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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1938
Page
6
A bank checking account offers practical advantages for vacation use and year round use. It reduces the risk of carrying large sums, provides a safe way to send funds and pay bills, and gives receipts and accurate record keeping for disbursements.
Hoosier anglers can expect prime fishing when the open season starts Thursday morning June 16 according to Virgil M. Simmons commissioner of the department of conservation. Streams and lakes are in good condition with a record batch of game fish from the spawning season and fast growth of last year’s plants. Open waters include two Brown county state game preserve lakes and two Morgan Monroe state forest lakes where boats are not allowed. Pre opening celebrations occur at Monticello LaGrange Syracuse and Jasonville with Wednesday night programs and conservation exhibits. The trout season runs until August 31 and licensing rules require a fishing license for most, with exemptions for under 18 and farm land owners or tenants fishing on their farms.
May data show 1,766 direct and about 3,532 indirect jobs on the state road system. T. A. Dicus notes the May report covers contractors and that additional projects started since then will raise totals in June. Peak employment is expected in July and August.
Charles P. Field reports an unusually multi locked cotton boll on his Mesilla Park farm. County Farm Agent R. Foster notes most valley cotton yields five locks, while Field’s boll features seven.
Indianapolis June 15 NYA project employees under local government sponsorship will paint and recondition street signs and erect new markers across the state. In Fort Wayne 15 NYA boys are installing signs and repainting existing ones while 18 youths repaint and repaint about 2500 signs stored in the old city garage in Muncie.
Hog receipts 5 000 holdovers 383 market steady to 15 cents higher lights 7 75 8 75 mediums 8 90 9 15 heavies 8 65 8 80 packing sows steady to mostly 7 60 8 25 Cattle 900 calves 700 trading slow all classes steers heifers cows weak bulk steers 8 25 9 25 most heifers 7 70 9 00 venters steady top 9 00 Sheep 500 market generally steady bulk good and choice spring lambs 8 50 9 00 slaughter demand steady at 3 00 down
Australia plans to send a warship to the 1939 San Francisco International Exposition in recognition of the United States gesture in sending four cruisers for Australia’s 150th anniversary celebration.
Two Linton-Stockton high school graduates received top honors at Franklin college exercises in Franklin. Frances Ruby Meurer earned graduation with distinction while Helen Louise Meurer received magna cum laude and the class of 1926 scholarship cup for highest four year scholastic record. Dr Paul Lamont Thompson of Shurtleff College gave the commencement address. Attendees from Linton included Mr and Mrs Frank Letterman, Mrs Will Elson, and Mrs David Shields.
Washington debates expanding surplus programs to aid unemployed families with clothing milk and food. FSCC costs cited at 160 million in five years as plans grow to knit quilts from cotton and boost baby milk distribution. Roosevelt and Wallace seek nourishment and dairy priority amid political maneuvering in Iowa and Minnesota.
Pierce Cummings of English pleaded guilty to assault and battery in Greene circuit court Bloomfield. He received a $25 fine plus costs after striking Donald Sparks of Bloomfield with a coke bottle on the night of June 11. The bottle broke when it fell to the pavement.
In Miami on June 15 Franklin Pierce McCall plans to describe in circuit court the kidnaping of five year old Jimmy Cash to avoid the electric chair. McCall pleaded guilty and faces possible death. his defense plans to call the 21 year old farm youth as a witness after James B Coch Sr testified. The case centers on a kidnapping from a Princeton Florida home and the death of Jimmy Cash.
Adelaide student John Perkins, age 20, rode a thousand miles on horseback to Canberra to attend the Australian Institute of Political Science summer school, showing serious commitment to politics.
Two coal miners trapped 800 feet underground for 45 hours were rescued in Ashland Pennsylvania. Fever Shinkowsky aged 52 and his 18 year old son Peter Jr. walked out with rescuers and were taken to Ashland State Hospital in good condition. Doctor R L Duffy reported the son weakened but father unhurt.
Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper star in a romantic comedy at Grand Theatre. The plot follows a man with many marriages who is subdued by his eighth wife and becomes her obedient servant, with light humor and spontaneity.
The Sher-Ritz Theatre brings back the sensational Hell Divers for a two day engagement tonight. Wallace Beery and Clark Gable star with Conrad Nagle Marjorie Rambeau Marie Prevost and Cliff Edwards in a dramatic aviation romance filled with government filmed naval air thrills.
Lee Gamble a power shovel operator on a state highway project uncovered an ancient burial ground two feet beneath the surface near Mesa Arizona. The finder described pottery corn grinders and crumbling bones unearthed in the site along the Salt River.
A letter from Hazel Taylor of Largo Florida states her father Will E Naugle is improving after an operation in a St Petersburg hospital. She reports his condition as wonderful and that he may leave hospital this week with hope for several peaceful years ahead.
Indianapolis expert B K Shallenberger will demonstrate his method for ruptures at the Roosevelt Hotel in Linton on Saturday June 18 from 8:50 a.m. to 2:50 p.m. The method promises rapid opening contraction, quick return to work, and a durable shield that can be worn during bathing. Indianapolis fittings by appointment only at 1733 N Meridian Street.
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