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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1941
Page
1
A report on yesterday’s and last evening’s 4 H exhibit praises the pigs calves and other projects showing youth enthusiasm and community impact. The piece also discusses attitudes toward auto horn nuisance urging thought and self restraint amid traffic and junk disposal notes.
Mr and Mrs J C Colvin and sons Gary and James of Pontiac Michigan visited relatives in Alabama and Mississippi after spending a week with Mrs Colvin's mother Mrs Felix Moan of Atlas community.
First Lieutenant Marl W. Larson, stationed in Denver, resigns his Army Reserve post citing lack of action and enlists in the Marine Corps at a monthly salary of 21 dollars.
Oral Ray Wilson known as Speck Wilson of Linton died in Greene county hospital from injuries after falling from a silo scaffold at Kramer farm two miles east of the city. He was 39. Surviving are wife Ruby Weaver Wilson two daughters Bertha and Juanita one son Oral Ray Jr mother Addee Belle Wilson two brothers Clyde and Burrell one sister Lillie Alien and a host of relatives. Funeral set for Friday at 2 PM at Aikin chapel with Rev. Sam Tuttle officiating prior burial in Fairview cemetery.
In Salinas California the story notes a foal may be rewarded by a motherly goat responding as its dam dies. When the colt's mother died it was given to a goat for adoption and care.
The Australian Lawn Tennis Association asked the United States Association to allow amateurs and professionals to play in matches and meets organized to raise funds for the war effort.
Judge Orval D. Hunter imposed sentences in Bloomfield Greene Circuit Court on three traffic violators. Johnnie Rickard of Knoxville pled guilty to reckless driving and operating under the influence and drew 60 days plus fines. Robert J. Bowman of Edinburgh received 30 days and a $10 fine for operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Virgil Morey of Terre Haute was fined $10 and given a drunken driving conviction.
The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia announces the discovery of a new mineral cadwaladerite named after Charles M. Cadwalader the academy president.
Joseph E. Wesin 76 died at 8 30 p m Monday at his home 214 Wabash Ave Terre Haute He formerly operated a South Main butcher shop and had not lived in Linton for years Survived by widow Anna Wesin three sons Carl Antone Lester two daughters Van Babovina Carolyn Maddox six grandchildren and three great grandchildren The body was taken to Gillis Memory Chapel in Terre Haute Funeral services likely Saturday afternoon pending word from relatives
Samuel Bedwell 64 retired coal miner of Dugger route one died at 3 55 PM Tuesday at his sister Amanda Roach’s home after eight weeks of illness. Born January 22 1887 in Sullivan County he was a Mt Moriah church member survived by son Clovis Bedwell four brothers and two sisters funeral Thursday at Mt Moriah church with Rev Sam Tuttle and Newkirk Funeral home in charge
Mrs. Margaret Kinley of Springville route one admitted for observation this morning. Covert McBride of Linton route three admitted for treatment Tuesday night after a mine accident.
Twenty two Greene county Area No 2 youths traveled to Ft Benjamin Harrison Indiana for Federal Selective Service physical examinations. Call No 14 for Greene county Area No 1 was canceled. Examinations are part of a new state plan grouping registrants 30 to 60 days before potential service.
Covert McBride age 45 of Linton route three suffers fractures and facial injuries after a ton of slate fell at the New Hope mine of the Linton-Summit coal company. He remained under care at Freeman Greene County Hospital with the other three miners uninjured.
Rev J R McBride of Newman Illinois will lead the preaching at the Morris Chapel church annual home coming services Sunday morning. He is a former congregant and well known in the community.
Mrs. Misse Story and Mrs. Tressa Stavros with daughters from Detroit spend Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. John Story and family, joined by Mr. and Mrs. William R. Davis of Utica Michigan in Dugger Dagger community.
Washington The senate shot down President Roosevelt by a 57 to 19 vote to override his veto of the 3250 000 000 Defense Highway Bill. The measure would fund strategic bridge and highway improvements for national defense with apportionment by population. Berlin German high command says British raids on western and southwestern Germany including Karlsruhe and Mannheim caused civilian casualties. Eight British attacks sparked fires and casualties while German bombers raided England’s northeast and east coasts and hit air fields.
Fifteen or sixteen burglaries are believed solved with the arrest of Manuel Wallen and Charles Gabbard, Jr., both teens from Glenburn. Police say they confessed to numerous thefts, including the G. C. Murphy store loot, with items such as handbags, watches, knives, and jewelry recovered.
Britain warns Japan to stay out of Thailand as Smolensk battle reports clash with Russian claims of German setbacks. Hull cautions Japan on Thailand while Eden warns Britain would consider any threat to Thailand independent of Singapore. Reports from Shanghai note heavy fighting on the Soviet Manchukuo frontier with Japanese cavalry movements toward Harbin.
Indiana Attorney General Beamer ruled Gov Schricker acted within his rights in naming Gilbert Hewitt head of the departments gross income tax division and assigning him to administer the gross income law. Beamer said the order cited the law itself and was not issued under the McNutt repealer, as Givens had argued.
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