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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1962
Page
8
Nine year old Lourdes Bass was hurled from a Farragut Houses roof in Brooklyn as police headed to another report of child mistreatment. The autopsy showed most bones broken. her clothing lay in a stairwell nearby. She lived with father Carlos, mother Margaret, and six siblings.
In New York on December 5 a girl named Celia asks Santa to have a doctor fix her mother's nose so they can get a puppy for Christmas. The post office has received about 1,600 letters so far.
Chief Robert Rose announces six Terre Haute area youths enlistment in the U S Navy. John Walker Jr 18 and James White 21 are former reservists. Others include Richard Rakes Claude Jones Jack Haughee and Jerry Ash. White and Rakes join Great Lakes training. Walker goes to Washington D C. Ash to San Diego. Jones and Haughee start under buddy training.
Barracks and Auxiliary of Wabash Valley 912 hold their regular monthly meeting at 8 o clock Friday at Memorial Hall. Commander Florian Oldrich and Auxiliary President Mrs Eva Thompson lead the business session and plans for the Christmas party and officers election are discussed. Santa will attend with gifts and entertainment. Mrs Emma Brown, Auxiliary hospital chairman, seeks small gifts for hospitalized or disabled members. All veterans wives widows and interested persons are invited to attend.
Advertisement promotes a trussless hernia treatment by Sutherland. It claims the system prevents rupture from enlarging, provides comfort during bathing, and has no belts or bulbs. Free consultation with truss fitter Mr Powell at Meadows Drug Store Meadows Center on December 8 from 9 A.M. to 2 30 P.M.
Audrey Dorsey of 210 North Second street was fined 65 dollars after a guilty finding for operating a house of ill fame. Juanita Welborn and Edna Casey, both 21 and residents of 210 North Second street, were fined similar amounts after pleading guilty to prostitution. All three were arrested in the October 18 raid.
Detectives continued separate probes into a rash of break-ins reported to police. At Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co on North Thirteenth Street a cash loss of 22 dollars and a transistor radio were taken along with a rifled soft drink machine. Smiths Service Station on Wabash Avenue and Nehi Bottling Co on Sycamore Street were ransacked with window break-ins. A cash register was stolen from a produce market on North Second Street after a broken door glass.
Helen Reitzel a Garfield High School mathematics teacher will attend a weekend residential mathematics workshop at the Kitselman Conference Center Ball State Teachers College Friday through Sunday December 7 9 Space age advancements in science and technology are the source materials for the workshop which will examine curriculum changes adjusting to these recent developments.
A man burst into a courtroom during a $1 million Hoffa conspiracy trial and fired a pellet gun at Hoffa. Hoffa ducked and tackled the assailant as marshals and spectators restrained him. Judge Miller ordered a recess and demanded a full report.
The Terre Haute Personnel Club will elect 1963 officers at a 6:30 dinner meeting Tuesday at Louise's Restaurant.
Indiana State College hosts 147 Indiana high schools on Thursday December 6 for Principal College Freshman Day. Activities include registration, score and grade discussions, meetings with graduates, sessions with college officials, a noon luncheon with Ambassador Boland, and a tour of new ISC buildings. Dr Wayne E Schomer chairs.
Douglas Campbell vice president of the New York Central Railroad will address a noon Rotary luncheon and speak at six in the evening before a Kiwanis dinner. The events occur at the Terre Haute House and Eat-A-Terra on Wa bash avenue. He discusses the NYC Pennsylvania merger while returning from an Interstate Commerce Commission hearing in Washington. Campbell has long served in Indianapolis in the Central’s Southern District.
A fire at Pine Ranch on Maple Avenue caused about 75 dollars in damage to the restaurant club property. Officials from the Terre Haute Fire Department said the blaze occurred around 7 57 p m Tuesday and was attributed to an electrical short.
Princess Alexandra of Kent, whose engagement was announced last week, entered King Edward Hospital Tuesday for surgery to remove impacted wisdom teeth. Portugal's fishing industry supports 300,000 people, 60,000 of whom are fishermen.
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