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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1938
Page
4
A brief item notes state regulations and reports that the squirrel population will be plentiful this year. The text also quips that a boy stood on a burning deck, suggesting heat and inconvenience for a possible sit down.
Fourteen property transfers occurred in Greene county over the last week per county recorder Verna Henry. Transactions include Henry Warren estate to Wilbur Warren for 40 acres in Richland township and Mid-Continent Mining Corp to John C. Miles for four acres in Wright township among others in Linton Jasonville Owensburg and Lyons areas.
Four defendants failed to appear for four cases docketed before City Judge Phil E. Paine in Coral Gables. Paine had announced he would dismiss charges on his birthday if defendants did not miss appearances, but bonds were forfeited after they did not appear.
The Workers Alliance Local No. 6278 expresses gratitude to both members and nonmembers for recent funeral fund donations. Ethel Risher serves as treasurer of Loew B S in Linton.
Ninety recruits from over 1,200 applicants will report June 15 at Indiana University Bloomington for five and a half weeks of training. Don F. Stiver notes 40 will join city police duty. average age 24, height 5 ft 11.5 in, weight 175 lb, mental test average 90.3 percent. 45 percent have college work. faculty includes IU professors and Northwestern Traffic Safety Institute experts.
Crew of the Stonepool arriving in Sydney from Cardiff recount tales of a haunted voyage. A previous sailor hanged himself in the cabins, and crew report ghastly eyes, missing hands, and injuries on deck. Two crew members were hospitalized amid illnesses and nerve fatigue. Cockroaches were rampant as the crew endured five weeks on tinned meat and beans.
Bloomington June 13 Ross Bartley former White House correspondent for the Associated Press and promoter of the Chicago World Fair will become director of the Indiana University News Bureau on July 1 Bartley directed publicity for the World Fair and has held multiple AP posts He once served as secretary to Dawes and was Landon campaign press representative backing Harding era coverage and the Wal cago world fair push.
A UCLA poll compares showgirls from Gold Diggers in Paris with California coeds on dates. It covers costs per date, flowers, double dating, drinking, introductions, blind dates, age preferences, and experiences with being stood up, highlighting showgirls' higher date costs and selective dating patterns.
A get-together of horseshoe pitchers from Linton and nearby areas will occur at 7 pm Tuesday at the city park courts. The Linton club will face Jerico in their next league match after drawing a bye this week.
We thank friends and neighbors for kindness during Laura Hall illness and death. Grateful for floral tributes and support from Baptist church lodges clubs and neighbors. Special thanks to Baptist quartet Rev Harry J. Bailey Earl T. Aikin James E. Clayton and M J Aikin & Son Funeral Home.
Mr and Mrs J P Colvin visited Princeton to see Colvins mother who is seriously ill at the home of her daughter Mrs Thomas Dawson.
Dr and Mrs Lloyd Pope and son Lowell attended a session of the Indiana Chiropractors Association held at the Lincoln Hotel in Indianapolis Sunday.
Singapore June 13 Authorities move to defend Penang as Britain expands Far East naval air facilities. Fort Cornwallis remains open space while reclamation, barracks, an aerodrome and office building rise. Penang R A F aerodrome and Sungei Patani on the mainland form key coastal defenses. Kota Bahru will gain a third aerodrome on the Malay Siam border.
Livestock sales: 7 000 hogs with holdovers 148. Barrow and gilt prices 15 cents higher on average. Lights eight to nine dollars, mediums nine, heavies around 8.75 to 8.90. Sows steady near 7.75 to 8.50. Cattle: 1 200 head, calves 700. Grain fed steers and first quality heifers steady. cows down 25 cents. Top steers about 9.00 to 9.75, fed heifers 8.60 to 9.25, fat cows 0.50 to 6.50. Vealers 0.50 lower, top 9.00.
A note suit was filed in Greene circuit court by Wilbur Baldwin as receiver of the First National Bank of Linton against Millard Cullison and Gertrude Cullison. A marriage license was issued June 11 to Clyde Kelley and Albertia Quimby. Unsound mind proceedings were filed June 10 by Pearl Wolf Blanton against Ella Wolf.
Mr and Mrs William Goldberg of this city attended a dinner at the Jewish Synagogue in Terre Haute. The meal celebrated the founding of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Synagogue forty five years ago and noted Mrs Hyman G Goldberg was its first president.
Members of the Intermediate department of the First Christian church school will hold a wiener roast Tuesday evening. All members are asked to meet at the church at 5 30 o clock and to bring their own marshmallows and wieners.
Citations from tobacco growers praise Camel as using finer tobaccos and buying better leaves. John Durham Jr. and Calvin Wiggins assert Camel purchases the finest basket crops, and many growers smoke Camels themselves. They emphasize Camel's use of costlier tobaccos and quality.
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