21 Jun 1969
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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1969
Page
1
A Mineweld Company of Indiana fire at 1339 N 13th St caused about 10000 dollars in damage. One employee, Steve Auten, suffered second and third degree burns over 45 percent of his body and was hospitalized in fair condition.
In the Central Highlands South Vietnamese and North Vietnamese forces clash around Dak To and Ben Het. Reports state 60 North Vietnamese and 31 government troops killed in four fights amid artillery sieges and shelling from across Cambodia and Laos. More than 400 South Vietnamese troops have died and about 2,000 wounded since May 1 as observers call the battle around Dak To a potential turning point.
Reports say South Vietnam weighs a postwar election commission including the Viet Cong. Renewed Central Highlands fighting tests South Vietnamese forces against North Vietnamese regulars. Rockefeller heads to Punta del Este bypassing protests in Montevideo. Abernathy is arrested after hospital worker clashes in Charleston. Pamela Agnew wed in Towson as Nixon attends. Black Panther warns SDS at national convention in Chicago. Kuharich resigns as State Farm chief to take Wayne County Jail post in Detroit.
Prisoners briefly took over a cell block at the Minnesota State Reformatory in St. Cloud Friday night. They set fire to office furnishings and rifled a narcotics cabinet before smoke forced about 150 insurgents to surrender, according to Superintendent W. F. McRae.
Metzger state director of the Indiana Council of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency criticized Indiana’s criminal justice system in a speech at a labor sponsored institute near the U. S. Penitentiary. He urged new programs to uncover true crime patterns and to inform communities, arguing media coverage currently shapes public views. Continued on page 2 column 4.
The FAA will hold a general aviation accident prevention seminar June 23-24 in Terre Haute in observance of General Aviation Month Indiana. Sessions cover weather related accidents takeoff and landing safety and pilot techniques with FAA Lancers and an air traffic control van. The event is part of a two year regional program and is free to the public.
The Weather Bureau anticipates increasing cloudiness and warmer conditions tonight with a chance of rain by Sunday morning. Sunday brings cloudy skies with a chance of showers or thundershowers and highs in the 70s to low 80s. River stage stands at 5.4 feet and falling. Local conditions show yesterday’s high 75 and low 49 with no precipitation.
Senate negotiators push to curb Pentagon buys of Safeguard ABMs next year while blocking deployment at Montana and North Dakota sites until Congress approves. The committee also backs a U S Soviet mutual MIRV testing halt and deployment pause as part of a broader military procurement bill.
During food shortages the ribbon worm can live for over a year on its own tissues, its body shrinking to one twentieth of its former size during that period.
UPI reports Rep. Lee Hamilton condemns power politics in Indiana's vocational education dispute. Wells, as chair of the Indiana Vocational Technical Education Board, seeks to abolish the state’s vocational college. Bayh Brademas clash over federal funds and Wells’ control. Hamilton backs open procedures and will ask OEO to scrutinize Indiana’s 1970 program.
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller avoided downtown Montevideo amid demonstrations and shootings during a Latin America factfinding trip for President Nixon. He traveled to Punta del Este for a meeting with Uruguayan President Jorge Pacheco Areco while police and troops restrained protests over austerity and U.S. interests.
A year in jail, the longest sentence yet for demonstrators at San Francisco State College, was handed down Friday by Municipal Court Judge Fitz Gerald Ames to Larry Larson, 28, and Susan Bethel, 25.
A wry note on consumer temptations in sales and how appeal fades after the bill arrives. The piece reflects on shifting value as months pass and costs become clear.
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