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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1959
Page
2
A scrambled listing shows June weekend lineups with music at Music For You and Famous Playhouse, matinees at Milady's, film hours at Hollywood Movies, and children’s acts like Randy & Friends and Little Rascal. TV news, supper hours, and oddities fill the daily guide with theatrical and radio fare.
Channel 10 in Terre Haute features a daytime lineup with Industry on Parade at 4 00 and Sadie Stories at 4 15 followed by News at 6 00 and Weather at 6 10. Evening programming includes Deng Edwards Baerin Crisis Yancy Derring Zane Grey Playhouse 90 News and Closeup culminating with The Thin Man and Late Show.
NBCs This Is Your Life closes its season with Dick Clark as the subject a portrait of the ABC TV star hailed as Americas No 1 disc jockey host Clark dominates five afternoon shows a Saturday night program and upcoming specials His appeal rests on a clean cut image a strategic grouping of teen audiences and a relentless do what works philosophy The piece suggests Clark embodies the rise of the young organization man and reflects a melancholy tone about his influence and the TV culture surrounding him.
John F. Stoelting 78 a Freelandville lifelong resident died at Turner Nursing Home Vincennes after years of ill health. Funeral 2:09 p m Friday at Strate Funeral Home Freelandville with Rev Paul Lammers officiating burial Bethel Church cemetery. Survived by widow Anna Hedenreich Stoelting two sons Dr W P Stoelting Sandborn and Dr Richard Stoelting Ligoner two brothers Dr O C Stoelting Syracuse and Walter Stoelting Weemhal a sister Mrs Hilda Grabbe Becknell three grandchildren and one great grandchild. Body at funeral home Freelandville.
Pirtle director asks parents and others to bring band members to Linton-Stockton High School at 12:30 Sunday for transportation to Roomfeld parade. Officials urge cooperation to ensure team attendance at Pioneer Days event.
Japan's electronics industry, already the world reader with production valued at 555 million dollars in 1958, is expected to double that figure by 1962.
Judge Edwin B. Long presided in Greene circuit court this morning delivering multiple outcomes. June Lambermont seeks a restraining order and decree modification against Charles Lambermont with a June 27 hearing set. Willard Lynch pleaded guilty to driving with revoked license, receiving $25 fine and costs and two days in county jail. Carl Beaupain seeks a restricted license to travel from Jasonville Route 1 to Crane Naval Ammunition Depot. David Hickman and Burdette Taylor face petit larceny trespass and conspiracy charges over tires taken from Earl Arthur. Gilbreath named for Hickman’s defense and Taylor requests counsel. trial date not set.
Louis Armstrong known as Satchmo lay in a coma in grave condition in Spoleto Italy. Doctors reported he suffered a second relapse and was kept in an oxygen tent as bronchial pneumonia and heart complications worsened his state.
Thirty thousand citizens gathered in Seoul Stadium to mark the ninth anniversary of the Korean War. President Syngman Rhee did not attend but sent a message calling the day a disgrace and not one to be celebrated.
Federal tax receipts from the public including individuals and corporations have roughly doubled since 1950, when they totaled 41 billion dollars.
Kenneth G. McComber, a former missionary to Indonesia and Malaya now in the Philippines, will speak Friday at Linton Assembly of God and Saturday at Calvary Assembly of God in Dugger at 7 30 p.m. He recounts experiences and outlinesAssembly of God Missions progress in the Far East.
Four search parties converged on a Colombian airliner wreck in Bolognesi Province. The four engine DC4 operated by Avianca strayed from Miami and hit a mountain. Fourteen aboard, including six Americans, are believed dead. no survivors are expected.
Admissions include Kay Greene Sandborn Hote Haywood Brenda Sue Dant Linton Art Borders Ibert Baker and others. Dismissals list Richard Byers Fdoward Deckard Wilma Travis Dallas Foster and John E Crane. Transfers include Mrs Wilma Travis to an Indianapolis hospital.
Members of the Linton Indianola club gathered for a social afternoon hosted by Mrs. Clara Dudley. Attendees included Mesdames Gertie McMillan Sarah Holder Belle Keller Mary McAllister Hazel Storms Nellie Eskey Ethel Royer and Edna Utley. Refreshments were served. The next meeting is set for Lena Edmunds home on July 2.
Miss Corbin and Edward Colbrin announce their engagement. Mil dred Jeanette Corbin of San Francisco California and Edward Colbrin of Oakland California plan a fall wedding and to reside at Donner Summit. Mil dred Jeanette is a graduate of Linton Stockton High School and Central Business College Indianapolis and works for Parson's Optical in San Francisco. Colbrin is a Los Angeles University School of Structural Engineering graduate employed by the California Construction Company working at the Squaw Valley site of the 1960 Olympics.
Miss Sharon Padgett was guest of honor at a birthday party hosted by her mother Mrs Logan Padgett Saturday at their home. Guests enjoyed games and contests and photos were taken. Refreshments of cake ice cream and kool aid were served.
The Switz City Christian Woman’s Fellowship elected new officers at its June meeting. Mrs. Doyle Newsom became president with Mrs. Willam Richardson as vice president, Mrs. Vernon Carr as secretary, and Mrs. Elton Graves as treasurer. Worship chairwoman is Mrs. Herbert Hineman and lesson leader is Mrs. Richard Lindsey. The group studied the Middle East as devotions were led by Mrs. Carr. Fifteen members and five guests attended with refreshments served.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Runyan of Terre Haute welcomed a baby boy weighing eight pounds fifteen ounces on Tuesday at Union Hospital. Grandparents are Rex Stone of Linton and Lucy Lynn of Linton. mother is formerly Berniece Stone of Linton. Father’s, James Douglas Runyan, name confirms.
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