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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1960
Page
2
Bloomington program schedule shows Indiana University segments at 3 00 and 4 30 with Milady Matinee and Popeye. Evening lineup includes Roy Rogers Life of Riley You Asked For It and Mike Wallace plus Movie features and late news and a Gray Ghost lineup.
TV guide style listing for WTHI Channel 10 in Terre Haute Indiana shows Jeanne Smith news early, then Capt Kangaroo and Lucy programs, soap operas including Guiding Light and World Turns, talk and game shows such as Millionaire and Verdict Is Yours, with news weather and sports segments and later schedules featuring Rawhide and Ringling Circus.
Indiana station WFBM TV Channel 6 schedules a full day of programming including Today Weather Dr Malone and news blocks. Evening lineup features Burns Allen Truth Or Consequences Loretta Young and a packed sports and entertainment sequence with Cavalcade of Sports Jack Paar Masquerade Party and Behr Theater.
New York review notes Heidi Krall stars as Tosca with Walter Cassel as Scarpia and Davis Cunningham as Mario. Wilfred Pelletier conducts. production blends Napoleonic plot with Mussolini era Rome, trimming political context and diminishing impact. Despite fine singing, the review criticizes anachronistic staging and predicts ABC may repeat such ventures.
Washington UPI reports the Association of American Railroads says railroads spend 58 cents of every sales dollar on labor and fringe benefits. This compares with 42 cents in mining, 32 cents in communications and utilities, and 27 cents in general manufacturing.
Norma L. Linton, Clerk, Greene Circuit Court notes petition by Kaona Faye Pedwell to fix time and place of birth. Hearing scheduled for June 13, 1960. Dated June 1, 1960 with court seal.
Hallie Thurman Goodman has filed to set the time and place for a matter in Greene Circuit Court. Norma J. Linton Clerk notes the date as June 1 1960 with notice published 6/2 and 6/9.
Hospital report lists new mothers and newborns in the Bloomfield and Linton vicinity. Mrs Verlin Pearson welcomes a baby boy weighing five pounds six ounces unnamed. Mrs Bert Bredeweg of Lyons gives birth to a son Thomas Jay weighing seven pounds thirteen ounces.
Weekend evangelistic service at Indiana Prairie Baptist church Carlisle rural route June 17 18 19 speaker Rev Robert Joseph Burgbacker assistant pastor Sullivan Baptist church Schedule Friday 8 00 pm Saturday 6 30 pm banquet and 8 00 pm service Sunday 8 00 pm panel discussions Reservations for the banquet to Miss Nina Wilson Carlisle route two Invitation extended to youths aged 12 to 25.
UPI reports voting machine manufacturers anticipate record sales this year with over 105,009 machines to be in use this fall, up from 89,000 in 1959. Machines will be installed in about 77 of the nation's largest 100 cities under Rockwell Manufacturing Co Automatic Voting Machine Division.
Mrs. Carol St Clair Keister 33 died June 3 in Indianapolis. Funeral services were held Monday in Indianapolis. She was the daughter of Rosa Carroll St Clair and sister of Walter St Clair. She is survived by husband Robert Keister and her mother. She was a niece of Mrs. James W. Frye of Sandborn.
The Indians beat the Red Sox 8 5 in a doubleheader to move into first place. Klippstein earned the save in the first game and has allowed only two earned runs in 19 2 3 relief innings. Other AL results included the Yankees over the White Sox and the Senators over the Athletics, while the Pirates led the NL with a win over the Cubs and the Giants edged the Reds. Mantle homered twice for New York in a separate win.
Pittsburgh 5 Chicago 3 San Francisco 2 Cincinnati 1 Philadelphia 5 St. Louis 4. Los Angeles 4 Milwaukee 1. Cleveland 8 Boston 7 first night. Cleveland 5 Boston 2 second night. Washington 8 Kansas City 6 night. Detroit 2 Baltimore 0 night. New York 6 Chicago 0 night.
A 40 story high lost balloon titled Skyhook Glynco drifts near the California Mexico border at 80 000 feet. FBI observer at El Centro reports to deputies who contact Chance Vought tracking station at El Centro Auxiliary Naval Air Station about a cargo of cosmic ray information.
In Culver Indiana a two vehicle crash at the junction of Indiana 17 and 10 killed Mildred Lawrence 59 of Winamac and injured Phyllis Shields 27 of Evanston Illinois and her daughter Kimberly five. The three were taken to Osteopathic Hospital in South Bend in fair condition. State Police said Lawrence ran a stop sign on new Indiana 17 and collided with the Shields auto traveling on Indiana 19.
Readable text notes that most of the wood used to make pencils comes from southern Oregon and northern California, highlighting regional supply sources for pencil manufacture.
The Linton Iron and Metal team defeated the Elks club 20 to 9 and the Western Auto squad beat Citizens' National Bank 15 to 6 at the Linton Boys League diamond with games listed for 5 30 and 7 30 p m
Indianapolis columnist Cadou recalls the 1920 Republican convention in Chicago where Warren G. Harding emerged as dark horse nominee. He notes current 1960 dynamics with Nixon, Rockefeller, Kennedy, and possible rivalries among Johnson Symington Stevenson Brown and Humprey. Indiana delegates bound on first ballot.
Local residents report a weekend of gatherings with relatives and friends across Greensburg Linton Dugger and Elwood. Families from Sandborn and surrounds visited kin in Sullivan Middletown Evansville and Indianapolis with hospital transfers and a two week Ontario vacation planned by several couples.
West Germany produced 520,871 cars and trucks in the first quarter of 1960, a 308 percent rise from the same period in 1959. Exports fell from 49.8 percent to 47.7 percent, with 248,304 vehicles exported in the period.
A 4 cent first class stamp sent by train covers about 512 miles while railroads receive less than half a cent from that stamp. The Association of American Railroads reports on the movement cost and distance.
A columnist recalls a disastrous turtle hunting and cooking mishap. The narrator details catching a turtle with a rifle, dressing it with improvised tools, a porch blood spill, a two hour preparation, and a kitchen geyser from a pressure cooker. Cautions readers to avoid dangerous culinary experimentation.
In Anderson Indiana Ralph W Pinkerman 55 of Richmond drowned when a fishing boat capsized in a stone quarry. His companion Harvey Noble Richmond pushed the boat to Pinkerman and swam for help but Pinkerman drowned before rescue could arrive.
Nolan J. Wilson who lives with Milared on Sullivan route three was promoted to specialist four in Germany as a member of the 4th Armored Division. He serves in Headquarters Company of Combat Command B in Erlangen and entered the Army in September 1958.
Pro ducer-director Joshua Logan predicts Texas Van Williams will reach stardom by a single shower scene in Tall Story. Logan notes Williams appears briefly in a silent comedy moment seen by Jane Forida, and believes audiences will ask who he is and remember him.
The Linton Merchants of Greene County Babe Ruth league won 15 to 8 at the Ramae Diamond Ne Puesta. They trailed 6-0 in the second inning before rallying to take the lead. both teams had no errors.
A State Department official told Congress that peasant weariness in China could threaten the Communist regime. Assistant Secretary J. Graham Parsons warned of growing unrest among overworked masses, noting the Red Army is peasant-based. Censored testimony was released in U.S. hearings.
The article reports a U S glider pilot Schreder missing after a flight over the Baltic region and a search ending as a coastal station tracked a radio report from East Germany indicating he landed near Ruegen east of Lübeck. The fate remains uncertain as authorities assess the crash or landing location.
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