Terre Haute eyes industrial park at N Fruitridge complex
Sen Bayh and Mayor Tucker announce that about 80 percent of the 52 building Tampane complex will be released to the city and private industry. GSA will publish notice within 10 days and offer five warehouses to maintain machine tools, while the rest may be sold to industry or the city.
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Tampane
N. Fruitridge Ave
Birch Bayh
Ralph Tucker
Tumpane
Defense Department
Bayh
Lawson Knott
General Services Administration
GSA
Knott
Sen. Bayh
Chamber of Commerce
Area Progress Committee
Alan Rankin
Indiana State University
Tere Haute
Marrietta
Terre Haute
Sixteen Die On Indiana Highways In Weekend Toll
Indiana highways claimed sixteen lives over the weekend. Victims include John B. Post 71 of Bryant killed on Ind 67 while crossing for mail. Also dead were David W. Whitaker 4 Cumberland and Tommy Barnett 4 Mor ganton killed by cars. An elderly New York woman died in a two car crash on U S 20 near Chesterton. Six others injured included members of the Edwards and Bennett families from Illinois and Gary. Several other wrecks claimed lives on U S 20 and nearby roads with multiple fatalities reported in the Indiana traffic death toll. Continued on page 2 column 5 and column 7.
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Indiana
John B. Post
Bryant
David W. Whitaker
Cumberland
Tommy Barnett
Rt. 5
Morgantown
Martinsville
New York
Rainslick
U. S
Chesterton
Margaret Cookham
Utica
David Edwards
Flossmoor
Ill
Jessie
James
Barbara
Don Bennett
Dan Hood
Gary
Dennis G. Landayt
South Bend
U.S. 20
U.S. 6
Nappanee
Earl Teghtmeyer
North Webster
Mary E. Siegrist
Rensselaer
Eleanor Kay Bonnie
Rt. 2
Carthage
Dale B. Wilcox
Brownsburg
Knightstown
Douglas Sarratt
Chicago
U.S. 41
Carlisle
Adventurer on Solo Sea Trip Aimed at England Hospital
Coast Guard cutter Ingham races toward Argentia to hospitalize Capt. William Willis a 72 year old sailor stranded at sea with a strangulated hernia aboard his 11 foot craft bound for Plymouth England. Willis earlier reported illness to a freighter and refused boarding, awaiting medical evaluation aboard the cutter. Willis has a long sea record including Pacific crossing and a raft voyage to Sydney, living in Manhattan with his wife Tess.
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William Willis
New York
Coast Guard
Ingham
Willis
Plymouth
England
Little One
Argentia
South Pacific
Tess
Norfolk
Newfoundland
Cape Race
Holland
Beekman
Robert Maury
Cleveland
Ohio
Auto Makers Refuse UAW Reopener Suggestion
The Big Three say they will reject the United Auto Workers request to reopen labor contracts for immediate wage rises for about 100000 skilled workers. GM Ford and Chrysler plan to reply this afternoon, citing existing contracts and current wage escalators.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers
General Motors Corp
Ford Motor Co
Chrysler Corp
Tthey
UAW
Henry Ford II
Ford
ISU to Lease Memorial Stadium Formally Near
Terre Haute Park Board urged City Attorney to finalize a 99 year lease with Indiana State University for Memorial Stadium. Under a tentative plan ISU would own the property while allowing public use of the nine hole golf course and provide storage for park vehicles. The veterans memorial would stay with plaques inside the entrance. The university would convert the site into a football field with additional seating.
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Crawford
University
Ninehole
Two New Earth Shocks Hit Eastern Turkey After Major Quake
Two new temblors struck towns in eastern Turkey as relief efforts continue after last week's killer quake. The shocks caused little direct damage but added fear for refugees and hindered rescue work. Health officials launched typhoid inoculations and water chlorination while bread drops and aid flights reach isolated villages. U.S. adviser Lt. Col. Carl Kueffer noted ongoing international support as death toll reaches around 2,300 with thousands injured and homeless.
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Ahmet Balan
Erzurum
Turkey
Iraq
Edip Somunoghu
U.S. Army
Carl Kueffer
Ft. Wadsworth
N.Y
3Rd Army
Columbia opens another office in local building
The Columbia Record Company moved 130 employees to a new Ninth and Poplar Streets office, a division handling mail analysis and secretarial and recording duties. The change, announced by Director of Operations Bill Strauser, does not count as an expansion and the building also houses an A&P and Hook's Drug store.
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Columbia Record Company
N. Fruitridge
Ninth and Poplar Streets
Bill Strauser
Strauser
A&p
Hook’s
Columbia Record Club
Weather Map Forecast For Terre Haute And Nearby
River stage ten feet stationary. Terre Haute forecast calls for brief showers or thundershowers turning cooler and less humid, fair tonight, Tuesday mostly sunny. Indiana outlook fair and cooler tonight with low 55 to 60 and Tuesday highs mid 70s. Illinois partly sunny and cooler today with highs around 60s to 70s and lows 50s to 60s. Temperatures recorded 74 at 9 a.m. and 75 at 2 p.m.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Illinois
Hartke urges improvements on Highway 41
Senator Vance Hartke of Indiana called for basic fixes on U.S. 41 linking Evansville and Chicago after the road reported the state’s highest fatality rate in the first seven months of 1966. He asked for a report on future upgrades, current four lane extensions, and traffic accidents. He also urged a feasibility study of a toll limited access road along Indiana’s western boundary.
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Evansville
Ind
Vance Hartke
D-Ind
U.S. 41
Chicago
Hartke
Rex M. Whitton
U.S
Woman Injured in Fort Wayne Gas Stove Explosion
Euphasia Hunt, 55, Fort Wayne, sustained second and third degree burns over about half her body when a gas stove exploded at her home on Sunday afternoon. She was listed in critical condition at Lutheran Hospital.
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Fort Wayne, Ind
UPI
Euphasia Hunt
Fort Wayne
Lutheran Hospital
Prize winning sycamore tree felled as hazardous
Fort Wayne resident Raymond Parker cut down the dying sycamore that won prize in the Indiana Sesquicentennial art contest. He said it might have fallen on someone. Fort Wayne painter Shurle Lee had used the tree as the subject in her painting Indiana Sycamore.
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Fort Wayne, Ind
Raymond Parker
Fort Wayne
Shurle Lee
Spirit of St. Louis Will Run For Another Year On Rail
City Attorney Frank Crawford reports the Interstate Commerce Commission has ordered the Pennsylvania Railroad to continue operating the Spirit of St. Louis trains through August 15, 1967. The ruling blocks the railroad from discontinuing the east west service, affecting about 88 employees and many Terre Haute business interests.
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Spirit of St. Louis
Frank Crawford
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington, D. C
Pennsylvania Railroad
Crawford
Chamber of Commerce
Wabash Valley
Richard Tuttle
Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce
Indianapolis
Guam Based Bombers Hit Enemy Hard
Giant Air Force B52s from Guam struck Viet Cong bases near Saigon and a training camp 45 and 120 miles southeast and southwest of the city. Ground fighting eased with scattered patrols as a terrorist wounded four U.S. personnel. North Viet Nam targets faced air attacks with missions totaling 102 and damage reported to several missile sites, bridges, depots, trucks, and rail yards.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Guam
Gia Dinh
U.S
North
Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Hanoi
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Penalties Heavier For Teen Drivers Under New Point System
The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles imposes harsher penalties for drivers under 21, allowing eight points in two years before hearings, while adults face ten points. Judge Edward S. Everett distributes a pamphlet and warns violators that driving is a privilege. Speeding carries the most points under the revamped system.
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Edward S. Everett
Everett
Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Indiana Traffic Safety Council
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