Congress 10 Open Friday at Capital GOP Plans
Washington December 30 U P reports Republicans gather for the 80th Congress face leadership uncertainty and fast deadlines to craft a program. Senate Republicans seek to avert chairmanship clashes while House GOP aims to elect a floor leader with minimal brawling. Major issues include taxation government spending and labor laws.
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Congress
Capital
GOP
Washington
Senate
House
Dixie Four to Perform at Linton High School Auditorium
The Linton High School Band Parents Club sponsors a program by The Dixie Four from WIBC Indianapolis at 8:00 PM Thursday January 9 in the high school auditorium. Advance reserved-seat tickets are on sale at the Carol Roach Store Doc Taylor filling station Bert J Barnes and club members.
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Linton High School Band
Dixie Four
WIBC
Indianapolis
Carol Roach
Doc” Taylor
Bert J. Barnes
Mrs. Bernice Bradbury Admitted To Mary Sherman Hospital
Mrs. Bernice Bradbury of Jastonville has been admitted to the Mary Sherman hospital at Sullivan.
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Bernice Bradbury
Jasonville
Mary Sherman Hospital
Sullivan
Native SF County Honors Dr. Charles Thomas for Legion of Merit
Dr. Charles Thomas former Jasonville native and ex mayor received the Legion of Merit from Col John Maxwell at a post ceremony. He led 90 aeronautical project analyses for Air Material Command and now works on Air Corps personnel and administration topics at the Air University. He holds AB history from Indiana University and earned master's and PhD degrees at Columbia, with prior teaching posts at Jasonville High School Long Island University and Ohio State before entering the Army in 1942.
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Charles Thomas
Jasonville
John W. Maxwell Field
Thomas
Air University
Army
Wright Field
Air Material Command
Air Corps
Indiana University
Jasonville High School
Columbia
New York
Long Island University
Ohio State
Meeting Postponed for Clarion Club
The Clarion club meeting scheduled for Thursday has been postponed for two weeks, according to today’s announcement.
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Clarion Club
DeMolay Dance New Years Eve Planned in K P Hall
The Tri county De Molay chapter will host a New Years dance in the hall of the K P building from 9 p m to 1 a m New Year's Eve. Members of the order and their parents are invited to attend.
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Tri-county
DeMolay
K. of P
Order
Two Die and Nineteen Hurt In Indiana Air Crash
Federal investigators resumed probe into the American Airlines crash near Michigan City Indiana that killed two and injured nineteen. Pilot Frank Ham and co pilot Harmon Ring died. Among the injured are six in serious condition including Robert Ritter and Thomas Kennedy of Chicago and six others from New York and Pa.
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Michigan City
Ind
American Airlines
International Friendship Garden
Here
Helen Friel
South
Glastonbury
Conn
Frank Ham
Bridgeport
Harmon E. Ring
Muscatine
Robert Ritter
Thomas Kennedy
Chicago
Lillian McVan
Buffalo
Girl Is Injured In County Mishap Near Switz City
Miss Betty Crites a 16 year old Bloomfield student suffered a fractured collar bone when the auto driven by Robert Arthur 16 skidded after wheels hit a 5 inch pavement impression one mile north of Switz City on Friday. The car owned by Gail Combs was damaged about $400. Arthur Sue Ellen Flater and James Toon were passengers. Crites the only injury.
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Betty Crites
Russell Crites
Bloomfield
Switz City
State Road
Freeman - Greene County Hospital
Miss Crites
Robert Arthur
Ollie Hayek
Hercules Tells of New Plants and 1946 Expansion
Hercules Powder Company opened three new plants and two new products in 1946 despite production difficulties. New facilities include a synthetic resins unit in Burlington New Jersey a sodium carboxy methyl cellulose plant in Hopewell Virginia and a dynamite assembly and distribution plant in Jasonville Indiana. About 14 million dollars was spent on plants and improvements and the year added a lab, woods camp housing, and employee housing while operating naval and army plants.
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Hercules Powder Company
Burlington
New Jersey
Hopewell
Virginia
Jasonville
Indiana
Hercules
Box of Bones Mystery Solved by Ancient Relics Found in River
In Aurora Indiana a crude pine box washed ashore containing crumbling human bones was identified by authorities as relics from a centuries old cemetery. Coroner Treon noted nails appeared fresh and the box bore the stamped name Eric Sheffer. chemical analysis was planned in Columbus.
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Aurora
Ind
Ohio River
John Minger
Aurora, Inc
U.P
Ohio
Moore Street
Jesse Hill
James F. Treon
Treon
Eric Sheffer
Columbus
Cincinnati
Eric Sheffler
Dearborn County
Hit and Run Driver Fined in Linton Case
A December 23 hit and run on state road 59 north of Linton ended with the arrest of Leon Psutie of Linton. He was fined in the William L. Jackson court local justice of the peace after a collision involving a Wendell Booker truck and a 1939 Ford driven by Dane Myers. Damages were about $100 and Psutie reportedly left the scene without reporting the crash.
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Linton
Leon Psutie
Psutie
William L. Jackson
Ollie Hayek
Plutte
Wendell Booker
Dane Myers
Walter Dugger Dies at Bicknell Rites Set
Walter E. Dugger, 81, longtime Linton resident, died Sunday at his brother Milton Dugger’s home in Bicknell. Funeral services are scheduled for 2:30 PM Tuesday at Lemon and McClure Funeral Home in Bicknell.
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Walter E. Dugger
Linton
Milton Dugger
Bicknell
Lemon and McClure
Shakamak Park Attendance Sets Indiana 1946 Record
Indiana officials report 180 097 visitors at Shakamak State Park in the first ten months of 1946, a new high above 1941. statewide park attendance reached 1 119 844 for the period, with Shakamak showing a 42 000 gain over 1941 and notable postwar crowds.
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Indianapolis
Brown County State Park
Indiana Department of Conservation
Indiana
Shakamak State Park
Jasonville
Shakamak
Greene circuit court actions and marriage license issued
In Bloomfield Greene circuit court several cases were considered and a marriage license issued by Clerk Frank A Lennig to Billy Lee Abercrombie of Midland and Evelyn Maze of Jasonville. Remaining cases include Ladson vs Suttle for Jan 14 and Griffiths divorce dismissed. Elmer Phillips granted divorce from Verna Phillips.
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Greene
Bloomfield
Frank A. Lennig
Billy Lee Abercrombie
Midland
Evelyn Maze
Jasonville
Robert Ladson
Flora Ladson
Thelma Suttle
Mary Belle Griffith
Max E. Griffith
Gordon Auberry
Mildred Auberry
Herschel Pick
Marion A. Noel
Carl C. Bosell
Imogene Bosell
Elmer Phillips
Verna Phillips
Hospital Notebook: Local Mothers and Discharges Highlight Week
Terre Haute and nearby towns report new births including Linda Kay and Carol Sue for Mrs. Mary Groeenwred of Terre Haute, Shielda Ann to Mrs. Margaret Weatherwax of Midland, and Eugina Ann to Mrs. Ina Ellen Dowden of Sealand. Multiple admissions and discharges noted with patients from Linton Lyons Bloomfield and Worthington.
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Shielda Ann
Margaret Weatherwax
Midland
Annalee Wright
Baby
Linton
James Gaskins
Coal City
Ina Ellen Dowden
Sealand
Eugina Ann
Joyce Ray
Pearl Davis
Broomfield
Elizabeth Lehman
Lyons
Lloyd Ray
Edgar Powell
Pete Sarris
Relda Mees
Worthington
Karen Ham
Robert Eugene Holcomb
William Davidson
Helen Mauder
Eva Rice
Lorene Powell
Nellie Mumma
Odon
Iona Grace Rusher
Deans
Betty Trusty
Ruth Funkhouser
Paula Corbin
Patty Reynolds
King L. Hull
Bloomfield
Cornelia Street
Crane
Eulah Sparks
Herschel Dowden
Scotland
Earl Miller
Fire destroys Palmer-Bee plant at Ellottsville Ind
Fire at the Palmer-Bee manufacturing plant in Ellotsville Indiana destroyed the main building valued at 250000 and ruined equipment and 40 truckloads of new machinery. The blaze, discovered after 3 am, was brought under control by Bloomington firefighters. The plant, leased by Texas Quarries, had insurance but rebuild plans were not stated.
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Ellettsville
Ind
Palmer-Bee Manufacturing Company
Palmer-Bee
Detroit
Harry Johnson
Texas Quarries
Palmer Bee
Bloomington
D. V. Brown
Death of Mrs. Swartzbaugh in Ohio
Word received confirms the death of Mrs. D. N. Swartzbaugh in New Philadelphia Ohio on December 26. She was a sister of Mrs. Oscar Anderson of Linton and had been ill for months. She is survived by her husband, a son, and a daughter. Funeral services were held in Marion Ohio on Saturday afternoon and burial followed there.
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D. N. Swartzbaugh
New Philadelphia
Ohio
Fleeing Prisoners Sought After Vigo County Jail Break
Clarence Heckens Jr and Hugh O Neill escaped Vigo County jail after over powering guard Charles Fagin. O Neill was caught hours later in a taxicab. Both men held 10 year terms for auto banditry. Heckens remained at large with police patrolling highways near Terre Haute.
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Terre Haute
Ind
UPI
Kans
Vigo County
Hugh O'Neil
Omaha
Neb
Clarence Heckens
Heckens
O'Neil
Charles Fagin
Fagin
John Trierweiler
Indiana State Reformatory
H. Dewitt Owen
Vigo
Pendleton
Carroll D. Monroe
Selma
Mrs Cliver 92 Dies at Dugger Home
Mrs Mary McFadden Cliver aged 92 died at 10 27 p m Sunday in her Dugger home after a three month illness from a cerebral hemorrhage. She was born in Perth Clay County and survived by her husband Claude and four children. Funeral services set for Tuesday at 2 30 p m at the Oliver home with burial in Dugger cemetery. Twin daughters born December 27 to Mr and Mrs E A Greenwood of Terre Haute are named Linda Kay and Carol Sue.
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Mary McFadden Cliver
Dugger
Dugger Methodist Church
Dugger Cemetery
E. A. Greenwood
Terre Haute
Freeman-Greene County Hospital
Linda Kay
Carol Sue
Greenwood
Maxine Curnutt
1946 price rise fuels wage dispute debate
A new Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows living costs rose about 18 percent in 1946 with food up 34.4 percent, while wages slipped to 40.58 a week in February 1946 from 45.45 in July 1945. Prices climbed faster than wages as controls eased after wartime orders, stressing the wage profit clash ahead of 1947 negotiations.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
National Association of Manufacturers
CIO
BLS
Four Die In State Weekend Traffic Mishaps
A weekend stretch of icy roads and sleet claimed four lives and left numerous injuries as cold weather worsened driving hazards statewide. Victims included Edna Hill 60 Plymouth killed in St Joseph County and Paul W Howard 43 Chicago fatally colliding on a bridge.
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Lakeville
St Joseph's
Edna Hill
Plymouth
Cloid
Paul W. Howard
Chicago
George Lambert
Warsaw
Donald Hanover
English
Hanover
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SF County
Dr. Thomas
Wayne Basner
Yonkers
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International Soundphoto
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Shakamiak Park
Mary Maxine Groeenwred
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Doris Burch
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