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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1955
Page
6
The U S Civil Service Commission announced an exam for the Newberry postmaster post with annual pay of 3316 dollars. The written test will be in Bedford and applications must reach the commission by January 3 1956.
Roy Williams teaches the class at Linton Stockton High School with principal Roger Ratliff and superintendent J Earl Bales. About forty four students enroll each semester in the popular Driver Training course. The Buick special is provided by Briggs Buick Sales with Vic Briggs. Trainees complete twenty classroom lessons and six hours behind the wheel and receive a certificate reducing family car insurance rates.
Graysville Greyhounds beat Lyons Lions 86 to 54 at Lyons gym. Graysville led 24 17 at first quarter 46 31 at half and 69 47 after three periods. Monk scored 31 for Graysville while Ulrich 23 and Hasler 10 led Lyons. Graysville B team won 30 2.
Eliza Haynes thanks Freeman Greene County Hospital staff nurses aids and hospital staff hospital doctor McClanahan Funeral Home Evangelical United Brethren Sunday school class of Jasonville friends neighbors and others who helped her go to the hospital.
Elmer Terrell thanks neighbors and friends for kindness cards flowers and prayers during illness at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis.
Bloomfield veterinarian Dr Roland Ament called a "cok and bull" story about Ronnie Wetkamp’s disappearance a coincidence. Prosecutor Haywood said Ament overheard Weitkamp’s father claim the boy was buried in a backyard, a tale later proven false by the body’s discovery. Ament, jailed in Greene County on a separate fraud case, faced questions over honesty and memory.
Two reformers of lawbreaker treatment argue psychiatry is only a small aid to crime control and not a sole solution. Dr Melitta Schmideberg and Jack Sokol warn against turning courts into diagnostic centers, stressing guilt must be legally determined and treatment follows.
The coroner ruled the death of three year old Ronnie Westkamp as exposure. Marines guarded the discovery scene and the Westkamp home as parents, who had not seen the body, were said to have taken the news hard. Ronnie was born November 25, 1951.
Survived by parents Lawrence Frederick and Ethel Stieneker Weitkamp a brother Larry Lee Weitkamp and two sisters Eileen Sue and Maria Ann Weitkamp all at home and grandparents Mrs Frank Steineker Holland route one and Mr and Mrs Oliver Weitkamp Stendall funeral at Jenkins and Sons Bloomfield 2:00 Tuesday with Rev Ralph Mohler continuing 1:30 Thursday Nass Huntingburg burial Fairmont cemetery Hunt ingburg casket to remain closed.
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