Planning Zoning Held A Must Now
More than one hundred attended the Area Planning and Zoning Conference in Terre Haute. The event at the Terre Haute House featured a panel discussion and a noon luncheon at the Hotel Deming. Organizers warned that lack of planning now will lead to huge future costs and that area planning requires cooperation from county agencies farming industry business and homeowners.
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Terre Haute House
Deming
Chamber of Commerce
Hotel Deming
Jaycee
Doctors Named For Whitaker's Sanity Hearing
Vigo Circuit Court appointed Drs. Harkness Loewenstein and Gerrish to exam Thomas L. Whitaker 36 on insanity pleas. The panel also included local and regional experts and was led by moderator Howard T. Batman as trials in three deaths move toward March 3.
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Robert G. Harkness
W. L. Loewenstein
Don A. Gerrish
Vigo Circuit Court
Herbert R. Criss
Thomas L. Whitaker
Whitaker
Alma _ Whitaker Martin
Jack Thomas Whitaker
Warren R. Everett
Vigo County
Weather data snapshot from early day section
The record shows a 3 a.m. reading and 9 a.m. sunrise at 6 52 with river stage at 3 9. Noon and 2 p.m. readings indicate temperatures near 22 and 24 with sunset at 5 17 and a stationary wind flag from the U S Weather Bureau.
Local weather summary for yesterday
The high reached 39 and the low dropped to 13 with no precipitation reported yesterday.
Forecast for Terre Haute and nearby regions
Clearing and much colder tonight with diminishing wind. Low around 5, then mostly fair and cold Saturday with a high near 20. Sunday remains fair and cold. Indiana brief snow flurries in the extreme north, low 2 to 10 above, high 18 to 24. Illinois mostly fair and colder, extreme south very cold with lows 0 to 10 above.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Illinois
Stassen to Keep Job After White House Talk
Harold E. Stassen announced after a 40 minute White House discussion with President Eisenhower that he has not resigned as disarmament adviser and the President has not asked him to resign. He will meet again with the President and weighs a possible Pennsylvania gubernatorial bid with a March 17 decision deadline.
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Washington
Harold E. Stassen
Eisenhower
Stassen
Pennsylvania
White House
Thief Menace Forces Man to Repair Car Twice Weekly
Ned Wamsley had his car raided five times in six months. He posted a sign near his parking space apologizing to any thief and informing that the car was being fixed in the garage.
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Baltimore
Ned Wamsley
Wamsley
Editor Denounces Official Secrecy
Washington editor J Russell Wiggins of The Washington Post and Times Herald urges congressional action to shield the right to know. He backs a bill forcing agencies to emit information unless legally barred, opposing uses of a housekeeping law to block disclosure. ACLU spokesman Irving Perlman backs hearings before a House subcommittee. Senator Lyndon B Johnson hints at space related advances and plans for reconnaissance satellites and space ships.
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Washington
J. Russell Wiggins
Washington Post
Times-Herald
American Civil Liberties Union
Irving Ferman
House
Government Information
Johnson
Senate
Outer Space
Father Sees Newborn Son Before Death In Wichita
James F. Balentine Jr. died of a heart attack within an hour after his wife gave birth to their first child in Wichita Kansas. Balentine had been treated for a heart condition and was in the hospital when their newborn son was shown to him.
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Wichita
Kan
James F. Balentine Jr
Balentine
Defense Dept Forms Advanced Research Project Agency
The Defense Department announced the creation of a new space agency named the Advanced Research Project Agency with Roy W. Johnson, an electrical company executive, appointed as director.
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Washington
Defense Department
Advanced Research Project Agency
Roy W. Johnson
Electrical Company
Vanguard satellite rocket fails from wiring fault blamed
The Navy attributes the Vanguard three stage rocket’s loss to a wiring failure with moisture seepage or vibration as possible causes. Gyroscopes failed to receive corrective signals after 57 seconds, preventing steering adjustments.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Navy
Vanguard
Air Force Missile Test Center
New Russian Envoy Arrives in Capital
Secretary of State Dulles met with Russia's new ambassador to Washington Mikhail Menshikov, signaling a hopeful start to improved ties. Menshikov arrived by Soviet jet, plans for talks with Eisenhower are seen as steps toward a possible summit. Thompson heads to Moscow to discuss negotiation terms.
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Capital
Washington
Dulles
Russia
Mikhail A. Menshikov
State Department
Menshikov
Eisenhower
Moscow
U. S
Llewellyn Thompson
White House
James C. Hagerty
Thompson
New York
Frankfurt
Berlin
Andrei Gromyko
Nikolai Bulganin
Soviet Union
New York Schools Begin Suspending Violent Pupils
New York City officials announce a policy to suspend any pupil charged with violent or insubordinate acts. The move follows outbreaks of beatings and stabbings and a grand jury demand for prompt action. Up to 600 pupils may be affected as monitors were attacked in separate incidents.
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New York
Board of Education
Bitter cold wave grips Indiana with subfreezing highs
Northwest winds sweep Indiana as a new cold wave lowers tonight temperatures to about five degrees above zero. Snow flurries appear but no significant snowfall is predicted for several days. Saturday's highs stay near or below 20 degrees as the Weather Bureau forecasts five day temperatures four to eight degrees below seasonal norms.
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Associated Press
Indiana
Weather Bureau
Army accepts transfers of Black soldiers with white wives
The U S Army in Wuerzburg says 30 Negro soldiers with white wives from the Georgia bound 10th Infantry Division have requested transfers. Thirty more with German wives have asked or expect to ask for transfers. The decision rests with the soldiers. If they wish to go to Georgia they can.
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Wuerzburg
Germany
U. S. Army
10Th Infantry Division
Georgia
Grinding wheel injures union leader at Sterling Casting plant
A grinding wheel broke loose from a shaft at Sterling Casting Corp plant in Bluffton injuring Paul G. Smith 44 president of a foundry workers local union. He suffered serious injuries and was treated on site.
Rowdyism report at Central High in Little Rock shocks community
In Little Rock on February 7, white parents refused to allow a white girl to return to Central High School after a Negro student called her petty white trash. Minnie Jean Brown, 16, faced assault and cafeteria harassment amid a pattern of clashes. Additional incidents involved Carlotta Walls and other students, with teachers and officials confirming the disturbances.
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Little Rock
Ark
Central High School
Alanana
Uents Uistupileeu ClaDdows
Minnie Jean Brown
Minnie Jean
David Sontag
Carlotta Walls
Herbert Blount
Virgil T. Blossom
Victim of Crash Remains Critical in Illinois
Woodrow C. Stepp of Marshall remained in critical condition at Union Hospital Terre Haute after a Thurs day auto truck crash at the U S 40 Illinois Route 1 intersection. Witness Herman Miller said Stepp ran a red light and collided with the eastbound truck owned by Andrew J. Nelson of Chicago and driven by Carl August Kremble of Kalamazoo. Investigating officers include Highway Patrolmen Frakes Tarr Gagen and Sheriff Milo Pearce.
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Marshall,ill
Woodrow C. Stepp
Marshall
Union Hospital
Terre Haute
Herman Miller
Stepp
Andrew J. Nelson
Chicago, Ill
Carl August Kremble
Kalamazoo
Mich
Marrs
Fenton Frakes
Dick Tarr
John Gagen
Clark County
Milo Pearce
Advance Made By Scientist in Cancer Battle
Cambridge Mass Feb 7 The American Cancer Society and the National Institutes of Health report a Harvard trained scientist Dr R Shihman Chang may have made a breakthrough toward curing cancer He is said to have produced the first deliberate scientific mutation in human cells by growing cells in lab dishes and altering their nutrients using substitutes for glucose The cells studied included ocular mucous membrane cells and a uterine cancer sample from a deceased patient Continued On Page 2 Column 3
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Cambridge
Mass
American Cancer Society
National Institutes of Health
Harvard
R. Shihman Chang
Chang
Crash kills seven Manchester United players in Munich
British and German authorities investigated a crash of an Elizabethan airliner near Munich that killed 21 aboard, including seven Manchester United players. Twenty-three survived among 44 aboard. Matt Busby was badly injured. Cause undetermined, sabotage ruled out.
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Munich
Germany
Britain
Manchester United
Yankees
Yugoslavia
Matt Busby
England
London
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John Potise
Ted Schulenberg
Indiana Department of Commerce
Area Planning Commission
New Castle
Ron Hennekin
South Bend Chamber of Commerce
Hugh B. Lee Jr
Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce
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Howard T. Batman
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