Indiana Senate Nears Compromise on Reapportionment Plan
The Indiana Senate moves toward a compromise reapportionment bill affecting Senate districting. A final draft was prepared for the Legislative Apportionment Committee to amend the House approved Republican Indiana Plan. Chairman Sen. D Russell Bontrager aims to schedule a committee meeting to advance the measure to the Senate floor.
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Indianapolis
Indiana Senate
House
Senate
Indiana
D. Russell Bontrager
R-Elkhart
Jensen Named Chairman of UF Campaign
Frederick R. Jensen named chairman of the 1963 United Fund campaign at a noon UF board meeting. Jensen, Tampane Company plant manager, has long civic involvement in Terre Haute. He led the industrial division last year, which raised nearly $20,000 more than any prior year. The UF plans an earlier start to recruit volunteers and publicize its work among 25 member agencies. Jensen emphasized the campaign’s vital community role in funding health and welfare services and announced plans to appoint division leaders and loaned executives for major employers. He stressed a shorter campaign duration and broader year round education.
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Frederick R. Jensen
United Fund
Jensen
Tampane
Terre Haute
T. W. Markley
Man seizes car siege to demand Hoover talk
A man drove a car onto the Justice Department steps in Washington and claimed a bomb wired to the vehicle. He demanded to confer with FBI Director Hoover about impeaching President Kennedy and his cabinet, while police evacuated the area and bomb experts investigated.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Justice Department
Pennsylvania Avenue
Nathan Wiskowsky
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Wiskowsky
Arizona
Hoover
Jetliner wreckage found in Florida swampland after crash
Federal investigators study wreckage from a Northwest Orient Airlines jet carrying 43 people that crashed soon after leaving Miami for Chicago. Rescue teams shuttle bodies to a converted school morgue while authorities seek a cause. Helicopters transport victims as security tightens.
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Miami
Fla
Florida Everglades
Northwest Orient Airlines
Chicago
Seattle
Wash
Portland
Ore
Civil Aeronautics
Florida
Everglades
Weather Snapshot for Neonee and WV Area
Morning readings show sunrise at 6 45 a.m. and sunset at 5 24 p.m. River stage 1.2 feet and falling. Forecast includes 9 a.m. conditions in WV and 2 p.m. notes for the Neonee area.
Local Conditions Report
Yesterday's high reached 24, overnight low 9, with 0.62 inches of precipitation recorded.
Forecast for Terre Haute and vicinity
Considerable cloudiness and continued cold with periods of light snow tonight and Thursday. Low tonight 12 to 20. High Thursday in the 20s. In Indiana snow flurries this afternoon and tonight. Illinois likewise cold with highs in the upper 20s to 30s and lows 15 to 20. Street thermometer reads 6 a.m. 15, 2 p.m. 22.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Illinois
Honor Chas. Cook at Ad Club Salute Dinner
Charles A. Cook, Tribune Star advertising manager, received the Silver Medal Award for distinguished service to the advertising field at Terre Haute Ad Club’s seventh annual salute dinner. The event, co sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and several utilities, honored city utilities officials and featured remarks by Mayor Ralph Tucker and Arthur Crary.
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Charles A. Cook
Tribune Star
Advertising Club of
Terre Haute
Cook
Advertising Federation of America
Printer’s Ink Magazine
Ad Club
Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce
General Telephone Company of Indiana
Public Service Company of Indiana
Terre Haute Gas Corporation
Terre Haute Water Works Corporation
Ralph Tucker
Arthur Crary
Larry Denning
Center
Carroll Blanchar
PSC
Walter Matthews
Plainfield
Martin
Salinger Keeps Pace With Marchers On Capitol Hike
Washington February 13 The Marines and many others march in a Friday hike along the C and O Canal to meet President Kennedy's fifty mile fitness challenge. Pierre Salinger declines to march but supports the effort while the expedition proceeds with Capitol Hill secretaries and an Army medic accompanying the group.
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Washington
Pierre Salinger
New Frontier
White House
Salinger
C&o Canal
Kennedy
Teddy Roosevelt
Capitol Hill
Legislative Branch
Three Governors Plan Lincoln Trail Meeting
Governors of Kentucky Illinois and Indiana meet in Indianapolis to discuss a Lincoln Trail running from Kentucky through Indiana to Illinois. Host Governor Welsh hosts Governors Stratton and Combs at luncheon to map a Lincoln migration route from Abraham Lincoln's birthplace to Springfield Illinois.
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Indianapolis
Kentucky
Indiana
Illinois
Welsh
William G. Stratton
Bert Combs
Abraham Lincoln
Springfield
Central Nitrogen Names Official John A. Lawrence
John A. Lawrence was appointed plant superintendent of Central Nitrogen Inc. and will begin immediately. The $20 million nitrogen fertilizer plant on north U S 41 aims to operate by September 1963, serving three states. Lawrence, 39, came from Crystal City Missouri, where he ran Armour Agricultural Chemical Plant nitrogen operations since 1961.
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John A. Lawrence
Central Nitrogen, Inc
Ernest C. Davis
North
U. S
Lawrence
Crystal City
Armour Agricultural Chemical Plant
Armour
St. Louis
U. S. Industrial Chemical Co
Tas
Library contracts awarded for St. Mary of the Woods College
Contracts totaling 1 130 000 for a new library at St. Mary of the Woods College go to two Terre Haute firms and two Indianapolis firms. J L Simmons Company Inc of Indianapolis is general contractor, Applegate Elevator handles elevator and book lift, Freitag Weinardt Terre Haute and Potter Electrical Terre Haute get plumbing and electrical work. Architects Bohlen Burns of Indianapolis, Ralph Stuart consulting engineer. The fireproof air conditioned library will hold at least 250 000 volumes and start next week with completion planned for 1965, the college’s 125th anniversary.
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St. Mary-of-the- Woods College
Terre Haute
Indianapolis
Marie Perpetua
J. L. Simmons Company, Inc
Applegate Elevator Company
Freitag-Weinhardt, Inc
Potter Electrical & Engineering Company, Inc
Bohlen and Burns
Ralph Stuart
Delegation to Valley Session At Charleston
The Vigo County chapter of the Wabash Valley Association will send 25 to 30 members to the sixth annual WVA meeting in Charleston Illinois on the Eastern Illinois University campus. Don Williams of the US Soil Conservation Service will speak. Governors Welsh and Kerner may attend along with Indiana senators Hartke and Bayh Jr. and other congressional representatives.
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Wabash Valley Association
Vigo County
WVA
Kermit Flesher
Charleston
Ill
Eastern Illinois University
Flesher
Wabash Valley
Wabash River
Don Williams
United States Soil Conservation Service
Washington, D. C
Matthew Welsh
Otto Kerner
Illinois
Congress
Vance Hartke
Birch E. Bayh Jr
Indiana
Urban Renewal Grants Announced for Michigan City
The Urban Renewal Administration awarded Michigan City Indiana grants totaling 145527 dollars on Monday February 13 as part of renewal funding.
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Washington
The
Urban Renewal Administration
Michigan City
Ind
Now You Know By United Press International
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest body of water on earth with an area of 63,801,668 square miles and an average depth of 14,048 feet.
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United Press International
Pacific Ocean
World Almanac
Betancourt Begins Fifth Year as Venezuela’s Leader
Caracas Feb 13 Betancourt marked his fifth year in office the longest tenure of any freely elected Venezuelan head of state. The ceremony highlighted his sustained leadership amid regional political shifts.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Romulo Betancourt
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