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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1973
Page
8
In New Richmond Ohio a 14 year old testing his .20 gauge shotgun while wearing mittens accidentally shot and killed his 12 year old brother Kenneth Hauser as they prepared to go hunting. The county coroner ruled the death accidental.
U S Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz approves funding for the six county Sycamore Trails Resource Conservation and Development District to create jobs and develop water and land use. Congressman John T Myers says the plan aims at flood control new industry and rural improvements with over 2 000 jobs annually for 16 years.
Ernest Fitzgerald, the Pentagon cost analyst ousted for revealing a $2 billion overrun, is back as deputy for management systems but air force plans a transfer to deputy for productivity management, a move he says has no future. Fitzgerald was fired in 1970 for exposing C5 Galaxy cost overruns and won reinstatement after a three-year fight with the Civil Service Commission.
Terre Haute police chief James Swift, head of the Indiana Chiefs of Police Association legislative committee, says the group will push in the upcoming General Assembly for state funding of police pension costs. He notes Terre Haute’s annual pension bill around 355 000 dollars with local taxpayers bearing the remainder. Swift backs a state investment fund to become self supporting and favors a motel hotel tax proposal to fund police and fire pensions.
The article notes Indiana spends more than 26 million dollars yearly on police and fire pensions funded by property taxes. In 1973 lawmakers considered a cigarette tax to boost pension funds, but the bill was amended to divert the money to the general fund. Swift criticizes Gov Otis Bowen for allowing excise tax revenues to be used for general purposes rather than specific pension needs.
The 38th annual Noon Optimist Clothe A Child auction starts Tuesday night at 8 p.m. in the Prairie Room of the Terre Haute House with a 7 p.m. buffet by the Opti Mrs Club. Proceeds aid about 500 needy children with Christmas Eve clothing.
Amy Lynn Beasley, daughter of Mr and Mrs William Beasley of 210 Circle Drive, is Terre Haute North Vigo High School's DAR winner. An honor student ranked eighth in class she majors in English social studies mathematics and science with a French minor aiming for elementary education.
The Wabash Valley Purchasing Management Association will meet Thursday evening to receive its charter. Richard H Sheppard, president of the National Association of Purchasing Management, will be guest speaker and is manager of purchasing for Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company in Cleveland Ohio.
ISU geology professor Dr. W C Miller participated in a National Academy of Sciences CORSPERS geology panel. The committee advises government on launch timing equipment and remote sensing methods using color film radar infrared and orbital satellites to study volcanoes earthquakes and other data.
The Vigo County Taxpayers Association will hold its annual membership meeting at 3 p.m. Wednesday in the Merchants National Bank Building board room. New officers will be elected.
Prairieton Masonic Lodge No 178 naming Dave Neff as 1974 worshipful master and announcing a public installation at 7 30 p m Friday December 14 in the Prairieton Fire House A reception for the new officers will follow the ceremony. Other officers listed include Bob Bensinger Preston Reedy Steve Clark Larry Swan Don Richmond Tom Asbury Kenny Schafer and Charles Woodsmall. Archbishop Thomas A Becket was killed by four knights in Canterbury England.
Roy Hunt former head of Rockford's building department for 12 years was placed on probation for three years after pleading guilty to official misconduct He admitted keeping building fee overcharges and was ordered to repay 2700 by January 1 1957.
Two southside couples sue Robert H. Meyers Building and Supplies in Vigo Superior Court charging faulty construction of homes in the Youngstown Meadows subdivision. The Barnes and the Rogers allege their residences do not conform to plans and specifications and were built in poor workmanship.
The Rogers claim defective workmanship and materials after buying their vehicle on Feb 7 1972 and seek 65000 on each of three counts. Attorney Myron Wilkinson filed the complaints. The article notes the Sahara Desert was once water covered with fossil fish skeletons.
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