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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1950
Page
2
Fragmentary clippings recount a Virginia City saloon turned tourist site with old west bravado. A Midwest football team suffers seventh straight defeat as an ejected coach receives a cryptic note from a nun. A broadcasting VP jokes about hiding from an atom blast and zero radio activity.
United Press reports observers in Seoul say five years of Soviet domination has made North Korea worth at least $100,000,000 yearly to Russia. Based on refugees, captured soldiers, guerrillas, and North Korean propaganda, observers describe a productive, stable state with no unemployment and shifted labor to essentials.
Mrs. Winifred Heidenreich hosted Lutheran Hour Bible class. Mrs. Joe McIntosh visited her ill brother Van Crooke in Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Chaney of Indianapolis were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Orval Denton. Edd Slinkard and Mrs. Bertie Sappenfield attended Irvin Sappenfield’s funeral in Newton Illinois. Linda Deanne is noted as a new daughter in the community.
County hospital in Linton reports the third child in a local family. Numerous visitors and relatives are listed visiting in Linton Bicknell Bloomfield Terre Haute Indianapolis Aurora Bennsalear Scotland and nearby communities with names such as Clark Wolford Pittman MecCubbins Huffine Anthony Pickett Sipes Brookshire Ault Malone Townsend and Young among others.
Emperor Hirohito becomes the first Japanese emperor to submit poems to a popular magazine and have them accepted. In the United States Abraham Lincoln as President had a stand‑in to serve in the Union Army.
A new comer deer bolted onto the Omaha track early, startling horses and spectators. The animal darted across the course, sprinted the stretch, leaped the rail and disappeared, leaving track watchers surprised by the incident.
St Louis wins 4 to 2 over Philadelphia in a baseball game. Several other matches including Chicago at Brooklyn and Cincinnati at Boston were postponed. Pittsburgh at New York also postponed.
Yesterday's results list MLB scores Cleveland 7 Boston 3 Washington 4 St Louis 1 Philadelphia 8 Detroit 2 Chicago 5 New York 2. The first electrocution experiment in the U S was successfully performed in March 1889 on dogs cats and horses.
A Madison Avenue bus driver James Coyne orders all passengers off after a confrontation with a rude rider. The incident triggers a broader argument among New Yorkers about bus drivers and customer abuse, with opinions split between backing and criticizing drivers.
The Linton Merchants postponed their baseball game with the Bloomington Bobcats. Manager Lowery Millick announced the game will be played at 7:30 PM next Wednesday evening June 21 at the Linton diamond.
Joseph P. Kamp of the Constitutional Educational League appears before a House lobby committee in Washington to answer possible penalties for refusing to disclose financial information. Kamp had previously refused disclosure in 1944, was cited for contempt, and his conviction was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The center of U S population moved steadily west from Indiana in 1940 toward southern Illinois this year. Census mapping uses over a million maps locating every building, while auto statisticians estimate a 1910 tool era cat would cost about 60000. The thymus gland growth regulator is larger in a baby than in a grownup.
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