County Towns To Make Switch To Fast Time
Switz City and Midland communities will switch to fast time on Monday along with Lyons. Jasonville stores follow. Bloomfield will stay on slow time for schooling and bus routes, while Newberry attendees keep slow time. coal mines remain on slow time.
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Switz City
Midland
Lyons
Court House
Bloomfield
Jasonville
Board of Town Trustees
Worthington
Marco
Newberry
Greene
Sullivan
General Electric
Antioch Power Company
Jasonville Man Burns in Mine Torch Accident
Tom Stefanski a 23 year old resident of Jasonville is hospitalized in Freeman Greene county hospital with second degree burns to his hands and legs from an acetylene torch incident at the Robin Hood coal mine. The torch ignited a bucket of cleaning fluid splashing onto his trousers starting the fire. he is reported in good condition.
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Tom Stefanski
Jasonville
Freeman-Greene County Hospital
Robin Hood
Stefanski
Linton Junior High Gridders Open 1952 Season at Dugger
The Linton Junior High football team opens its 1952 season this afternoon at 4:00 p.m. against a Dugger junior high squad on the Dugger gridiron. Next Thursday May 8 Welders meet Sullivan Junior High at Linton field. John Wade returns as coach of the Linton grade school gridsters.
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Linton
Dugger
Sullivan
Linton Field
John Wade
Power to be off for city line work in Linton
The Linton Municipal Electric Department announced a half hour power outage starting at 1:00 Friday morning. The interruption enables the Sherwood Templeton coal company to move a large stripper shovel through high tension lines.
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Linton
Cub Scouts Plan Affair at Dugger
Dugger families invited to a Cub Scouts meeting Friday at 7:30 in the Dugger Shelter. Art Chesterfield announces eligibility for boys aged eight to eleven. Attendees should bring wieners and buns. the group will provide drinks and entertainment.
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CUB Scouts
Dugger
Fio
Art Chesterfield
Reds Ask Truce Delegations Meeting Amid Armistice Talks
At Panmunjom the Communists sought a full scale truce delegation meeting for tomorrow to respond to a UN plan to end the Korean War. The UN agreed and set the session for 10 a m local time. The stalemate issues include prisoner exchanges airfield rights and Russia as neutral inspector with Washington reporting a offer to return three-fifths of prisoners.
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Panmunjom
Korea
U.P
United Nations
C. Turner Joy
Nam 1O
Red
Pyongyang
Peiping
Moscow
Russia
Washington
North Korea
China
Atomic Blast Set Off Today at Yucca Flat Test Site
The 16th Nevada Test Site detonation occurred as Marines hid in foxholes 7,000 yards away near Yucca Island. The A bomb test, delayed two days by rain, showcased live assault against a simulated armored force with TV coverage in Los Angeles.
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MT. Charleston
Nev
Yucca Flat Proving Grounds
Nevada Test Site
Yucca Island
United States
Los Angeles
KTLA
Election on slow time for May 6 primary
Greene circuit court clerk Frankie Justus Jr announced the May 6 primary will use Central Standard Time. He said election day hours follow Indiana law.
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Frankie Justus, Jr
Greene Circuit Court
Justus
Indiana
Gremlins on Korean War Front Slow Down Sabre Pilot
Lieutenant John R. Spalding and Lieutenant Walter Copeland of the Fifty-first Fighter Interceptor Wing battled four MiG 15s over Korea in an F-86. Malfunctions plagued the mission from a faulty gun sight to a broken G-suit as they escaped with fuel low and a successful emergency landing.
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Fifth Air Force
Korea
Gremlins
John R. Spalding
Downers Grove
Ill
Spalding
Walter Copeland
Logan
Iowa
Copeland
MIG
MI6
Linton Golfers Enter Three Way Friday Match
The Linton high school golf team travels Friday to face Sullivan and Bicknell in a three way match at Sullivan ahead of the Indiana State sectional May 17 in Bedford. The squad has one win in four matches this season with losses to Vincennes and Columbus and a win over Sullivan early. They also face Gerstmeyer and Garfield in upcoming matches and participate in the Western Indiana Conference meet at Brazil.
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Linton High School
Indiana
Sullivan
Linton
Sullivan and Bicknell
Bedford
Linton Tee
Fairways
Vincennes
Miner
Columbus
Bloomington University
Gerstmeyer
Terre Haute
Garfield
Brazil
Pedestrian Killed by Truck Near Highland
Albert J. Stok 32 of Chicago died after stepping into a truck on U S 41 near Highland yesterday. The incident occurred in the morning as he walked along the road. Police said weather and visibility were normal at the time of the fatal accident.
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Highland
U.P
Albert J. Stok
Chicago
Here
New Linton Radio Station Planned by Boonville Pair
H C Sanders of Boonville and Norman Hall of Boonville seek to buy land for a Linton transmitter. Sanders says FCC permit approval is near and the station will operate at 1000 watts on the standard AM band daylight to sundown.
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H. C. Sanders
Boonville
Norman Hall
Linton
Sanders
Pan American Stratocruiser Sighting Near Uraguaye River
A Pan American Airways Stratocruiser missing with 50 aboard was sighted near the Uraguaye river in Brazil as rescue teams search for survivors. Pan American in Miami reported no signs of anyone alive.
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Pan American Airways
Uraguaye River
Brazil
Pan American
Miami
Man gored to death by bull near Madison farm
Walter W. Wise aged 71 was killed when a bull gored him in a pasture near his Madison area farm yesterday. The incident was reported by United Press.
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Madison
Walter W. Wise
U S Steel Wages Case Tangles Amid Broad Labor Strikes
The U S Court of Appeals blocked a government bid to bar wage increases while the steel seizure case appeals to the Supreme Court. Across the nation 860000 workers struck halting steel oil communications transport and utilities. President Murray faced pressure to call workers back and potential injunctions loomed.
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Iy United Press
Washington
U.S. Court of Appeals
Supreme Court
Philip Murray
AFL
CIO
Murray
Philip B. Perlman
David A. Pine
Perlman
Hammond and
Whiting
Ind
Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Company
Kansas City
Linton High School Spring Music Program Tonight
Pupils from Linton High School and its Eighth Grade Music Departments finished rehearsals for the annual spring program to be held at 8 09 o'clock this evening in the local school auditorium. The program will feature a varied array of vocal and instrumental music and the public is invited.
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Linton High School
Indiana Teachers to Receive GE Science Fellowships
Seven Indiana high school physics teachers will be awarded General Electric science fellowships for a summer course at Case Institute of Technology. Recipients include John C. Baker Hartford City Robert E. Carpenter Bedford Otto W. Kuehrmann Indianapolis Joseph B. Moore Martinsville Wilmer K. Pellett Huntingburg David F. Wood Mishawaka and Shirl D. Wray New Albany.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Indiana
General Electric
Case Institute of Technology
John C. Baker
Hartford City
Robert E. Carpenter
Bedford
Otto W. Kuehrmann
Indianapolis
Joseph B. Moore
Martinsville
Wilmer K. Pellett
Huntingsburg
Dav! F. Wood
Mishawaka
Shirl D. Wray
New Albany
Indiana in Gasoline Supply Holds Near Normal Despite Strike
Indiana's oil strike disrupted Calumet district refineries but many plants stayed open or had alternative supply. Indianapolis Rock Island refinery closed affecting 1,200 independent dealers while Mt. Vernon refinery pumped 3 to 4 million gallons daily. Retailers warned of potential shortages if the strike persists, with buses especially at risk as six day fuel stocks deplete.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Calumet Area
Standard Oil
Whiting
Socony-Vacuum
Rock Island
Mt. Vernon
Indiana Farm Bureau Cooperative
Sinclair Oil Company
Texas Co
Shell Oil Co
Illinois
Indiana Bus Association
Harry J. Harman
Indianapolis Association
Campbell criticizes too many inquiries at arson seminar
Former U S Attorney General Alex Campbell told Purdue University attendees that congressional probes resemble a three ring circus. He condemned headline hunting and urged professional investigators to pursue truth with thorough evidence gathering. About 350 attendees from 48 states Alaska Puerto Rico and Canada attended the eighth annual arson investigators seminar in Lafayette.
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Lafayette
Ind
U.P
U. S
Alex Campbell
Fort Wayne
Purdue University
States
Alaska
Puerto Rico
Canada
Election Returns To Be Collected At Linton HQ
Election returns will be received at the Linton Democratic headquarters Tuesday night after the polls close. The public was invited to visit the headquarters to learn the returns.
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Linton Democratic
Tokyo May Day Riots Burn U S Cars and Riot in Tokyo
Three hundred thousand Communist demonstrators clashed with police in Tokyo on May Day, assaulting Americans and burning American cars near the U S Far East Air Force headquarters. Rioters used Molotov cocktails as they pushed through downtown, injuring several U S personnel and breaking windows near the Imperial palace.
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Tokyo
U. S. Far East
Matthew B. Ridgway
Supreme Headquarters
U. S. Air Force
Air Force
Imperial Palace
Palace Plaza
Japan
Meiji Park
Norman Thomas
J. Philip Randolph
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porter
Rockville Mill Burns to Ground in Indiana Fire
A blaze destroyed the Fer guson Lumber Company mill in Rockville Indiana causing about 125000 in damage. Owners Brooks Collings and Carl McMillin reported the fire origin unknown and multiple fire departments aided Rockville firefighters to prevent spread to nearby buildings. The fire was spotted at 645 p.m. by Carl McMillin who lives nearby.
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Rockville
Ind
Ferguson Lumber Company
Brooks Collings
Carl McMillin
Dog uses door knobs to wander into home
A redbone hound owned by John Sellers of Searles in Tuscaloosa Alabama learns to turn door knobs with his paws and comes inside to sleep near the stove.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
U.P
John Sellers
Searles
Elmer Gilligan Reported Improved After Illness
The longtime resident Elmer Gilligan, previously confined at home with a serious illness, is reported to have improved and his condition is stabilizing.
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Elmer Gilligan
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McCullum
J. Emmett McMahon
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Tojo
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Life Magazine
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