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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1962
Page
5
A London Convent Garden shop displays a bold sign Wet lager-lacker-jaguarpaint. Other items note a traveling salesman report of a lodge home burn at New Albany and several local anecdotes from Around and About columns in the Odon Journal.
Cedar Rapids Iowa report details a driving lesson gone wrong when Suzanne Marek 16 lost control veered over a curb toppled fences and hit a house causing gas line rupture. Her father Edward Marek faced charges for permitting an unauthorized driver as authorities evacuated the home.
Linton merchants will elect new officers at a 9 30 AM meeting Tuesday at the Roosevelt hotel. Association president Jess Correll urged all merchants to attend.
Indiana State Trooper Harold Archer, 33, was wounded in the head and arm when a car with four men ignored his red light southwest of Indianapolis. Archer ducked as a bullet pierced the patrol car. he was in good condition after treatment at St Francis Hospital Beech Grove. A statewide search for the late model light green car with possible DE plate followed as authorities pursued the four young white males. The incident occurred on Banta Road near U S 31 and Indiana 135 after dusk.
The Martinsville crash killed pilot Benjamin Knoy, 40, and passenger Charles Slinkard, 20, with investigators suggesting carbon monoxide may have incapacitated them. The aircraft went down eight miles northwest on a Roy Richards farm, bursting into flames. both victims burned beyond recognition. Knoy and Slinkard had helped install runway lights at Kelly's Airfield before taking off around 9 p.m.
American Airlines airfreight formation center in New York receives an average of 15 000 customer calls each month. The facility employs thirty five staff to manage operations at LaGuardia Airport.
Eastern Air Lines DC7B bound from Charlotte with 51 aboard crashed and burned at Idlewild Airport in fog. CAB investigators call it a weather accident noting failed equipment and a near miss with the runway as pilot attempted a go around. Capt Edward Bechtold and co pilot Jules Wagner died in the flaming wreckage.
Lula Pitman 83 of Newberry Indiana died Saturday at Freeman Greene County Hospital after an extended illness. She was born November 7 1879 daughter of Alonzo and Cynthia Quackenbush. Survived by daughter Mae Baker two sisters brother and three grandchildren. Funeral held at Jenkins and Sons Bloomfield with Robert Richards officiating burial in Newberry cemetery.
North Dakota's Bad Lands earned their name not from outlaws but from the rough rocky terrain that slowed travel and made passage difficult across the region near Bismarck.
Federal marshals plan to seize Agriculture Department records from a barricaded ACSC office in Mound City South Dakota amid farmer protests over moving the county office to Herreid. Officials warn peaceful surrender or force may follow while officials urge law and order and warn against out of state agitators.
Everett Thomas Hisgen a 75 year old Bedford resident died when his 1958 auto plunged into a creek south of Hymera on the Dugger Hymera road He was returning from a fishing trip with his nephew Paul Prather who could not avoid the crash Coroner John Alexander and State Police said the death was by drowning Hisgen’s body was taken to McHugh Funeral Home Hymera Services were set for Tuesday burial in Ames Chapel near French Lick He is survived by his widow a daughter a sister five grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
State and local police search for a lone 35 year old bandit who robbed the IGA supermarket at 927 West Wabash Avenue Friday evening. The suspect, wearing a topcoat and hat, forced cashier Phoebe Croslow to empty the register while Herschel Chanley and a nearby customer watched.
Hotel Edison operators report that about 30 percent of guest inquiries ask the time. The finding comes from the hotel staff who handle daily guest needs and communications.
Unseasonably warm conditions persist in Indiana with temperatures in the 60s and records threatened. Indianapolis reached 63 on Saturday and 64 on Sunday, both marking or tying December records, while statewide highs span mid 50s to low 60s with limited rain expected mainly later in the week.
Luther Cullison of Dugger was praised by police and school officials after he steered his 24 ton coal truck into a ditch to avoid hitting a bus with about thirty pupils on state road 67 near Martinsville. He escaped with minor injuries. the Dean Brothers of Linton owned the tractor trailer, valued new at 32000 dollars.
Pope John XXIII, 81, appeared to win a temporary battle against illness as he told 30,000 faithful his health is returning though he still suffers anemia and a stomach trouble likely a bleeding ulcer. He had defied doctors by staying at work and hoped to resume more duties today.
Two new suits filed in Greene circuit court at Bloomfield include Alden's Department Store against Paul and Mona Reed on an account and Linda Sue Skomp against Carl E. Skomp for divorce.
More than 100 families evacuated Monday night from Rogue River Eagle Point and Shady Cove Oregon as up to four inches of rain caused rivers and streams to overflow. Four Medford bridges closed and state highways flooded while the Alaska Cedar lumber ship ran aground at Coos Bay with no injuries. A Canadian rescue ship towed a U.S. fishing boat near Vancouver after 70 mph winds tore off the deck house. four crew stayed aboard.
The Navy aircraft carrier Kearsarge collided with another ship in fog south west of the harbor entrance. Coast Guard reports the incident occurred today as ships navigated near Long Beach California.
Darwin Banks was among prospective jurors for the U.S. District Court in Indianapolis but was not selected as part of the 23 regular jurors for duty this morning.
A Bloomfield golfer, Jack Spice, aced the 105 yard No. 1 hole at Linton Municipal with Vernon Kidd witnessing. Phil Russell and Bobby Hess also saw the shot as crowds noted record December springlike weather at the course. Russia begins shipping IL28 bombers home from Cuba as Khrushchev pledges to remove the jets by December 20, with dismantling observed on November 30 at San Julian airfield.
A fierce Atlantic storm battered the East Coast with gale winds and high tides. The Weather Bureau warned of continued rough seas and erosion as the storm drifted south and remained erratic and largely stationary at times. Three crewmen were rescued from a North Carolina ferry listing amid rough seas near Manteo.
Police surprised three men attempting to climb into the Veterans of Foreign Wars building in Columbus. Roy Franklin Duncan 19 of Crane and Anthony William Kendrick 21 of Gosport were arrested. a third suspect Johnny Wesley Sexton 21 of Bloomington remains sought on probation for a robbery term.
In Bloomfield two men faced sentencing after guilty pleas. Lawrence Padgett, 51, admitted assault and battery on Nov 1. six months jail at Indiana Penal Farm, suspended except ten days at Greene County jail. Charles Wiggins pled guilty to public intoxication, fined $25 and costs, 90 days at Penal Farm. arrested at Jasonville on Nov 27.
An application for a marriage license has been filed in the clerk of the circuit court office at Bloomfield by James Cox and Doris Dove both of Jasonville.
Oliver DeWitt Bloomer 63 lifelong Lyons resident died at Freeman Greene County Hospital after a brief illness. He ran a Lyons grocery, worked at Bloomfield Manufacturing, and served as Lyons post office substitute mail carrier. Survived by two sons, a daughter, a sister, and five grandchildren. funeral Tuesday at Lyons Methodist Church with Lyons Masonic lodge participation.
The Greene county chapter elected officers including Garvin L. Mitchell as president and John Watkins, Curtiss Baker, Robert Woodruff, and James Skemp as officers and directors. A hearing on a White River flood control survey will be held at Spencer Armory at 1 30 p m Tuesday Dec 11 conducted by the U S Corps of Engineers with urging residents to attend.
An Aronson Machine Co employee funded a larger coffee bill this year to cover a beef barbecue for his wife and children. The event included a ride on the Arcade and Attica railroad, a rare steam powered passenger line that reportedly pays its own way.
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