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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1957
Page
8
Advertisements offer in home preschool care and weekly or vacation care with references. Diner specials include fried chicken and 24 hour service at Bertha's Dinette. Beauty shops advertise styling, permanents, and walk ins with shop addresses and closure dates.
A crowded classifieds page lists multiple lost pets including Perry the green yellow parakeet and dogs named Nickie Sonny Boy and Lady, plus several purses and billfolds with rewards. Job ads invite women to medical office assistance training and motel apartment management careers. Military service entry noted for Indiana National Guard.
Classified ad seeks a qualified man aged 21 to 35 to manage daytime service operations. Vehicle required. No door to door selling. Call L-0671 between 1 and 8 pm for appointment. Include reference and salary expectations in handwritten reply to Star.
Mayflower replica draws about 1 000 visitors as crowd size shrinks from Thursday’s arrival. Volunteers guard access while 92 chests of British goods valued at 200000 dollars are unloaded for American stores. Indian Day features Native groups and a Pilgrims progress reenactment planned for Sunday with 50 locals in period costumes.
Twenty eight local Terre Haute men will leave for Indianapolis on June 20 for induction or pre induction physical examinations for the armed services, according to the Vigo County Selective Service office. Six men will be inducted next Thursday: Carl W. Riggs, Floyd R. Elliott, Richard John Swain, Paul Eugene Cannon, Elmer Richard Holloway, Benny Ray Price.
In Vipiteno Italy on June 15 two rescue groups hunted for 26 year old American student Robert M Bear of Danville Kentucky a University of Innsbruck student who began a solo ski expedition eight days earlier leaving Vipiteno on June 7.
Hog prices declined for the first time in six weeks with No 1 and 2 210 lb butchers at 20.40 and most 190-225 lb lots at 19.75-20.25. Cattle prices were uneven with steers steady to higher and stockers steady. prime 1,150 lb steers sold around 26.50-27.25. Sheep lambs and dressed lamb prices varied with lambs 18.50-25.00, carcass prices in New York and Chicago lower.
Local markets show steady prices with hogs mixed by weight and grade. No. 1 hogs largely 19.00 to 20.00 for 190-230 pounds, while sows bring 13.50 to 16.50. butcher hogs around 300 pounds 17.00 to 18.00. Poultry prices list Grade A large eggs at 25 cents, hens around 13 cents. Grain values include Wheat 1.81, Corn yellow ear 1.20, yellow shell 1.22, Soybeans 2.17 for yellow varieties.
A notice to Terre Haute real estate owners announces a petition for bonds to finance a main sewer along Harding Avenue to Wheeler Avenue and 11th Street. Special Ordinance No. 10, 1957 sets 250000 dollars in bonds at up to 4 percent interest over about twenty years beginning 1958, with hearings June 18, 1957.
City of Terre Haute Board of Park Commissioners invites sealed bids for the complete renovation of the Municipal Swimming Pool at Booker T Washington Park. Work includes masonry, locker and shower facilities, lighting, filtration and chlorination, and related equipment. Bids due June 21 1957 with plans required. State Board of Health approval governs contracts.
Public notice invites sealed bids for school desks at Fayette Consolidated School New Goshen Indiana with 10 percent bid security. Bids due by 8 00 P M June 26 1957. bids must follow state board forms and may be rejected. Also notices of additional appropriations for Poor Relief and School Fund to be discussed June 26 1957 at 8 00 P M with taxpayers allowed to be heard.
Experienced boys wanted to caddy on Wednesday June 19 at the Terre Haute Country Club. Register by calling the club to confirm participation.
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