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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1967
Page
2
The Terre Haute Tribune presents a quotation from Voltaire: I may disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it. The piece highlights the value of free expression in public discourse.
The piece questions why the executive State Department funds international travel by Chief Justice Warren and Justice Stewart. It argues the separate branches must remain free of influence and finds no justification for State to cover travel costs for Supreme Court members.
Postmaster General O'Brien proposes turning the postal service into a non profit federal corporation due to a projected 1.2 billion dollar net loss this year. He calls for prompt reform and a long range overhaul, including rate changes and a study of how to deliver better service.
A forthright critique condemns Fort Bragg officers for a deadly initiation ritual that led to the death of a paratrooper lieutenant. The piece notes champagne and vodka drinking in a GI bucket, the sobering coroner finding, and calls for preventing such sophomoric scenes as the Pentagon finally takes action.
John Daly, praised as a meticulous and fearless news custodian, is chosen to direct VOA operations. The piece notes his history with NBC News and Nixon’s 1959 TV appearance, detailing VOA’s vast reach of over 90 transmitters in 80 plus languages and a staff network serving thousands of stations worldwide.
Answers and clues cover history science and notable figures. Includes questions on Singapore Alaska Daniel Boone Raffles and Hoover with brief dubbed facts and quotes for fun.
HAL BOYLE offers playful, ironic challenges to beat boredom. Readers are urged to pursue forgotten youth dreams from modifying a horse to touring the Washington Monument with a St Bernard and swimming the English Channel underwater, promising front page fame.
The piece offers personality and career cautions for born individuals plus a rapid, humorous set of far fetched tasks and a call to turn daydreams into reality. It mixes zodiac signs Gemini through Aquarius with advice and playful, surreal exercises.
The Terre Haute Tribune details circulation by area, pricing for subscriptions including evenings and Sundays, and announces policy on unsolicited manuscripts and liability. The notice lists postal rates for Indiana and Illinois, rural routes, and outside areas with dates and addresses.
Tribunes staffers report a Prairieton flower rarity a red rose bush with a large white bloom. Local grandmothers Vera Dibble and Martha Lowry attend granddaughter Vera Lowry Warren’s Summa Cum Laude ISU graduation. Birthday and anniversary notices include Ron Pullen Bill Clay Martha Brown with a Jaycees director election Ken Field.
Walter Winchell surveys 1968 rent-control raises in New York with landlords declaring hardships. The column spoofs TV offers to Svetlana Stalin, Twiggy fashion, and a flood of entertainment gossip from Broadway to Hollywood, plus a UPI wire on a high altitude Mass by Air Force Chaplain Maj. Thielsen.
In Peterborough England 450 Fulbridge County School pupils were sent home after the headmaster and six teachers appeared in court on summonses for parking in no parking zones near the school.
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