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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1959
Page
2
The Daily Citizen carries program information supplied by stations but disclaims responsibility for accuracy and notes listings may change on short notice. This brief notice informs readers that schedules are subject to updates and should be verified.
TV guide style rundown lists shows and times for Friday June 12 Saturday June 13 and Monday June 15 at Witty Channel 4 in Bloomington Indiana with programs such as Famous Playhouse Milady's Matinee Bugs Bunny Popeye Abbott and Costello Boston Blackie 1960 News and Goodnight News and religious programs at Baptist Temple Church and Christian Science locations.
Television guide lists daily line up on WTHI Channel 10 with CBS News at 8, Captain Kangaroo, I Love Lucy and multiple soap operas. Evening schedule includes News, Weather, sports discussions, Wild West shows, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Lawrence Welk and Late Show. Local newscasts, weather updates, and special programming fill the day.
William Ewald lauds Mandel’s Project Immortality for CBS Playhouse 90 as a tightly crafted, compassionate tale. The dying genius’s legacy passes to a young man, transforming him into a fuller human being within a vivid family setting.
Governor Handley urged a tougher license program at the Indiana Editor and Publisher Highway Traffic Safety Seminar. He called for psychiatric evaluations for some drivers, stronger point systems, and expanded use of radar and other scientific tools to catch violators.
A three day rainy spell will affect Indiana and neighbor states with lingering showers across portions of Arkansas northern Mississippi and western Tennessee while storms extend from eastern Nebraska to northern Wisconsin. Reports of tornado funnels came from Festus Missouri and Green Bay Wisconsin with no damages recorded. Tin cans again topped last year only by oil and beer in consumer usage data.
A family expresses gratitude to all who offered support during the illness and passing of their husband and father, noting heartfelt appreciation for comforting gestures and prayers. They ask for continued thoughts and privacy.
In Wabash Indiana two youths escaped from White's Institute prompting a large air and ground search. A companion stayed behind. State Police used two planes and a helicopter while a ground posse formed. Howard Lutz reported being fired upon and his wife held at gunpoint by the youths who fled with a .22 rifle.
The text notes a Cuban land reform plan to cap holdings at 1,000 acres affecting U S sugar firms. Tobacco farmers in Pinar Del Rio threaten open rebellion over land division. Cattle growers fund public campaign against the reform as the government proceeds.
Admissions listed include Mrs Earl Corbin of Odon who gave birth to a son named John weighing five pounds ten and a half ounces. Also admitted were Mrs Hazel Bradley Jasonville Mrs Morton Talley Worthington Mrs Stafford Duvall Crane Today Miss Betty Ann Brown Hymera Miss Linda Jane Ansorge Jacksonville. Dismissals include Mrs Ezra J Followell Hymera Mrs Clyde McIntosh Linton Greene Letsinger Phillip Wasnidge both of Jasonville and Mrs Darrell Martin and baby of Pleasantville.
A top strategy meeting between United Steelworkers Union negotiators and its international wage policy committee began today in an angry atmosphere.
The Evangelical United Brethren Bible school will present its commencement program during the 7:30 p m vesper service Sunday Rev J Clayton Stadler announced The theme is Living For Jesus in the Space Age Mrs Helen Hadley directed the school An invitation was extended to parents and the public The Sunday morning sermon topic will be Children
In Geneva Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko rejects withdrawing the new Berlin ultimatum and calls Western plans an ultimatum. He says Russia will not sign an agreement that preserves occupation rights in West Berlin including troop stations and access through East Germany. The stance defies pleas from Herter and Lloyd to drop the one year limit.
Malcolm H. Jewell 85 died unexpectedly at 5 30 am at the home of Mrs Josephine Hix son 640 A street northeast after more than four years of poor health. A retired farmer, he lived near Kennis Kansas over fifty years before moving to Linton to live with his sister Mrs Hixson on June 1 1958. He was born January 9 1874 in Highland township Greene county son of Henry T and Laura Allen Jewell. He is survived by three sisters Mrs Hixson Linton Mrs Della Reed Lewis and Mrs Edith Blume Indianapolis and several nieces and nephews. Six brothers and four sisters preceded him in death. The body is at Welch and Cornett Funeral home awaiting calling hours. it will be sent to Burns Funeral home Cherryvale Kansas. Funeral services will be held at Cherryvale Funeral home Tuesday at 10 30 am with burial in Harmony Grove Cemetery Mabett County Kansas.
James Rottmiller aged 16 of Kendallville drowned in Little Long Lake while cooling off with a Lutheran Church group. He was pulled from 10 feet of water as authorities noted he could not swim.
The Senate Rackets Committee accused Lake County deputy prosecutor Metro Holovachka of being an operating part of a criminal syndicate running vice and gambling in Calumet district Indiana. Chairman John L. McClellan urged removal of corrupt officials as Maj Paul Beverforden cited Lake County’s poor law enforcement record. Holovachka denied the source of $300,000 but asserted this inquiry invaded his privacy.
Mrs Alma Wills hosted the Saron United Church of Christ Service class meeting on Tuesday. The session opened with a hymn and prayer as members discussed projects and approved funds for CARE packages and Braille Bibles for the blind. Mrs Evelyn Kratzat and Mrs Reka Berns led the entertainment, and refreshments followed.
Norman Gene Johnson 32 of Boswell died when his car crashed into the rear of a large truck on US 41 two miles north of here. Trucker Earl Mattingly 46 of Louisville was uninjured.
Kris Babb eight month old son of Mrs Viola Babb of Logansport was killed Thursday night in a two car collision on U S 24 west of Logansport. Ten persons were injured in the crash.
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