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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1955
Page
14
In Belgrade soon after liberation, a five piece band plays Dixieland with piano drums brass and clarinet. The young musicians wear casual clothing and ponytails while the crowd, both girls and boys, smoke as smoking is forbidden. The band leader stamps the floor to keep rhythm.
Eight drivers with a local trucking firm adopt grey denim Bermuda shorts with a green side stripe. Driver E. L. Walden says cookie-cutter fashion earns compliments from truck stop waitresses from here to Chattanooga.
A crowded Balkan night features youths dancing to blues and New Orleans rhythms including Muskrat Ramble and Sweet Sue. Dancers swirl in hip high skirts as the band shifts tempo amid applause and a sly quip about Yugoslavia and Moscow. Sold via Want Ads in C-1531.
Montreal reports Canadian inventor Guy Roberge unveils a ceiling bed hoist to move beds to attic space by pulleys. The former lieutenant colonel explains smaller houses reduce wasted space and costs, with patents pending in Ottawa and Washington.
Police halted Charles H. Turner, 22, of Moberly Missouri after his truck sat stalled in a Petersburg intersection. Turner claimed he was waiting for a light that did not exist and was fined 100 dollars and sentenced to 30 days in jail for drunk driving.
Adam Hill of West Terre Haute through Perry Douglas and Otis Cook files suit against William C. Jackson at 320 Olive Street alleging negligence in a Nov 8 1954 collision on Ninth Street and Mulberry Street. Hill says he was hit when a northbound car turned left, injuring his left hand shoulder and back.
The Terre Haute Section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers will hold its final meeting of the 1954 1955 season on Tuesday.
June 14 meeting at 8 p m in the Commercial Solvents Corporation Research Seminar Room features Fred A. Meers of Dow Corning as speaker on The Use of Silicones in Modern Industries. A color film What's a Silicone? will be shown. Refreshments are provided by Commercial Solvents Corporation and the group will adjourn to a different location after the formal gathering.
The Vigo County 4H Junior Leaders host a public square dance at 8 p.m. Friday at Blackhawk High School. Lyle Hutson says Bob Stanton of Seelyville will call and provide music. Co chairs are Sondra Singhorse and Gordon Thompson. The United States imported 17 700 000 tons of iron ore in 1954.
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