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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1955
Page
3
New York reports a holiday mix of quick facts and odds about neckties sales and buyer demographics, miserliness and taxes, highway safety in clear weather, desk durability tests, counts of vice presidents, smoking norms, eye strain, and workplace gender ratios.
Richard Stanley begins work today as a parts chaser at Kelly Automotive Repair, the first step to becoming an auto mechanic. After a black Christmas last year and two months without work or food for his mother, he thanked benefactors who raised 40 dollars and provided food.
A Wednesday 7:30 PM meeting at the Ft. Harrison Boat Club aims to organize a Terre Haute Coast Guard auxiliary flotilla for non navigable waters. The civilian group will discuss boat safety, search and rescue roles, and members can join without obligation. boat owners over 16 feet are urged to attend.
Richard Vicars, aged five, who was struck four times with a double-edged ax by his grandfather John C. Chisler, 61, on Christmas morning near the family tree, was released from St. Anthony Hospital. Chisler remains jailed for safekeeping and has been treated previously for a mental condition at a veterans hospital.
E. Russell McClure editor and co publisher of the Henry County Local died Monday at his Eminence home in Kentucky. He was 53 and served as a key figure in local journalism. The obituary notes his role and longtime involvement with the paper.
Explorer group led by Roger W. Bruckler and David B. Jones report Floyd Collins Crystal Cave in Kentucky as the nucleus of a cave system now totaling 32 miles of surveyed passages. They note connections to nearby caves and describe the system as the largest known.
In Los Angeles on December 27 a bar owner, Jimmy Ostroff, refused to serve a patron a vodka and orange screwdriver. The patron pulled a revolver, forced Ostroff and others to the bar end, and stole Ostroff’s wallet containing $290. The text also mentions Holloch Cave in Switzerland and Floyd Collins Cave’s cave tragedy.
Two Anderson men died when their single engine plane crashed into a field southeast of Huntsville in Madison County. Victims were Jesse Johnson Jr. 39 and Paul H. Thompson 41 both Delco Remy Division GM employees in Anderson.
In Warren Minnesota on Christmas Day two gunmen robbed three elderly relatives of about $10 000 then nailed them inside a 3 by 4 foot closet for 11 hours before releasing them The Hagman family members Herbert 64 Minnie 63 and Carl 62 were bound and repeatedly threatened as the robbers looted cash from various containers and opened a path to escape authorities sought the bandits and the loot the trio later broke free after a board was loosened from the closet door and the victims fled to seek help
New York December 27. Percy Ousterman known as Percy the painter faced 30 days in jail last month for drunkenness. He quipped that sentence took care of Thanksgiving but asked about Christmas. His 57th arrest came just as police began Thanksgiving plans.
Gunmen tied up the Hagman family and a man named Johnson, threatening suffocation and scribbling come and help us on Christmas cards. They released the captives after midnight, using an umbrella handle and a stave to pry the door at 11 am. Hagman walked about a mile to summon police at a neighbor’s farm.
Sanchez, a suspected narcotics addict, abducted a baby from an apartment in the Garcia building claiming paternity. He knifed Sepharino Garcia and pushed another man through a plate glass window during the escape. Police captured him late Monday. the infant was unharmed and returned to the mother. Father Gerald of Our Lady of Guadalupe aided the manhunt with Spanish radio appeals.
The Agriculture Department forecast a gradual rise in cigarette use, estimating this year's output at 414 billion cigarettes. This compares with 402 billion last year and 423 billion in 1953, with a 435.2 billion peak in 1952. King size filter sales also rose amid expected continued high incomes.
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