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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1962
Page
5
A column compiles light anecdotes and upcoming events including Do It Day for the Greene County Tuberculosis Association chaired by Dr. Oscar Bredewes. It also recalls villagers jokes from Mary and John wedding lore to a shop’s free drawing and a judge’s quip about voting.
The G E club of the Linton plant contributed a generous sum to the fund sponsored by the Doctors to purchase cardiac emergency equipment for Freeman Greene county Hospital. An earlier report incorrectly credited the contribution to General Electric.
In Terre Haute Indiana a practical nurse Bertha Ford and her husband Willie Ford were jailed on preliminary grand larceny charges after police traced a large sum taken from elderly sisters Nettie and Laura Moorhead. The money was stored in cans hidden in the Moorheads home and later found distributed through the Ford family. The couple’s bond is set at 5000 each with a to be heard December 17.
The Soviet Union announced and then retracted today an offer to permit international inspectors into Russia to police a black box nuclear test ban agreement. President Kennedy praised the Strategic Air Command for a unique accomplishment in the history of air power for its continual airborne alert during the Cuban crisis.
A Thursday crowd at the Cine theater attended the first of three weekly drawings sponsored by Linton merchants for Christmas shopping. The next drawing offers 100 dollars in merchandise certificates on Thursday December 13 at 2 00 pm. The final drawing December 20 features a used auto filled with groceries as the top prize. Winners at the first drawing were Mrs Carol Weaver Mrs Earl Moore Mrs Junior Holland and Mrs Sue Brown with Betty Bickel of Jasonville drawing the names.
President Kennedy leaves on a swift weekend tour of western atomic and military sites. He may announce Minutemen operational next week at Malmstrom. Stops include Offutt Nebraska Santa Fe Los Alamos and Albuquerque New Mexico with speeches planned and a Palm Desert finale.
The Elks Ladies meet at the Elks home at 7:00 p.m. Monday for their annual Christmas party. Attendees should bring a 25 cent wrapped grabbag gift. Hostesses include Mrs. Homer Fordyce Mrs. Mack Tyler Mrs. Jake Tyree Mrs. Elmer Terrell Mrs. Tom Mc Quade Mrs. Charles Hoskins Mrs. Clyde Davis Mrs. Bill Noel Mrs. William Harting Jr. and Mrs. Bob Griffiths.
London endures a fourth night of deadly smog as 85 people die and 700 more hospitalize. Officials compare it to the 1952 disaster, while forecasts predict the fog will lift by afternoon. Sir Winston Churchill dined amid the haze as experts collect air samples.
In Bloomington Indiana 15 month old Sarah Beversdorf daughter of IU music instructor Thomas Beversdorf drowned Thursday in a small backyard pool. Police say she fell in while playing and attempts at resuscitation failed with her dead on arrival at a local hospital.
Snow and frigid air grip Indiana as rural schools close and roads turn hazardous. Three traffic deaths linked to icy highways intruded on a statewide cold snap with 8 inches in South Bend and subfreezing highs ranging from the mid 20s to the mid 30s. Weather reports forecast limited precipitation and a slow warming trend beginning Tuesday.
South Dakota residents confront a standoff as U S marshals threaten to move federal farm records from a barricaded ACSC building in Mound City to Herreid. Residents fear losing investment value if records relocate and worry county operations might shift to Herreid.
Linton man Jack Kress and Francis Riley of Coshocton Ohio join Mr and Mrs Harvey Grounds at Biloela Australia to operate a new Marion 7900 drag line shovel at the Kianga Moura coal field. They travel Indianapolis to St Louis to Los Angeles then Sydney before Gladstone and meeting Grounds.
A major early season blizzard continued dumping heavy snow from the Great Lakes to the Appalachians causing at least 22 deaths. The storm blanketed Olean New York as it moved through the region, with continued updates on page two.
Civil Air Patrol resumed ground and air search for Indiana salesman Donald R. Miller missing since Nov 28. Ten aircraft and four ground vehicles battled wind and snow north of Rome, Georgia, as CAP Northwest search focused near Rome. Miller, 42 from Elkhart, piloted a Beech Debonair and had 2000 flight hours but no instrument rating.
A Carmichaels woman learns her brother Eldred Faux, 50, was not at the blast site when the Robena No 3 coal mine explosion occurred. Faux was working nearby in the sprawling mine but distant from the explosion and remains among the missing.
The United States plans to press Russia on the thousands of Soviet troops still in Cuba as missiles and bombers are reportedly out. Moscow says it fulfilled pledges. Washington doubts full compliance and seeks assurances against invasion, with possible UN verification debated.
An early morning collision on South Main Street left a 1951 Raymond Alumbaugh auto a total loss and a 1957 Hazel Tincher vehicle damaged. Police arrested Raymond Alumbaugh Donald Dukes and Mary Dukes for public intoxication, each fined 25 dollars plus costs.
The Linton Civic Garden club announces its annual city wide Christmas lighting and decorating contest chaired by Mrs. Harry Ampriest er and committee members Mrs. Paul Lester and Mrs. Lillian Suffal. Residents may register yard displays nativity scenes overall fronts homes and public buildings. Garden club entries judged separately by the Jaycees at a later date.
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