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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1950
Page
6
A jury found 33 year old Viola Gayle guilty of first degree murder in a misdirected plot to poison her husband to marry Lawrence Nobles. The verdict, delivered after lengthy deliberation, carries a life sentence with no parole.
Terre Haute mourns the death of Mrs. William Canaday at her Vermilion Grove Illinois home Tuesday evening. She was the mother of Mrs. John Shirkie formerly of Terre Haute and leaves many local friends. Funeral services are set for 2:30 PM Friday at the Vermilion Grove residence.
Studebaker Corp and the CIO United Auto Workers announce a five year noncontributory pension plan covering 23 000 production employees. The plan guarantees 100 monthly pensions at 65 with 25 years service, or 4 monthly per year for 10 to 25 years, with early retirement optional to 68 and minimum 1 50 per month per year up to 30 years. Ratification by workers and stockholders required. Local 5 to vote Saturday, Jim D Hill says.
A lightning strike damaged a 250 barrel storage tank at Ohio Oil Company on the west edge of Bridgeport. A cloudburst flooded a quarter of the town to about three feet, spreading escaping oil and threatening further fires. Firemen fought to contain the tank site as damage was anticipated to be heavy in this 2000 resident city.
Guy and Mary Scielzo, a Manhattan couple, faced up to 20 years in prison after the father was convicted of first degree manslaughter for starving their three year old son Guy Jr to death. The mother pleaded guilty to the same charge, while a sister survived severe neglect. Sentencing set for July 12.
State and local officers dispersed a Lake Michigan beach party near Muskegon after reports of nude swimming and drinking by about 150 youths. Some 35 to 40 officers assisted. no arrests were made though two girls were injured in a nearby car mishap. Authorities planned an inquiry with Muskegon High School officials.
A three month old girl left with a Richmond couple by a hitchhiker last Sunday is in Wayne County welfare custody and to be placed in a boarding home. Authorities seek Samuel Gibson, 28, of Louisville, Ky., as the father, after Gibson failed to return for the child. Gibson has prior larceny convictions and a ten year desertion sentence from 1943.
Census figures show Vigo County up 5 222 with Riley down 39 and Sugar Creek township up 460 while West Terre Haute declines by 373. Mr Wallace cautions the counts may be revised after adjustments for non residents and routine checks before the Director of the Bureau of the Census, Washington, announces the official total.
The Committee for Economic Development projects the real income of the average American worker could double over 30 years if productivity per hour continues to rise at historical rates. It cites a goal of $2.66 per hour in 1980 (1949 dollars) versus $1.33 today, and urges policies to stabilize growth, raise output per hour, and boost investment.
Chicago mourns Jesse Binga an 85 year old once leading south side Black business figure who rose from bootblack to bank president and founder of Binga State Bank 1920 He died after a fall in his home and had earlier served three years in Joliet Penitentiary for embezzlement from the same bank.
Roanoke Virginia Frank L Turner solved a common feeding task by inventing a wearable kit that holds the bottle in an inverted position. The device also transforms into a storage carrier for powder diapers and a nursing bottle when not in use.
Mrs Katherine Edith Inman died at 2:15 on Tuesday at 2606 Washington Avenue. Service will be held at the Holiness church at Twentieth and Hulman streets at 2 p.m. Friday. Burial will be in Grandview Cemetery.
Harry David Smith aged 59 died suddenly Tuesday evening at his home 1811 South Fifth Street. He is survived by his widow Anne two daughters Mrs Martha Lou Sibert Gary and Mrs Mary Ann ter and Mrs C B Harold Terre Haute two grandchildren. Body taken to Callahan Funeral Home and friends may call after 4 pm today. Funeral at 2 pm Friday at Callahan Funeral Home with Rev Amos Mc Loughlin officiating. Burial in Calvary Cemetery.
Funeral services for George W Ball 59 who died Monday will be held Friday at 8:30 am at Callahan Funeral Home with a 9 am requiem mass at St Joseph s Church Burial follows in St Joseph s Cemetery Rosary at 7:30 pm Thursday at Callahan Chapel Terre Haute Elks Lodge to conduct memorial rites at 8 pm Thursday
A 48 year old resident died Tuesday afternoon. He is survived by a sister Mrs. J D Garrett of Henderson Kentucky. The body was taken to Green's Funeral Home.
John H Beltz aged 87 died Monday. Funeral services set for 2 30 PM Thursday at Zion Evangelical United Brethren Church with Rev E C Kunce officiating. Burial in Zion Cemetery. Body to be returned to R R 5 Marshall Wednesday morning from Moore Fu.
Paris residents report the death of DeLoss Doc Bussart aged 65 at Minneapolis Minnesota where he will be buried. A native of Edgar County he worked with an oil company at Spring Valley Minnesota for years. Survived by his widow a daughter two brothers Ed and Harry Bussart and a sister Mrs Ed Sunkel all in Paris.
Ida G Parrish aged 78 died Tuesday afternoon at Rush Parrish’s home east of Oliver Ill Funeral services are at 2 pm Thursday at Blume Funeral Home with burial in Forsythe Cemetery Surviving are Rush Parrish a sister Mrs Minnie Wright of Spokane Wash
Word has been received of the death of Mack Lawson of Cleveland Ohio a former Brazilian resident who died Saturday night from a cerebral hemorrhage He was a World War I veteran Surviving are the widow Mamie and a sister Mrs Osia Earley both of Cleveland Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon in Cleveland.
Isaac Bragg, formerly of Brazil, Ind, died early Sunday at his Alhambra California home. He is survived by his widow Nellie Hewes Bragg, formerly of Brazil. Services and burial will be in Alhambra.
A small tornado touched down on Jasper Indiana's south edge on June 14. It cut a one block wide path six blocks long, damaged trees, a Standard Oil bulk plant roof, and three houses. Othmar Jochim and Lenus Englehart families endured roof damage but were unhurt.
Two Stuck brothers Fred C. and Albert Jr. were jailed on kidnaping and rape charges after an assault victim identified Fred in a police line up. Fred admitted the crime and said he also beat her companion with a hammer on a lonely road near Indianapolis.
Carol E. Dooley 24 and two teens Michael Kelly 16 and James E. Chalfin 17 were brought back from Missouri after alleged murder in the bludgeon slaying of Indianapolis attorney Albert M. Thayer. Sheriff C. M. Davis paraded the trio to Hamilton Circuit Court where murder charges await formal processing.
Eye services offered with examinations and glasses fitted at a storefront on North 7th Street. Service notes show O-5032 as a reference code for the visit.
A grand jury may indict three suspects held on a state police affidavit after Thayer was found beaten near a lovers lane. Judge White and Prosecutor Campbell said the three would be charged, hours after the body was discovered and arrests in Springfield.
Five year old Beverly Jean Celli was in critical condition at St Margaret Hospital after reaching for her step father James Mygrants revolver on a dresser. Police say she climbed a chair as he and her grandmother were out. The gun discharged striking her in the abdomen and right lung. Mygrants, a truck driver, kept the weapon for long distance protection.
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