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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1950
Page
6
The Passion Play at the Zora Temple in Terre Haute draws many Linton residents over four days. Will Elson, a well known local jeweler, lies critically ill at his East Vincennes Street home. The Linton Sullivan bus line increases service to five trips daily each way to Terre Haute.
The Mark Master and Past Master degrees will be conferred Saturday evening by the Linton chapter No. 132, Royal Arch Masons, at the local lodge hall. Lafayette chapter No. 3 of Lafayette will be in Linton to confer the degrees. Local officials said the visiting chapter has plans for the ceremony.
A local notice notes a generous invitation to Royal Arch Mason Companions to attend an upcoming event. The statement praises a fine degree team and mentions the positive impact of their visit on the community project.
Detroit ceded its ranking as the nation's fourth largest city to Los Angeles. Detroit's 1950 population reached 1,837,617, up 13 percent from 1940, while Los Angeles stood at about 1,954,036, ahead by roughly 116,419.
Indiana welcomes summer with possible thunderstorms and below normal temperatures. Official arrival at 5:37 p.m. CST, as the Indianapolis Weather Bureau forecasts showers today and tomorrow. Daytime highs range from 76 in the north to 86 in the south, with nighttime lows about 60.
The AFL Switchmen's Union calls 4000 switchmen to strike at 6 am local time on June 25 against Great Northern Chicago Great Western Rock Island Denver Rio Grande Western and Western Pacific to push a 40 hour week with no pay cut while railroads dispute the move. Union President Arthur Glover says the strike is legally permitted under the National Railway Labor Act.
Dagwood Bumstead of Blondie is named the outstanding American father by the Boys' Clubs of America for Father’s Day. Other top fathers include President Truman Jackie Robinson Bing Crosby and George Washington with assets centering on sharing activities and time with children.
The Greene County Council authorized a 2000 special appropriation to buy ground from Di hone Coen of Linton for the Freeman Greene county hospital project and approved 50000 to apply toward hospital improvements. No action was taken on selling the county home east of Bloomfield due to lack of information. the home has been unused since the west wall collapsed and former inmates are now in Vigo county care.
Simon Porter Walls of French Lick and Bertha Ann Richards of Linton received a marriage license from the Greene circuit court clerk in Bloomfield.
A series of hospital notes report premature births in Worthington with incubator care for both a 3 pounds 3 ounces girl and a 3 pounds 4 ounces boy born to Tackett and Stallings respectively. Other births include a 5 pounds 15 ounces girl to Mrs. Oliphant, plus multiple admissions, recoveries, and transfers among Lyons, Switz City, Lin ton, and surrounding towns.
Lloyd H. Sidener a Canton Illinois miner says he will move his wife and two children to Florida due to threats after a coal strike dispute. The United Mine Workers had fined him and ordered him off the job but later revoked the penalty. He has worked only two days since. Sidener hopes to relocate as his wife Argyle nears a nervous breakdown. He may accept outside Canton employment.
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