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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1955
Page
4
The Terre Haute Tribune and Gazette publish daily except Sunday with contact numbers for office and departments. The notice lists subscription rates for various plans and hours for calling for copies and inquiries, dating back to 1903 and noting risk for unsolicited submissions.
The Tribune urges readers to avoid gossip and rumors, refrain from criticizing without knowledge, and maintain confidence in America and its government. The editorial calls for respectful discourse and steady civic trust.
The new system by Harry Ferguson promises simpler safer cheaper and more economical transportation with major advances in transmission suspension road holding and safety. Sir Miles Thomas notes prototype tests across fields river beds and steep banks showing excellent grip control and comfort. He says the design could reshape future car buying even before widespread availability.
The National Association for Retarded Children has spurred humane treatment and institutional help for about 5,000,000 retarded people in the United States. In ten years it has opened facilities and pushed inclusive schooling, showing families and communities that these individuals can learn and work at meaningful levels.
Sen Walter F. George argues elections will reflect voters' judgment on foreign policy and that bipartisan backing strengthens U S standing. He notes the administration's conduct is part of its record and cannot be ignored amid campaign charges and countercharges.
President Eisenhower endorsed a Democratic call for a nonpartisan foreign policy showing continuity regardless of 1956 election outcomes. He urged thoughtful citizens to support a united front on foreign policy and the program's steady course.
A 6 cent stamp commemorates Theodore Roosevelt noting his roles as officeholder author and naturalist. The piece highlights his vigorous public service reform efforts and his enduring legacy in inspiring reform groups while acknowledging faults.
Chief U S Forester Richard E McArdle reports a balanced current timber use and growth but warns future demand will require a cut double present levels. The three and a half year survey finds most timber today in the west while eastern land offers the greatest growth potential and foresees a shift of forest industries eastward. One third of cut timber is unused and about 13 billion board feet is lost annually to pests fire and disease.
Article notes sea lampreys invade lakes Michigan Huron and Erie threatening a $100,000,000 fishing industry. A U S and Canada meeting at Purdue on December 12 will seek causes for lampreys in Lake Erie and discuss solutions such as electrical barriers and selective chemicals to kill lampreys without harming fish.
Ann Arbor Michigan University of Michigan wildlife expert Warren W Chase says the best time to hunt game birds is early morning when birds are feeding and less easily disturbed. He is a professor of wildlife management at the university.
Mrs. W. B. Harvey Jr. earned magna cum laude from the University of South Carolina last June. Her husband has now graduated from the university law school with similar honors.
Joseph H. Walton of Staunton says Clifton Forge post office is the fastest. A letter to Walton arrived here on October 10 and was postmarked in Clifton Forge October 11 at 2 30 p m.
Three new Rotary members are announced S. M. Cowgill of National Drain Tile Company L. E. Trinkle and Fred R. Waldron. Other items note visitors to Lafayette Dana and Terre Haute street repairs by John I Unison plus local social notes and licenses.
President James Knox Polk was born in Mecklenburg County North Carolina. Brown University is in Providence Rhode Island. The 1953 Motion Picture Arts and Sciences male leading role winner was William Holden for Stalag 17. Anthony Trollope was a British novelist. Harvard University was founded in 1636.
A quotation from Horace Bushnell reflects on life divided into three terms past present and future. It urges learning from history to profit the present and using the present to improve the future.
The excerpt notes halcyon days ahead and advises making hay in sunshine. It predicts a happy romance and a run of luck, with a child born under these influences expected to be strong healthy generous and generally fortunate.
Today's birthday greetings go to Walt Disney a film and television cartoonist producer and Vincent Sheean an author.
A concise definition explains absorption as the act or process of absorbing digestion and nutrient transfer through the intestinal lining, plus a mental engrossment sense. It notes synonyms preoccupation and prepossession and gives the Latin origin absorptio.
The notes mark 1782 as the birth year of Martin Van Buren, the eighth U.S. president. It also records 1933 as the end of Prohibition in the United States and 1940 as the British House of Commons rejecting a negotiated peace with Germany.
The questions reference Mecklenburg County North Carolina Providence Rhode Island actor William Holden in Stalag 17 and a noted English novelist 1815 1882 plus the year 1636. This summary lists the items as a compact trivia prompt touching places people and dates.
Two Canadian sailors aboard the destroyer Cayuga claimed a brown goat was the ship mascot. Police escorted the sailors and animal to the Cayuga and then to the city pound before returning the sailors to the ship.
Walter Winchell on Broadway surveys a chaotic showbiz world with Shelley Winters’ clash in a midtown restaurant and Milton Berle’s collapse. It tracks film reviews, show salaries, TV scandals, stage stars, and the buzz surrounding Pipe Dream and Around the World in 80 Days, naming Art Linkletter and Judy Tyler among others.
In Wellington Utah a California prospector slammed on his brakes when his skintillometer needle hit uranium near. He sprang from his car and staked a claim then drove off with a multimillion dollar grin. Two bystanders watched outside a store where they kept hundreds of pounds of uranium samples.
Daily astrology for December 5 highlights impulsive traits and loyalty once trust is earned. Notable figures born on this date include Walt Disney and Ulysses S. Grant. Zodiac advice covers Sagittarius through Scorpio with brief character guidance and cautionary notes for each sign.
Hollywood star Judy Holliday, born in New York, expresses a wish to travel for roles and shoot in exotic places like Tahiti. She laments often being cast as the average girl and notes her location shoots in New York and Washington, D.C., while living with her husband and son.
A Kansas City firm dispenses nearly 1,000,000 cups of coffee soft drinks and milk annually to employees. Free beverages have been offered for over 20 years with iced tea served in the afternoon. Workers take a half hour daily for the refreshment at their desks.
A persuasive health piece warns that 650 Americans die of cancer daily and that cancer deaths outpace wars. It urges awareness of common cancer sites and symptoms, notes age-related risk, and stresses prompt medical action to improve survival.
The text outlines two epilepsy forms: petit mal with brief loss of consciousness and grand mal with convulsions and loss of consciousness. It notes treatment includes rest and physician prescribed drugs, plus a well balanced diet.
A Washington Evening Star column notes 1850 Christmas coverage focused on everyday life and household items rather than politics. Ads describe gingerbread, rag dolls, sleds, fancy work boxes and toys, with a few playful Christmas promotions and a Dowden dental fluid pitch.
Broadway houses honor women and men of the stage with renamings and legacies. The Ethel Barrymore and Helen Hayes theaters endure. Nora Bayes theater no longer hosts live shows. the Alvin combines two producers names. many houses from the 1920s bore male names. Rehearsals start February for Frank Loesser’s They Knew What They Wanted, with Mrs Loesser as co-producer.
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