Community Notes Celebrate Local Life And Civic Efforts
A reader shares affection for summer weather and garden mischief while praising the Linton-Stockton high school band, Band Parents funding, 4-H club efforts, and police enforcement of downtown parking. He lauds cross party city leadership, warns against anonymous letters, and mentions local humor in Blondie. The piece closes with a Chicago funeral misidentification case highlighting civic concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linton-Stockton
Parents Club
Township Schools Ready to Reopen September 2
Stockton Township rural schools prepare to open September 2 for the 1948 49 school year. First grade students must bring birth certificates on September 12. Grades 1 8 will be taught. transfer into city schools not funded by the township unless parents pay about 90 dollars per child. Assigned teachers and bus routes announced. repairs finished and buildings declared ready for the term.
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Robert C. McFadden
Stockton Township
McFadden
South Linton
Esther D. Clayton
Ruth Kramer
Alden Tucker
Black Creek
Helen A. Headley
Bess B. Barry
Roy Bredeweg
Lee Richardson
Forest W. Gilbert
Richard F. Page
Irvin Beasley
John A. Byers
Schhool
Statewide heat wave bakes Indiana with record temps
Heat persists across Indiana with highs near 85 to 97 as Ir temperatures push past normal. In Indianapolis a record 97 marked a day of heat prostrations while Terre Haute and South Bend reached 97. North Madison urged water conservation as city plant strained and New Castle faced potential shortages due to low pressure.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Indianapolis Weather Bureau
Terre Haute
South Bend
Marion
Evansville
Fort Wayne
North Madison
Jefferson Proving Grounds
New Castle
Chamber moms babysit at Girl Scout Beach Days
Mothers in Boyne City Michigan volunteer through the chamber of commerce to supervise local children at the beach. The program runs three days a week providing supervised beach time and care.
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Boyne City
Mich
Chamber of Commerce
Tokyo Rose Iva Toguri Arrested for Treason in Japan
Iva Toguri d Aquino known as Tokyo Rose was arrested for treason in Sugamo Prison Tokyo. Allied counter intelligence took her from a rooming house and she will be sent to the United States aboard the Army transport General H Hodges for trial in San Francisco. Зам
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Tokyo
Iva Toguri
d’Aquino
Japan
Allied
Counter-Intelligence Department
Sugamo
Hideki Tojo
United States
Army
H. Frank Hodges
San Francisco
U. S. Department of Justice
Philip d’Aquino
Justice Department
Greene admits tying boys and not sorry says arrest
Nathaniel Greene 41 and Virginia Hauk 22 face vagrancy and neglect charges after social workers found three boys tied to a bed with ropes in filthy quarters. Hauk blamed housing shortages. Greene admitted beating and threatening the children and said some slack was left in the ropes. Bond set at 1000 dollars. trial postponed to September 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Nathaniel Greene
Greene
Virginia Hauk
Hank
Lyons Minister Transferred to Terre Haute Church
Reverend Carl Sewell leaves Lyons Free Methodist church for Terre Haute First Free Methodist on 15th and Poplar Streets after the Clay City conference. Reverend John D. Lindsey of Terre Haute succeeds him in Lyons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Sewell
Free Methodist Church
Lyons
First Free Methodist Church
Terre Haute
15Th
Poplar Streets
Clay City
Sewell
John D. Lindsey
Meat price cuts hit East amid warehouse backlog
United Press reports major markets slash beef and pork prices to move excess stocks while heat and demand drop. In Pittsburgh steaks fall to 69 cents a pound and bacon to 55, hamburger to 39 besides a three pound 1 deal. Washington watchers foresee a potential $2 billion farm price support, and Chicago analysts dispute inflation links. Milwaukee forms a city committee to study living costs. San Francisco butchers fined for chemical tampering with hamburger.
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Pittsburgh
Washington
Chicago
Milwaukee
San Francisco
Edgar Ruggiero
Frank Lafata
Eagles Schedule Evening Practice At High School Park
Lowery Mellick confirms practice tonight at 5 00 in the high school park urging all players to attend.
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Eagles
Lowery Mellick
Owensburg Boys Under Arrest After Theft
Two Owensburg youths, Ralph Hamilton 17 and Joe Stanard 19, are in Greene County jail awaiting Lawrence County officials to file charges. They stole an iron kettle and sheet iron from Clifford Anderson five miles north of Bedford and sold the loot for 13 dollars at Earl Johnson Junk Yard in Bloomington. Deputy Sheriff Bennie Wallace and detectives used decoys to trap them after they hid in weeds. This is their first offense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owensburg
Ralph Hamilton
Joe Stanard
Greene County
Lawrence County
Clifford Anderson
Bedford
Earl Johnson
Bloomfield
Mr. Anderson
Bennie Wallace
Anderson
Wallace
Burl Clark
Ollie Hayek
Hayek
Clark
Democrats to Held Kickoff Dinner in Greene County
Greene County Democratic precinct officials and workers are invited to a 7:30 p.m. dinner at the Linton Community Golf Course to launch the 1948 county campaign. Candidates will be introduced and plans for voter registration and polling will be discussed.
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Greene County
Democratic Central Committee
Linton Community
Central Committee
Funeral Rites Held for Austin Taylor
Funeral services conducted from Aikin Funeral Home at 2 30 this afternoon for Austin Taylor who died at his son’s home in Michigan on Monday The Rev Waldo Hoar officiated burial followed in Fairview cemetery
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Aikin Funeral
Austin Taylor
Michigan
Waldo Hoar
Fairview Cemetery
Demonstrators Aided By Communist Leaders Take Berlin City Hall
Demonstrators aided by Communist leaders seized Berlin City Hall in a dramatic protest. Police were unable to stop the takeover as crowds cheered the action and workers fled the building.
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Berlin
Terre Haute Man Drowns in Gravel Pit Swim
Morris F. McKivane aged 42 of Terre Haute drowned while swimming with three companions in a gravel pit. His body was recovered shortly afterward.
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Terre Haute
Ind
UPI
Morris F. McKivane
Hospital Updates from Jasonville to Newberry
Mrs John Nash of Jasonville welcomed a baby girl today. Jack and Patricia Wolfe of Worthington had tonsillectomies this morning. Mrs Minnie Goodman of Spencer admitted for medical treatment. Mrs William Kahn and baby were discharged to home in Lyons yesterday. Ebert Purcell of Linton was dismissed yesterday. Dennis York of Newberry was taken home yesterday. Mrs Goldie Sinkler of Effingham released yesterday. Harvey Ogden of Linton dismissed today. Mrs Mabel Allen and baby of Bloomfield taken home this morning.
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Jack
Patricia Wolfe
Worthington
Minnie Mabel Goodman
Spencer
William Kahn
Baby
Lyons
Ebert Purcell
Linton
Dennis York
Newberry
Goldie Sinkler
Effingham
Harvey Ogden
Mabel Allen
Bloomfield
Oblong Team Wins Pulling Contest at Lyons Fair
A team of draft horses weighing 2740 pounds pulled 6800 pounds for 2714 feet to win first in the light weight pulling contest at the Lyons Fair. Fifteen teams entered. crowd over 4500 watched. Prize money totaled $75 for first, with other awards for places two through six. The event also listed drivers prizes and tonight features middle and heavy weight contests, plus a baby show with six classes.
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Lyons Fair
Newman
Mr. Newman
John Edwards
Cartersburg
Maddison Mischler
Clay City
Herschel Trimble
Carlisle
Jack Coling
Scotland
Clyde Booker
Bloomfield
Boettiger Youth Stricken by Polio in Los Angeles
Curtis Buzzie Dall Boettiger, 18, son of Anna Roosevelt Boettiger and Curtis B. Dall, is hospitalized with a mild case of poliomyelitis. Doctors say his condition is not serious and he will be transferred to Corona Naval Hospital, while he works as an assistant producer on the radio show Bride and Groom.
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Los Angeles
Curtis
Buzzie) Dall Boettiger
General Hospital
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Anna Roosevelt Boettiger
New York
Curtis B. Dall
Corona Naval Hospital
Corona
Cal
John Masterson
Young Boettiger
The
Masterson Hone
National Labor Board seeks injunction against secondary picketing
The National Labor Relations Board filed a petition in federal district court in Evansville Indiana seeking an injunction to stop secondary picketing by the CIO Electrical Workers Union. The action targets activities in Evansville and aims to curb practices connected with the dispute.
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Indianapolis
U.P
National Labor Relations Board
Federal District Court
CIO Electrical Workers Union
Evansville
Ind
Truck Fire Pilots Blaze Near 4th & B Street Southeast
A panel truck owned by Roscoe Padgett caught fire around eight o clock last night on 4th and B Street Southeast. Linton firefighters arrived after the blaze was already extinguished with no damage reported.
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Roscoe Padgett
4Th & B Street
Linton City
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Linton Eagles
Grass
Dagwood
Donald Duck
Greater
Samuel Pierce
Metropolitan Funeral Parlors
Katie Pierce
White Rose
Ellis and
Atlas
Bona S. Hosford
Herbert Greenwood
Ellis
Lena Hunter
Helen Wright
Maudie FE
Hamm
Mercury
O. L. Brown
Elliston
Castern
United Press
East
Indiana News
Nickola Davis
Genevieve G. Davis
Elmer Sizembre
U.P Hovey
Posey County
State Department of Conservation
Franklin
Henry F. Schricker
Johnson County
Schricker
Hobart Creighton
Warsaw
French Lick
Pauline Graham
Indiana Department
American Legion Auxiliary
John Nash
Jasonville
Russia
Moscow
U.S
Vladivostok
REDS
Karl Littke
Ferdinand Friedensburg
Platz der Republic
City
City Assembly
Committee of Elders
Boettiger
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