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Dignitaries Slated For Hyte AnniversaryUnited States Senators Birch Bayh and Vance Hartke will be in Terre Haute Friday to attend the 34th anniversary celebration of the Charles T Hyte Community Center The distinguished senators along with community leaders and local residents will begin the celebration at 8:15 p.m. in the gymnasium of the Center, 1101 S. 13th St.Hartke, who is in his third term in the U.S. Senate, is seeking re-election to an unprecedented fourth term..The Honorable C. DeLores Tucker, secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. is the scheduled speaker at the anniversary celebratiom.‘•Senator Bayh, a close friend of Mrs. Tucker, will probably make a few informal comments at the dinner, Jean Conyers, chairperson of the event, said.Born and raised on a farm near Terre Haute, Bayh is in his third six-year term in the U.S. Senate.He defeated 18-year-veteran Republican Homer Capehart by a narrow 10,944 vote margin of 1,800,000 votes cast to win election in his first term in 1962.The Center is named for its founder, Charles T. Hyte, a black educator in Terre Haute.“The anniversary celebration is a way of sustaining community interest in the facility. the chairperson noted, the board is continuing to perpetuate the philosophy of the founder by developing capabilities of youth through leisure learning and recreational activities and by providing social, economic and health services Mayor William J Brighton will give the greetings from the city to more than 600 persons attending the dinner The invocation will be given by the Rev .Inhn ChironnaSee related story on page 12.the Rev. Noel Hord will conclude the program with recognitions and acknowledgments.Assisting the chairperson with the planning of the celebration are the Rev. Chironna, Darrell Felling, Dr. Fred Draper, the Rev. Hord, Elizabeth Allen, Ozella Goodridge, Dr. Hammonds, Dr. Tim Knowles and George Smith.“The success of the anniversary celebration is largely contributable to the committee efforts in mobilizing resources of local prominent people in the community, Conyers noted The “blue-ribbon committee members are. Dr. Iverson Bell, Dr. H. M. S. Bristol, Ralph Berry. Dr. Wayne Crockett, Donald Foltz. john W. Feu-quay, Wilburn Smith, Don Smith, Dr. Richard Landini, Mayor Brighton. Ed Stapleton, Jack Manicin. Dr. Harmon Baldwin, Blanche Foster and John Haley.Tickets for the dinner can be purchased for $12.50 a person. Groups wishing to purchase tables may do so for $100 a table to accommodate eightpersons.Hua Kut'TOKYO (UPI) - China formally announced tonight the appointment of Premier Hua Kuo-feng as chairman of the Chinese Communist party, succeeding the late Mao Tse-tung. Japan's Kyodo News Service reported In a dispatch from Peking, Kjodo said Hua’s appointment to China’s top post
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Terre Haute Tribune
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Tue, Oct 12, 1976
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