Two Indicted On Illegal Still Charge
A federal grand jury in Indianapolis indicted Theodore Smith and Francis Cunningham on illegal still possession and liquor sales charges. Both men posted $1,000 bonds after a raid by Treasury agents, Indiana excise officers and city police, which yielded 29 gallons of whiskey and distilling gear. The indictments were among 51 returned before Judge Dale J. Holder, including prior Evansville race gambling cases, with several Terre Haute arrests noted earlier.
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Indianapolis
Theodore Smith
4Th Ave
Francis Cunningham
Locust St
Smith
Fourth Avenue
Cunningham
United States Treasury
Indiana
Treasury Department
Dale J. Holder
Evansville
Terre Haute
Holder
United States District Attorney
Grand Jury
WORNIN JUDGE ad list detentions for traffic fines
Virginia Willy 33 2119 Plum St no operator license fined 3.25 Jerry E Booker 26 1420 Woodley Ave no license fined 3.25 Desree A Brown 64 409 Blackman St no license fined 3.25 Joseph H Swinford 64 333 S 17th St expired license fined 7.25 Kenneth Co Pine 21 Rosedale stop sign violation fined 17.25 John D Wakefield 19 97 Heritage Dr stop sign violation fined 17.25 Dan M Hicks 22 Covington stop sign violation fined 17.25 James L Oeffler 38 2017 3rd Ave public intoxication fined 30. John W Agnew 16 1440 S 9th St turn sign violation fined 13.25 Richard C Stanton 24 1400 Chestnut St operating on beginner permit fined 13.25 Tommy T Thompson 40 unsafe starting from parked position fined 13.25 James Harris 22 2211 N 14th St unsafe starting from parked position fined 13.25 Evelyn Delks 20 RR 4 false registration fined 7.25.
Baby Injured in 2 Car Crash in Terre Haute
A two month old boy, Charles Jones Jr., was listed in good condition at Union Hospital after a Friday afternoon two car crash in North Terre Haute. He rode with his father Charles Jones Sr. in a car that collided with a truck driven by 16 year old Jack E Jaeger at Sanders and Lynn Aves.
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Union Hospital
North Terre Haute
Charles Jones Jr
Charles Jones
Melton Ave
Whic
Jack E. Jaeger
Park Ave
Sanders and Lynn Aves
Basque Pardoned in Madrid By Franco
Generalissimo Francisco Franco Friday night pardoned a 19 year old Basque separatist sentenced to death for killing a policeman. Political sources said Pope Paul VI had appealed to Franco to spare the life of Ignacio Sarasqueta.
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Madrid
UPI
Francisco Franco
Paul VI
Franco
Ignacio Sarasqueta
Terre Haute Unemployment Rates Align With National Figures
Terre Haute figures from the Indiana Employment Security Division show 60,500 employed in a four county area with 2,100 unemployed, a seasonally adjusted 3.5 percent rate matching the nation but above Indiana's 3.3 percent. May employment rose 1,100 from a year ago, a 1.9 percent gain, with nonmanufacturing sector growth adding 1,000 jobs. Labor disputes in utilities and retail affected about 100 workers. Petty notes a brief July employment dip as school nonprofessionals leave for summer, with a projected 1,200 more jobs by mid September.
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Terre Haute
Joe Petty
Indiana Employment Security Division
Indiana
Petty
Two Burglaries Investigated By Sheriff
Deputies pursued two burglaries in progress in a single incident, one at a home and another at Ellis DX Service Station. A 350 pound safe from the Charles Bennett home was recovered from Otter Creek empty, containing about $712 a deed and an abstract. The home break in occurred Thursday night through a broken window and ransacking. The service station burglary on Wabash Ave netted about $65 in merchandise and small change, plus pump keys, cash register keys, and cigarettes from a vending machine.
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Sheriff's Deputies
Otter Creek
Charles Bennett
Anaconda Aluminum Co
Bennett
Ellis DX
Wabash Ave
Airlines Seek Restraining Order Over Evansville Head Tax
A suit filed by Eastern Delta and Lake Central airlines won a temporary restraining order blocking the Metropolitan Airport Authority from starting a $1 head tax at Dress Memorial Airport Evansville. A hearing on a permanent injunction is set for July 18.
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Evansville, Ind
Metropolitan Airport Authority
Vanderburgh
Benjamin Buente
Eastern
Delta
Lake Central Airlines
Dress Memorial Airport
Evansville
Evansville - Vanderburgh
Dress
Guardsmen Back From Training Returns From Camp Ripley
About 5,000 Illinois National Guardsmen of the 33rd Separate Infantry Brigade return home from two weeks of training at Camp Ripley Minnesota under Brig. Gen. John Phipps. The units hail from Chicago Joliet Kankakee Elgin Woodstock and Springfield.
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Chicago
Illinois National
Stolen Car Cut in Half By Train Near Grant Road
A stolen auto owned by Betty Ann Martin was driven onto the Penn Central tracks at the Grant road crossing and about 200 yards along the roadbed before a Penn Centre freight train struck it at about 2 30 a m tearing the vehicle in half. Sheriffs deputies report the incident is under investigation.
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Penn Central
Grant Road Crossing
Betty Ann Martin
N. 26Th St
Grant Road
Penn Centre
Fight Landfill at Clarksville Near Falls
Historians and conservationists sue Clark County to block a proposed landfill near the Ohio River Falls. George Rogers Clark Heritage Inc. challenges a Clarksville zoning permit issued to Fran Hornung of Louisville. A second landfill proposal by Harold Marrs spurs further action as a national landmark fossil site awaits evaluation for possible national park status.
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Jeffersonville, Ind
Ohio River Falls
George Rogers Clark Heritage ,Inc
Clark
Clarksville
Clark County Board of Zoning Appeals
Fran Hornung
Louisville
Harold H. Marrs
Georgetown
Heritage
US Interior Department
Another Hoosier killed in Viet Nam
Washington UPI An Indiana serviceman has died in Vietnam the Defense Department reported Friday He is Marine Pfc Monty D Prush son of Mr and Mrs John T Prush Bedford Ind The department said he died of causes other than combat
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Washington
UPI
Indiana
Vietnam
Defense Department
Monty D. Prush
John T. Prush
Bedford
Ind
Department
No July shootouts in Columbia gunfighter event
The Columbia Gunfighters Association announces the 1968 Fourth of July celebration will not include their mock gunfights. Pistols have been turned over to law officers as part of a proclamation condemning recent assassinations of public figures and resuming peaceful observance.
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Columbia
Calif
Group Seeks Care Center for Mentally Retarded Youths
A Terre Haute meeting formed a committee to pursue a day and residential care center for the mentally retarded in Region 8 Indiana. The panel will seek talks with Dr. A C Offutt about using Rockville TB Sanitarium. Members span Vigo Sullivan Greene Parke Knox Vermillion counties.
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Terre Haute House
A. C. Offutt
Rockville
Indiana Mental Health Association
Paul Meyers
George Tofante
Jacob Cobb
Robert Ingersoll
Vigo County
Norman Kelley
Sullivan County
James Baines
Greene County
Thomas Stein
Parke County
Ray Grabbe
Knox County
Marguerite Butts
Vermillion County
Ibapah Gets First Modern Phones Since 1860s
Ibapah Utah residents gain direct communication for the first time in over a century as Mountain States Telephone installs two coin operated phones one in a grocery and one in a roadside booth. Previously about 50 ranchers and 150 Goshute Indians on a nearby reservation had to travel 60 miles to Wendover to place calls.
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Ibapah
Utah
Mountain States Telephone Co
Pony Express
Wendover
Draft evader Lloyd McCloud sentenced to two years
Fort Wayne Indiana Lloyd McCloud 21 Michigan City was sentenced Friday by federal judge Jesse Eschbach to two years in prison for draft evasion. Eschbach took under advisement the case of Isaac Stanford 25 charged with failure to report for induction into the armed forces.
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Fort Wayne, Ind
UPI
Lloyd McCloud
Michigan City
Jesse Eschbach
Eschbach
Isaac E. Stanford
Vigo County bids to open for two new high schools
The Vigo County School Corp and Vigo County High School Building Corp will jointly open bids Tuesday at 2 p.m. for construction of two new high schools at Otter Creek Junior High School. The project follows a past suit over financing and a push to cut luxury costs, aiming to secure full accreditation once the new facilities are built.
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Otter Creek
Vigo County School Corp
Vigo County High School Building Corp
Building Corp
School Corp
CSC Employee Retires After 48 Years of Service
CSC worker Robert C. Smith retires after 48 years with the Commercial Solvents Corp. Knox County native, Smith began at the local plant in 1920, celebrated June 20, honored with a 11:30 a.m. ceremony and noon luncheon, and plans to assist his eight children, 11 grandchildren, and two great grandchildren.
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Commercial Solvents Corp
Robert C. Smith
Ninth St
Candlelight Inn
Knox County
Smith
CSC
Dorothy Chappelle
Marjorie Butland
Robert C. Smith Jr
Mary Jane Coombes
James A
Billy G
Jackie Lee
Larry Joe Smith
Marine Reserve Officer Killed in Night Flight Crash
A Marine Corps Reserve officer from Hamilton Illinois was killed early Friday when his T28 trainer crashed during a night flight near Andalusia Alabama. Second Lieutenant Robert C. Humphry age 23, son of Mr and Mrs Richard Humphry, was identified by Navy officials at Whiting Field Milton Florida.
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Andalusia
Ala
Hamilton
Ill
Navy
Whiting Field
Milton
Fla
Robert C. Humphry
Richard Humphry
Hanoi and Tokyo hail Vietnam war milestones
Hanoi Radio cited Soviet and Chinese congratulations to North Vietnam for allegedly downing the 3,000th U.S. plane. U.S. officials said about 859 American aircraft have been shot down by Communist gunners during the Vietnam War.
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Tokyo
UPI
Hanoi
Soviet Union
China
North Vietnam
U.S
Vermilion Illinois to host three day frontier festival
Vermilion Illinois plans a three day Sesquicentennial frontier festival July 19 to 21 honoring Illinois history. Youth Day on Friday features a parade flag dedication 4 H events and a queen crowning. Saturday offers an open horse show dress revue pageant and street square dance. Sunday closes with an old time Gospel Sing and local performances. Food booths include Bar B Q Friday and Saturday ham and beans and more. Arts crafts country store and various contests and tours are planned throughout the event.
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Vermilion, Ill
Vermilion
Paris
Sesquibelle and Brothers of the Brush
New Transplants Reported Good in Chile and Canada
The world's two newest heart transplant patients, Gaetan Paris in Montreal and Maria Elena Peneloza in Valparaiso, Chile, were reported in good condition. Paris woke 35 minutes after a five hour operation and Peneloza two hours after hers. Doctors noted stable vital signs and no immediate complications.
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Chile
Canada
Gaetan Paris
Montreal
Maria Elena Peneloza
Valparaiso
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Plum St
Jerry E. Booker
Woodley Ave
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Blackman St
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S. 17Th St
Kenneth CO. Pine
Rosedale
John D. Wakefield
Heritage Dr
Dan M. Hicks
Covington
James L. Oeffler
3Rd Ave
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S. 9Th St
Richard C. Stanton
Chestnut St
Tommy T. Thompson
James Harris
14Th St
Evelyn Delks
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Bang
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