Aerial Photo Survey to Be Made of Vigo County
Approval granted for Vigo County aerial photographic survey linked to transportation planning. John Hanley announces Indiana State Highway Commission chief engineer F L Ashbaucher approved the project. About 64,000 dollars total, county pays under 4,000 with state funds covering the rest. Images and a county map will be shared with local agencies. survey expected to finish by August with the map ready in November.
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Vigo County
John Hanley
Area Plan Department
F. L. Ashbaucher
Indiana State Highway Commission
Local Area Plan Department
Suspect Held Continued From Page One A Mannequin
Anthony Erthell Williams, 24, identified from a photo as the man, fled in a light green 1959 car after Knapp and YMCA official Donald Hanna tried to stop him. Williams, hired as a YMCA billing clerk on Dec 16, had lived there since October. Previously committed to Missouri State Hospital in 1965 after molestation and rape charges. he escaped in July 1968. He served as minister and organist at Maple Street Baptist Church in Des Moines and as lay preacher in a Davenport church. Pamela's father works at Ford Motor Co farm implement plant in Des Moines.
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Knapp
Anthony Erthell Williams
Donald Hanna
YMCA
Williams
Kansas City
Missouri State Hospital
Maple Street Baptist Church
Des Moines
Davenport
Pamela
Ford Motor Co
Wheels Stolen From Car in Garage Theft Report
Edward Earl Marvel 41 S 5th St reported to police that thieves stole four wheels and tires from his car parked in his garage. The rims and tires were valued at 200 dollars.
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Edward Earl Marvel
5Th St
Marvel
Two Home Burglaries Probed In West Terre Haute Area
Sheriff's Detective Gerald Walls investigates two recent burglaries. Harry Weger reports $1,000 in weapons and ammo stolen. his guns were later found in a ditch. Jack McClintock says a rifle, shotgun, checkbook, cash, and other items were taken from his mobile home over a two day absence.
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Sheriff's
Gerald Walls
Harry Weger
RR 1
West Terre Haute
Jack McClintock
RR 3
Weger
Walls
Deputiies
McClintock
Plan to Cut Number of 1970 Census Takers
Washington AP The Census Bureau plans a do it yourself census by mail in major cities in 1970 cutting census takers by about 50 000 from the 1960 approach. About 150 000 takers will be needed while rural areas and smaller towns will still be collected in person with follow up by phone or visits. Tests since 1961 show 65 to 91 percent mail back rates.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Lights Out on Wabash Ave Signal malfunctions prompt police aid
Early Thursday motorists faced blinking signals at 9th and 8th Streets on Wabash Ave. Fire officials reported the automatic lights failed around midnight Wednesday and resumed operation about 7:30 a.m. Thursday after a fire crew repaired them with police directing traffic.
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Wabash Ave
9Th
8Th Sts
9Th St
Th St
Fire Department
Huge Cargo Plane Crashes at Elmendorf Alaska
ANCHORAGE Alaska An Pan American World Airways 707 jet crashed on takeoff at Elmendorf Air Force Base early Thursday carrying a crew of three. The four engine jet broke into flames half a mile beyond the runway with no nearby buildings. Weather was 10 below zero with heavy ice fog. fate of crew unknown.
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Anchorage
Alaska
APA
Pan-American World Airways
Elmendorf Air Force Base
Far East
E. Howell
Base Public Affairs Office
Hazardous driving across Indiana tonight forecast
The Associated Press reports roads may glaze with snow sleet and freezing rain in Indiana tonight, likely short lived as temperatures rise to 38 to 58 by Friday. Snow updates include 8 inches in South Bend tapering to a inch in Indianapolis, with Evansville and southern areas seeing lighter accumulations.
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Associated Press
Indiana
Weather Bureau
Mercury
South Bend
Indianapolis
Evansville
Johnson Annual Message Hails Service Members and Peace Hope
President Johnson praises U S service men in Vietnam as the rock of resolve and hopes for lasting peace this Christmas. He notes the world brightens with peace if courage and skill prevail and says the first family kept a quiet Christmas at the White House. Johnson usually spends holidays in Texas.
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Washington
Johnson
U.S
Vietnam
White House
Texas Ranch
Community Orchestra Tag Day Planned in Terre Haute
Saturday is Community Orchestra Tag Day in Terre Haute with Terre Haute Youth Symphony students soliciting in the downtown area and nearby shopping centers from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Proceeds fund travel to Elkhorn Wisconsin on March 28 where they will perform for Terre Haute. Expenses are not covered by city or school funds.
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Terre Haute
Leland Larrison
Youth Symphony
Plaza North
Shelton Hannig
Montgomery Wards
Donald Schedler
Sears Roebuck
James Schnabel
William Shackleford
Thomas Hogan
Wilburn Elrod
Horace Hayward
Robert Klein
W. L. Tatlock
Hill
Shackeford
Terre Haute Symphony Board
Youth Symphony Board
Private Christmas for Nixon Family
President elect Nixon spent Christmas Day on Biscayne Bay at his two house compound in Florida with his family. He walked on beaches and kept details of the dinner menu and gifts private while Newlywed Julie Eisenhower and her husband joined the Nixons for a late afternoon Christmas dinner before continuing their honeymoon responsibility.
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Key Biscayne
Fla
Nixon
Florida
Biscayne Bay
Miami
Julie
Dwight David Eisenhower II
Nixons
Local court fines and brief jail terms listed
A list of individuals with offenses such as intoxication and leaving the scene of an accident. Fines range from 3.25 to 47.25 with jail terms from 5 to 10 days applied to each case. Notable entries include James M Moss Raymond W Morlan John J Lyman William Tuttle Charles V Lundstrom Raymond Davis and Donald R Bowden with varying ages and addresses.
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John J. Lyman
Raymond Davis
Maryville
Tenn
Linton School Chief Resigns to Lead Dubois County District
Greene County Superintendent Don Pope resigns after a long tenure and will become superintendent of the new northeast Dubois County School Corporation. He starts duties in Dubois County January 1.
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Linton, Ind
Don Pope
Linton
Greene County
Northeast
Dubois County
Burglars Hit Pickett Hardware Store for Guns Cash
Police hunt two burglars who robbed Pickett Hardware Store in Greenfield Indiana seizing 15 guns, ammunition and nearly $100. Thieves cut a roof hole and used a rope to escape, while attempts to force the safe failed.
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Greenfield, Ind
UPI
Pickett
Electric shavers gain in U S market says Philips official
More than 35 percent of 66 million American males over 15 use electric shavers regularly, up 5 percent in three years. Richard Q. Kress, vice president of North American Philips Company, marketer of Norelco, says 1967 shaver sales exceeded $165 million.
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New York
UPI
Richard Q. Kress
North American Philips Company, Inc
Norelco
Man Denies Police Charge in City Court Case
Ronald Frazier 21 of Terre Haute pleaded not guilty to resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer after an argument at Foulkes Drive. He received a $3,000 bond on each charge and a Jan 7 continuance. Frazier was also arrested on a later warrant for assault by his wife. In other court action, Huddie Dean 30 was fined for DUI and related violations and sentenced to 60 days on the Penal Farm.
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Terre Haute
Ronald Frazier
Sycamore St
Foulkes
Frazier
Ray Watts
Paul M. Messick
Messick
Huddie Dean
S. 12Th St
Walter Winchell’s Son Dies in Apparent Suicide
Santa Ana California sheriff deputies identified 33 year old Walter Winchell son of the veteran columnist as the man who died by self inflicted gunshot after a Christmas dinner with his wife Eva and two children. He reportedly had a prior history of attempted self harm and had been under psychiatric care.
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Santa Ana
Calif
UPID
Sheriff's Deputies
Walter Winchell
Winchell
Eva
Household Hint on Rice Texture Improvement
A household hint advises adding a teaspoon of lemon juice to the water when cooking rice to keep grains snowy-white and separate rather than lumpy. The tip stresses a simple acidity adjustment to improve texture during preparation.
Man shoots five in Brooklyn tavern on Christmas morning
James London, 28, walked into the Green Rooster in Brooklyn and after a joke about a jukebox fired a .38 revolver, wounding five patrons, one critically. He turned himself in at Atlantic Avenue station and was booked on felonious assault and weapons charges.
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New York
UPI
Brooklyn
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Raindeer
James London
Atlantic Avenue
London
Food store sales rise with new packaging tech
UPI reports that the United States had 596000 food stores in 1929 and that stores fell by 228170 in 1967 as supermarkets grew. Robert Tyler Sr. of Tyler Refrigeration says new packaging and service tech have boosted food store sales by 618 percent.
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New York
UPI
United States
Robert Tyler Sr
Tyler Refrigeration
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