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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1963
Page
5
Dugger Indiana petitioned the Public Service Commission to issue 182000 in revenue bonds to refinance debt and upgrade the town water works. The plan includes a water line from Linton to Dugger and higher rates to fund the project and anticipated federal grants.
Union lawyers plan to deliver their framework for arbitration on two key issues in the railroad work rules dispute. Carriers already sent a draft agreement on binding arbitration and procedures for other issues remain unsettled. If agreed, this could end the four year dispute as unions threaten a strike over August 29. Senate Commerce Committee to discuss Kennedy strike legislation in closed session.
Blanford Indiana special report notes the Blanford Ladies Fish and Game Club convened at Perona's Hall with 27 members present. Agnes Bonomo presided. door prize went to Joan Fingu. Bunco results listed. high and low winners named along with banco winner Edna Simpson. Members listed include Norma Guiliano Lorene Stupar Blanche Brown and others.
Two assault and battery cases were heard by Judge Edward S Everett in City Court Tuesday. Iris Brown filed against Ann Brown and Gwin Westmoreland, with a decision to be advised. A separate continuance was granted for Lyman Walter Matherly on August 29. Several speeding fines were paid by teens and adults, with miscellaneous license-related penalties and jail time for intoxication. Running red lights incurred fines for McGueary and Brown.
In Monroe Circuit Court Judge Nat A Hill accepted guilty pleas from 17 year olds George Crump and Robert McKinney of Hartford Kentucky for attempting to rape an Indiana University coed. They admitted kidnapping counts remain abeyant.
Nine Clinton Girl Scouts from the Lazy Daisies Patrol returned Monday from a three day jamboree at Camp NaWaka near Poland. Mrs. Harvey Yelich accompanied the group including Cathy McKay Rose Murphy Ann Tisdale Sheri Scott Sheila Randall Elaine Skorich Sandy McDowell Paulette Baxendale and Ruth Ann Saalwaechter.
William Mase, 20, charged with stealing a tractor from a Syracuse Kansas farmer and driving it 300 miles to Tucumcari New Mexico. The trip lasted about 20 hours.
Rupert W. Thorpe of Peru confessed orally to killing Raymond R. McCarthy of West Springfield with a four foot iron pipe after a tavern outing near Peru. McCarthy, visiting Massachusetts, died from head injuries and his body was found hidden on a local farm.
Miss Minnie Ronchi 34 of Blanford escaped serious injury when she lost control on a rain slick curve west of Centenary. Her car skidded onto the berm and wrapped around a tree, a total loss. A passing motorist drove her to Vermillion County Hospital for observation. State Trooper Richard Finney reported no serious injuries.
Members of the Lost Creek Township Farm Bureau will hold their annual watermelon eat at 7 30 p.m. Thursday at the home of Mr and Mrs Cyril Gard. Each family is asked to bring their own table service.
In Bloomington Indiana delegates at the 16th Annual Congress of the National Student Association will hear James Meredith speak on civil rights. Meredith arrived with his wife and son after being the first black graduate of the University of Mississippi. He recalled meeting a white Evansville station owner in 1957 and said he wanted to trade with him again.
Pfc. Steven E. Schinbeckler 19 of Greenfield Indiana faces murder charges in Falls Church Virginia after the fatal stabbing of Georgetown University student William Clifford 20. Clifford a Stratford Motor Court clerk was found dead in the motel manager’s apartment. Schinbeckler admitted the killing to the provost marshal and was held on a $10000 bond for a preliminary hearing Sept 3. Clifford would have been a Georgetown senior next month in the School of Foreign Service.
Enlistment of two Greencastle youths in the United States Navy announced by Navy recruiter Chief Robert Rose. The pair joined under the buddy plan and will train together at Great Lakes Naval Training Station. Stephen Allen Robertson, 18, son of Mr and Mrs Cecil H. is one of them.
Robertson of RR 2 Greencastle and Earle Wayne Talley 18 son of Minnie C. Talley of Greencastle referenced in the public record.
Dr. M. C. Topping of Terre Haute addressed a noon Rotary Club meeting in the Mayflower Room of the Terre Haute House. He shared the Topping family's boat trip from Stonington Connecticut to Harbor Springs Michigan and recounted their experiences and humor from the voyage.
The speaker recounts a Ship Shape narration describing the Topping vessel crew. All chores and sea going duties were manned by the physician, his wife Edith, and their children Tony, 15, and Lynne, 13.
A large barn on the Ared Lamb farm near St. Bernice in Clinton County was destroyed by fire of undetermined origin Monday. Owner Mrs. Lamb reported the blaze, with no injuries noted.
More than 100 tons of hay burned along with a farm wagon two four bottom plows and quantities of wheat and feed and other items. Fire departments answered the plea for help from St Bernice Dana Clinton Township and Centenary Volunteer departments.
The boardwalk at Asbury Park New Jersey reaches 85 feet in places. Rocking chairs are placed at strategic locations along the promenade.
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