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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1952
Page
1
Hoosiers pursue prize contes ts from life annuities to world trips with winners like Mrs. William J. Smith earning 35 000 and a pool prize donated by Louis B Mayer. Census data show the average Hoosier is now a 30 year old woman or man, with women outnumbering men and many in business and government.
John L. Lewis’s United Mine Workers began formal negotiations for a new contract covering 75,000 anthracite miners in Pennsylvania. He announced a memorial holiday for both hard and soft coal workers, with unconfirmed reports of a $1.65 daily wage demand and a six-hour work day.
Indianapolis August 19. Slightly warmer weather is forecast for Indiana over the next five days with daytime highs near 90. Thursday will be cooler, then warmer again Friday and Saturday. Rain possible as scattered showers Wednesday night and Saturday bring up to a half inch. Paoli led the Hoosier highs at 88, Wheatfield posted the low, and Cambridge City had trace rainfall.
Seventh District Congressman Bill Bray will be guest speaker at a Greene County Women’s Republican club meeting in Humphreys Park. A 7:00 p.m. pot-luck supper opens the program, with a musical number to follow. Public invitation extended. those not attending the supper may arrive around 8:00 p.m.
The Rebekah lodge meets at the Odd Fellows hall at 6 30 tonight for a chicken supper and district meeting practice. Officers and all members urged to attend as the district meeting will be held in Worthington on August 25.
Sullivan Indiana mayor issues proclamation to shift to standard time on September 1 to avoid spring confusion. City buses earlier ran on “slow time” while Sullivan switched to “fast” time, prompting calls for uniformity for students and parents.
PANMUNJOM Korea Aug 19 United Nations truce delegate Maj Gen William Harrison said he believes the Communists want an armistice if the price is right. He noted negotiations were recessed for the fourth straight week and the pace hinges on Moscow talks while the UN blamed the Communists for human losses. Nam I retorted that Harrison's remarks sow discord and would fail.
In Jackson Mississippi Col Howard Stovall leader of Democrats for Eisenhower announced an independent slate of electors pledged to Eisenhower for November. The move follows Monday’s Democratic convention endorsement of Adlai Stevenson and blocks use of the Democratic label on the ballot due to party registration rules.
Rex Little Doc Holtsclaw, a Greene county veterinarian, pleaded guilty to public intoxication before Judge Kern G. Beasley in Bloomfield. He received a $10 fine plus costs and a 30 day sentence at the Indiana State Penal Farm.
A marriage license has been issued by the clerk of the Greene circuit court to Wilbur L. Wright of Linton and Marguerite L. Mesick of Worthington.
Allied Superfortresses bombed a grenade factory at Nakwon near the Yalu River, using improved electronics under overcast skies and claiming excellent results. The raid on Monday night involved 13 planes dropping 140 tons. civilians had been warned. Additional strikes hit Sagwanni and a storage area at Kyomipo steel mill near Pyongyang as ground fighting slowed.
Tokyo Aug 19 The Navy opened an official inquiry into the accidental shelling of the salvage ship Grapple by the minesweeper Chief off Hungnam Korea. Two Grapple crewmen were killed and nine injured. The Chief backed by Lt Cmdr Willard C Hatch faces scrutiny while Grapple Commander Lt Roy Coniam reported to Sasebo.
Alec Louis a 41 year old father of five was detained by police amid accusations of cruel treatment toward his children after an 11 year old son Joseph Louis suffered severe burns from being held on a hot stove and having salt rubbed into blisters. Louis claimed the burn was meant as punishment and a lesson.
An Air Force officer at Scott Air Force Base is charged with embezzling 10408 from six base canteens. Lt. Samuel J. Catalano of Schenectady New York allegedly altered receipts between September 1950 and April 1951 and fled after a warrant was issued.
Mr and Mrs Lowell Bedwell and Mrs William Frederick and son Perry were in Terre Haute on business Monday.
A three hour blaze at the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. in LaPorte caused 80000 dollars in damage to grocery stocks. Fireman Jack Corone sustained a slight injury while battling the flames, with water and smoke blamed for most of the destruction.
Tokyo reports the World War II treasure chest disappearance fueling a national furor. A Diet committee accuses Japanese officials including household members while U S occupation officials are blamed by some. The pledge of a tangled transfer sequence and mismatched gold figures sparks calls for clarity.
President Truman abandons a whistle stop tour this fall and will give major speeches in key Northern cities. A Springfield, Illinois meeting with Adlai Stevenson and advisers set his reduced role to support the Democratic ticket and boost Stevenson’s nationwide appeal. First speech slated for Labor Day in Milwaukee with possible stops in New York Chicago and Detroit.
A special meeting of the Civic Garden club will be held Thursday afternoon at one oclock in the local public library. Mrs Ray L Robertson from Paoli Indiana southwest district director of Garden Clubs of Indiana and an accredited flower show judge will conduct a workshop on flower arrangements. Public invited.
Goshen Indiana residents rescue a Chester White hog that vanished from the Grayson Ruhl farm 88 days ago. The animal dropped from 200 pounds to 75 while trapped in a six foot deep wooden shaft. Farmers plan a careful recovery to prevent the hog from over eating once freed.
Indiana State Highway Commissioner Jap Jones proposed raising the gasoline tax from four to six cents per gallon to fund widening and improving highways. He cited demand for four-lane by-passes and wider main roads and said the plan would burden users rather than property owners.
Moustafa Mohammed Khamis, first of 29 defendants, condemned by a special military court to death by hanging for killing two soldiers during labor riots last Wednesday. He will be moved to Cairo’s military prison for execution. The trial at Kafr el Dawar, 25 miles north of Alexandria, marked the first civilian death sentence by a military tribunal in Egypt. Eight killed, 40 injured, 574 arrested in the riots sparked by textile workers demanding higher wages and bonuses. Police later released 545 detainees.
Rev Bert Hibbard of Wicco Kentucky will be guest speaker at the Y P E service in the Northeast Third Street Church of God Wednesday at 8 o clock. Rev F B Hibbard pastor of the Linton church invites the public to attend.
U S Army doctors say Senator Homer E Capehart of Indiana has made a rapid recovery in the past 24 hours and probably will be released from the hospital in Heidelberg on Wednesday. He has been hospitalized since Thursday with a virus infection of the upper respiratory tract.
Terre Haute officials and union leaders signed a three year contract ending a 14 week strike at Allis Chalmers jet engine plant. The deal includes a 14 cent hourly raise with earlier boosts, higher night shift pay, a cost of living clause, and health vacation and pension benefits. The agreement covers 340 workers now and up to 4000 after the new plant is completed.
A typhoon bearing down on Northern Japan was expected to strike Hokkaido around midnight. It had already killed 10 people in Korea and Okinawa as police in Pusan reported seven drownings and 100 homes wrecked in Southwest Korea.
Gerald Donald Page son of Mr and Mrs Donald C Page of Linton died nine hours after birth at 6 15 pm in Freeman Greene county hospital He is survived by his parents one brother grandparents and great grandparents all of Linton Graveside services were held and burial made at Fairview cemetery Anderson Poindexter Memory Chapel directed arrangements
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