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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1956
Page
5
The Terre Haute Tribune and Gazette urges readers to call if a copy is missing by 7 p.m. and to contact specific departments by listed Crawford numbers. It notes telephone hours on Sundays and holidays and warns that unsolicited submissions are at owners risk with no guaranteed return.
Editorial urges readers to avoid gossip and rumors and to speak with accuracy about government, stressing trust in America and constructive criticism only when informed. It frames civic duty as prudent, informed conversation.
The Symington for president movement gains momentum within the Democratic party. Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri, a defense expert and chair of a Senate subcommittee on air defense, could emerge as a compromise nominee if Stevenson and Harriman falter in convention ballots. Republican defense spending clout fuels the campaign narrative.
Vigo County residents faced a 1955 tax total of about 54.69 million dollars with 40.38 million from federal taxes. Local property taxes reached 3.09 million. county state taxes 6.21 million, totaling 14.30 million for local and state levies. The Indiana chamber notes over 40 cents of every dollar goes to local units for schools and roads, urging trimming of nonessential spending.
A speaker cited Indiana’s tax burden and urged citizens to press lawmakers to reduce non essential federal spending. He noted the Hoover commission could save about 5.5 billion annually, with Indiana's share estimated at 132.5 million.
This piece argues excessive drinking harms the nation and calls alcoholism a disease. It notes rising beverage sales and stresses research improves causes and cures. It asserts alcoholics are sick but solvable, deserving help for their own welfare and public health. Society has a duty to assist and reform attitudes.
A humorous look at ailments of platter spinners and radio announcers. The piece cites the and nows and rathers as common conditions that affect disc jockeys more than listeners. It recalls a rainy evening when a turntable operator slipped into saying rather phrases. A listener expresses irritation at the overuse of the word rather.
The New York Daily Worker warns the Soviet leadership under Stalin is brutal and that Khrushchev’s speech omits crimes against Jewish culture. The paper argues the line has misled Communist readers and calls for candor about Stalinist rule.
Firefighters in Menominee Michigan ran out of water at a cheese factory blaze. A local idea to connect hoses to a large whey tank sufficed to snuff the flames. The tale ends with a pun about will and whey.
A long horoscope profile urges creative talent toward self expression and rest from tensions. It advises country living or weekend city getaways, notes independence and homemaking tendencies, and lists notable birthdays with Gemini through Taurus forecasts and a favorable note on artistic and real estate matters.
The Grab Bag asks what Peri are and who first crossed Greenland's ice cap. It also lists presidents defeated by Roosevelt, asks Syria's capital, and who founded St. Augustine. A horoscope-like note promises domestic happiness, material prosperity, and a loving child born under these influences.
Veteran actor Charles Coburn and band leader Guy Lombardo join film stars Pier Angeli Mildred Natwick and Blanche Yurka in celebrating birthdays, marking milestones for notable figures in theater and cinema.
1885 marks the Statue of Liberty arriving in the United States from France. In 1935 the United States Senate passed the Wagner Act establishing core labor rights. 1948 Russia halted all rail and road traffic between Berlin and the West German occupation zones.
A concise reflection on aligning words with deeds. The author urges plain speaking and prudent conduct, valuing honesty and straightforwardness over ornate phrasing.
The term precise means exactly defined or stated with strict accuracy and clarity. It traces to French precis from Latin praecisus cut off concise, with the sense of sharp, exact, and unambiguous.
The list mentions Oriental folklore shapeshifters, Fridtjof Nansen, Herbert Hoover, Alfred Landon, Wendell Willkie and Thomas Dewey, Damascus, and Pedro de Eviles Menendez with a 1565 date.
Marriage licenses issued Roy Roberts to Cleo Campbell Charles Hargrave to Louisa Ellis and Ora Crough to Dorothy Raidy. Otter Creek Alumni Association to hold officer election at Park Avenue Methodist Church Wednesday. Science Club meets Thursday at Normal School lab with Prof Henry L Combs speaking on electrical furnaces. Mexico recalls US forces. US officials weigh solution. Teuton forces push near Verdun. Retail Clerks Union Local 933 initiates class of 15 at C L U hall. Rotary Club Dalton B Shourds to discuss city planning at Hotel Deming. Mrs Mabel Curry returns from suffrage campaign. J L Jenkins and J R Rhoades of Terre Haute Auto Club go to Indianapolis for Speedway races. Mrs George Maier visiting Sullivan with Kansas City companion.
The world’s oceans contain pockets of fresh water supplied by springs fed by subterranean rivers. This underground input creates localized freshwater lenses in marine environments.
Walter Winchell surveys New York stages and screens with mixed notices. Shangri La draws fire from critics while New Faces of 56 shines, and TV dramas, films, and Broadway saloon buzz highlight actors, marriages, and industry scuttlebutt.
The excerpt notes 335000 Americans become physically handicapped yearly from accidents and disease, that more than a quart of each heartbeat’s blood travels through the kidneys, and that U S railroads purchase over 70000 commodities from timbers to toothpicks, while US families eat about 40 million loaves of bread daily.
Paris reports on the Billancourt studio production of Victor Hugo’s Notre Dame de Paris with Gina Lollobrigida as Esmerelda and Anthony Quinn as Quasimodo. Quinn explains his half-makeup look and weighted feet while Lollobrigida directs her own styling and makeup.
HAL BOYLE surveys reader items and trivia from Europe to America. Notes include marriage tests for brides, Twain quips, a sale of classical records, a $4000 undersea divining set, mini hearing aids as pins, porcupine damage in Oregon forests, a squirrel seeding acorns in a redwood, and Drake’s loot for Elizabeth I.
Dr. Herman Bundesen explains premenstrual tension causes nervous symptoms in many women. Water retention from salt balance, hormonal fluctuations, and cranial blood changes contribute to weight gain, mood swings, headaches, and cravings. Symptoms ease after menses begin, with multiple treatment options available.
Anxiety and worry are thought by some to be contributing causes for the heart condition known as coronary thrombosis. This is a disorder in which circulation to the heart muscle is blocked by a blood clot. However these things in themselves will not produce this disorder.
The film based on Hugo is directed by Jean Delannoy with production by Robert and Raymond Hakim for Allied Artists. Although shot in Paris, no Notre Dame cathedral scenes will be filmed because the Hugo story unfolds in the 15th century and Notre Dame’s major changes occurred by 1845.
The note states that the 1865 Notre Dame is not the same institution as the modern one, indicating a distinction in identity or history across periods.
Missoula Mont. jail custodian Angus McIver found a prisoner in the jail chair after an escape report. The stranger had been booked and convicted of prowling in Missoula City Hall.
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