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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1952
Page
4
The Terre Haute Tribune and Gazette publishers advise readers to call if copies of The Tribune are not received by 6 00 p m and a messenger will deliver. Readers can order by mail with a first zone rate for six months. This notice notes the paper’s establishment dates and postal classifications.
The Tribune urges readers to avoid idle gossip and unfounded criticism while defending faith in America and urging disciplined political discussion. The editorial stresses restraint, accuracy, and responsible dialogue in public discourse.
Terre Haute welcomes a new dextran plant from Commercial Solvents Corporation on South First Street. The three story facility will produce over a million pints annually as a blood volume expander for military use, with civilian availability deferred until military demand is met.
The Star Spangled Banner arose during the War of 1812 as Fort McHenry faced bombardment on September 13 14 1814. Francis Scott Key witnessed the flag still flying and began writing and editing the poem that would become the national anthem. It gained popularity, facing final recognition by Congress in 1931.
Churchmen condemn popular wedding arias such as O Promise Me and I Love You Truly as sentimental baloney while recalling Lohengrin to critique modern ceremony music. The debate centers on tradition versus contemporary taste in liturgical and nuptial settings.
A central New York Episcopal diocese commission urged clergy and choirs to avoid secular and showy wedding music. It criticized sentimental ballads like O Promise Me Cause and I Love You Truly, and questioned Wagner and Mendelssohn marches. It recommended hymnals and organ pieces such as Praise My Soul and Hail Thee Festal Day.
The Indiana Committee for Eisenhower telegrammed Vincennes representative Emison in Chicago warning Hoosier voters will not tolerate illegal seating of delegates. H. Dale Brown said an overwhelming voter majority objects to what they call the Texas steal and Taft influence. Emison was urged to follow conscience and bear responsibility for his vote on the issue.
The German War Dead Cemetery Organization relocates the last of World War II German fallen to new sites in the Rhineland. The Haertgen Forest cemetery, near the site of bloodiest battles, will be dedicated in late August. About 3,000 German servicemen are interred, with one third unnamed.
A list of marriage licenses includes Clyde Crooks and Mary Borders, John R. Hamilton and Iva Hays, and Roy Ligon and Florence Edna Fagg. Also notes on local movements, travels, and social events, with several residents relocating or visiting towns like Muskegon and Logansport. The St. Ann's orphanage held its annual outing at Scheidel farm under the St. Francis and St. Elizabeth Societies.
The questions ask the country of the Lost Horizon raid, how a U S senator vacancy is filled, where the Aztec Indians lived, which large island lies south of Florida, and four famous U S scouts.
Birthday greetings go today to Wilfred Pelletier noted opera and symphony orchestra conductor and Walter Hampden stage actor.
A concise dictionary style note tracing melancholy from archaic notions of bile and organs to its modern sense of a low mood. It cites origins in Old French and Late Latin terms Melancolie Melancolia and Greek melas meaning black plus chole meaning bile.
The forecast predicts an eventful year ahead full of opportunities. A child born today is likely to grow with great ambition and vitality, becoming notably successful.
President Warren G. Harding signed a peace resolution with Germany in 1921. In 1943 General Douglas MacArthur led landings on New Guinea Trobriand and Rendowa in the East Indies. The fourth atom bomb test occurred at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in 1946.
A brief reflective line cites a Thomas Gibbon verse on the failings of a life measured by receiving without giving, noting creation's blot and blank as framing ideas about gratitude and virtue.
A quiz question asks how the laboriously framed prompt would score. Items include Tibet Mexico Cuba and a list of frontier figures Daniel Boone Kit Carson Buffalo Bill Cody and their connection to historical governance.
In Horn Lake Mississippi R D Womack reports his hen mothering a fourth litter of kittens. The hen allows the mother cat to feed the kittens then chases her away ensuring the feline brood remains under the bird’s care.
Walter Winchell notes that critics parsed the Imperial Theatre dress rehearsals of Hav ing Wonderful Time a musical version of a 1937 hit. Leland Hayward and Josh Logan bear the burden despite past hits, as reviews call the show dreary and a pool gimmick fails to entertain. Rodgers Hammerstein hope for an early settlement of the steel strike is mentioned alongside industry idle chatter and cast-and-crew fortunes amid Broadway’s mixed reception.
Born today you are an artist at heart with interests in music and literature and many other talents. You are independent, capable of quick decisions, and persuasive when you believe in something. Travel and nature attract you and a marriage to a culturally matched partner could be very happy.
The height of waves rises when they flow into a channel with converging sides and falls when the channel expands. This effect reflects basic fluid dynamics where constriction increases wave amplitude while dilation diminishes it.
Cancer through Gemini predictions advise alertness in crises, balancing work and pleasure, diplomacy, openness to news, outdoor venting, comfort for others, cautious decision making, country rides, job focus, exercise for mood, financial balance, and justified apologies.
Hollywood actor Alan Mowbray heads the Hollywood Remoters, a group touring military bases off the main entertainment routes. They choose remote camps with few previous shows and plan dates to boost off duty life. Mowbray notes troop entertainment remains a vital duty today, narrating his Air Force flying hours and travels to fulfill remote camp engagements.
The Whiskeytown community and the women’s improvement league have won federal recognition to keep the town’s name Whiskeytown despite maps earlier labeling it Schilling. The Postmaster General granted official use of Whiskeytown, aligning with long local usage, and a celebration is planned as townsfolk pledge to uphold the name.
A gelatin like film offers a cheap durable substitute for dura mater in brain injuries. The film remains for 80 to 90 days, then is absorbed and replaced by normal dura tissue with minimal scarring. This method reduces headaches and convulsions and avoids costly prior substitutes.
Delos Smith reports that V K Zworykin urges removing rough spots from TV and aiming for long term goals. He criticizes low quality entertainment and argues broadcasters and sponsors must purge crime and bloodshed from after school shows and craft ads that are tasteful and non irritating to strengthen family ties.
William Ritt reports on Russian scientists planning to reveal star mechanisms, Mars interest, a New York tailor mocking capitalist dress norms, a Browns ex-manager Hornsby’s troubles, a ghost at an English school, Hungarians urged to wear brighter clothes, and a jest about lawn care behind the Iron Curtain.
Ashland Oregon music director Hans Lampl searches house to house for a rare lute essential to this year’s Elizabethan music program. He has not yet located the instrument.
In Memphis Tennessee a hotel clerk booked a room for a member of the Internal Revenue Service under the alias External Revenue, a move that raises questions about privacy and misrepresentation during the reservation.
A collection of brief notes covers star brightness, the lodestone as the first magnet, plastic upholstery textures, bamboo as the tallest grass, the Andes as South America's major range, female circus elephants due to temperament, Canada’s intake of European displaced persons, American Samoa’s location near the Date Line, and popcorn used in radio polishing.
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