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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1952
Page
4
The Terre Haute Tribune and Gazette details call numbers for copies, service hours, and delivery options. It lists subscription rates for Evening and Sunday, Evening only, and rural routes, with office hours and mail classifications, noting second class matter status and post office registration.
The Tribune urges readers to avoid idle gossip and unfounded criticism, advocating faith in America and prudent discussion rather than baseless attacks on government or public figures. It condemns spreading rumors and stresses informed discourse.
The Regional Director of the U S Department of Labor warns employers about Federal wage and hour rules applying to under 16 year olds and under 18 in hazardous jobs. It outlines permissible farm or office work during school breaks, prohibits manufacturing work for under 16, and requires age certificates for workers under 19. Indiana certificates available from school officials, with enforcement by district Wage Hour offices.
Rev. Donald D. Roehl pastors Zion and Bad Route Creek Lutheran churches in sparse eastern Montana and flies between towns in a small plane. He recalls a 100 mile trip to a conference in 55 minutes, far faster and cheaper than driving, though maintenance at Fallon airport is scarce and his hangar is not yet built. He learned to fly in 1943 as an Army Air Corps cadet and graduated from the Illinois Seminary in 1951.
In 1946 he earned his private pilot’s license and plans wider travel to back country churches. Greater duties confirm flying as the key to bridging the large distances between his Fallon parsonage and parishioners.
Government chartmakers grow more optimistic about business prospects. They foresee an upturn in department store sales and a broader spending mood as controls ease. Saving has been high, yet relaxation of credit, wage increases, and looser controls are expected to spur buying while inflation remains unlikely without a new international crisis.
Operation Hedgerow led by Dr William Cowgill at Finca Chocola aims to double Guatemala’s coffee yields. The program, active since 1946 with U S and Guatemalan scientists, uses hedgerows and legume rotations to boost production, expand to other Central American nations, and possibly end the era of shade-grown, irregular spacing.
Historical notes from Terre Haute recount moved residents, visits, and local events. Dr. and Mrs. R. F. Wilcox relocate to 2128 South Center street while Ernest Knefler visits Jenckes family. The Terre Haute Motorcycle Club plans a Shades of Death ride with about 25 cyclists. Teachers sign payroll at the Terre Haute National Bank, paid until Sept. 21. A child, Chester Lafferty, is injured in a street car fall. Bank deposits total 12,713,548.44 across eight banks. Mary Beach travels to Tryon, North Carolina for several weeks with relatives. Eleanor and Stephen Young Hord leave for Lake Maxinkuckee. Wiley High School summer session starts in eight weeks. County commissioners inspect bridges in Nevins township and review the Parke Vigo line road.
Cornell University offers a Georgian language course for airmen, presenting the obscure Caucasian tongue with its graceful script. The piece notes the difficulty of mastering Georgian, contrasting it with European languages and citing Ennius's remark on knowing multiple tongues as a sign of broader humanity.
United Press notes Mary Castle questions why red hair makes women think men with red hair are less sexy. She cites Cleopatra and Lucrezia Borgia as historic redheads, names Rita Hayworth and others as current beauties, and says modern science debunks the temper stereotype. Also mentions laundering blues fading and fluorescent dyes brightening whites.
Mountainous Switzerland, landlocked and without a navy, has a rapidly expanding merchant fleet operating from foreign ports. The Swiss merchant marine lists 27 ships from 440 to 14,500 tons, with nine more to join by mid 1953.
With depreciated currency, American tourists enjoy bargains in England as rail travel costs less than two cents a mile. Reservations on the best trains are around 14 cents, and a full course dinner runs under one dollar.
The Automobile Club of New York reports a 300 percent increase in pedestrian deaths during dark hours even as road traffic declines, highlighting safety concerns for nighttime pedestrians.
Paris reports Moscow ordered its Communist networks to adopt a tougher line and intensify agitation, with mass demonstrations and strikes in France, Germany, Italy, and Japan. The Paris and Essen riots sparked propaganda by martyrs, while the Pinay government holds rising support to combat Communist activity.
A collection of curious historical notes including government staffing for Native Americans, winter birds in Guatemala, Grant's public addresses, Jefferson and culinary introductions, sawdust feed experiments, the 1759 Battle of Quebec, infantile paralysis age ranges, Greenland ice thickness, Paul Revere’s age, Ireland’s linen bloom in 1210, 1857 street railways in Philadelphia and Boston, the Rhone’s rapid current, two magpies superstition, birth origins, J B Dunlop’s pneumatic tire, Venezuela’s petroleum rank, the safety pin invention in 1849, migratory voyages by marine animals, and the Franklin D Roosevelt highway in Chile.
The June 7 horoscope outlines personality traits for day to day life and social success, noting positivity, intuition, and charm. It then gives daily prompts for each zodiac sign from Gemini to Taurus plus a closing line about sharing confidences, distributed by United Features Syndicate.
Questions ask which state is named for red minerals, who delivered the Seven Ages of Man speech, where St Paul died, which bearded horned sculpture in Vatican, and whether Bombay lies on India’s eastern or western coast.
George Szell conductor Alexander de Seversky Jessica Tandy Bobby Avila Rocky Graziano are due for birthday felicitations. On Sunday June 8 noted architect Frank Lloyd Wright and Del Ennis big league baseball player receive birthday wishes.
The list notes key events and figures across eras: 632 A D Mohammed died, founder of Islam. 1778 Beau Brummell born. 1937 Jean Harlow died. 1944 Allied capture of Bayeux. 1909 New York first authorized paper money. 1939 F D Roosevelt and King George VI pledged friendship at a Washington state dinner.
Control your patience and temper even when tried and things should work out satisfactorily. Success is predicted for the newly started year. A keen love of learning is shown for a child born today, with an energetic, quick and ambitious character. For Sunday, June 8 good fortune comes from your industry and unexpected help.
The entry explains Nether as situated down or below, meaning lower. It traces origin to Anglo Saxon nithera from the adverbs nither and nithor indicating downward movement.
A brief aphorism attributed to Jacques de La Fontaine notes that true skill is revealed through completed craft and sustained effort. The saying emphasizes humility and recognition of labor in achievement.
A concise trivia-style prompt listing five clues and a final wordplay theme. Colorado meaning ed, Jacques in As You Like It and William Shakespeare, Rome, Michelangelo's Moses, and Western. The item invites solving a mixed set of clues.
The piece argues drug addiction is a disease needing treatment not punishment. It notes 17 to 25 year olds form most addicts, with about 55 000 in the US and a growing risk of spread. It urges compassionate care, courtly intervention, and broad education by parents teachers physicians churches and schools to curb the epidemic.
NEW HOPE Miss The all day singing and dinner on the ground have faded as a southern cultural tradition. Fewer singers, mostly elders, recall past gatherings while youth drift to jazz and rock. Sacred harp music, once communal and storied, now seems a lost art to many.
United Press reports a Georgia Hickory Head community trial named Operation Insect to prove insecticide use can reduce corn losses. One hundred one local farms cooperate as debris is cleared and bins fumigated, then at harvest powdered pyrenone grain protectorant will treat about 4500 acres to keep pests out of storage. Results expected by December and compared with nearby untreated cribs to gauge effectiveness. If successful, similar tests may spread nationwide.
Holland township firefighters ran out of gasoline on the way to a blaze and, luckily, stopped near a filling station to refuel before continuing to the scene.
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