Vigo County Considers Air Quality Control Ordinance
Dr. Noel Moore of the Vigo County Health Department discusses a proposed air quality ordinance at a Terre Haute Chamber luncheon. The plan, revised five times, aims to curb pollution while balancing industry needs, with penalties mainly handled by courts and a potential $10 fine.
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Vigo County
Noel Moore
Division of Air Pollution Control
Vigo County Health Department
Moore
Terre Haute
Lawyer Picked by Resor For My Lai Inquiry
Secretary of the Army Stan ley Resor named civilian counsel Robert MacCrate to assist Lt General William Peers in a probe of possible cover up in the My Lai field investigation. MacCrate selected Jerome Walsh Jr. as associate special counsel. The move accompanies the Peers board as it questions Lt. William Calley Jr. over killings of at least 109 Vietnamese civilians in 1968.
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Washington
Stanley R. Resor
Army
My Lai
Pentagon
Resor
William R. Peers
Robert MacCrate
New York
Sullivan and Cromwell
MacCrate
Jerome K. Walsh Jr
Walsh and Frisch
Peers
William L. Calley Jr
Army Operations Center
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Haverford College
Harvard Law School
Walsh
Georgetown University
University of Michigan Law School
Parents Report Man Attempts Child Abduction
Timothy Roberts reported to police around 11 p.m. Thursday that a man tried to kidnap his two year old daughter while the couple were in the kitchen. Mrs. Roberts found the man with the window open and the child in his grip. The family moved here about three weeks ago and says the same man has appeared near their home on multiple occasions.
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Timothy Roberts
N. 23Rd St
Roberts
Christmas Basket Fund Exceeds Six Hundred Dollars
Cash donations to the Tribune-Star Basket Fund total six hundred sixty six dollars for needy families in Vigo County. Donors are urged to deliver contributions to the Tribune-Star office at 721 Wabash Ave and applications for baskets are to be made in person to Miss Sharon Time at the Christmas Clearing House 20 Chestnut St from December 1 to 15, 9 am to 4 pm.
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Tribune-Star
Wabash Ave
Tribune- Star Fund
Vigo County
Sharon
Christmas Clearing House
Chestnut St
Robb Denies Vietnam Atrocity Claims
Marine Maj. Charles Robb son in law of former President Johnson rejects charges that troops under his command committed atrocities like Song My. He says orders and actions preclude such acts and that his unit aimed to avoid civilian casualties during a visit by Anthony R. Martin-Trigona.
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Robb
Maj
Charles Robb
Lyndon Johnson
Anthony Martin-Trigona
Champaign
Inl
Charles Percy
R-All
Percy
Pentagon
Vietnam
Las
Vegas
Nev
UPI
Lyndon B. Johnson
Song My
12Th Marine District
Anthony R. Martin-Trigona
Champaign, Ill
University of Illinois
The
Daily Illini
Charles H. Percy
R-Iil
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Martin Trigona
Martin-Trigona
Bristlecone Pines May Be World’s Oldest Trees
California's White Mountain bristlecone pines grow in arid crags and are believed to be the oldest living trees. Some are estimated at over 4,600 years old.
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California
White Mountain
Griffin Predicts Veto Risk If Tax Bill Ties Social Security
Acting Senate Republican Leader Robert Griffin says linking Social Security benefits to the tax reform bill raises the chance of a presidential veto. He notes the move could jeopardize both the tax plan and Social Security increases as Democrats push the rider amid Senate debate. The article references Senate actions and partisan positions ahead of a key vote.
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Washington
Senate
Robert P. Griffin
Griffin
Michigan
Senate Finance Committee
Russell B. Long
D-La
Long
Albert Gore
D.tenn
Weather Map Notes for Terre Haute and Vicinity
Mostly cloudy and warmer tonight with a chance of rain late tonight possibly starting as light freezing rain. Saturday will be cloudy and warm with rain likely. low 31 to 36, high 50 to 58. Illinois and Indiana forecasts mirror the trend with increasing precipitation chances and modest temperature rises. Dirt-dust count reports 166 micrograms per cubic meter, above 1968 average.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Illinois
My Lai murder case advances with Lt Calley testimony
An Army board will hear Lt William L Calley Jr testify after Capt Ernest Medina testified he neither ordered nor witnessed the massacre. The session follows a sequence of hearings on the My Lai killings and related actions.
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Washington
My Lai
William L. Calley Jr
Calley
Ernest Medina
Pittsburgh sniper holds police at bay after killings
In Pittsburgh's Ne gro Hill District a rifle man killed one man and wounded another then fired on police for over two hours before capture. The dead man was Nathaniel Brown in his early 40s. the wounded man William Miller, 38, in satisfactory condition. Suspect Johannes Dersarkissian, 56, an unemployed white man, faces murder and firearms charges after the siege ended with tear gas and a police capture.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Nathaniel Brown
William Miller
Presbyterian University Hospital
Miller
Johannes J
Slusser
Senator Fanning Sees Errors in Wells Statement
State Sen. Herman Fanning challenged State School Superintendent Richard Wells over remarks about the Indiana Lee incident. Fanning criticized Wells as presenting a mix of fact and fantasy in Terre Haute during the Thursday session.
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Sen. Fanning
Supt. Wells
and Vocational Technical College
Ivytech
Terre Haute
Herman Fanning
Wells
D-Terre Haute
Richard Wells
State House
Fanning
Indiana General
Grand jury hears Tate slayings tale from Atkins
Susan Denise Atkins, 21, testifies before a grand jury as prosecutors seek to indict the bearded clan leader for murder conspiracy. Atkins, facing murder charges in a separate case, may waive self incrimination rights to reveal what happened, per attorney Richard Caballero.
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Los Angeles
Sharon Tate
Richard Caballero
Susan
Denise Atkins
Miss Atkins
Miss Tate
Roman Polanski
Caballero
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