Proposal Calls For Status Quo In city's Crisis
Assistant Secretary of State Andrew Berding calls a secret Soviet offer to extend Western rights in West Berlin for a year unacceptable. He accuses Moscow of trying to force a breakdown of the Big Four talks by proposing a 12 month status quo and a pathway to East German unification under Communist control. Gromyko reportedly made the oral proposal to the Western Big Three.
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Geneva
UPI
Andrew Berding
West Berlin
Berding
Big Four
Berlin
West Germany
East Germany
Andrei Gromyko
Gromyko
Christian Herter
Selwyn Lloyd
Maurice Couve de Mur
Court Grants Starkweather Execution Stay
Supreme Court Justice Whitaker grants a stay of execution for Charles Starkweather in Lincoln Nebraska, until the High Court rules on his appeal. Deadline set for petition by June 17. automatic stay termination possible if no petition is filed or if certiorari is denied. Starkweather, convicted of 11 murders, faced execution at 12:01 a.m. Friday, marking his fourth postponement.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Charles FE. Whitaker
Charles Starkweather
Lincoln
Neb
Starkweather
Whitaker
Nebraska
Atty
C. S. Beck
U. S. Supreme Court
Beck
Weather Map and Local Conditions Update
The Weather Bureau report shows Sul River at 3.6 feet and falling. Yesterday’s high 85 and low 67 with 0.02 inches of precipitation. Local conditions note sunrise at 5 23 and noon map details on page 10.
Terre Haute Weather Outlook With Showers Tonight
Partly cloudy with scattered showers tonight in Terre Haute and vicinity. Lows around 68. Thursday remains partly cloudy and warm with highs near 9. Indiana shows showers and thundershowers this afternoon and tonight, with warmer conditions Thursday. Illinois expects partly cloudy skies tonight and Thursday, with a chance of thundershowers in the northwest. Lows 66 to 72, temperatures near 71 to 76 on the street thermometer.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Illinois
FBI Nabs Six in Chicago Con Game Targeting Convention Delegates
Six members of a check tampering and confidence game gang were arrested in Chicago after allegedly bilking convention delegates of over 250000. The gang lured visitors from Loop motels to West Side taverns, cashing 240000 in checks and processing another 40000 in checks that did not clear. Indictments charged use of the mails to defraud and interstate transportation of checks.
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Chicago
FBI
Richard D. Auerbach
U. S. Atty
Paul D. Keller
David Doran
West Side
James T. Korbos
Julius Grieco
Amedeo di Domenico
Nate Schulman
Ogden Huddle
Ogden
Kedzie
Dominick Abbrescia
Tavern
Sevnth
Alec Harris
Miami Beach
Fla
Police Patrolman Finds Burglar Returning Home
San Francisco report notes Patrolman Joseph Ryan granted leave from his boat to deliver a package. He then recovered a burglar found ransacking his residence and brought the intruder to custody.
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San Francisco
Joseph Ryan
Aluminum Workers win Anaconda plant union election
The Aluminum Workers of America won the right to bargain for the Anaconda Aluminum Co. plant's 200 plus employees in a runoff election over the United Steelworkers by 113 to 92. The result awaits NLRB certification within 10 days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aluminum Workers of America, International Union
Anaconda Aluminum Co
Aluminum Workers
United Steelworkers of America
National Labor Relations Board
Aluminum Union
Steelworkers
Patrick J. Reilly
Anaconda
William H. “Pat” Williams
Williams
Flood Control Group Tours Mansfield Dam Project
Indiana flood officials led by Anton Hulman Jr visit Mansfield Dam and reservoir construction near Turkey Run State Park to review water resources surveys and hear from Army Engineers. Brig Gen W W Lapsley and Col Charles Noble spoke at lunch as projection completion moves to February with a possible spring fill. New directors Herschel Cheek and Mayor Major Bailey joined the Wabash Valley Association as membership plans and research reports were discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Potisek
Turkey Run State Park
Turkey Run Inn
Wabash Valley
Mansfield
Anton Hulman Jr
Indiana Flood Control and Water Resources Commission
W. W. Lapsley
Cincinnati
Army Engineering Corps
Ohio Valley Division
Charles C. Noble
Louisville
Robert D. Walker
Army Corps of Engineers
Walker
Hulman
U. S
House of Representatives Appropriations Committee
Wabash Valley Associaton
University Research Advisory Committee
Herschel Cheek
RR 2
Clinton
Major Bailey
Albion
Girl 10 Seriously Shot At Robinson Ill
Ten year old Brenda Kibler, daughter of Delbert Kibler, was accidentally shot and seriously wounded while visiting relatives in Robinson Illinois. The bullet entered below the right shoulder and lodged beneath the left shoulder blade after Phillip Catt, 12, found a .32 revolver and tried to show it to her. She remained in serious condition at Schmidt Clinic.
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Schmidt Clinic
Hunt Owner of 37 Slot Machines
Uph Henry County authorities seek to establish ownership of 37 slot machines seized at a New Castle storage firm on a tip. Sheriff Warren Davis says records show the machines, described as one armed bandits, belonged to a Muncie fraternal organization and had been stored for years. The seizure brings total machines seized in the past week to 46 as Prosecutor Dwight Beckner says ownership will be established before charges are filed.
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New Castle
Ind
Uph
Henry County
Warren Davis
Muncie
Dwight Beckner
Heat triggers five alarm fire at Brooklyn factory
A 91 degree day in New York sparked a five alarm blaze that gutted a Brooklyn factory making rubberized cloth and damaged four other buildings. Fire Marshal Martin Scott said the heat likely caused an explosion of fumes inside the plant.
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New York
Brooklyn
Martin Scott
U S Jobless Ranks Down By 238000
May employment rose to a record 66 016 000 with unemployment falling 238 000 to 3 389 000 the lowest in 18 months. Government cites factory recalls and a large rise in non farm jobs as key factors. Average weekly earnings hit 90 32 and the work week grew to 40 5 hours.
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Washington
Lewis L. Strauss
James P. Mitchell
Erhard and Adenauer Fail to End Rift in Berlin Ties
Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard and Konrad Adenauer failed to settle their quarrel over Adenauer's insistence on remaining chancellor after a private hour and 45 minute talk. A full meeting of 271 Christian Democratic members will continue the discussion later today.
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Bonn
Germany
Ludwig Erhard
Konrad Adenauer
Adenauer
Christian Democratic Party
Christian Democratic
West Germany
Erhard
United States
Washington
Garfield High School 47th Commencement Tonight
143 Garfield seniors receive diplomas at 8 p.m. in the Student Union Building Indiana State Teachers College. Awards will be announced during the program. Processional by the orchestra, pledge, invocation, choir performance, saxophone solo, and student speakers plus a choral group are planned.
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Garfield
Garfield High School
Indiana State Teachers
Ed Berry
America
Stephen Fisher
Abraham Lincoln
Barbara Martin
Clara Barton
Don Scott
George Washington Carver
Elsie McGlosson
Albert Schweitzer
Zianna Berglund
Molly Alkire
Susan
Probers Set To Quiz Elusive Pittsburgh Pair
The Senate Rackets Committee widens its probe of Lake County gambling and prostitution to Pittsburgh. Two Pennsylvania witnesses John La Rocca and Gabriel Mannarino will be questioned about connections to Chicago mob presence and past underworld events. Kennedy says they attended a 1957 Apalachin convention and may illuminate related rackets.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Lake County
Ind
Pittsburgh
Robert F. Kennedy
Pennsylvania
John la Rocca
Gabriel Mannarino
Chicago
Tony Pinelli
Kennedy
la Rocca
Apalachin
N. Y
Pinelli
Gary
Evansville Planning Funds Granted for Regional Plan
Washington June 10 The Urban Renewal Administration approved a 15970 federal grant to the Evansville Vanderburgh Regional Plan Commission Indiana. The money will fund a plan for developing the Evansville Vanderburgh county metropolitan area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Urban Renewal Administration
Evansville- Vanderburgh
Woman Held Up In Liquor Store on Eighth Avenue
An armed robber described as tall and slender robbed the Eighth Avenue Liquor Store at Thirteenth Street and Lafayette Avenue of about $60 shortly after noon Wednesday. The victim, Mrs. Etta Formola, said the man forced her into a rear restroom and warned her not to cry out before fleeing on foot.
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Eighth Avenue
Thirteenth Street
Lafayette Avenue
Etta Formola
Five Selected For New Board In City Redevelopment
The Terre Town board of trustees chose five commissioners for the Department of Redevelopment. They are John Curry of Webber-Curry architects Rt Rev Herbert F Winterhalter Gilbert Bosworth Morris Landsbaum and Herbert Patterson. Trustee George Clements resigned for not meeting residence requirements and a vacancy will be filled by the Common Council.
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City Department of Redevelopment
John Curry
Weber-Curry Architects
Herbert F. Winterhalter
Gilbert Bosworth
Operating Engineers Union
Morris Landsbaum
Herbert Patterson
Crawford-White, Inc
George Clements
Leonard Marshall
Common Council
Marshall
Louis Phipps
Raymond Kearns
Harold Harrison
Department of Redevelopment
The
Clements
Terre Town
FBI reports fall in murders and robberies in early 1959
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover notes an encouraging drop in murders and robberies for January to March 1959 but cautions the overall city crime rate dipped less than one percent from 1958. Auto thefts, robberies and aggravated assaults show varied shifts while burglaries and large-larceny rise slightly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPD
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
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St Har
Carey
Terre Haute Personnel Club
American Society For Personnel Administration
Hotel Deming
Joe G. Bushur
Paul L. Moore
East Lansing
Mich
ASPA
William M. Grimes
Personnel Club
Chamber of Commerce
Bushur
L. M. Todd
Moore
Marjorie Beckwith
U S. Weather Bureau
Sul
AWA
Mansfield Dam
Robinson
Hunt
U.S
Ninth
Ohio Streets
Frank Casteel
Forrest Everhart
Tallahassee
William P. Joyce
Florida
W. May Walker
Florida A&m
Wilson Col
Probers
Giancana
Sam (Mooney) Giancana
John Formosa
Evansville
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