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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1965
Page
2
The piece quotes Dow Jr urging young ladies to seek practical skills at home over fashion. It contrasts flappers with homebound virtues and urges more liberty, less restraint, and a life of daily labor and frankness. Also listed are local notices from December 6 1865 including estate items, events, meals, and community updates.
Senator Vance notes the Lees family, Charles and Julia, escaped from Red China to Hong Kong via Macao in 1964 and has long sought family reunification. With a new immigration law effective December 1, they will finally have a chance to join their father, despite the private bill still before committee.
Randall Yarbro of Jeffersonville, aged 90, recounts Indiana pioneer days from 1810 onward. He recalls George Rogers Clark living in Clarksville, bringing slaves to Guinea Bottom, and his men settling near the Falls. He notes stockades, early churches, the first courthouse in Jeffersonville, and the first Ohio River ferry by Oatman linking Falling Run to Louisville.
Recollections describe early road travel by horseback and improvised wagon rigs with buggy shafts. The narrative notes barter economy, scarcity of money, and the emergence of two forts and settlements including Fort Steuben, Clarksville, and Jeffersonville as the first Anglo-American footholds in Indiana.
A Leesburg reader reports life at Shady Oaks Camp near Hains Creek with nature notes and local Florida developments. Disney buys land, Roy Rogers plans a Western attraction, roads and education bonds fail, and a county faces a half million shortfall in school operating funds.
Charles and Julia Lees, Protestants living in Kowloon, qualify for second preferences under the old law. Dr. Lee is a physicist with RCA and teaches at Taylor University, with Charles invited to apply for a research post in Indiana. Julia studied at Shanghai Institute of Railroad Technology and visas are promised by U.S. Consul General Rice.
James Whitcomb Riley born 1849 in Greenfield became Poet Laureate of Indiana. Thomas Riley Marshall born 1854 in North Manchester declined a US presidency, later governor and two-term vice president under Wilson. Red Skelton born 1913 in Vincennes became famed pantomimist and comedian with message to make people laugh. John W. Foster, dean of diplomatic service, gained acclaim for integrity and global reach in 1894 amid Chinese-Japanese negotiations.
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