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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1972
Page
2
Obituary notices list multiple individuals killed or died in accidents and illnesses across Indiana towns including Bloomingdale Linton Sullivan Jasonville Coalmont and Paris with funeral times from Callahan Tudor Thomas McClanahan and other funeral homes. Services honor veterans and members of Masonic and Catholic groups.
Special funeral services are listed for Ray Knapp Robinson 74 of 210 Roosevelt Ave dying Wednesday at Buchanan Funeral Home with burial in Poplar Cemetery near Graysville Indiana. Separate services are listed for Surell A Wonders 83 who died Wednesday at Mary Sherman Hospital Sullivan with funeral at Fidler Wood Funeral Home.
Officers Dooley and Barton were injured during a manhunt for suspects after a fleeing car with bullet holes and a flat tire was sighted on Fruitridge and Maple Ave. Dooley collapsed after being struck by a car door. Stout reportedly pursued by Ralston before collapsing.
Cecil Taylor, 32, lit a marijuana filled pipe in a Tucson courtroom during his drug trial this week and was arrested. He told investigators the act was a protest against anti marijuana laws.
Rev Joe Scott officiated the funeral with burial in West Lawn Cemetery. A son Guy Bruce and a list of relatives including Norval Wonders Dugger Jess Wonders Muncie and Mrs Bessie Shipman Dugger were named along with three grandchildren and nine great grandchildren in the obituary.
Memorial services for Minnie B. Lammers a longtime Terre Haute area teacher will be at 11 a.m. Sunday at United Methodist Temple with Rev. Charles Lane officiating. She taught in elementary schools for 50 years retiring in 1965 and also served Wiley and Garfield high schools. Miss Lammers last of the Lammers family. Cremation follows and remains will be returned to Cross Chapel for burial later.
All but one of 21 crewmen on the freighter Lincoln Express were rescued overnight off Manati Puerto Rico. The 339 foot Panama registered ship carrying gypsum ore sank about 20 miles from San Juan Harbor after reporting flooding six miles off Manati. Coast Guard, Navy vessels and a British frigate aided the search through the night for the final survivor.
Comedian George Carlin had disorderly conduct charges dismissed after Milwaukee police arrested him July 21 following a performance in which he discussed the seven words deemed obscene. Judge Raymond Guieringer noted the dismissal.
Downstate Illinois faces salt shortfalls as a winter storm threatens ice. Keith Simons of Peoria County notes 200 tons bought at premium prices with 500 tons more used this winter. Cargill reports up to 1000 percent demand in downstate areas while Illinois DOT says supplies from four vendors remain adequate. Bloomington reports only 15 to 20 tons left.
Highway officials in Normal reported using about 105 tons of salt from Monday night to Wednesday night with 15 tons on hand Thursday. St. Clair County highway superintendent James Contratte said the county has 100 to 159 tons on hand, similar to normal snowfall usage. A 1946 solar eruption released a billion tons of gas into space.
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