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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1968
Page
5
The passage surveys rural morality and modern temptations. It contrasts Mr Boyle and traveling salesmen with farm life, defines an intellectual by reading, and notes the absence of jukeboxes and neon signs across the land, painting a stark, nostalgic portrait.
The piece notes the Kennedy assassination aftermath with Rosie Grier Rafer Johnson and L A police protecting Sirhan Sirhan after the Robert Kennedy shooting. It discusses death penalty hurdles at San Quentin Mayor Yorty’s diary hints and the long legal fight ahead. It contrasts public mood with cautious, fair trial expectations.
An old ad urges readers to wake up peristalsis with Carter's Pills to combat irregularity and discomfort. It touts a unique laxative formula, teary relief, and claims millions of satisfied users, priced at 49 cents.
The piece notes those who claimed not to have seen Ruby’s act may have hidden near a lead mine. It suggests Oswald and Sirhan trials could draw testimony from high profile figures like the President’s widow and Gov. Connally, highlighting the emotional toll on witnesses.
Paris reports thousands of strikers resume work led by 65000 Renault employees who approved a union settlement. About 10000 at Savin Lyon truck plant and 30000 shipyard workers in Saint Nazaire Bordeaux and La Seyne also returned, leaving under 250000 of ten million still out. Government radio TV holdouts rejected minister Guena's proposals for a commission. premier Pompidou to address nation amid election campaigning. The passage notes Woolworths first 5 and 10 store opened February 22 1879 in Utica New York.
INDIANAPOLIS AP The 26 member delegation to the Republican national convention was filled Monday night in district caucuses of state convention delegates. An equal number of alternates were chosen. The delegation is bound to support Richard M Nixon on the first ballot at the August convention. Nixon ran unopposed in the May 7 GOP primary. The state committee named four delegates and four alternates with each district receiving two delegates and two alternates. At large delegates include State Chairman Buena Chaney Terre Haute Vice Chairman Esther Guthridge Fowler National Committeeman Walter R Beardsley Elkhart and National Committeewoman Cecil Harden Covington. Alternates at large are Harold P Ransburg Indianapolis Richard Fishering Fort Wayne Kenneth Biddle Sheridan and Phil W McCauley Madison. Delegates and alternates listed by district include Munster Schererville Gary Rensselaer Lafayette South Bend Fort Wayne Peru Indianapolis and other cities with place and names. The slate includes Richard Lugar Indianapolis and others.
In a contract bridge column, Becker discusses reading opponents to locate the queen of clubs. He outlines a line: cash A-K of trumps, A-K of spades, ruff a spade, reenter dummy, and ruff last spade. West's distribution then forces a single club to control the suit.
Conservation Officer Charles Shannon invites pond and lake owners to a Riley Conservation Club meeting Thursday night June 20 to hear weed control methods and other problems. State Biologist Robert Hollingsworth will speak and lead a question and answer period.
Robert L. Holibaugh executive vice president of Local Reader Service Terre Haute will address the National Circulation Symposium in New York at the Waldorf Astoria. The event gathers publishers circulation ideas technology and methods with sessions on agency subscription sales computerization direct mail newsstand sales and marketing. Local Readers Service founded 1959, Holibaugh named EVP in 1965, aiding nationwide circulation sales.
Dr. D. David Hancock was named superintendent of the western district of the Indiana Southern Conference at the 140th Conference in Indianapolis. Dr. K. K. Merryman was named superintendent for the eastern district with headquarters in Indianapolis and Dr. Charles F. Stanton for the southern district at New Albany.
Gail A. Wey, a former Republican candidate for Vigo Circuit Court clerk, filed expenses totaling 738.24 related to the May primary. Wey serves as manager of the Terre Haute Sewage Disposal Plant.
In Washington the Poor People's Campaign leaders, including Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, sought access to government agencies as demonstrators fanned out to three offices and a mule train prepared for Solidarity Day. Agencies denied visits without appointments while others refused meetings. Welfare mothers protested at HEW when Rep. Mills failed to appear to discuss aid limits.
Chapter 9 of the Disabled American Veterans at 300 North 9th Street will hold an officers election at 8 p.m. on Wednesday June 19. Commander Frank Metcalf urges all members to attend.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a gun registration ordinance 7-3 requiring registration of all firearms sold or transferred within the city. A $2 fee accompanies a receipt, violators face up to 500 dollars fine and six months in jail, plus weapon confiscation. Mayor Alioto urged immediate enactment after the Kennedy assassination, with over 300 firearms already turned in.
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