Wabash Valley News Highlights From Terre Haute Tribune
Terre Haute Tribune reports local updates from Wabash Valley correspondents dated Thursday December 7 1967. The brief items cover regional events and community news across the area.
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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1967
Page
14
Terre Haute Tribune reports local updates from Wabash Valley correspondents dated Thursday December 7 1967. The brief items cover regional events and community news across the area.
Sullivan County Conservation Officer Gaylen Pickard reports several arrests for state conservation law violations on November 23. William D. Wright of Metropolis Illinois and Darrell L. Thompson of Worthington were fined 31 dollars each for hunting without a license. Danny Grayless of Terre Haute fined 31 dollars for permitting a hunting without license. Robert E. Cloughrey of Indianapolis and Dean L. Southwood of Shelburn were fined 22 dollars and 31 dollars respectively for licensing and land access violations. Welkin phrase noted with explanation.
A 350 acre tract near Marshall Indiana funded with Lilly Endowment support will become the FCA resource center and training hub. Don Lash former FBI agent and 1936 Olympic runner is named director and the facility will host staff volunteers nominations churches and national athletic and ministerial events. Construction funds are being raised for dormitories administration building auditorium chapel athletic facilities and dining hall.
Mrs. Maurice Shoultz, mother of Daniel E. Shoultz, arrives in Daytona Beach with her husband to help Florida authorities investigate the murder of her son and a second youth. Detectives explain the case while the suspect in custody is linked to recovered items. another suspect remains at large.
Army Private James R Burris aged 18 son of Mr and Mrs James H Burris RR 2 Jamestown Indiana completed nine weeks of advanced infantry training on December 1 at Fort McClellan Alabama The course simulates Vietnam conditions and covers land navigation communications patrolling guerilla and survival techniques plus qualification with infantry weapons
A 21 year old Indianapolis man was arrested again on the same charge of posing as an FBI agent. Phillip W. Fierson allegedly posed as an FBI agent while repossessing a car on November 28. Fierson had been indicted by a federal grand jury in August on a similar charge.
Franklin Indiana. Mrs Lois Phelps 36 Greenwood has triplet daughters born Tuesday night at Johnson County Memorial Hospital. The three babies arrived within 13 minutes, increasing her family to nine children, joining 17 year old twins and 12 year old boy and girl twins. Total birth weight 11 pounds 11 ounces.
Herbert Drake of Fairbanks serves on a federal grand jury sworn in by Judge James E. Noland in Indianapolis. Eugene Young of Cloverdale is the jury foreman as trials begin in the Southern Indiana District Court.
Robert Woodruff a prominent Washington Township farmer was elected president and director of the Greene County Chapter of Wabash Valley Association at the first meeting of the new Board of Directors Tuesday night. Keith Crane Bloomfield AR 4 was named vice president and director with Garvin L. Mitchell re elected director and secretary treasurer. Other directors elected at the annual meeting Nov 15 include Garland Hasler Earl Swaby Jr Bernard Roudebush RR 2 Bloomfield William Duncan Jasonville RR 1 Warren H Oaken Linton Robert Grounds L S Barkley William White and John A Watkins all of Bloomfield. Woodruff serves as chairman of the Board of Supervisors of the Soil and Water Conservation District and as chairman of Area 5 State Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts. He succeeds Frank A Lenning as president.
Actor Raymond Burr will be presented the 1967 human relations award of the Anti Defamation League at a dinner in Beverly Hills. Burr, star of Perry Mason and Iron Side, has made numerous trips to Vietnam to entertain troops. U S Sen Joseph D Tydings will speak at the annual dinner.
Alexander Douglas of New York City secured a patent for the first bustle in 1857, marking an early milestone in fashion support garments.
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