Indiana Parties Prep Inaugural Plans For Eisenhower Visit
Indiana Democrats push youth outreach while Republicans organize inaugural events in Washington for January 20. Hoosier trains to D C include day coaches at about 30 and two Pullmans near 115 each. A large Hoosier parade features Ball State, Terre Haute State Teacher, Indiana University bands, and Purdue Glee Club. Indiana leaders expect 110000 spectators.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Washington
Herbert Hill
State
GOP
Boosiers
Ball State Teacher College
Terre Haute State Teacher College
Indiana University
Purdue Glee Club
Fort Smith Train Crash Scrapes Up 26 Hurt
A Frisco passenger train and a Kansas City Southern freight collided near Cedar, Oklahoma, injuring 26. Fire delayed extinguishing for four hours as passengers and crew escaped amid burning wreckage. Engineer W. B. Stewart hospitalized in serious condition.
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Fort Smith
Ark
U.P
Kansas City Southern
Cedar
Oklo
Sparks Memorial Hospital
St. Edward's Hospital
Camp Chaffee
Ark Rail
B. Stewart
Stewart
C. B. Neal
Poteau
Cable cut blacks Bloomfield with three hour outage
A workman’s shovel severed an underground cable at Bloomfield cutting all outside lines for three hours and ten minutes. Indiana Bell restored partial service by 2:45 PM and completed repairs by 7:00 PM after a Washington splicer was summoned. No emergencies occurred during the blackout.
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Bloomfield
Indiana Bell Telephone Company
Bloomfield Woolen Company
Washington
Tele- Iphone
Linton
Terre Haute
Waiter Aims to Rebuild Greek Village School
Matthew Bacola, a Cleveland waiter, plans to raise 3000 dollars to build a school in his native Mavromata Greece. He returned after 47 years to find the village destroyed by Communist warfare and children learning outdoors with no steady teacher.
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Cleveland
U.P
Matthew Bacola
Mavromata
Greece
Bacola
Red Chinese Infantry Make Five Probes At Seoul Front
In Korea, Chinese Red infantrymen launched five attacks on Seoul defenses to back propaganda threats of a full winter offensive. Two thrusts overran U N outposts in Yonchon Chorwon area, while Allied lines were pushed back near Old Baldy before stabilizing. Propaganda broadcasts urged surrender as analysts called the threat likely propaganda with no major build-up.
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Seoul
Korea
1U.P
U.N
Yonchon-Chorwon
Old Baldy
Reds
Kelly Hill
Kumhwa-Chorwon
Central Front
Donations Acknowledged For Rest Haven Christmas Gifts
Miss Nola Yoder records gifts given during Christmas season to Rest Haven. Individuals include the Greene County Nurses Association and money from a friend at Dugger.
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Nola Yoder
Rest Haven
Greene County Nurses Association
Dugger
Orman Family Return Home After Holidays Visit
Seat and Mrs. Bill Orman returned to Greenville South Carolina after spending the holidays in town visiting Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Orman and Mr. and Mrs. Hershel Myers at Ockley.
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Bill Orman
Greenville
S. C
Wayne Orman
Hershel Myers
Ockley
Bishop J B Showers to Lead Union Services in Linton
The Evangelical United Brethren bishop J B Showers will speak at a week of union services in Linton sponsored by the ministerial association. Services run Sunday to Friday across local churches with varying choirs, aiming to turn thoughts to God and emphasize prayer in the new year.
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J. B. Showers
Evangelical United Brethren Church
Linton Ministerial Association
First Baptist Church
Baptist Church
First Christian Church
Methodist Church
Showers
Olive Branch Baptist Choir
Christian Church
Evangelical United Brethren
PLAN SPECIAL MASSES FOR NEW YEAR FEAST DAY
The calendar notes the Circumcision of Jesus as a Holy Day of Obligation. Masses will be at St. Joan of Arc Church Jacksonville at 7 30 a.m. and at St. Peter's Church Linton at 9 00 a.m.
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Jesus
St. Joan of Arch
Jasonville
St. Peter's Church
Linton
Californians End Visit Return Home From Holidays
Mr and Mrs George O Haver and children return to Van Nuys California after spending Christmas in Linton with Mr and Mrs Charlie Holmes and Mr and Mrs Roy O Haver and other friends and relatives.
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George O’haver
van Nuys
Calif
Linton
Charlie Holmes
Roy O’haver
US Traffic Deaths Expected To Surpass 38000
The National Safety Council estimates 1937 traffic deaths will exceed 38,000, with New Year travel and a busy Christmas weekend raising the toll. About 410 fatalities are forecast for the holiday period, and 35,060 injuries are expected by season’s end, potentially pushing total deaths past 1,200.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Lyons Masons Install New Officers for ’53
New officers for Lyons Masonic Lodge No. 634 were installed at a meeting in the Lyons lodge hall. Installing officer Earl Duffey presided. Inducted were Robert Grounds Worshipful Master Roy Duffey Senior Warden Ralph Sprinkle Junior Warden Dault Edwards Treasurer Bert Edwards Secretary Jack Hineman Jr Senior Deacon Bill Gregory Junior Deacon Guy Benham Chaplain Russell Watson Tyler.
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Lyons Masonic Lodge No. 634
Lyons Lodge
Earl Duffey
Robert Grounds
Roy Duffey
Ralph Sprinkle
Dault Edwards
Bert Edwards
Jack Hineman Jr
Bill Gregory
Guy Benham
Russell Watson
Tyler
Gunman Kills Two In Attempted Plane Hijack For Reds
Co-pilot Felix Gaston recounts how a desperate Chinese gunman shot Captain Pedro Perlas and purser Eduardo Diego during a hijacking of a Philippine Airlines DC-3. The passengers survived as the plane, forced into Kinmen Island Nationalist airspace, landed after Nationalist interceptors fired on the craft.
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Pedro Z. Perlas
Eduardo Diego
Ang Cho Kio
Philip Ang
Hong Chu Chun
Taipei
Manila
Felix Gaston
Laoag
Aparri
Luzon
Gaston
China Sea
Ang
Kinmen
12th Birthday Oddity For Carol Carney In Lincoln
The 12 year old Carol Carney was born on December 12 at exactly 12 minutes after midnight making the number 12 significant in her life.
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Lincoln, Neb
U.P
Carol Carney
Ohioans on Visit at Pleasantville Holiday
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Jerrells and family of Corning Ohio spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wilson in Pleasantville during the holidays.
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Bill Jerrells
Corning
Ohio
Pleasantville
Paul Wilson
Reds on Taking End of Unique Greeting by GIs
In Korea the United Nations fired a simultaneous midnight greeting to mark 1953. Ahead of a possible Communist offensive, U.N. frontline troops endured 10 degree weather and snow as a thunderous blast rocked a 155 mile front.
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Seoul
Korea
United Nations
U.N
No-Man’s Land
Indiana Toll Road contracts bid for 150 mile highway
Indiana Toll Road Commission awarded the first contracts for a 150 mile northern Indiana toll road with a projected cost near 150 million dollars. The line will stretch from the Ohio border to the Illinois line linking a Chicago to New York turnpike system. A preliminary study contract was given to J E Greiner Co of Baltimore with results due by November 1.
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Indiianapolis
Indiana Toll Road Commission
Indiana
James D. Adams
Columbia City
Ohio State Line
Illinois Line
Gary
Adams
Ohio
Illinois
Hammond
J. E. Greiner Co
Baltimore
Pennsylvania
John McArtor 84 Expires After Short Illness
John McArtor 84 died at 11:35 Tuesday night at his Nine Mile community home northeast of Linton after a brief illness. Survived by two sons Herman and Homer of Bloomington, daughter Mrs Chester Bradfield of Lyons, stepson Rev Claude Hayes of Atwell, two sisters, and a niece reared by him. Funeral at 1:00 Friday at Lyons Christian church. burial in Marco cemetery. Body at Jenkins and Sons Funeral Home Lyons and in state at family residence. Born Nov 13 1868 in Martin County.
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John McArtor
Nine Mile
Linton
Mr. McArtor
Martin County
John C
Susan Bodle McArtor
Old Salem
McArtor
Maggie Sargent McArtor
Mary Frances Hays McArtor
Herman
Homer McArtor
Bloomington
Chester Bradfield
Lyons
Claude Hayes
Atwell
Levi Johnson
Odon
Isabelle Graham
Toledo
Ohio
Cans Taken From Downtown For Winter Storage
City officials say the white trash cans were removed from downtown locations and placed into storage to protect them during the winter months.
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Linton
Stores to Close for New Year's Day Observance
Citizens prepare for a standstill in Linton with New Year’s Day closings. The Daily Citizen prints as usual while the local post office closes, no incoming mail or deliveries, Star routes and Highway post office inoperative.
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Linton
Daily Citizen
Star Routes
Highway Post Office
Churchill Eyes Ike Meeting For Postwar Unity
Churchill sails to New York aboard the Queen Mary for talks with President-elect Eisenhower about renewing Anglo American wartime cooperation and guiding postwar policy. The visit aims to align on Korea, Stalin talks, atomic sharing, and rearmament as Churchill plans to return to push for greater British and Western European earnings of dollars.
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Eisenhower
Robert Cutler
New York
Cutler
National Security Council
Old Colony Trust Company of
Boston
International Soundphoto
AUP
Winston Churchill
Great Britain
United States
Britain
Churchill
Korea
Josef Stalin
Southampton
Washington
U.P
Jamaica Isle
United Kingdom
Europe
GE Workers to Get Pay Boosts January 2 1953
General Electric employees in the local plant will receive wage increases of four to six cents per hour starting January 2 1953. The raises were approved by the Wage and Salary Stabilization Committees with retroactive pay to September 15 1952 to be included in the January 23 1953 or sooner payroll.
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General Electric Company
General Electric
Truman’s New Year wish aims to curb swearing at press
President Truman declares a New Year resolution asking for divine help to restrain himself from swearing at the newspapers. This lighthearted remark reflects his frustration with press coverage during the year.
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Washington
U.P
Truman
Women’s Guild Meeting Postponed at Saron Church
The Women's Guild of the Saron Evangelical Reformed Church has postponed its meeting for one week due to unspecified reasons. The next gathering will be announced by church officials.
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Women’s Guild of the
Saron
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