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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1944
Page
6
A wartime plea urges Americans to treat saving and planned spending as a war job. It urges daily discipline to bank savings, reduce waste, and steadily buy War Bonds to back the economy and preserve postwar prosperity.
In Chicago Mrs Lou Clarke's coffee shop adds a new item and expands business by offering a free cigarette with every meal. In Elizabethtown Illinois Austin Hurford grows patriotic corn with red white and blue kernels this year and harvests three ears.
Livestock prices in Indianapolis on December 7 show hogs steady with top at 14.20 and various weight classes quoted. cattle and calves mostly steady with some gains for two days. Hogs strength in lighter ranges and sows priced around 13.65 to 13.85. steers, heifers, and cows display mixed moves and vealers rise up to 17.00.
Ensign Carl Reeve has returned to Vero Beach Florida where he is assigned with the United States Naval Air Corps after recent weeks of ground training. Ensign Reeve is on night fighter training and flies from midnight until noon with duty shared by a crew led by his wife Mrs Earl Reeve and his family noted in the report.
Harold Koupert Wright, 23, husband of Betty M Wright of Lin ton Indiana, is undergoing Naval indoctrination at the U S Naval Training Center Great Lakes Illinois. His recruit training includes seamanship drill and general procedure with aptitude tests to assign him to a Naval Service School shore station or sea duty, followed by leave after completion.
Pfc. William Hardesty stationed in Bermuda sent a Thanksgiving Day menu to his wife Mrs. Modena Hardesty. The spread includes Florida tomato juice cocktail, Bermuda onion soup, Snowflake Idaho potatoes, creamed Kansas peas, giblet gravy, Maryland style, scalloped Iowa corn, roasted Vermont turkey, Rhode Island chicken, Virginia ham and pineapple, candied Georgia yams, Oregon apple and California raisin salad, Pascale celery, pickles, Wyoming sage dressing, New Jersey cranberry sauce, Parker House rolls, apples, coffee, pumpkin pie, butter, oranges, tea, mince pie, lemonade, marble cake, mixed nuts and candy.
The Collector of Internal Revenue Will H. Smith announced that all wages paid to employees on or after January 1 1945 will be subject to the revised income tax rates from the 1944 act. Wages earned in 1944 paid on or after January 1 would be taxed at the new withholding rates.
Postmistress Esther Wolford announces Sunday lock box service will run late due to Christmas train delays. Mail will not be available before 9 30 a m on Sunday mornings.
Phillips named commissioner of the Indiana High School Athletic Association for a three year term to succeed Arthur Trester. The Vincennes high school principal said he will follow Trester policies and takes office January 1, with Morris E. McCarty continuing as acting commissioner until then.
Pearl Harbor marked the third anniversary of the 1941 attack as a revived U S fleet, built by Nimitz, demonstrates renewed power. The ghost fleet of ships sunk or damaged now forms the backbone of America’s Pacific strength, with memorials planned at Halawa Cemetery and a noon address by Admiral Nimitz.
California Institute of Technology reported a catastrophic earthquake in southern Japan recorded at 8:49.03 with stronger intensity than the 1906 San Francisco quake. Seismologists said the tremors spread worldwide, origin near southern Japan, with waves detected for hours after the initial shock.
Bloomington Ind Dec 7 Army Maj Fenwick T Reed announces 233 new army personnel assigned to Indiana University for specialized training. The contingent includes 199 air corps enlisted reserve men from Rose Polytechnic Institute Terre Haute and the University of Dayton plus 34 pre medical graduates entering the School of Medicine Dec 28. Indiana will field 550 uniformed students at winter term. 96 A S T reserves completed training and were assigned to active duty. The Dentistry program will close with 25 seniors graduates Dec 17 with inactive status to follow. Navy medical programs continue along with army and navy schooling.
Police captured Walter Wosselsvicz a young Polish deserter from the U S Army in New London Conn He was transported to Fort Harrison for detention. A Grand venue named Big Blackstone novelty show advertised for two nights in two railroad cars not a movie picture. Thieves raided Coleman slaughter house near the city stealing beef and pork prior to Christmas meat supply. losses estimated at 400 to 500 dollars as this site plans a bear trap for future visits.
C Swanson and Louis P Tucker, sailors aboard the U S S San Francisco, completed four years at sea with ten major engagements, returning home on leave to Wichita. While riding a motorcycle on a city street an automobile struck them, sending both to a hospital.
The writer reflects on tire shortages for B and C class drivers and recalls Mr Batcheller’s promise to supply tires by January. He notes wartime strains from France, Normandy supply runs, and abrasive coral dust, but expresses belief that Germany will crack soon and a tire shortage will end, urging patience as work continues tomorrow.
Washington December 7 United Mine Workers chief John L Lewis begins negotiations for a new coal contract with operators ahead of the March 31 1945 expiry. He aims for wage hikes well above the Little Steel formula with the administration signaling adherence until final victory in Germany. The prior 1943 contract produced strikes and partial wage gains including portal to portal pay.
Clarence Underwood of Clinton Illinois Central railroad shopmen retires after 33 years of service. Fellow workers present him with the snow white Nanny as a going away gift and best wishes from the staff.
Mrs Katherine Hurley of St Albans becomes the first woman to hold a seat in the Vermont general assembly’s upper chamber since 1939 amid a county election outcome. Democratic ticket supporter, Hurley wins in St. Albans area.
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