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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1966
Page
2
A list of obituaries and death notices from Terre Haute and surrounding towns includes Elks Lodge member and widow Ida, plus a daughter in Los Angeles. Several residences in Carlisle, Terre Haute, Sullivan, and Indianapolis report survivors, funeral details, and burial plans.
The agency reports Red Guards rename streets shops and schools with revolutionary terms to spread Maoist thought. Bans on tobacco alcohol and luxury items expand as authorities push cultural purification. Foreign observers note internal party struggle and regional blowback in Asia.
Robert Dobbins, 28, of Fort Wayne, surrendered at the city police station Sunday in a case tied to the wounding of 32 year old William Edwards who was sitting in a barber chair Saturday. Edwards remained in fair condition at a local hospital.
Vigo County taxpayers urge cuts in the two new high schools construction with costs cited as too high. They criticize features like auditorium lifts rubberized tracks and 14 tennis courts, warning reductions are needed to avoid raising the tax rate and deplete the building fund. A remonstrance possibility looms with a 30 day filing deadline.
An Indiana pair were abducted Sunday night near Terre Haute by two prison escapees from the Brazil facility. Clifford Simpson Jr 31 Indianapolis and an accomplice forced them at gunpoint into Maurys car and later to a rural spot east of Poland. The men took $50 a watch and a bracelet before fleeing. A spent .38 shell was found.
A Monday meeting at city engineer Ray Thomas offices voted an appropriation for selling bonds to fund a sewer system at 6th Street and Maple Avenue and 27th Street and Maple Avenue. The project costs about 1.5 million dollars with Be dino Construction Co. as the bid winner. Present were Ray Thomas Don Smith Dr Otis Jameson Joe Adams Robert Gemeich Tom Patrick and Merrill Wilkinson.
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A. R. McAllister Memorial Band of Joliet Post 5 won its second straight senior division title with a 93.23 score. The Racine Ellis Youth Band of Post 310 claimed the junior band title, while the Lake Band with Milwaukee Post 10 finished as runnerup.
Eddie Taylor 67 of 1337 S 7th St. a beloved downtown news vendor for over four decades died Sunday at Union Hospital after a brief illness. Funeral services are set for Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at DeBaun Funeral Home with burial at Rose Lawn Memorial Park. He was known as the mayor of Seventh and Wabash for selling papers from 1916 and once delivered both morning and evening routes. He survived by his mother Mrs. Nora Taylor two brothers and several stepfamily members.
City council votes to cut eight budget items for 1967 including a 10,563 cut from the Police Department and a reduction for the Mayor's official auto. The Board of Health will merge with Vigo County on January 1, 1967, dissolving its $105,000 budget. General fund requests total 3,373,001 with 24,799 already shaved, leaving 3,348,202.
Two Indianapolis men Joseph L. Monday and Robert Crane killed a five foot timber rattlesnake in Monroe Morgan State Forest near Martinsville. Crane shot the snake with a .22 caliber rifle after discovering it coiled on a path ready to strike.
Viet Cong mine crews pressed a bid to cripple the sea route to Saigon. They sank the U S Navy freighter Baton Rouge Victory, killing seven Americans and blocking the channel. North Vietnamese PT boats were attacked after a 103-mission air assault on oil depots and other targets near Haiphong.
The communist government of Romania decreed two days of official mourning today and Tuesday after the death Sunday of Defense Minister Lt. Col. Leontin Salajan, 51, who had undergone an operation for a stomach disorder earlier this month.
In Moor society a wife who fails to bear a boy may be divorced with tribal consent and may remarry. The practice underscores matrilineal preferences and the gendered value placed on offspring within the community.
Dennis Lynn Kouns 18 of RR 1 Montezuma was found dead in his bed Sunday morning. Police suspect no foul play though an autopsy is required. the Mecca Christian Church member is survived by his parents, grandparents, and a brother in the U. S. Army. Services set for 2 30 p.m. Tuesday at Brown Funeral Home with burial in Memory Gardens Cemetery.
An open house for all incoming Gerstmeyer High School sophomores will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 30, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the school. Members of the dean's advisory board, called the Cabettes, will be on hand to answer questions about entering high school.
Ruth McKinley 69 former national president of Delta Tau Delta sorority died Sunday at her Portland home. A retired schoolteacher she also served as past president of the Indiana American Legion auxiliary. Services are set for Tuesday.
A fatal motorcycle crash near Elkhart claimed Steven Sayre 24 of Elkhart and injuries from a three car pileup near Xenia Ohio left 71 year old Ruby Hutchinson of Frankfort dead. The Friday crash also injured Pearl Wilson 65 of Frankfort and three others.
Two area young men Robert John Bundy 22 and Robert Carrol Walker 21 started recruit training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego after enlisting at the local Marine Recruiting Station. Bundy is the son of Theresa E. Bundy 1544 Second Ave and enlisted for two years while Walker son of Grey W. and Mrs. Walker RR 3 Cloverale enlisted for three years.
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell announces a planning meeting on September 3 in Washington for a proposed national conference on Black Power. The event aims to develop programs to elevate Black Americans toward parity in political, economic, and educational power with the white majority.
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