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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1962
Page
8
A garbled TV listing page shows scattered program titles and actor names. The text mentions Perry Mason Kildare and Alfred Hitchcock related titles alongside scattered times and channel references without coherent scheduling.
Banana dessert with cranberry sauce method outlines mixing water lemon orange juice and sugar before baking. The text is garbled and includes steps to press through skins and bake bananas until tender, yielding a six serving dish.
Hospital admissions list Mrs. Gertrude Kirkley Linton Jess L. McBride Linton Mrs. Danny Baham Bloomfield new daughter Donna Dagene born six pounds eight ounces Parker Ayers Shelburn Mrs. William Hubbard Jasonville Mrs. Ola Beauchamp Worthington Oliver Pruitt Linton Dismissals include Harold McDaniel Springville.
Linton Delta Theta Tau sorority members outlined a Christmas bazaar and bake sale at the former telephone building starting 8 30 Saturday December 8 and announced a Christmas party December 17 at Mrs Billie Stoops home. Members must bring a $1 grab bag gift and attend.
Central Standard schedule shows daytime public affairs dramas cartoons and news with Nassau produced programs including Dick Tracy Popeye Show You Asked Wyatt Earp and Big Show. Evening featuresnf The Nurses Alfred Hitchcock The Twilight Zone and Route 66 plus CBS News Eyewitness and Combat. Friday lists college programs and Captain Kangaroo.
Channel 6 Indianapolis presents a 5:00 Frances Farmer program followed by Continental Classroom at 6:00 and Huntley Brinkley at 6:45. The night continues with News Weather at 7:00 and Men of Destiny at 7:25.
Mayor P H Ohern proclaims Saturday December 8 1963 as Linton Boy Scout Pancake Day in Indiana. Scouts will sell pancakes 7:00 AM to 2:00 PM at the Masonic Temple to raise funds for their program.
Brian Thiel a guest speaker at the Linton Rotary luncheon spoke on economic and living conditions in South Africa. He narrated with slides and noted his chosen study path at Indiana University while a Rotary Foundation scholar from 189 graduates across 35 countries.
Four men elected as Greene county NFO delegates plan to attend the national Farmers Organization convention in Des Moines Iowa December 12 and 13. Loren Bowers and four others Harold Zimmerly Robert Ault Max Wesner Oral Sargent will represent the county as 5 000 delegates are expected.
Indiana unemployment claims rose to 38 437 in the latest week from 33 743 as offices reopened after holidays. Director Lewis F. Nicolini cited the five day workweek restart. year ago claims were 41 332 and two years ago 67 800.
Chairman Hasler explains that the 1963 voluntary feed grain program mirrors 1961 1962 provisions allowing farmers to reduce acreages in exchange for diversion and price support payments. Eligible crops include corn grain sorghum and barley with loans and purchase agreements. signup opens early next year.
Washington reports a new eight cent airmail stamp available nationwide. The rate change, approved by Congress, raises regular first class stamps from four to five cents and air mail from seven to eight. Postmaster General J Edward Day dedicated the stamp, which is red with the Capitol dome and a jet image.
Marilyn Lou Sipes and Elmer Wayne Hostetter plan to marry Sunday December 9 at 2 30 PM in the First Christian church Lyons. The bride is the daughter of J R Sipes and Clyde Hostetter is her fiancé son of Clyde Hostetter. A reception will follow the ceremony at the church.
Burgess M. Shull, 21, of Elwood Indiana, was injured when a 100 foot tow rope broke during parakiting a new sport using a parachute and tow car. He fell thirty feet into a clover field and is in fair condition at Mercy Hospital as x rays are awaited. The incident happened on Curtisville Road near Skull's farm while being towed by Albert McPhearson. Both had planned to demonstrate parakiting at a Rose City Sky Divers Club meeting in New Castle.
Georgia Civil Air Patrol conducted a wide search today for Donald R. Miller a 42 year old Indiana airplane salesman missing since Nov 28. Miller of Aero Marine Dunlap Ind left Atlanta in bad weather near midnight eight days ago headed to Knoxville Tennessee for the next leg home. He did not file a flight plan and his disappearance prompted Aero Marine to notify the Eastern Air Rescue Center which alerted CAP to start a ground search with an air effort to follow once weather allows.
Three Indiana men William C. Shank head of Shank Industries Indianapolis septic tank firm John Hull Patoka Indiana and Richard Clark unidentified Indiana hometown made an unscheduled landing near Youngstown New York due to poor visibility in a private plane from Washington to Toronto. They had ample fuel and chose a small field to land rather than wait for Niagara Falls air traffic then were driven to a local restaurant by a Ft Niagara soldier before continuing their trip.
Sparkle Williams known as Sparkie, a prize winning parakeet from Bournemouth, dies at eight. He could recite nursery rhymes, imitate Scottish speech, and won a 1958 BBC contest over 3,000 birds. He toured 15,000 miles, appeared on radio and TV, starred in ads, earned 2800 dollars and paid income tax as a bird celebrity.
Indiana's corn harvest is 90 percent complete and running 10 percent ahead of last year. Purdue statistician Robert E. Straszheim notes picking was 80 to 95 percent finished in northern and southern counties and 70 to 85 percent in some central and eastern areas. Soybeans continue in scattered fields as soil moisture reserves grow short with little rainfall since November 17.
Mayor P H O'Hern proclaims Dec 7 and 8 1962 as Poinsettia Days in Linton urging citizens to donate to the Mothers of World War II rehabilitation program. Local unit to conduct annual poinsettia sale on those two days.
The document records the affixing of the Linton seal on December 6 1962 by P H O'Hern mayor of Linton Indiana. The formal executive action marks a municipal authorization or proclamation.
Live stock notes show hogs uneven with steady to 25 lower final at 17.00 to 17.75 for 180-225 lb and 16.00-16.75 for 225-240 lb. Cattle and calves limited tests with high grade steers around 30.00 and cows 13.00-14.50. Sheep lambs steady with prime woolled lambs 18.50-20.00 and good 16.00-18.50.
A compact note recounts the historical St Nicholas elected bishop of Myra in 325 AD and attending the Council of Nicaea. It traces legends of his generosity, the origin of anonymous gifts on December 6, and the evolution of Sint Klaes to Santa Claus in American culture.
In Cape Canaveral the Navy’s A-3 Polaris submarine launched missile failed to reach full success. The second stage ignited but the craft went out of control and had to be destroyed, marking the sixth straight Polaris accident. The wreckage fell harmlessly into the Atlantic east of the Cape.
An Indiana region experiences a light snowfall with afternoon highs around the 30s and overnight lows in the 20s. Evansville Cincinnati Terre Haute Indianapolis Louisville Chicago Fort Wayne South Bend record varied readings as forecasts call for mid 30s to low 40s. The cold spell toys with winter sport conditions after a weekend attracting many Hoosier golfers.
Heavy snow warnings blanket the nation from the lower Great Lakes to the Mid Atlantic with four inches or more expected in a band from northwest Indiana across lower Michigan to northern Ohio West Virginia Virginia Maryland Pennsylvania and Newark state. Local amounts may reach 10 inches in northeast Ohio and eastern Pennsylvania. Snow or flurries fell from the Midwest to New England while the eastern seabord received rain from Lee to Maine.
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