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DRESSER TAVERN SCENE OF FIGHT; BLAZE FOLLOWS■*. ■■'•'. •' •A. i2-year-old Dresser tavern operator;.was fined $26 yesterday-when lie appeared before Justice of the Peace Lee Eastoh on an assault and battery ch a.r. g e lodged by bis wife.Elmer Hade Brown was arrested by sheriff’s deputies about 3:30 o’clock yesterday morning when they found the couple fighting-in the tavern. About a half hour later, officers received a call that the establishment was on fire. -Deputies Ray Foltz and Jim Barnes sped to the scene and extinguished the blaze which started in a rack of potato chips and in a soft drink case on the floor. They said every window and door glass was broken along with mirrors and vending and amusement machines:Mrs. Brown testified that her husband beat her with his fists. Brown said he was defending himself when his wife charged him with a butcher knife. Mrs,Brown' exhibited a number, of large , welts and lacerations ahout here face and'body.Building to Be Razed, For Paris Parking LotPARIS July 28. — (Sp*daL)—-Razing of a three-storybuilding here preparatory to the construction , of a municipal parking lot: is scheduled to begin Monday. *Harry Stepp, local contractor, was named to raze the former Bishop-Gross building - one block Muth of the dty square to fill tne! hole in the former MasonicTemple lot.Both areas will be leveled -and blacktopped for the city’s first municipal parking lot.JEFFERSON'S JACKET ”• The ‘classic Thomas Jefferson Memorial on the Tidal Basin is a magnet for many visitors to Washington, D. C. Jefferson, in Ms standing statue is dothed in a greatcoat, likeness of thecoat given him by General Thad-deus, Polish patriot of the American revolution.
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Terre Haute Star
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Sat, Jul 29, 1961
Page 14
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Vigo C.
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