Price Gives Statement on City Finances
Terre Haute City Controller Carl Price announced the city’s finances are excellent with over $3 million in certificates of deposit and multiple funds totaling around $4.3 million in sewer and improvement projects. He noted $700,000 in fees unpaid, a nearly finished sewer program, a $125,000 EDA grant needing matching funds, and potential use of R and funds to cover city and county shares.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute
Carl Price
Price
Julius Brittlebank
Fruitridge Ave
Redevelopment Department
Leland Larrison
Economic Development Administration
Vigo County Jail Terms In Local Drunken Driving Cases
Public intoxication sentences four days in Vigo County Jail for Mornin’ Judce TM Robert B. Wilke 76. Others include Louis K. Pierce fined for no license and reckless driving. John Byron Cuffle fined and jailed on disorderly conduct. Albert Eugene Thomas fined for discharging a firearm in the city.
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Robert B. Wilke
Vigo County
Louis K. Pierce
Chestnut St
John Byron Cuffle
4Th St
Albert Eugene Thomas
4Th Ave
New Four Way Stops At S Seventh St And Davis Ave
Vigo County Board of Commissioners and the Highway Department announced four way stop signs at the intersection of S Seventh Street and Davis Avenue. The action, urged by school officials and residents near Terre Haute South Vigo High School, aims to curb danger from north south traffic on 7th Street. Signs were installed Monday following a resolution and recommendation by Engineer Mike Ellis.
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S. 7Th St
Davis Ave
Vigo County Board of Commissioners
Highway Department
Terre Haute South Vigor High School
7Th St
County Highway Department
Mike Ellis
Ampacet Plans Approved for $1.6 Million Plant
Mose Kassis announced that a state council permit allows Ampacet Corporation to build a $1.6 million plant on N Fruitridge Ave in Terre Haute. The 50 616 sq ft facility will manufacture color concentrates for plastics and employ about 60 workers initially, rising to 100 within two years. Ampacet is headquartered in Mount Vernon New York.
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Mose Kassis
Terre Haute
Leland Larrison
State of Indiana Administrative Building Council
Ampacet Corporation
N. Fruitridge Ave
Mount Vernon
N. Y
Alaska plans 29 story Cordova street tower
A 29 story building planned for the corner of 13th Ave and Cordova St in Anchorage will be the tallest structure in Alaska. It will include commercial units and 184 apartments.
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Anchorage, Alaska
API
13Th Ave
Cordova St
Alaska
Angela Davis Defends Record Ahead of Jury Trial
In a jail interview Angela Davis discusses potential acquittal on murder and kidnapping charges tied to the 1970 Marin County courthouse shootout. She argues the case exposes broader prison-system forces, notes relationships with Soledad Brothers, and describes life in a Santa Clara County jail cells while awaiting trial.
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Palo Alto
Calif
Angela
Davis
Rin County Civic Center
UCLA
Ruchell (Magee
James McClain
William Christmas
McClain
Christmas
San Quentin
Superior Court
Harold Haley
Miss Davis
Jonathan Jackson
Magee
Haley
Santa Clara County
Soledad Brothers
Soledad
Jonathan
George Jackson
Park Grants Broad Emergency Powers to South Korea Leader
Seoul AP reports President Park Chung Hee gains sweeping emergency powers after a National Assembly vote amid opposition protests. The measure allows price and wage control, labor restraint, press limits, and other steps during the state of national emergency proclaimed December 6. Opposition New Democratic party decries it as paving one man rule. the vote occurred under heavy security with troops surrounding the assembly.
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Seoul
Chung Hee Park
Park
National Assembly
New Democratic Party
North Korea
Assembly
Foreign Affairs Committee
Farmers to be paid for hunting rights on land
Farmers in selected Indiana counties and nine other states will receive about 300 dollars each next year to allow hunting fishing hiking and trapping on idle set aside land. The program by the Agriculture Department aims to boost recreational use of countryside and will start in 50 counties with counties chosen later. The states listed include Colorado Iowa Louisiana Michigan North Dakota Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania and South Carolina.
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Washington
Indiana
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Agriculture Department
Agriculture
Earl Butz
Agricultural Stapupeton and Conservation Servce
Colorado
Iowa
Louisiana
Michigan
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Escalation in Vietnam War Spurs Heavy U S Air Strikes
AP describes increased U S air attacks on North Vietnam supply routes via the Barthelemy and Mu Gia passes as North Vietnam counters with intensified anti aircraft fire. Nixon orders large scale protective reaction strikes while reserving full scale bombing. The Ho Chi Minh trail and the Plain of Jars feature among key battle zones.
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Saigon
United States
North Vietnam
Laos
South Vietnam
Barthelemy
Mu Gia
Cambodia
Barthelemy Pass
U.S
Ma Gia
Southeast Asia
Nixon
Former Terre Haute Resident Earns Theology Diploma
Joseph Marvin Cain, a former Terre Haute resident, received a Diploma in Theology from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisiana. He left Terre Haute about six years ago, lived at 5001 No. 15th St, and helped run Humble Express Inc. for over 20 years before entering the seminary in 1968. Cain’s parents live at 3401 Cristal Rd, North Terre Haute. He and his wife June Coker have two sons, Mike and Pat. He awaits assignment to a church by Baptist officials.
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Joseph
Marvin Cain
Terre Haute
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
Louisiana
Cain
New Orleans
No. 15Th St
Humble Express, Inc
United States
JL. R. Cain
Cursital Rd
North
June Coker
Mike
Pat
Two Men Arrested In Legion Post Break In
Terre Haute police arrested Vernon Dimitt and Clifford Myers after a break in at the Kriefenstein American Legion Post on North 13th Street. Officers found pried basement doors, a ransacked counter, and opened cigarette machine and jukebox. Connections to other city burglaries are suspected.
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Terre Haute
Kriefenstein American Legion Post
N. 13Th St
Vernon Dimitt
Clifford Myers
Poplar St
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JUDCE
South 7Th ST
Davis Avenue
A. T. Collins
Manchester
Hyden
Collins
Finley Coal Company
Angela Davis
Edith M. Lederer
Jeannine Yeomans
Legion Post
Ohio
Acen
Illinois
Art
Contemporary
Jimmy
Macnavox
Honey Creek Square
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