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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1950
Page
6
Items from the Linton Daily Citizen dated corresponding dates in 1930 highlight local events and notable occurrences from two decades prior, reflecting community concerns and milestones during that era.
Henry W Wilson a longtime watchmaker and jeweler from Linton is badly injured after a fall at his daughters home south of Bloomfield Indianapolis markets report hogs 160 to 300 pounds selling 9.75 cows bring 5.50 to 7.00 heifers under 9.00 good canners and cutters 2.50 to 4.50 Russell G East Worthington born boy is elected president of the National Railway Development Association an agricultural specialist
Hogs 10,000 head with slow bidding. Light and medium barrows and gilts opened 50-75 lower as early bids emerged.
Early sales steady with good and choice cattle weights 170-240 lbs at 19.75 to 20.25 and 240-300 lbs at 18.25 to 19.75. Later bids centered around 20.00 with heavier weights unsold. Cattle totals 2,000 calves 500, all slaughter classes active. steers and heifers steady with 1300 lb steers at 31.50 and yearlings 30.00-30.50. Vealers active 27.50-28.50. sheep 200 head with 84-90 lb lambs at 27.00 and ewes 7.00-11.00.
The Greene County Council met at the Bloomfield courthouse and planned to continue sessions tomorrow as additional appropriations were discussed.
Indianapolis residents Fannie Black and Emma Vaughn died in wrecks in the Indianapolis and Lawrenceburg areas. Ralph Pond faced licensing charges after a collision. Princeton saw a fatal car truck crash involving Herman Hatcher. In South Bend a $100 monthly pension plan for Studebaker workers was unanimously approved by Local 5 CIO UAW, pending stockholder approval.
Grover Walters 19 lifelong Worthington resident died at 7 00 AM Monday in Indianapolis Methodist Hospital after two weeks illness from nephritis. Born March 22 1931 he attended Worthington schools. Survived by mother Juanita Faulk Whaley Solsberry and Faulk grandparents E Byrd Faulk Worthington plus several Whaley half siblings and Aunts. Body to Myers Funeral home then grandparent home before noon Wednesday. Funeral 2 00 CST Wednesday at the funeral home Rev Roy Bridwell officiating burial Worthington cemetery.
More than 25 circuit judges and attorneys from nine counties were subpenaed by the Indiana Supreme Court to testify for Sullivan Circuit Judge Norval K. Harris at his contempt of court pre sentence hearing. Subpenas were sent to sheriffs at Harris request. The hearing at the state capitol will decide the penalty for Harris for violating a court order against appointing a special prosecutor.
The body of four year old Jimmy Knaus found in Lake Michigan after he vanished Monday afternoon when his mother refused him ice cream. A playmate told police he saw Jimmy fall into the water prompting a lake dragnet by about ninety officers in Rogers Park Chicago near the Suzanne Degnan case site.
A suit seeking $173.04 in damages was filed today in Greene circuit court at Bloomfield. Plaintiffs Andy A. Roudebush and State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Co. allege an accident occurred June 22, 1948, nine miles west of Logansport involving defendant Chester G. Lundy Jr.
Evidence in the divorce case of Jesse Ray Ellis versus Eva Lucille Ellis, filed September 19 1949, was being heard today in Greene circuit court at Bloomfield. Evidence was presented this morning and continued this afternoon.
Secretary of State Dean Acheson said President Truman's Point Four program will curb communism, especially in Asia. In a speech at the 42nd governor's conference in White Sulphur Springs West Virginia he urged bipartisan support, calling technical aid not philanthropy and stressing its aim to foster world peace by helping underdeveloped areas solve basic needs.
Acheson discussed a program aimed at strengthening community life including health sanitation and agriculture. He warned it has faced cynical demands and hinted at sinister philanthropy. He cited nine new governments since World War II near Russia or China and 600 million people, suggesting citizens will accept temporary disruption for peace.
Notes record the first English epic oral and literary work a poem dating to about 657. The text outlines the creation and fall of Satan in early medieval religious poetry.
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