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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1962
Page
3
The piece shares Mine Runner’s Danish pastries with a Canada origin recipe and calorie heavy results. It also notes Indiana Chamber of Commerce tax projections for 1963 after April 21 and urges early Christmas mailing amid light humor and cautionary letters from abroad.
Indiana State police bulletin reports slick northern roads except LaPorte and South Bend areas with Angola closed due to drifting snow. Central and southern highways are slick in spots with extreme south also slick and hazardous. Light snowfall in scattered areas. temperatures from 2 to 14.
May 17 1876 General George Armstrong Custer departs Fort Abraham Lincoln with the Grey Horse Troop. June 25 he clashes with Chief Sitting Bull at the Little Bighorn in Montana where Custer and his men are killed.
British troops push to finish quelling a revolt in Brunei linked areas. Reinforcements reach Borneo to aid 600 800 soldiers who recaptured Seria and secured the oilfield and Anduki airport. One Gurkha dead, 19 wounded. Indonesia supplying arms training to rebels. Brunei Sarawak North Borneo to join Malaya Federation next year.
Estes will stand trial on 14 counts in El Paso March 11 for illegal transportation of securities and conspiracy. The remaining 15 counts shift to Pecos for trial, alleging use of the mails to defraud. Three former Estes associates from Amarillo and Lubbock pleaded guilty to five counts and begin prison terms.
Linton merchants announce extended hours with stores open until 5:00 p.m. Thursday and until 8:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Postmistress Esther Wolford says stamp windows will stay open all day Thursday and Saturday afternoon. A second of three merchant drawings will be held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday at the Cine theater.
The Army plans a 4000 man draft in January with the February call identical at 4000. Officials said the February quota would be followed by a slight rise in March as part of a temporary buildup to 980000 troops.
About 1,000 Indiana State College students celebrated an 87-86 upset over Wisconsin by damaging a Purdue Aeronautical Corp. plane at Hulman Field. The incident damaged the horizontal stabilizer and equipment, with $550 and $100 valued losses noted. No injuries were reported and FBI involvement was considered for federal violation.
Albert F. Workman 56 a Bloomfield area farmer and carpenter died unexpectedly at 8 00 this morning at his home on Bloomfield route four. He was born March 10 1906 in Richland township to Melvin and Maude Terrell Workman. Survived by Olive his widow one son James two daughters Marjorie and Ray two brothers Ray of Bloomington and two sisters Dorothy Thomas Bloomfield and Julie Workman Bloomington. Body sent to Jenkins and Sons Funeral Home Bloomfield. Funeral arrangements incomplete.
Cape Canaveral plans to launch Relay a 172 pound eight sided satellite this Thursday to restore live television and phone links between North America Europe and now South America. Japan could join next year expanding global satellite communications.
A nervous bandit robbed the Indiana National Bank south side branch in Indianapolis, taking 45 820 dollars after forcing branch manager Urban Renner and tellers to fill five cloth bags. It was the citys seventh and largest bank holdup of 1962, with the suspect described as about 35, slender, in a checked topcoat and felt hat. He fled in a late model car.
Four fatalities Monday pushed Indiana's 1962 traffic toll to at least 1,142, with one crash weather related. Victims include Robert Earl Severn, 37, near Bedford after a snow skid. Edwin Morris White, 30, near Scottsburg. Dale Hornley, 34, north of Anderson. and Robert Girardot, 34, in Fort Wayne from a December crash.
Terre Haute Indiana two men received 2 to 5 year terms in Indiana State Reformatory for second degree burglary. Judge Herbert R Criss sentenced William Shoemaker 21 Terre Haute for burglarizing a tavern on November 19 and Clarence Daugherty 19 Terre Haute for a sports shop burglary on November 24. Robert Nicklasson 19 St Paul Minnesota got one year for burglarizing a service station on November 11. He is a soldier at Fort Campbell Kentucky.
Four couples have applied for marriage licenses in the Bloomfield circuit court office of Miss Norma Linton. The couples are Clarence Asrey of Jasonville route one and Flossie F. Sheehy of Linton, William W. Fish of Bloomfield route two and Mary Ruth Shilket of Linton route one, Louis E. Hays of Gary and Mary Sue Miller of Worthington, and David J. Leveque of Springville rural route and Nancy Jane Jackson of Owensburg.
Indiana endures a heavy snow event with 18 inches in South Bend and drifting up to eight feet. Highs reach single digits above zero in central regions while schools reopen in South Bend despite prolonged cold. Fatal weather incidents add to the crisis as rural districts stay closed.
Two 1957 cars were almost total losses after a morning crash blamed on slick streets in Linton. Caroline Harmon 19 of Linton drove south on Fourth Street NW while Gene Lester 21 of Sandborn Route 1 headed east on D Street NW. they collided at an intersection near a tree, with about 500 dollars damage to each vehicle. No injuries reported.
Dale Griffith Jr. faced malicious trespass charges after breaking into Kenneth S. Shepherds home in Jasonville and asking to be driven to a tavern for a drink. He was arrested Monday night in Coalmont and held in Clay county jail awaiting court.
A heavy driving snowstorm sweeping the Great Lakes region slowed to a crawl today. Utilities warned of slick roads and reduced visibility as travelers faced hazardous conditions. Continued on Page Two.
In Carmichaels Pennsylvania the last of 37 miners trapped by the Frosty Mine shaft explosion at Robena No. 3 was recovered. Rescue teams with volunteers worked through methane gas and hazards to locate all bodies and determine the cause of the disaster.
The Communist Party of the United States goes to trial in U S District Court under the 1950 Subversive Activities Control Act for defying a government registration order as an agent of the Soviet Union. Judge Holtzoff to oversee proceedings with two defendants cited for registration failure. William L Patterson and Arnold Samuel Johnson face charges. party leaders Gus Hall and Benjamin J Davis are indicted for non registration.
A six months narcotics probe led to nine arrests in Indianapolis marking the third major dope crackdown in Indiana within two weeks. Three suspects Clarence Ewell David Smith and John Harvey were jailed earlier. new federal warrants were issued. The others charged were Walter Nolan Ronald Dennis Calvin Williams Eugene Barvour Willie Finch and Earl Brooks with hearings set before U S Commissioner Edwin Haerle.
Greene County commissioners opened bids at the Bloomfield courthouse. They will award contracts in four areas including county printing fuel for the jail and courthouse janitor supplies and Highway department supplies. Winners to be announced Wednesday.
Astronomers at UC Lick Observatory photographed a preview of lunar terrain astronauts will see within 30 miles of their destination. The 120 inch telescope captured rugged mountains broad rift valleys submerged crater rims and the level seas that may be ancient dust oceans.
About 120000 Indiana veterans will receive more than 8.05 million dollars in January in combined annual and special dividends for World War Two National Service Life Insurance and U S Government Life Insurance. The payments may start as early as January 15.
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