Vigo County School Board approves funds and hires
The board reports 5.472 million in U S Treasury Bills maturing at 5.6 million and 240 thousand in Honey Creek Fire loss investments maturing at 244 thousand. Bids on furniture and equipment set for Dec 16 with named representatives. Maintenance bids, septic cleaning, and blacktopping reviewed. Everett Sullivan and Wabash Valley Asphalt Co. bid on septic and blacktop respectively. Several vendors listed for maintenance supplies. Retirement of Ralph Miller and new president Eddie Denham noted. Tax commissioners approve 1.85 million for construction costs. Christmas break Dec 20 to Jan 6. Additional 16 thousand for food equipment. Exclusions for four pupils proposed. 11 resignations and retirements approved. staff changes and new hires noted. School buildings to close Dec 24 and Dec 31 noon. 43 staff at nine conferences.
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United States Treasury
Honey Creek Fire
Charlotte Caldwell
Paul Haas
Pete Farmer
Everett Sullivan
Wabash Valley Asphalt Co
Terre Haute
J. I. Holcomb Manufacturing Co
Indianapolis
Huntington Laboratories
Huntington, Ind
Fuller Brush Co
Hartford, Conn
Rochester Germicide Co
H. R. Shirley & Co., Inc
Scientific Wax Products Corp
Vigo County School Corp
General Fund
Carol Andrews
John F. Bauermeister
Betty L. Clark
Jane Foulkes
Carla Hartmann
Jean Kabler
Joan Lewzader
Jess R. Lucas
Nancy Malloy
Betty Rendall Mooney
Joan Willis
Alice Marlatt
Merrigay Schroer
Beatrice Montgomery
Sharon Rouse
Reservations Open for Indiana State Madrigal Dinner
Reservations remain for Indiana State University 19th annual Madrigal Dinner at Tirey Memorial Union Saturday. Sunday dinner sold out. ISU Union sponsors the event with the union food service. Madrigal Singers perform in 16th century attire with wassail, boar’s head, flaming pudding. A Madrigal concert will follow. Singers include Skalba Hammond, Powell Crown Point, Ogle Wheatland, Hughes Terre Haute, Walters Rochester, Casto LaPorte, Hayes South Bend, Booker Clarks Hill, Casper Indianapolis, Lewis Gary.
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Indiana State University
Tirey Memorial Union
ISU Union, Board
Union Food Service
ISU
Marge Skalba
Hammond
Ann Powell
Crown Point
Frances Ogle
Wheatland
Becky Hughes
Terre Haute
Becky Walters
Rochester
Edward Casto
LaPorte
George Hayes
South Bend
Dan Booker
Clarks Hill
Edward Casper
Indianapolis
Mike
Lewis
Gary
Hanoi pushes Viet Cong equality at Paris talks
New charges accuse Communists of scaling down terror in South Vietnam. Paris reports say North Vietnam backs Viet Cong demands for equal status. Hanoi diplomats told US officials they reject conference plans without Viet Cong parity. They want a square table format with four equal participants. The US proposal suggests two rectangular tables with US and South Vietnam versus North Vietnam and Viet Cong.
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Paris
Hanoi
United States
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Two Men Sworn In As City Firemen
The Terre Haute Board of Public Works and Safety swore in Kenneth R. James and Russell Manuel as new Terre Haute Fire Department members. James, 28, and Manuel, 23, are Republican appointees with high school backgrounds. both attended local schools, with James unmarried and Manuel married with one child. City officials present included Controller Carl Price, Attorney George Tofante, and Fire Chief Robert Terrell.
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Board of Public Works and Safety
Terre Haute Fire Department
Kenneth R. James
Cruft Sr
Edmund James
Russell Manuel
22Nd St
James
Schulte High School
Manuel
Gerstmeyer High School
Carl Price
George Tofante
Robert Terrell
Regent Rule Is Proposed In Indiana Plan For State Colleges
Four Indiana state university presidents studied a State Policy Commission plan proposing a single board of regents to govern all state and regional higher education. The proposal would create a nine member governor appointed board with power to coordinate budgets and federal funds while preserving local autonomy for individual universities and their boards.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Board of Regents
State Policy Commission
Roger D. Branig
Commission
Board of
Indiana Vocational Technical College
Regents
Richard B. Stoner
Columbus
Earl J. McGrath
U.S
McGrath
Nixon names Brown and Safire to White House staff
President elect announces two more White House staff appointments Robert J Brown 33 of High Point NC and William Safire 38 a New York author and PR man Brown will focus on black capitalism and civil rights related work while Safire concentrates on policy and program development Lindsay of New York visits but no federal post discussed.
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Nixon
Boys’ Club Board
Pierre
Martin
Reserve Board
Robert B. Anderson
New York
Defense
Anderson
White House
Robert J. Brown
High Point
N.C
William Safire
Brown
Hensmen
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
B&c Associates
Antipoverty
North Carolina Fund
Virginia Union University
Richmond
North Carolina A&t University
Greensboro
Treasury Department
New York City
Safire
John V. Lindsay
German schoolmaster opens first hostel in 1910
Richard Schirrman, a German schoolmaster, opened the first youth hostel in 1910 in an old castle, a seed that grew to about 200 hostels across Germany by 1914.
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Richard Schirrman
Germany
Violence prompts enrollment debate at Jesuit college
At a 12,000 student Jesuit institution less than 1 percent are Negro. State University in Oshkosh Wisconsin will meet a federal court deadline to file complaints against 90 students, most Negro, suspended after a campus demonstration demanding more Negro faculty and courses. In Buffalo New York an open forum on police brutality was disrupted when egg projectiles struck panelists after a false fire alarm. officials apologized and pledged to prosecute those responsible.
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Oshkosh
Wis
Buffalo
N.Y
State University At
Allergy and asthma prevalence in Argentina cited by doctor
Buenos Aires reports that about 18 percent of Argentines suffer from some allergy and half that number have bronchial asthma according to Dr. Enrique Mathev, president of the Seventh National Congress on Allergy and Immunology.
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Buenos Aires
API
Enrique Mathev
Seventh
National Congress On
ISU Education Council Sets Meeting Friday
ISU Education Council will hold a one day meeting Friday at Tirey Memorial Union on the ISU campus. Speaker J Har old Voshall from the Illinois Association of School Administrators will discuss leadership development for superintendents with a morning coffee hour at 9 30 a m. Wayne Ader Vincennes superintendent will discuss proposed legislation, and Dr John C Hill and Dr William R Wilkerson will give a briefing on school surveys. Fifty superintendents from Indiana and Illinois are expected to attend.
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Indiana State University Educational Development Council
Tirey Memorial Union
ISU
J. Harold Voshall
Illinois Association of School Administrators
Voshall
Division of
Illinois Superintendent of Public Instruction
Illinois Education Association
Vashall
Wayne Ader
Vincennes
John C. Hill
ISU School of Education
William R. Wilkerson
ISU Bureau of School Administrative Services
Indiana
Illinois
One Ton Truck Bides Taken Under Advisement
Terre Haute Board of Public Works and Safety reviewed four bids for a new one ton street department truck. Vigo Dodge $2828. Adams Truck Inc $3021.82 Froederman Chevrolet Sales $2792.28 Jack Thrasher Ford Sales $2846.19. Awards to be announced in a few days.
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Board of Public Works and Safety
Terre Haute
Vigo Dodge
Adams Truck, Inc
Froederman Chevrolet
Jack Thrasher Ford
Carl Price
George Tofante
Explosion Traps Miners on Eubea Island Mine
An explosion 400 feet underground trapped 80 coal miners at a mine on Eubea Island north of Athens. Rescuers found seven killed and all others brought to the surface. 21 survivors were injured including 12 seriously. Initial reports cited a faulty explosive causing the collapse. the explosive handler was reportedly killed.
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Athens
UPI
Eubea Island
Here
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