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Newspaper
Carthage Citizen
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1939
Page
2
State highway workers tested winter safety measures as snow and sleet slowed traffic. T. A. Dicus outlined a ten point program from National Safety Council research to reduce hazards, emphasizing vehicle checks, slow speeds on ice, and proper tire pressure among other precautions.
The guide outlines using chains on rear wheels to cut stopping distances on ice by 25 to 35 percent and 40 to 50 percent with all wheels. It urges maintaining vision and ventilating the cockpit, anticipating ice on bridges and curves, gradual clutch release, cautious acceleration, braking pumping, and turning wheels into a skid while keeping low speed and testing brakes to feel the road.
Indiana marks 123 years since its admission to statehood on December 11 1816 at the old Corydon state capitol. The building housed the Constitutional Convention delegates and the first General Assembly before becoming a courthouse and later a state memorial.
Propagation of bass bluegills and other game fish in Division of Fish and Game hatcheries drives Indiana’s improved anglers’ season. Virgil M. Simmons notes legislation in 1911 enabled hatchery creation and expansion across Riverside Indianapolis Avoca Bass Lake Wawasee and Tri Lakes with ponds added to state forests parks and conservancies.
The last of a county union meeting series was held Sunday night at Homer. Carthage attendees included Rev. Wayne Newcum with his mother, and multiple residents. The Hannegan Christian church won the banner for largest attendance while Little Flat Rock church earned the largest general attendance.
Mr and Mrs Roy Herxiess attend the funeral of their cousin Mrs Leslie Miller of Rushville at the Moster Mortuary on Wednesday afternoon.
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