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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1946
Page
4
Los Angeles reports comic bid by Jim Moran to hatch a chick with a special hatching tune. Moran sits on the egg awaiting a 25 day period as Lou Bush works on a woodwind quartet for the blessed event. Ostrich farm owner C. J. Sweet notes Moran’s affection may bring a hatch soon.
Indianapolis June 20 auto insurance rates will rise up to 28 percent as crashes mount in Indiana. George E. Traut secretary of the Indiana Automobile Insurers Association says bodily injury liability up about 16 percent while property damage liability climbs about 28 percent. Traut notes the increases restore rates near prewar levels and mirror wartime reductions.
Staff Sergeant Mae Gardner of Linton paratrooper unit rises to first sergeant in Lifth Preht Inf medical detachment with the Eighth Army in Japan. Inducted November 3, 1944 at Camp Atterbury.
Sergeant Gardner joined the 11th Airborne division on Lipa Luzon in May 1945 and qualified as a paratrooper in June after the Luzon campaign. He is entitled to Asiatic Pacific Philippine Liberation Japanese Occupation and World War II Victory medals. A Midland High School 1944 graduate, his parents Mr and Mrs Floyd Gardner live in Linton.
Vacation Bible school commencement exercises will be held at the Assembly of God in West Linton Friday evening. One hundred eight pupils enrolled. A parade will form at 7 20 opposite Guy Richards store and march to the church with Christian and American flags singing hymns. A program of readings musical numbers and recitations precedes diplomas. Public invited by supervisor Mrs V L Stopps.
In Danville Indiana Episcopal leaders rename Central Normal College Canterbury College effective fall semester. Dr. Edgar C. Cummings says the change follows church control plans converting the school into a liberal arts college. Classes start September 25. new board of trustees named July 8 with church control commencing then.
Washington Indiana June 20 Aretta Cline 18 daughter of Rusell Cline of Montgomery dies from injuries after a car she rode in crashed into a concrete wall yesterday.
June 20 Bombay dispatch reports Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, president designate of the Indian National Congress, arrested by Kashmir authorities for entering the state in defiance of a ban. Unconfirmed accounts place the seizure near Domei village about 200 miles northwest of Lahore.
In Powell Wyoming the arid mild climate allows grasshoppers to continue hopping through the winter months.
Patrick Foley of Charles Town faced a thief who drew a pistol and demanded money in a Boston subway. Foley threatened the assailant with a hot cup of tea, causing the would-be robber to flee.
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