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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1948
Page
6
On Tuesday June 22 Illinois miners grow restless over long idleness and threaten a revolt and the formation of a new union. A meeting in St. Louis has been called to discuss the action and organize.
The GOP convention moved toward Dewey with Speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr. elected chairman and rules limiting speeches. Georgia's 166 vote pro Dewey delegation seated, Taft faction rebuffed. Stassen denies deals as McCormick hints at a Taft Stassen ticket while Baldwin and Bolton fuel morning oratory.
The Georgia delegation loyal to Taft announced it will appeal the credentials committee’s decision to seat a pro Dewey group at the fall Republican convention.
In Tel Aviv today Israeli forces clashed with Irgun Zvai Leumi dissidents trying to land arms, killing six Irgun men and wounding fourteen, while Haganah reported two killed and three wounded. The Irgun ship then beached in Tel Aviv harbor amid continued gunfire along the waterfront.
Lee Grass Jr and Willard McKinley paid fines of 10 dollars total each for speeding over 45 mph in Linton Court. State Policeman Ned Woodward of Sullivan arrested them on state road 54 after clocking 58 mph in the trucks.
Raymond Wheat, 40, a timber man from Clinton, Indiana, was killed at Green Valley Coal mine north of Terre Haute when a compressed air shell gun shot ricocheted from a coal wall and struck his head. Witnesses said death was instantaneous.
William G. Overman of Switz City was admitted to Freeman-Greene county hospital Monday afternoon with a badly mangled left foot after a hay load fall at the Joe Spencer farm. A tractor wheel injured his foot ankle and leg.
Dave Brown of Terre Haute and Stanley Frazier also in Terre Haute last week. Nellie Robbins of Carlisle visited Rena Broshears in Dugger while Raymond Pigg and his wife traveled to Sullivan and Dugger over the weekend. Effie Pigg visited Sullivan, Rex Reed from Indianapolis visited Dugger, and William Collins from Anderson spent Saturday in Dugger.
Heat and humidity sweep Indiana with highs near 94 expected in Indianapolis and scattered showers across counties. Evansville reached 93, Terre Haute 90, and other cities posted 81 to 86 amid a forecast of warm, humid conditions and possible thundershowers. Rain totals exceeded two inches in Anderson while Monticello and Wabash saw significant rainfall.
Revision of the March Against Cancer educational booklet starts this week at the Indiana University campus. Mrs. Francis Haseman Greene County Chairman of the Indiana Cancer Society announced. The 1946 official bulletin prepared for the State Department of Education has distributed 23 000 copies to high school teachers 20 000 to Hoosier schools.
Linton Fire department personnel reported a supposed residence fire east of the waterworks plant at about 10 30 this morning. After the truck departed the station, the caller said the fire was already extinguished, and the crew crowded back once realizing they could not locate the blaze.
Six automobiles were damaged or wrecked last night along a two mile stretch of U S Highway 30 near Grovertown when rain caused cars to slip off the pavement into a dropoff. Drivers included Claude Buddy Young, Chicago football player.
A young deer, likely lost, was spotted by Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Stridelmeier in the Nine Mile area northeast of Linton. It dodged an electric fence after a jolt then leaped a four foot barrier, and appeared to come from the west amid state deer releases in Greene county a few years ago.
A notice today announced a meeting of the Order of Eastern Star to be held Monday night in Ellettsville. Linton members planning to attend should reserve for the banquet by noon Wednesday and arrange transportation by calling the listed telephone numbers. The Ellettsville lodge will be inspected at the meeting.
Wheat and corn show strength with multiple grades listed and car receipts noted. Oats and soybeans show firmness with prices given for No 2 and No 3 grades and FOB Indiana Illinois carload lots at 4.00.
Miss Anne Gill Klink of Lin ton has poetry in Talent Songwriters and Poets of 1947, a Haven Press New York City book. Publishers note thousands of manuscripts worldwide and praise authors with prior publications and notable volumes, as Klink seeks a fall edition.
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