Sevenish, Bryan and Sarah Sutor, Joey Jurgen, Alicia Cochran, Olivia and Tom Breen, Ashley Lane and Max Phillips.
Ten Years Ago This Week – 2007
The archives from 2007 are missing.