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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1969
Page
2
Obituaries list Fred P. Roberts 76 of Seelyville and Alice J. Holt 44 of Terre Haute with survivors, services, and burial details. Also listed are Herbert H. Willy and Rex Critchlow with family relations, service times, and burial plans.
Police hunt for forged police identification cards traced to a printing shop inside a local prison. The report names Mrs. Geraldine McLin Terre Haute and Miss Ruby Critchlow Indianapolis among those connected, with other relatives listed. Funeral notices follow for several Terre Haute area residents, detailing services, cemeteries and survivors.
Earl Warren ends a 16 year tenure as chief justice and 50 years of public service. Judge Warren E Burger succeeds him as head of the high court.
In Better Late Feast, England, eight restaurant employees were forced into the wine cellar by armed robbers who waited over 30 minutes for Assistant Manager Alan Gadson with a cash box containing 2400 pounds. Gadson arrived late after oversleeping and vehicle trouble, then rode a bus to work.
The deceased was taken to Watson Funeral Home where services are planned for 2 30 p m Tuesday at Newport Methodist Church with burial to follow.
Beach California two brothers Malcolm Jasonville Rex Bloomington services 2 p.m. Tuesday at New Kirk Funeral Home burial Fairview Cemetery Linton callers welcome. Spencer Eathel Bolinger 82 Spencer died at home survivors include widow son two sisters a brother five grandchildren six great grandchildren services 2 p.m. Tuesday Schoppenhorst Funeral Home Clay City burial Riverside Cemetery Spencer. Westfield Theron H Gable 55 Chicago formerly Westfield died in Billings Hospital Chicago survivors daughter Judith Biersack brother Donald three grandchildren services 2 p.m. CDT Tuesday Markwell Westfield Chapel burial Whetstone Cemetery. Masonic Memorial services 8 p.m. Monday at home.
Rep William Henry Bates of Massachusetts, top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee and nuclear Navy advocate, died of stomach cancer at Bethesda Naval Hospital. He was 52 and served since 1950, succeeding his father after the 1950 airliner collision tragedy.
Richard Norris Fowler Park will close at 11 p.m. nightly, though campers and early morning fishers may enter. The Park Department received about $1,000 for redesigning the Otter Creek watershed with Ewing Miller and Associates awarded the contract. All Park Board members attended with President Jack Wood presiding.
Harvey Woods swam for hours to aid six victims after a 15 foot runabout ran out of gas Saturday night. The boat overturned in choppy waters near the lake’s southern tip. Bodies recovered include Charles Sea borne 40 Azle Lee H Ball 26 Fort Worth Mary Clay 33 Fort Worth Woods wife Jackie 32 and two four year old twins Brenda Kay and Linda Fay Harlan.
Mrs. Elizabeth M. Black 99 of 427 S 31st St died at home Sunday. Funeral services at Cross Funeral Home with viewing after 7 p.m. Tuesday. She was active in Terre Haute churches and women’s clubs and widow of Frederick Black, once with Black and Cook drug firm. Survived by son Frederick L. Black and four grandchildren including Frederick Black Weatherly Pa and Mrs. Robert Rust Salt Lake City with four great grandchildren.
U S forces report eight wounded north of Due Pho near Quang Ngai City from a battle with enemy troops. They found a second enemy hospital complex in two days with ten huts nine bunkers two kitchens and a mess hall. In Da Nang area a ballot box blast killed two militiamen and two village officials. Twenty six enemy rocket and mortar strikes caused light casualties and damage overnight.
City officials led by Major Glenden Campbell of Terre Haute Garfield High School organized a flight for guardsmen from the Vigo County Support Command. The 38th Supply and Transportation Bn. units accompanied by Lt. Col. Alvin Coffee piloted from Hulman Field to Grayling with Capt. Ron Beyers as co pilot and crew Staff Sgt. L Hodson and T Sgt. Tom Isbell.
A 1940s style Marian Martin printing offers Misses sizes 8 to 16 with Pattern 9460. It notes fabric yardage for size 12 and mailing details from Terre Haute Tribune Pattern Dept. Includes price 65 cents pattern and 15 cents mailing. Also advertises INSTANT SEWING and FASHION books with prices.
Israeli forces reported all commandos returned safely after a night raid across the Suez Canal. Cairo and Egyptian accounts clashed over casualties with Egypt claiming higher losses and Israel reporting limited resistance. Both sides described attacks on radar and military targets during renewed fighting amid regional high level meetings.
State police divers recovered the body of Robert M. Abney, 62, of Charlestown Rt. 2, from a farm pond four miles west of Charlestown. Troopers said he drowned Saturday night while swimming.
Weekend road incidents claim multiple lives across Indiana and nearby states. Drivers and passengers including Craig A. Miller in Brownsburg and Patrick Aderman in Chicago died in separate crashes on Indiana 267 and a LaPorte County road. Other fatalities occurred on U S 40 Raysville and I 69 north of Fort Wayne. Hospitalized crash victims include Casper Dawson and his wife Vivian after a wreck west of Crane Naval Ammunition Depot. George Muldran of Marion remains injured from February 21 crash.
A two car collision on Indiana Route 15 about four miles north of Marion left one person dead after the wreck disrupted traffic near a local nursing home. The victim reportedly regained consciousness briefly before dying Sunday.
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