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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1950
Page
8
A promotional piece features a young American celebrating independence and urges investing in U.S. Savings Bonds. It promises that every $3 invested now yields $4 in ten years and directs readers to visit the Bond Department.
In a folksy remark a speaker explains Mine Run failed to furnish details because he likely hadn’t heard the tale. Two men brag about ancestry one claims a Mayflower great great grandmother the other says hers walked back from a covered wagon. The speaker quips that horses may be on their way out while noting the old time horse laugh remains.
The piece reports Indiana women split on campaign issues for the 1940s. Republican Mrs. Mabel Fraser and Democrat Mrs. Ruby Ware share calls for more women voters and officeholders but differ on hot topics. It notes a June 9 Indiana Federation of Women’s Republican Clubs convention and references wartime defense and education spending, fear of war, and speed concerns amid local police and highway questions. It also mentions vintage auto stories and a racing-related scene in the Hoosier capital.
C F Cornish of Fort Wayne, head of the Indiana Aeronautics Commission, says Hoosier pilots risk lives by dangerous low flying as a Memorial Day toll set a national record. State Police arrested a flyer for sub‑100 foot altitude near a residential area and fined him $50. A second pilot landed in a tree after buzzing a friend’s home.
A note recalls items published twenty years ago in the Linton Daily Citizen on corresponding dates in 1920. The snippet highlights short local notices and brief items from the era.
Foard Motor Co of Linton announces price reductions on new cars and trucks with Standard coupes at 495 dollars and pickup trucks at 455 dollars. Other models see cuts of 5 to 25 dollars. David Gregg, ex-Linton Switz City resident and father of Vin Cennes mayor Claude E Gregg, dies in Terre Haute. Nine Greene county students receive IU degrees June 10 including Muriel Bland and Ben Raney. Doctor of Medicine.
Hogs were active with 7 000 head. barrows and gilts 25-50 higher than Thursday, good and choice 170-250 lbs mostly 20.00-20.50, 250-300 lbs 19.00-20.00, 120-160 lbs 15.50-17.00. Sows up to 25 higher. 330-550 lbs 15.50-17.50, 270-330 lbs 17.75+. Cattle and calves steady to lower. cows especially slow with declines to 50.00, common and medium 19.00-21.75, feeders and dealers active with bulk sales 28.00-29.00, tops near 29.50.
Dennis V. Swayze of Lyons and Linton high school graduate earns Indiana State Teachers College honors. On Honor Day May 31 President Ralph Threy awards the Yager Industrial Arts Medal for best four year industrial arts record. Swayze on winter honor roll and led Epsilon Pi Tau as president.
A historical note records the face of the Sphinx in Egypt as fourteen feet wide, reflecting ancient sculpture scale. The detail appears in a manuscript section describing monumental carvings and their dimensions.
Mud fell on the prairies yesterday as showers and dust storms combined. The weather bureau in Edmonton attributed the strange downpour to the interaction of rain and airborne dust.
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