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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1968
Page
1
Mayor Leland Larrison and Sewage Disposal manager Gail A. E. Wey announced a city plan to cut sewage disposal rates by 15 percent over two and a half years. If approved, the initial 5 percent reduction would start immediately.
Wey outlines a plan for a 5 percent rate cut next October if sewer installations reach required levels, with another 5 percent reduction the following year upon continued sewer expansion. Mayor Larrison notes current consumption at 52 cents per 100 cubic feet, dropping to 49 cents after the first cut, amid earlier talks of a 20 percent disposal-rate cut later revised to 15 percent. The mayor says the lower rates will not affect plant operations and will leave sufficient revenue for bond payments and ongoing maintenance.
Investigations in Indiana and Illinois probe the death of Billy L. Greenlee 38 in a Sunday night collision on State Line Road two miles north of U S 40. Funeral services set for Wednesday at Be ine Chapel of the Valley with burial in Dunlap Cemetery.
Professor Charles Scott Russell of Sheffield University reports that a survey of 2000 pregnant women shows a direct link between maternal smoking and smaller baby size along with greater health risks. Findings appear in the British Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine.
The Terre Haute City Council plans a third budget trimming session Monday at 7 30 p m. The committee of the whole will review aviation department street department and other items as the panel continues to slash the 1969 tax levy. To date cuts total 121 975 with police fire and park departments bearing the largest reductions.
A 16 year old John Whitmore of Queens admitted firing at three LIRR trains from a sandy embankment. One passenger Vincent Maher died and Gabriel Jansen was wounded. Whitmore was charged with homicide. The train continued to Pennsylvania Station after the shot.
North Vietnamese troops slipped from Tay Ninh after heavy clashes with Allied forces. An American armored column and South Vietnamese troops swept the city with no resistance found. The battle stretched from the Mekong Delta to Da Nang, with about 500 NVA reportedly slipping out under darkness.
A 5 year old girl from Hagerstown Maryland named Maria Giannaris awoke and was alert within hours after a heart transplant at Texas Children’s Hospital. The recipient became the world’s 31st heart survivor with donor 11 year old James Dudley Herron II from Purdue University Lafayette Indiana. The operation followed a Johns Hopkins diagnosis of severe heart failure and a three week hospitalization at Texas Children’s.
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower remains in extremely critical condition at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Doctors report repeated ventricular irregularities despite removal of a previously implanted electrical pacemaker due to ineffectiveness. He remains alert and capable of brief conversation as family and aides stay by his side.
The earliest known wholly glass objects are beads from Bayo dating from about 2,500 years ago. Researchers report these beads as among the oldest glass artifacts, suggesting advanced craft in ancient culture.
Norma Fox 30 is treated after a manike youth stabbed her in the back on S 6th Street around 6 16 am. She identified a 16 year old barefoot assailant with sandy hair wearing a checkered shirt. Police note two similar incidents in recent weeks.
Staff Sergeant Franklin Ellinger, 27, a Vigo County native and 10th casualty in Vietnam, died August 12 near Quang Tri when an amphibious tractor struck a mine and sank. He had tested armored tracked vehicles for the Corps, served two tours, and leaves a widow Carol Ann and two sons in California, with services pending return of his body.
U S Senator Birch E Bayh and Lt Governor Robert Rock will join a Seventh District workshop hosted at the Terre Haute House. A dinner for county and district leaders opens at 5 30 p m with Bayh and Rock speaking, followed by a 7 30 p m session for committeemen.
A weather map shows river stage rising to 8.0 feet and highs in the low to mid 90s through Tuesday. Partly cloudy warm humid conditions with a slight chance of thundershowers across Terre Haute Indiana and Illinois. Winds SW 10 20 mph diminishing tonight. Precipitation 2 percent.
Huey Paul Jones, a patient man, reported multiple thefts but went to the sheriff after a bottle of vodka was stolen from his camper. The brief notes prior burglaries included a robbed home and a stolen hat and radio.
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