Town News Briefs From Linton and Surrounding Areas
Police joke ends a quiet night at Linton headquarters when a large stray cat was found clinging to a window screen. The Greene County Band Festival returns March 19 with 280 musicians from area schools. Bowling tournament tales include an entrant fined for dumping a ball in the river after a bad score. A Kentucky mountaineer misreads time as dinner versus breakfast in a rural humor vignette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmondson
Oliver Melvin
Sterling, Ill
Melvin
Sterling City
Birth and Hospital Admissions Report From Local Area
A Newberry family welcomed a son named James born Thursday to Mrs. Elaine Wolford. Multiple residents including Bob Lemonds Emma Hasler Charles Lambermont Elsie Rogerson Leo Sinders Stephen Bertram Harry Hudson and others were admitted for treatment or underwent surgeries with several being discharged home to towns such as Solsberry Jasonville Linton Worthington and Bloomfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elaine Wolford
Newberry
James
Bob Lemonds
Emma Hasler
Bloomfield
Mary Cox
Baby
Solsberry
Terry Joe Shouse
Linton
Charles Dishman
St. Chanfield
Tributes Poured For Czech Leader Jan Masaryk In Prague Hall
Tens of thousands of mourners filed past the casket of Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk at Cernin Palace as he lay in state. Police and army reinforced crowds ahead of his burial beside his parents, while officials charged with state security clamped down on dissent and a separate report noted a prisoner’s death by his own hand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prague
Jan Masaryk
Cernin Palace
Cernin
Masaryk
Czechoslovak Republic
United States Information Service
George C. Marshall
Post Office
U. S
Communist Party
Rude Pravo
Josef Herod
Socialist Party
Moravia
Herod
Greene County High School Band Festival to Feature Massed Band
A massed band of at least 280 instruments will headline Greene County High School Band Festival at Linton High School gym next Friday March 19 at 8 pm. Eight county schools will participate with rehearsals scheduled for 6 45 pm next Wednesday. The program includes school bands Switz City Midland Jasonville Linton Salsbury Worthington Bloomfield and Lyons and a 2 pm elementary audience. H Lee Hope Notre Dame band director returns to guide the massed group. Admission 40 and 25 cents. students 10 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greene County High School
Linton Gymnasium
Linton
Solsberry
Worthington
Bloomfield
Lyons
Switzity
Midland
Jasonville
Greene County
Linton High School
Switz City
Salsberry
H. Lee Hope
Notre Dame University
New Hope Miners to Be Honored for Safety Record
The New Hope mine of the Linton Summit Coal Company will be honored with the John A Templeton Safety trophy. A 6 pm Saturday dinner and meeting at the Linton Elks Lodge will feature Harvey Cartwright presenting the award and a souvenir to each worker. Entertainment includes Three Haymakers Harris and Rouchelle Bozo Ward and a black magic act by Jimmy Trimble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Templeton
New Hope
Linton-Summit Coal Company
Linton Elks Lodge
Indiana Coal Operators Association
Templeton Mines
Indiana
Harvey Cartwright
Lynch Coal Operators Reciprocal Association
Grogan
Harris and
Rouchelle
Bozo Ward
Indianapolis
Jimmy Trimble
Terre Haute
Jimmy
Greene County Farm Bureau annual stockholders meeting authorized
About six to seven hundred people are to attend the Greene County Farm Bureau Co operative annual stockholders meeting at 7 pm Monday in the Switz City high school gymnasium. The Dixie Four quartet from WIBC Indianapolis will perform and M. D. Gill of the Indiana Grange will be the principal speaker. Refreshments will follow and directors for the year will be elected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greene County Farm Bureau Co-operative
Switz City
Dixie Four
WIBC
Indianapolis
M. D. Gill
Indiana Grange
Indianapolis Man Admitted for Major Surgery
Fred McPhail of Indianapolis was admitted to an Indianapolis hospital for major surgery according to word received here today by Mr McPhail's sisters Mrs Haldon Beasley and Mrs A C McPhail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred McPhail
Indianapolis
McPhail
Haldon Beasley
A. C. McPhail
Jury Deliberates in Meyers Perjury Case
A federal court jury begins deliberations on Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers charged with subordination of perjury. The case centers on alleged false testimony in a military inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bennett E. Meyers
Indianapolis
Indiana Alcoholic Beverage Commission
Chicago
CIO
Robert A. Taft
R. O
Fght
Jerusalem
Greene County Alcoholic Beverage Board Meeting Announcement
Applications for alcoholic beverage permits will be considered at a Greene County board meeting at 2 PM Thursday April 1 in the Bloomfield courthouse. Items include Dan Scully Lin ton package store Isabelle Cox Bloomfield dance permit Gale Lehman Jasonville post 172 American Legion club beer liquor and wine retailers permits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greene County Alcoholic Beverage Board
Court House
Bloomfield
Dan Scully
Linton
Isabelle Cox
Gale Lehman
Jasonville
American Legion
League bowling scores reported last night at Linton alleys
Scores posted from last night at Linton bowling alleys show teams and individuals with totals. Top marks include A Bemns 578 and Lucas 534 for Little Betty Haffley with a 2 1 record, while Double Cola Coulomb and Rader Sales each posted solid totals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linton
Double Cola — Coulomb
R. Laughlin
Pierce
P Moody
A. Bemns
Coca Cola — Collins
R. Gainey
L. Hughes
Bemis
B. Harbett
Little Betty
Haffley
G. Moody
Lucas
Shonk
Domie
Rader Sales — Hummel
Weisbecker
Rose
Bledsoe
Blind
Gray Wolf Found Near Washington Indiana
William Crutchfield was attacked by an animal believed to be a fox along a country road near his home in Washington Indiana. He killed the animal after clubbing it and had a neighbor skin it. The animal was identified as a gray wolf with no explanation for its presence in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ind
William Crutchfield
Crutchfield
Trusty Funeral To Be Saturday
Funeral services for David Earl Trusty four months old will be held at 10 o'clock Saturday morning at his grandparents home in Vicksburg Rev Albert McCammack will officiate and burial will be in Fairview Cemetery The body was moved from Welch and Cornett Funeral home to the grandparents home where friends may call
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Earl Trusty
Earl J. Trusty Jr
Vicksburg
Earl Trusty Sr
Albert McCammack
Fairview Cemetery
Welch and Cornett
Welch and Cornett Funeral Home
Friends
Five Gas Poisoning Victims Recover in Indiana
New Castle Indiana March 12 Five victims of gas poisoning recovering today after a neighbor’s quick call saved them Mrs Carl Harris found four adults and one child near death in the Bert Murrell residence A basement gas heater failure left three unconscious and the others weakened by fumes
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Castle
Ind
Carl Harris
Bert Murrell
Wilbur Struckmeyer Fined and Sentenced in Linton Court
Wilbur Struckmeyer of Linton was fined 200 dollars and costs and sentenced to six months at the Indiana State Penal Farm at Putnamville for public intoxication. He was arrested by Linton police and to be taken to the Penal Farm by Sheriff Charles Mansfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilbur Struckmeyer
Linton
Indiana
Putnamville
Arthur M. Grass
Struckmeyer
Greene County
Charles Mansfield
Cold Weather Breaks March 12 Records in Indiana and Nearby Areas
A bitter cold snap set a new March 12 low in Indianapolis and recorded lows across Indiana with Fort Wayne and Elliston noting near seven below and one above zero. The Weather Bureau predicted a warm up to five to ten degrees above in central areas and around 34 tomorrow afternoon as snow cleared highways and improved driving conditions.
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Mercury
Hoosier
Weather Bureau
Indiana
Fort Wayne
Indianapolis
Historic cold grips nation east of Rockies as calendar battles thermometer
March 12 brings cold records with Lakes Michigan area seeing 33 degrees and Cadil lac Michigan at -15 while Dodge City Kansas records -1 and Atlanta Georgia 35. Cadillac and Iowa City share coldest readings as others dip to -12 Burlington Vermont and -11 Findlay Ohio. Weather Bureau expects rapid warmup west to east by tomorrow night as blizzard conditions ease. An Air Force helicopter aided six oil field workers south east of Great Bend Kansas after being cutoff by 15 foot drifts, but the men walked out.
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Rocky Mountains
Lakes la
Cadillac
Mich
Dodge City
Kan
Atlanta
Iowa City
Burlington
Findlay
Grand Forks
N. D
St. Joseph
Quincy
Erie
Binghamton
N. Y
Syracuse
Weather Bureau
Middle West
Air Force
Great Bend
Chile asks UN Security Council to act on Czechoslovak crisis
Chile formally requested UN intervention in Prague after alleged Soviet supervision of the communist seizure of power. UN delegate Herman Santa Cruz filed a formal complaint with Secretary General Trygve Lie. The move targets a Council showdown over European communist expansion.
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Lake Success
N. Y
Chile
United Nations Security Council
Russo
Security Council
Russia
Europe
Herman Santa Cruz
Trygve Lie
Santa Cruz
Jan Papanek
Czechoslovakia
Prague
Aged man admits he killed wife in chicken dispute
An 83 year old man from Winimac Indiana told police from a hospital bed he killed his wife with a stove poker after she hit him first during an argument over chickens. Police report he claimed a struggle followed before she died.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winimac
Ind
John Highland
Highland
Paul Wilhelm
Pulaski County
James Bruce
Carneal Hospital
Mrs. Eliza Bowen Dies at Worthington
Mrs. Eliza Bowen 90 lifelong Greene county resident died at 9 10 a m Thursday at her Worthington home. Born April 5 1857 she was widow of Civil War veteran John Bowen. Survived by daughter Mrs H R Middleton Indianapolis sister Mrs Clara Conway Worthington nine grandchildren nine great grandchildren. Funeral 2 pm Sunday Myers Funeral Home Worthington Rev P E Roll officiating burial Worthington Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eliza Bowen
Greene County
Worthington
Bowen
John Bowen
Worthington Cemetery
Latter Day Saints to Hold District Conference Here
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints plans a district conference in the chapel at C and First Streets Northwest this Sunday. Auxiliary meetings begin at 9 AM with main sessions at 10 AM and 2 PM. Elder George Price of the Northern States Mission will preside and speak, with J Ellis Overlaid, district president of Southern Indiana, conducting. The public is invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of Jesus
Rist
Latter Day Saints
First Streets
George Price
Northern States Mission
J. Ellis
Southern Indiana
United States Federal
Terre Haute
Allee Family Returns From Pennsylvania Visit
Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Allee and granddaughter Eiona Ellen Atkerson have returned home after visiting Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Allee in Pennsylvania.
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T. C. Allee
Eiona Ellen Atkerson
Hugh Allee
Pennsylvania
Five Western powers agree to a 50 year military pact
Brussels March 12 Western Europe powers led by Britain and France approve a fifty year military alliance to halt communism. The pact binds Britain France Belgium the Netherlands and Luxembourg to automatic military aid if any is attacked and seeks economic social cultural and mutual assistance links with a Western bloc.
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Brussels
Britain
France
Radio Moscow
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Arctic
Mediterranean
Paris
Czechoslovakia
Finland
Brussells
International High Court
The
Hague
Retired Farmer Dies After Long Illness Near Worthington
Pious Need 79 died at his home south of Worthington shortly before midnight Thursday after a lingering illness. He was survived by his widow Minnie Strouse Need two brothers Sylvester Need of Worthington and Samuel Need of Bloomington and was preceded in death by one son Renos Need in 1926. Body to Meyers Funeral Home Worthington. Services Sunday at 1 pm conducted by Theron Castleman. Burial in Worthington cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pious Need
Worthington
Renos Need
Minnie Strouse Need
Sylvester Need
Samuel Need
Bloomington
Meyers
Theron Castleman
Worthington Cemetery
Holiness Group to Gather for Greene County Meeting
The Linton Pilgrim Holiness church hosts the Greene County Holiness association evangelistic service at 2 PM Sunday. Special songs are planned under Rev. Virgil Camp with Rev. Kenneth McGuver directing music and Rev. Earl Fuller of Muncie as speaker. Public invited.
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Linton
Pilgrim Holiness Church
Greene County Holiness Association
Virgil Camp
Kenneth McGuver
Bloomfield
Earl Fuller
Muncie
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