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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1954
Page
3
State authorities dispatched 25 personnel to the area amid a security alert. Officials coordinated with local agencies to identify threats and ensure public safety. No further details were released pending investigations.
Mrs James D Lee of Gulfport Miss travels with Linda and Don Ray to visit sister Mrs Leroy Drake and family. Attendees from the city at the Ledger roundups at M Creek State Park included Ernest Hair and daughters Jeanie and Janice Helen Walker and sons Buddy Stevie Linda Walker Lane Goodman Elsie Parks and Deanna vicin Western Cormick Harold Berns family from Carrier Mills Ill visiting their parents Curt Heaton and John Berns. Dorsey Woodward of Lin ton visits nieces Helen Myatt and Owen Cutright in Detroit. A J Corneiller and party spent the weekend at New Burn side Nl visiting Clint Goodwin.
Kiwanis, Loyal Order of Moose, Royal Arch Masons, Painters and Paper Hangers, and many others hold meetings across the evening. A potluck dinner, wiener roast, and choir rehearsals are listed with times from 1:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at various halls, churches, and libraries in the county.
West Atlas Mr and Mrs Jack Waddell and daughter Reba and Mr and Mrs Jack Reams of Windfall visited friends in the Gambill community Sunday and were dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Lester Smith and daughter Anita Kay.
Violet Bovenschen and Nolamae Davis hosted a joint sixteenth birthday party at Mrs. Emily Morrison's basement playroom near Linton. The event featured pink, yellow, green, and blue crepe decorations, games with prizes for Sara Powell and Anita Smith, and refreshments by Alta Davis, Pauline Bovenschen, Patricia Elgan, and Emily Morrison. Attendees included Bennie Atto, David Page, Arthur Page, Don Pope, Junior Griffith, Bill Powell, Philip Horton, John McBride, Gary Maxwell, Jerry Jackson, Sherri Reintjes, Janice Bovenschen, Rosemary Maxwell, Dixie Hair, Kay Wilkes, Saundra Haseman, Elaine Bovenschen, and Arthur Bovenschen.
The cuckoo and the cowbird practice brood parasitism by laying eggs in the nests of other birds. The host species incubates and raises the чужое chicks, often at the expense of their own offspring.
Bethel Methodist Women’s Society of Christian Service held its June meeting at the Bethel church. Rev James V Smith installed the new officers after a program on Students in Today’s World and related topics. Guests included Alma Linn and Rev Smith. attendees listed Mary Butler Aura Hancock Ruth Livingston Myrtle Underwood Alvina Linn Mildred Hale Lucy Coffey Dorothy Buck Adelle Smith Edith Bedwell May Fainot Ruth Meeks. The next meeting is set for July 9 at Mrs Mildred Hale’s home.
Mr and Mrs John Underwood hosted over Decoration Day weekend with guests including Carol Rose, Lester Price, and three Indianapolis sons visitants from Toledo. Harley Strickland and relatives spent decoration week at Marian. John and Tommie Booker hosted Ches ter Booker and Diane.
The Linton Assembly of Rainbow for Girls will install officers at 7:30 PM in the Linton Masonic temple. Officers include Sharla Gambill as Worthy Advisor and Adrianne Ham as Installing Officer with a broad slate of appointed and elected roles. An invitation to the public is extended for the Wednesday ceremony and the upcoming Grand Assembly in Lafayette June 23 to 27.
Freeman Greene County Hospital Guild held a picnic meeting at Worthington park with new officers installed. Mrs. Juanita Bailey presided in the president’s absence and announced committee appointments for the coming year. Members voted to pay 250 on the hospital pledge and planned the next meeting for October.
Worthington Future Farmers of America entertained parents at a Thursday night fish fry held at the Logan Holmes recreation hall. Sixty five members and guests attended the dinner and program featuring colored slides by Alvin Keller. Mr Holmes spoke about Africa and native customs, noting that African fathers prefer daughters for cattle and marriage exchanges.
A Sunday family dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Gray honored Mrs. Eva Gray who is living with them. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gray of Cleveland Ohio Mr. and Mrs. Zinley and daughters Tonna and Kay of Ziegler Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gray of Herron Illinois and Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Meredith of Indianapolis. Afternoon visitors were Mrs. Emma Flynn and Dr. V C Bull of Linton.
An advertisement touts Blue Lustre as a major home carpet cleaning advance. It claims easy use with vacuuming, foam application via brush applicator, and drying before another vacuum pass. Hamilton Drug Stores markets the product as an early national offering.
Vera M. Wilson, former Greene county resident now of Odon, elected president of the Seventh District of the Women’s Auxiliary to the VFW at Worthington encampment. She has served four years in the organization and will be installed at the June 16 to 20 Department Encampment in South Bend. Priscilla Voyles of Bloomfield and Ruth Crist of Clay City named secretary and color bearer No. 4.
Linton couple attends a wedding in Murray Kentucky at the First Methodist church. The bride is a Murray State College graduate class of 1954 and the groom Max Henry Brandon from Hazel Kentucky who serves in the U S Army at Temple Texas. They plan to make their home after the ceremony.
Porter County farmers faced a crisis as a truck driver helped a state farmer after a critical incident in Valparaiso Indiana. Details are incomplete but the event shows a driver acting to save a life amid panic and danger.
Plan defense test announced for Indiana with PE counties to participate in a National Civil Defense exercise in June 1911. Frederick T. Cretors said today Greene County is not included.
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