Vigo County Fair Offers Wide Range of Monday Events
The Vigo County Fair's second day features the 4-H Beef Show and Western Horse Show, plus a cooking contest, turtle races, watermelon eating contest, and a motorcycle rodeo. Open class beef, princess Teresa Lynn Robinson, Cal Smith, Crystal Gayle, and Nat Stuckey appear. fair runs through Friday July 30 with daily activities.
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Wayne Perry
Wabash Valley Fairgrounds
Vigo County
Cal Smith
Crystal Gayle
Nat Stuckey
Wthi Radio
Teresa Lynn Robinson
South Vigo
Indiana State University
Laddie
Fairgrounds
Teresa Robinson
Cindy Jeffers
Weather Forecast for Terre Haute Area
The National Weather Service reports fair and mild conditions this afternoon with upper 60s to around 70 degrees. Tuesday brings mostly cloudy skies and a chance of showers and thunderstorms with highs near 90. The extended outlook calls for hot midweek, cooler Friday, and a chance of thundershowers around Thursday or Friday with highs in the 90s then 80s.
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National Weather Service
Srissersnees
Terre Haute
Heavy Schedule on Senate and House Agenda This Week
Senators and representatives face a packed week with taxes crime control clean air and postal finances on the docket. House action includes a mine safety bill and a public meetings measure. Senate extends LEAA five years amid criticism while debating Clean Air Act amendments and a postal commission plan.
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House
Senate
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
LEAA
Commission
Congress
U.S
Interior Department
Department of Labor
Securities and Exchange Commission
The
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Communications Commission
Federal Power Commission
White House Shooting Leaves Police Puzzled
A White House guard fatally shot Chester M. Plummer after he scaled the fence and brandished a three foot pipe. Police and Secret Service noted unknown motive and no clear security failure at the perimeter.
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Washington
White House
Chester M. Plummer
Executive Protective Service
Charles A. Garland
Plummer
Pennsylvania Avenue
Secret Service
Jack Warner
Judge Strikes Down Indiana Death Penalty Law
Monroe Superior Court Judge James Dixon struck down Indiana’s death penalty statute in a kidnap murder case involving Ernest Bell James Pollard and Harold Brown from Evansville. He said the law resembled recently voided U S Supreme Court statutes and failed constitutional standards set by other states.
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Bloomington, Ind
UPI
Indiana
Monroe
James Dixon
Evansville
Dixon
U. S. Supreme Court
North Carolina
Louisiana
Florida
Georgia
Texas
Ernest Bell
James Pollard
Harold Brown
Five Suspects Sought in Chowchilla School Bus Kidnaping
Investigators say as many as five may have been involved in the Chowchilla abduction of 26 children and a driver. One man jailed, two sought, two more possible named. warrants issued for Frederick Woods IV and James Schoenfeld. FBI credits possible additional mastermind as the case widens.
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Chowchilla
Calif
Associated Press
Livermore
Madera
Ed Bates
Frederick N. Woods IV
James L. Schoenfeld
Woods
Schoenfeld
Richard
Alameda County
Mississippi Delegation Remains Uncommitted in GOP Race
The Mississippi 30 uncommitted Republican delegates reaffirmed bloc voting with no clear candidate. Ford leads with 1,096 to Reagan 1,024. 138 delegates remain uncommitted as campaign lobbies intensify ahead of the convention.
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Associated Press
Mississippi
Ford
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Jimmy Carter
Walter F. Mondale
Plains
White House
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Ron Nelsen
Carter
Time Magazine
John Tower
R-Tex
Tower
Los Angeles
U.S
Richard S. Schweiker
Ordinance Aims Equal Firemen Pay With Police 1977
Terre Haute council to hold a second special meeting to consider a 1977 pay equalization ordinance for firemen and police. Five council members signed the call as they seek a $100 extra raise for firemen, amid back pay lawsuits and 125 signed releases.
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Terre Haute
William J. Brighton
John S
Pete’’ Lamb
Police
Fire Department
Brighton
First District
Pete Chales
Fourth District
Jack Neuderhiser
Fifth District
Kenneth Thomas
Larry Kirchner
Thomas Lenahan
Kirchner
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Oklahoma
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GOP
Schweiker
Colleens. Sims Tribune
Chales
the Country Parson
Frank Clark
Pa Regier
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