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Home delivery subscribers may be charged a higher rate for holiday editions. Editor Aubrey Woods 812-523-7051 Circulation Operations manager Robin Sporleder 812-523-7058 Regional advertising director Christina Cosner 317-736-2750 Sports editor Dakota Locker 812-523-7076 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Single copy $1.00 Wednesday $1.50 Weekend Unlimited online access EZ Pay monthly $10 Digital plus 2-Day print EZ Pay $24.00 8 weeks $48.00 16 weeks $94.00 26 weeks $135.00 52 weeks $249.00 Subscribers may place their renewal notice and payment in a locked box located outside The office at 121 N. Chestnut Seymour. On This Day rika alone he ribune 100 years ago American Legion plans to own home Following the Christmas holiday, a special meeting of the members of local post No. 89 of the American Legion will be called for the purpose of the discussing proposals to purchase a home for the local organiza- tion, which were made by various members of the post at its regular meeting Friday night.
Recently, great interest has been exhibited by members of the local post in a new home, and the pro- posals made met with the high approval of practically all of the members. 75 years ago Refilling Vallonia lake is delayed Refilling of Starve Hallow Lake near Vallonia has been delayed, it was reported today, to allow cleaning of the adjacent pond used by the Jackson County State Nursery. The leel of the lake will remain at 538 feet above sea level until this work is completed, Fred Gray, who is temporarily in charge of the Driftwood fish hatchery, stated. Berkey Wright, superintendent of the hatchery, is at a conference in Indianapolis. Cleaning of the nursery pond will necessitate the use of a power shovel, Mr.
Gray stated, but he made no estimate as to when the work would begin. 50 years ago Fire hits local A downtown area restaurant was damaged late Thursday in a fire, which spread upwards into the attic and out of the roof. Chief Glenn A. Noblitt said the fire call was received at 6:06 p.m. from the Ritz Cafe, 104 S.
Chestnut and apparently started from grease around the stove area in the kitchen. A grease trap pan under the range apparently ignited and spread into the overhead vent ducts and exhaust system. Chief Noblitt said because of the draft in the vent system, the flames were carried upwards and did not spread to any degree in the kitchen. 25 years ago Local area will get new weather station Local residents will have a new radio station to tune in to sometime later this month, but expect to find a top-40 hit playing there any time soon. the Palm Sunday tornadoes hit northern Ala- bama a few years ago, the weather service has been working with numerous state and private agencies to expand the weather radio coverage Richard Augulius, director of the National Weather Service Central Region Headquarters in Kansas City, said.
Seymour has received one of three interim trans- mitters recently installed in southern Indiana. The Seymour station and two other new ones located at Georgia in Lawrence County and Edwardsport in Knox County are expected to be operational sometime this month. While members of the family checked strings of lights and pre- pared to decorate the Christmas tree, Tiger the cat settled down for a long nap in a pile of ornaments which had been left in his favorite easy chair. Tiger belongs to Angela and Lisa Pers- inger, daughters of Tribune News Editor Joe Persinger, who took the photo. This photo is dated Dec.
14, 1973. wrapping Continued from Page A1 he said. Fox said the need in 2023 is greater than it was in 2022 with applications totaling 66 more than last year in the same time period. year, we had 614 kids in around 240 families, and we expect to exceed he said. Fox said the economy, inflation, migration and other factors all contribute to the growth in need.
is understandable that our numbers are the way they he said. Each child receives a main gift, a secondary gift and a blanket. Im- manuel Lutheran School and Trinity Lutheran High School have conducted blanket drives to donate to the boxes. The Jackson County Ser- toma Christmas Miracle raises more than $24,000 to pull off, Fox said. lot of that is in-kind by people buying off the Angel Trees and bringing presents he said.
a lot of it that comes from industries here, business, groups and individual The Jackson County Sertoma Christmas Miracle Angel Trees were put up at the Jackson County Public Library, Shoe Sensation and Jackson County Visitor Center in Seymour. Fox estimates about of the campaign is made by people buying the gifts and bringing them in, while the remaining is raised monetarily. Fox said no one really knows the exact origin of Sertoma Christmas Miracle, but the effort has been in the county since the early 1970s, according to Tribune articles from that time period. That effort started with about five children back then. Fox said the gener- osity of the community has allowed that figure to grow to where between 600 and 700 kids are being helped.
He said helping the community is what the Jackson County Sertoma Christmas Miracle is about. In his 11 years of serving as co-chair of the effort, he has always felt like the community has come through to support it, Fox said. giving back to the community, you know? That really means he said. need to give back, and it involves kids and everyone in the community. I think why it has received the support that it Monetary donations can be made year-round by mailing them to P.O.
Box 841, Seymour, IN 47274. Fox said another need the group has is for people to show up on Christmas Eve to deliver the presents. could always use help with delivering on Christmas Eve morning beginning at 7 in the he said. coffee is always hot, and the doughnuts are always Pictured clockwise: Greg places gifts in a box during the Jackson County Sertoma Christmas Miracle wrap party Wednesday at the headquarters at Shops at Seymour. Gary and Leslie Martin wrap a gift during the Jackson County Sertoma Christmas Miracle wrap party.
Jim Kloote labels a box during the wrap party. Susie Begley wraps a gift during the party. Jordan Richart For The Tribune.