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Robert "Bob" Newton — co-founder, Hoosier Racing Tire (1957, with Joyce Newton; re-treading street tires with softer compounds, sold to local racers); President and CEO (long-form company history; Rubber News 2004 styles him "CEO and president"); d. 26 September 2012, aged 85, at home in Lakeville. Conflict C50, printed whole on this line: the founding place is carried two ways — "starting their small business in Lakeville, Indiana in 1957" (the company's press release, Dec 2023, via Speedway Digest / Drag Illustrated / Short Track Scene; the reference article's History sentence) against "They began their business in an abandoned horse barn in South Bend, Indiana" (the company's own history page and long-form history; IBJ 2006 and 2024; the Chamber's own 13 Dec 2023 release; the company's 2018 co-founder announcement). No carrier reached settles the place; the Lakeville claim carried flat by every carrier is the headquarters claim, a different claim with a different date-frame. The name-chain rides on this line: manufacturing as R & J Mfg. Corp. (Plymouth, production from 1979) → renamed Hoosier Tire & Rubber Corp. (1998) → the whole firm held as Hoosier Racing Tire Corp., Lakeville → acquired by Continental, 4 October 2016. A schools-file carrier prints "R.L. Newton, president of Hoosier Tires" donating the former Lakeville school property to the Housing Assistance Office of South Bend in January 1999 — the initials as printed, carried on this line, not merged into a separate person. The firm's whole course stands in Hoosier Racing Tire.
Joyce Newton — co-founder, Hoosier Racing Tire (1957, with Bob Newton); president and CEO at the 2016 sale (Continental's release quotes her in that office); "continued to successfully lead the company until 2016 when the family sold Hoosier Racing Tire Corp. to Continental Tire" (the company's announcement, Jan 2018); d. 16 January 2018, aged 85. The modern anchor of the women sweep — the last Newton-family holder of the presidency. The succession runs Bob Newton → Joyce Newton → John DeSalle (2016) → Joerg Burfien (2020). Same C50 conflict as Bob Newton's line, carried whole.
Robert Herbsten — cashier, Central State Bank of Lakeville (testified in Moses v. State, 271 N.E.2d 446 (Ind. 1971), a forged-$45,000-check prosecution: the check and letter "were not the bank's"). The bank itself: FDIC Cert 17571, established 2 April 1956 at 222 South Michigan Street, merged 30 June 1982 into St. Joseph Bank and Trust Company, South Bend. No president or directors list for the 1956 bank was reached.
Richard W. Mangus — dairy and grain farmer (b. 23 July 1930 in Lakeville; Lakeville High School class of 1948; Indiana House 1973–2004). Placed here by the man's active dates, flagged: the carrier gives no dates for the farming itself, which is stated as his occupation alongside professional truck driving; the House service dates the man, not the farm.
Jeanne Geyer — farmer, 272 acres in the Riddle's Lake area east of town; reupholstering business, fifty years (a Lakeville resident and farmer who with her husband Russell built their home and barn on Kenilworth Road in 1959, farmed 272 acres, "and ran a reupholstering business for fifty years"; author of Now and Then — A Collection of Pictures and Stories about Lakeville, Indiana). A woman owner — farm and trade on one line. The fifty-year span is undated in the carrier; the band is anchored by the 1959 home/barn date, flagged. Her husband Russell is named only as the joint builder of the home and barn — he is not separately rostered as a farm operator.
Dick Grove — founder, Dick Grove School of Music, Los Angeles, 1973; of its successor, the Grove School Without Walls, after 1991 (b. 18 December 1927 in Lakeville; jazz pianist, composer and arranger; d. 26 December 1998). Boundary-flagged, counted: the firm is Los Angeles ground, not a Lakeville business; Grove enters only on the founders cross-check (a musician who founded a school, not a Lakeville business founder), and the line is printed at exactly that strength so it is never read as a town firm.