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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1972
Page
6
The forecast calls for continued cold weather in the northeast and most of the country west of the Mississippi River. Warmer conditions are expected in the Southeast. Snow or flurries are likely from the Mississippi Valley to the Northeast with snow also anticipated for the Great Lakes.
Representatives of the Indiana Association of Sanitarians held an ice storm affected meeting in Terre Haute to map plans for the 1973 fall conference. About 350 sanitarians and their spouses will attend a three day event at Indiana State University hosted by the Department of Health and Safety. Vigo County Health Department’s Paul M. Welch is president-elect.
Indiana expects party cloudy Sunday with a chance of snow Monday, clearing Tuesday. Temperatures range from lows 8 to 14 north and 14 to 20 south with highs near 20 north and low 30s south. Illinois to stay partly cloudy and very cold from Sunday through Tuesday with lows zero to 10 above north, 5 to 15 above south, and daytime highs in the teens or lower 20s north and in the 20s south.
In Sweden the Christmas season begins on Dec 13 with the Luella rite a girl in each home wearing a white robe and a crown of candles. The Lucha girl symbolizes returning light reflecting Viking era traditions based on the longest night. Capybaras, the world’s largest living rodents, exceed 110 pounds and live in Central and South America.
Ice cover over Vigo and surrounding counties prompted highway crews to work for hours to clear main arteries. A Terre Haute police officer, Sgt. William Heckelsberg, was in a three car crash while on duty. Nationally, a major winter storm spread snow, freezing rain, and dense fog from Oregon to Wisconsin with widespread travel advisories and hard freezes in parts of the West and Northeast.
Turner Devaughan 25 executive director of the Barbwire Society was arrested in Philadelphia on charges he masterminded a bank robbery. An alleged accomplice named him as the banner of a $3 728 robbery on November 28. Devaughan previously served eight months in jail on a weapons charge in 1969.
Decatur Illinois AP reports meter maid Becky McFadden 19 earned a commendation after placing a ticket on her boss’s car. Acting city manager Jack W. Loftus praised her as performing her duties under the Emergency Employment Act. Ice treatment uses warm ice technique in Springfield Oregon to protect fruit trees from frost by spraying hot waste water to insulate buds.
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