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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1971
Page
2
A local Open Forum letter praises Linton youth and law enforcement for keeping streets clean. It urges bored youths to join community service, attend churches, and seek a purposeful future through God and local programs.
Mrs Baniszewski received a life term for first degree murder in the torture death of Sylvia Likens. Her daughter Paula, 23, drew 22 years after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter. Both to be returned to Indiana Women's Prison in Indianapolis.
Funeral services for Joseph Borders, a Greene County conservation officer who drowned in a traffic accident, are set at W. S. Poindexter Funeral Home with 10 a.m. Monday mass at St. Simon’s Church and burial in Oak Grove Cemetery. Also noted are the death notices for Elizabeth Vargo of Ohio and Bonnie Clemens of Sullivan, with funeral plans and family survivors listed.
Mr. and Mrs. David Austin of Linton announce the birth of a daughter, Shona Leigh, on August 13 at Mary Sherman Hospital. She weighs seven pounds ten ounces. Mother is Loretta Reed. Grandparents include Gerald Reed, Bill Austin, Virginia Austin, Ethel Lory, Iffie White, and Wayne Reed. great grandparents named.
Local notices list adoptions dismissals and admissions for several Indiana towns including Midland Ow enstown Worthington Linton Switz City and Sullivan with names of residents. It also records two birth announcements a daughter born to Mr and Mrs Robert W Green in Linton and a daughter to Mr and Mrs James Denny in Sullivan with weights.
The Army Commendation Medal was awarded posthumously to 20 year old Private First Class Frank Thomas Burton of Indianapolis who died April 6 1971 in Vietnam. His wife Linda and his parents accepted the award from Maj Gen L B Taylor at Fort Benjamin Harrison with other relatives in attendance. Burton served with the 45th Engineer Group 18th Engineer Brigade in Vietnam at the time of his death.
State Trooper William Brown investigated a 2:45 a.m. tractor trailer crash on Highway 57 half a mile south of Highway 67. Ernest L. Albrecht, 32, of Madisonville Kentucky, drove for Ligon Trucking Co. A left front tire blew out causing loss of control and a rollover. The tractor suffered total loss and Albrecht was pinned briefly with a minor arm cut.
Rosemary Fordice will undergo surgery Friday morning at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis and is in room B-261.
Eleven-year-old Juli English of Clayton wins the 4-H Steer contest with Clyde the grand champion Hereford and overall grand steer at the Indiana State Fair. Clyde weighed 1,096 pounds. Juli credits Clyde's standout crowd presence. Reserve grand champion is James Smith of Crawfordsville with the cross-bred steer. other champions include Roger Ellis, Randy Cates, and Jodi Clouser from various towns.
Hogs flexible around 50 higher with weight bands 170 to 600 pounds priced, sows down slightly, boars listed. Cattle and calves scarce. sheep prices weak. Weather outlook calls for scattered wetting into Saturday with drying later. recommended for late August alfalfa seedings in central and southern Indiana.
Most cars are stolen by teenagers planning a joyride. Extra obstacles can discourage these amateurs. Lock your car take your keys and close the garage door. If you have a carport stretch welded steel chain across the street side so that a thief cannot drive it away. Many motorists also are chaining garage doors and even chaining parked cars to trees and light poles.
The Metropolitan School District of Shakamak publishes corrected for 1971 72 teachers list and bus pickup points in Jasonville and Coalmont. It names faculty at Shakamak Middle and High Schools with names and positions and lists 7 50 a m first day pickup times subject to later adjustment.
Police probe a single vehicle crash at Twelfth and Vincennes Street northeast. A 1966 Oldsmobile driven by Jerry Jackson aged 29 from Sixth Street Southeast veered out of control hitting a tree after his gas pedal allegedly stuck. Fire crews extinguished a car fire then transported him to Freeman-Greene County Hospital.
Craig Strong and Don Smith of Linton join a Vincennes quartet with Tom Toth and Martha Fox to perform on the Cancer Telethon this Saturday. Strong handles lead guitar while Smith plays bass and sax.
A fire in the upper portion of the Remington Rest Home in Remington Indiana prompted evacuation of 16 patients. They were taken to a nursing home in Rensselaer with no injuries reported. The attic blaze origin was undetermined as staff including owner Mrs Berdella Sullivan and her son helped residents outside. Two patients were bedridden. others walked out.
Cross country coach Jim Cal lane announces practice begins Monday at 4 30 p m for all interested boys meeting at the gym. Eligibility slips will be issued. Questions may be directed to the school. Jack Plan is a patient at Indiana University Hospital room 330 in Indianapolis. Mrs Margaret Ridinger of Bloomfield is a patient at Union Hospital Terre Haute room 2009.
Notice to taxpayers announces Greene County Indiana budget hearings by the County Council on September 7 and 8 1971. Auditor Claude Bstory (spelling uncertain) leads budget classifications for counties.
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