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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1968
Page
3
The Zorah Shrine Temple plans a full day Saturday Ceremonial to initiate about 40 candidates. Activities begin at 11 a.m. with reporting at noon, a procession, and unit parade downtown, followed by a Moslem feast and a 9 p.m. dance with Jimmie Van and his orchestra.
Violence spills from page one as three security officers face firing and two suspended after a graduate student Elbert Walton accuses campus police of stabbing, kicking, handcuffing, and forcing him into a patrol car. Chancellor Eliot waits hearings. another admin source cites Walton’s alleged struggle. Brown and Pembroke students threaten boycott until 11 percent black enrollment is achieved, with Brown population around 50 of 2000 and Pembroke 35 of 1000. In New York, Fordham dean Martin Meade recovers from a heart attack after a student takeover of his office.
Six pupils were taken into custody on November 26 as police say a long running high school shakedown racket may have affected other local schools. Chief Glen Means reports the operation appears stopped with no new reports. Four students remain suspended while the fifth may return. school board will decide attendance fate at the next meeting.
William H. Harris aged 45 from New Whiteland died when his car rear ended a stopped semi on U S 31 south of Indianapolis. Marion County sheriff reports the crash at an intersection.
The Air Force began freeing 16,127 reservists and guardsmen including six guard fighter bomber squadrons in South Vietnam and Korea. They are due back by June 30. Navy has replaced some of 1,600 reservists, while Army Guardsmen and Reservists totaling 7,600 have served in 76 units in Vietnam since last May. Units perform transportation medical ordnance signal and quartermaster duties. Two artillery battalions from New Hampshire and Kentucky and a combat engineer battalion from Idaho arrived late August and will finish one year overseas tours before demobilization. An undetermined number of guardsmen and reservists have been sent as individual replacements in regular Army units. Officials did not know when those fillers would start returning home.
A private collector bidding by telephone from Washington bought an emerald ring for 265000 dollars at a Parke-Bernet Galleries public auction in New York. Carlo Ponti, Sophia Loren’s husband, bid 260000 dollars on a 34.3 carat walnut sized lady's ring. The gallery set a jewelry sales record of 1.3 million dollars.
Government reports show 28 attacks hit 10 provincial capitals and 18 South Vietnamese bases since the halt in bombing. Since the pause, 115 shellings target towns with 56 civilians killed and 498 wounded. U S installations faced mortar fire on Bien Hoa Air Base. In the north, Marine bombers and New Jersey fired 16 inch shells into DMZ bunkers.
The Metropolitan Opera broadcasts return to WISU FM Saturdays with live feeds from Lincoln Center. Indiana State University station reaches 120 affiliates as Rigoletto opens the season at 2 p.m.
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