Cooper Receives Further Terms In Sex Slayings Case
Terre Haute youth John Charles Cooper 21 with a lengthy record drew new penalties from two judges. City Judge Edward Everett imposed six months for resisting arrest and three traffic counts while Special Judge Samuel Beecher Jr. added 50 days for disorderly conduct. Everett also ordered 180 days in Vigo County Jail and fines totaling 261.75 for multiple charges and suspended a 120 fine for resisting arrest. Beecher had earlier given 60 days to the Penal Farm and suspended a fine pending good behavior. he revoked the suspension after Cooper’s conduct. Continued on Page 2.
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John Charles Cooper
Terre Haute
Edward Everett
Cooper
Samuel Beecher Jr
State Farm
Everett
Vigo County
Beecher
Indiana
Pauline Shattuck
3Rd Ave
U S Forces Repel Night Attack at Crow's Foot
About 170 U S cavalrymen, outnumbered over three to one, repelled dawn assaults by North Vietnamese regulars near An Khe in the Crow's Foot area. The 1st Cavalry Airmobile Division suffered heavy casualties. 52 enemy bodies and 44 fresh graves were found.
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AN Khe
South Vietnam
U. S
Crow’s Foot
U.S. 1St Cavalry
Howit
Ocean Floor Stilts Enable Bottom Dwellers to Walk
Marine life at ocean bottoms has evolved stilt like structures to traverse thick oozes and muds deposited over eons. These adaptations allow certain fish and invertebrates to remain mobile in deep seabed environments.
Bayh seeks ABA help on voting amendment and other aims
Sen. Birch Bayh says he will seek the American Bar Association's support for a constitutional amendment to choose the president and vice president by direct popular vote. He plans hearings, plus reviews of Supreme Court opinions on criminal law and more federal reservoir projects in Indiana.
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Washington
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
American Bar Association
Escobedo
Bayh
Southeast Asia
Lafayette
Patoka
Clifty Creek
Indiana
Big Walnut
Big Blue
Downeyville
Thoughts on Taxes and Relief in Indiana
Editor notes the second in a series by State Senator Jack H. Mankin of Vigo County on 1967 General Assembly tax relief efforts. He argues property tax is too high and fails to keep pace with growth, suggesting broader sales and income taxes better reflect economic expansion and fund rising government costs.
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Jack H. Mankin
Vigo County
Indiana General Assembly
Weather Map Update From U S Weather Bureau
A 6 am to noon weather map reports river stage 11 ft and falling. Local conditions show a 33 high yesterday and 14 low last night with no precipitation. Hazardous driving warned for Terre Haute and vicinity as snow develops this afternoon, with mixed snow and rain tonight and Wednesday. Winds grow gusty, warmer by Wednesday. precipitation probabilities rise through today into Wednesday. Illinois faces snow and hazardous driving today with several inches expected. Indiana and Illinois forecast colder, windy with snow and freezing rain tonight into Wednesday.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Illinois
Three Alabama Teens Slain. Station Worker Confesses
Jefferson and Shelby county sheriffs report David McCarter Jr. 25, has confessed to the sex killings of Vaughn Murphy 15, Stephen Murphy 13, and Will Binzel 14 whose bodies were found in the woods near Birmingham. Authorities note no link established to other Mobile and Shelbyville killings.
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Birmingham
Ala
Mel Bailey
Jefferson County
C. P. Walker
Shelby County
David McCarter Jr
Here
Mobile
Shelbyville
Homewood
Vaughn Murphy
Stephen
Will Binzel
C. P
Red) Walker
McCarter
Alabama
Greensburg Mayor Among 17 Indiana Highway Deaths
Greensburg Mayor Sherman G. Miers, 76, died when his car left a county road near Greensburg and struck a tree. Miers, a Democrat who won the 1963 election, owned a paint and wallpaper business and is survived by a daughter-in-law and three grandchildren. The 78 hour Christmas weekend toll in Indiana reached 17 with other fatalities in Evansville, Columbus, Kokomo and Logansport among multiple crashes.
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Greensburg
Indiana
Hoosier
Sherman G. Miers
Miers
Marlin Maddux
Robert Miers
Rt. 3
Charles Britt
Evansville
Victor Jackson
Ind
Columbus
Wayne Thompson
Hope
Kokomo
U.S
Edsal R. Moore
Indiana Weather Holds Back Interstate Traffic From State
The Indiana Police Operations Center reported many calls from residents canceling trips planned to nearby states after receiving weather and road condition updates. The long weekend saw its only multi death accident Sunday when Alas Johnson and his wife Katherine Johnson died in a vehicle slide into a Maumee River bank near River Haven. Eugene Coffey, 53, of Fennville Michigan, was killed Sunday night when his car struck a caravan and burned. Continued on Page 3, Col. 3.
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Indiana
Indianapolis
Alas Johnson
River Haven
Katherine
Fort Wayne
Maumee River
Eugene C. Coffey
Rt. 2
Fennville, Mich
Uncle Claims Soldier's Body
San Francisco AP Uncle John Campos presented baptismal papers at the Presidio to prove he is the uncle of Sgt. Richard Campos whose body had not been claimed for two weeks while the Army traced kin. The Army will decide at the Pentagon. Nieves Campos, Richard's mother, died young.
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Campos
John Campos
Marysville
Calif
Army Presidio
San Francisco
Army
Richard Campos
Vietnam
Oakland
Sgt
Presidio of
Pentagon
Nieves Campos
State Roads Warn of Hazardous Driving Across Indiana
Hazardous driving warnings swept Indiana as a winter storm moved in with snow and freezing rain. Northern areas faced heavy snowfall while the south saw freezing rain turning to rain, with temperatures near or above freezing in places. South Bend reported 4 inches of snow, and temperatures dipped to single digits in several cities including New Castle Fort Wayne Lafayette Indianapolis and Evansville.
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Indiana
South Bend
New Castle
Fort Wayne
Lafayette
Indianapolis
Evansville
Indiana Sheriffs back push for police training academy
Indiana Sheriffs Association supports proposed legislation to create a state Police Academy for pre duty training. Beasley cited needs amplified by new investigative techniques and court rulings. ISA leaders Truchan and Arnod joined in urging professional training before officers enforce laws.
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Herbert C. Beasley
Indiana Sheriff's Association
Vigo County
Indiana Police Academy
Indiana General Assembly
Indianapolis
Beasley
ISA
Michael Truchan
Lake County
Clifford D. Arnod
la Porte County
Indiana
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