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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1941
Page
4
The note promotes individual safe deposit boxes to guard deeds, insurance policies, and valuable papers. It emphasizes a small price for security and encourages arranging a box now to know where valuables are kept.
Oaktown June 14 Othe Hennon 73 was found hanging in a rear shed Friday morning by his wife after a period of failing health and despondency. He stood on a crib rope around his neck and died about two hours before discovery. Survived by widow a son Ray in Honolulu Hawaii and daughters Rosalind Maxwell Dorinda Reel and Helen Howe funeral Sunday at 2 from the residence with burial in Oaktown cemetery.
Purdue university estimated Indiana wheat production as of June 1 at 31,680,000 bushels, up 800,000 from prior estimates and above the 10 year average. R. E. Transheim cited timely May rains boosting per acre yield to about 20 bushels, with mature conditions in many areas. Some regions reported loose smut red leaf and black stem rust, though damage not yet assessed.
Peru Nebraska U P reports that W I R Pate president of Peru to Teachers College joined nine adents in the school's student pilot training course.
The U P Latin American Editor reports a mounting world shipping shortage hindering Latin American trade with Europe. U.S. Maritime Commission expropriations reduce carrier availability from U.S. ports to the Caribbean and South America, risking further depletion amid the Battle of the Atlantic. Chilean nitrates and copper await ships, while talks on reciprocal trade pacts advance with Argentina and Uruguay.
Sail Lake Utah reports veteran umpire Josh Clark criticizes modern baseball players as soft and excuses as weak. Clark, a former major leaguer with the St Louis, Boston and Cleveland organizations, spent 21 years with Dreyfuss in Louisville and began umpiring in 1926. He plans to umpire until retirement.
Wright Field near Dayton announces a mobile floodlight system that hides airfields from enemy planes. Six 1,500 watt lamps on a four wheel drive truck provide a landing sector while boundary lights travel with the unit. Hoods reduce light spread and tests show landings without exposing the field.
The Army announced two more permanent flying cadet examining boards to support expanded pilot training in Ohio Kentucky West Virginia and Indiana. Boards opened at Bowman Field Louisville and Baerfield Fort Wayne with Patterson Field Dayton remaining as the only other board. Three traveling boards operate from Fort Hayes covering Ohio West Virginia Indiana and Kentucky. Applications for cadet scholarships paying 105 a month for 30 weeks lead to second lieutenant commissions with 245 monthly salaries. Physical exams are daily and educational exams every ninety days for youths ages 20 to 27.
The Willing Workers 4-H club in Switz City met at the school building with Reba McKee presiding. Demonstrations on set-on and set-in patches were given by Reba McKee and Etta Heaton. piano solos by Mary Lou Need and Patty Fines. a reading by Marie Roudebush. cake, muffins, and cookies judged. games played. refreshments served for 22 members and one guest.
Zed Gafford of Butler county exports prize bees to many parts of the world selling 3 500 000 this year. A majority of shipments went to Canada.
Dr C C Bass of Tulane University medical school developed a dead bacteria vaccine after isolating the quail disease that reduced Louisiana quail numbers to a low. Carrier birds were identified as a factor, and Bass created cages water systems and anti cannibalism measures. Louisiana fisheries and wildlife division call the vaccine highly beneficial for game wardens and breeders nationwide. Market notes follow with prices for cattle hogs lambs.
Hogs about 2,000 head sold in Indianapolis market with steady trend. Prices ranged from 9.65 to 29.85 for 160 to 250 lb pigs, 9.45 to 9.65 for 250 to 400 lb pigs, and 9.00 to 9.50 for 100 to 160 lb hogs.
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