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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1972
Page
2
An Indiana newspapers column lists numerous obituaries and funeral notices. Henry Arthur Abbott, 71, died at Indiana University Hospital with several relatives named, followed by Raymond L. Hauck, Rudolf Manta, Jack and Thelma Porter, and others. Services are scheduled in multiple towns including Alexandria, Robinson, Terre Haute, and Brazil, with various veterans and church affiliations noted.
A union leader warned longshoremen will strike Monday as ILWU and stevedoring talks fail after a 22 hour session. Gov. Burns hopes for averted action while Operation Blackeye mobilizes support to seize and man docks if needed.
A Grissom radar operator guided an Indiana search for a hijacking scene around Peru after hijacking American Airlines flight 119. The jet diverted to St Louis and Chicago, with FBI and local police coordinating roadblocks and a large-scale hunt across Cass, Fulton, Wabash, Miami, Carroll and Howard counties. The suspect, a white man 25 to 30, was armed and the Grissom base directed the patrols and fuel wing operations amid a nationwide scare.
Chief James Swift accompanied FBI agents to Snodgrass Sales Co. on Lafayette Ave where Dale Snodgrass was arrested on a federal charge of operating a gambling business under the 1950 Organized Crime Act. Swift said he had no advance knowledge of the raids. Brighton called the FBI probe a nearly five month process not previously disclosed.
The flood crisis from Tropical Storm Agnes devastates four states and Maryland, with Pennsylvania estimates topping a billion dollars in damage. Virginia and New York report hundreds of millions in losses as waters recede slowly. widespread evacuations, curfews, and dam strain mark a large relief effort.
The Democratic National Committee panel votes to drop winner-take-all presidential primaries, including California, aiming to reshape the nominating process for a future campaign.
Indiana expects mostly sunny start with clouds and a shower chance in the west Tuesday and statewide Tuesday night into Wednesday. Cooler temperatures arrive Wednesday with highs from the low 80s north to low 90s south, then mid 80s. Illinois offers partly cloudy days Monday to Wednesday with chances of showers, near normal highs in the 80s and lows in the upper 50s to 60s.
Rio de Janeiro residents paid 5 million cruzeiros in traffic fines during 1971, totaling about 833000 dollars, amid city enforcement data released by authorities.
Across multiple regions a huge flood devastates the Eastern Seaboard with hundreds dead and thousands displaced while Ohio River crests and recedes. A separate hijacking yields a $502,500 ransom and two parachutes after a jet seizure. In Vietnam, North Vietnamese forces strike near Hue then retreat with heavy losses. Northern Ireland endures a deadly night as violence spikes. Europe frets over a currency crisis as Britain dumps the pound, pressuring the dollar.
West Terre Haute police arrested Billy G. Noel 32 for driving the wrong way on a one way street and charged him with driving under the influence public intoxication and license suspended. In a separate incident Mary E. Black 61 and passenger Mary E. Conrad 61 were arrested for public intoxication after a single vehicle crash into a building.
Parke County victim Owen Akers of Greencastle is mourned as relatives gather at Tudor Funeral Home where services are set for Monday after 2 p.m. Burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery. Indiana’s traffic toll reaches 661 with two more deaths reported in separate accidents in Brazil and near New Haven.
Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret P. Turner 57 of 413 E Georgia St are set for 2 p.m. Monday at the First Christian Church with burial in Calcutta Cemetery. The wake is Sunday 1 to 5 p.m. at the church. The College Regents of the Women of the Moose will hold memorials at 3:30 p.m. Sunday. Turner died Friday from injuries after a hit and run at the Franklin Street and National Avenue intersection. Police seek the fleeing vehicle. Surviving: mother Minnie Wells of Carbon. son James of Phoenix. daughter Judith Hane of Brazil. brother Charles Wells of Brazil. sisters Ethel Pell of Brazil Ruth Dellacca and Clara Herbert of Carbon and Florence Craig of Mesa. seven grandchildren. Turner was active in Moose chapters and a member of the First Christian Church of Brazil.
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