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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1956
Page
7
Bartender Jack Clark faced a mountain lion that crouched to spring as he opened the tavern in Wye. He reportedly climbed a cooler cabinet backward for safety before friends arrived to help. The animal had been shot by hunters and left frozen upright in the bar overnight.
Terre Haute Marines in partnership with local firms launch the fourth annual Toys For Tots drive. Major Paul M. Dodd urges donations of new or gently used toys and offers home pickup for large contributions. Toys collected will be distributed locally before Christmas by welfare agencies with minor repairs by penitentiary inmates and volunteers.
Captain Byron T. Shen invites organizations or individuals to cooperate with the Toys for Tots program. Major Dodd notes that since its 1948 start on the west coast the drive has expanded nationwide, with over five million toys distributed last year to children lacking Christmas gifts.
The Adult Education Association advanced plans for two projects a publicity clinic and a program planning workshop. Sessions for the publicity clinic run Feb 20 March 6 and 20 with a survey of organizations for publicity needs. Dr. Robert Smith from Indiana University and Purdue University aided planning for the April workshop.
Washington announced plans to ask Congress for funds to supply military aid to Turkey Pakistan Iraq and Iran on the Baghdad Pact front in the southwest. The move aims to bolster stability in the Middle East amid Soviet pressure and tensions with Syria.
Mayor Jack Williams writes to 14 year old Polish schoolboy in Lodz to explain American Indians are not locked in prisons. He clarifies that Indians may live on reservations or elsewhere with their own police and laws. Williams offers a year's subscription to Arizona Highways and invites exchange letters with a 14 year old Indian boy.
A second group of Hungarian refugees, 37 people, is due in Milwaukee tonight, bringing total refugees to 110. The St. Vincent De Paul Society captain and hotel Schroeder will host them while homes and jobs are found after their arrival from camps in Austria and Germany.
Indiana State Teachers College will end the fall quarter for regular day students on Friday December 14. The 1957 winter quarter opens January 3 with registration. Evening and Saturday students register December 27 from 4 30 to 8 30 p m and December 29 from 8 a m to noon.
Hobbs New Mexico December 5 deputy sheriff Ivan Read aged 53 sustained painful burns when liquefied petroleum gas used to power his privately owned patrol car exploded Monday. Authorities say the car used butane with a special carburetor and the gas was ignited by a cigarette lighter.
Camden County Sheriff Martin Segal, a Republican, filed in state Superior Court to take back jurisdiction of the jail from the Democratic County Board of Freeholders. The board moved jail control from the sheriff’s office just before Segal’s swearing in on November 13, calling it a political grab. Segal succeeded Democrat J. James Hainesworth, who had recommended the change.
Ferdinand de Lesseps led the initial canal project in Panama from 1879 to 1889. The ambitious French attempt failed, ending in abandonment and heavy losses for investors.
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