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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1963
Page
6
Thirty six seniors from Switz City Central High prepare for commencement at 8 p m Thursday May 16 with Pomp and Circumstance. Baccalaureate services May 12 at 2 30 p m at Switz City Baptist church with sermons scripture read by Elmo Rose.
The House voted to create a five man commission to evaluate proposals for Alcatraz including a cell plaque reading Al Capone slept here. San Francisco area members noted ideas vary from sensible to ridiculous and urged an independent panel to decide.
French and American forces held a one week air sea exercise off the southern coast of France. The USS Saratoga and Enterprise aircraft carriers were among the participating vessels as the exercise started on Monday.
Community clubs plan May breakfasts and break fasts at local venues. Commencement tests and ceremonies sweep Greene county schools the week of May 12 to 19 with about four hundred graduates. Linton Stockton music department to stage its annual spring concert May 9 at the high school auditorium. The Junior High chorus performs three numbers. Mrs Opal Alward returns home to Linton after a trip.
Five months in Mentor Ohio saw a resident visit her son and family as hospital duties arose for two relatives. Mr and Mrs Lee Mason visited Bloomfield relatives. a family dinner at the Higgins home included several Bloomfield and Coshocton guests. Grandchildren were welcomed by the Woodyard and Winters families with Florida travel plans discussed. A peculiar potato was found by Mary Davis, and a Linton club held a rummage sale. Dr H Adrian Rehner returned from New York with Shawnee Summer Theater plans and royalties. Eli Wallach Uta Hagen and Peter Ustinov were part of the backstage chat. Shawnee opens July 2 with Rope set as first play.
New York markets account for 75 percent of total grocery store sales. A study in Super Market Merchandising shows supermarkets ringing up 39.1 billion dollars in 1962, a 7.1 percent rise from the prior year. Average annual volume per store is 1.39 million dollars.
Real heavy Hollywood report says R. L. Armstrong is signed to play a killer gamb l er in Richard Lernstein’s color film The Gun Hawk. He was last seen leading a lynch mob in To Kill a Mocking Bird.
Four hundred doctors and public health specialists from 118 nations gathered for the annual World Health Assembly in Geneva. The meeting is organized by the United Nations World Health Organization to discuss progress in disease control and to propose future health policies.
President Kennedy designated May 15 as Peace Officers Memorial Day and May 12 to May 18 as Police Week honoring police officers killed or disabled in the line of duty. The proclamation follows a Congressional resolution approved last Oct. 1.
Western Electric reports Bell System uses about 130000 tons of paper annually for telephone books. It supplies 2800 different books totaling some 5000 copies, ranging from four page rural directories to the 1783 page Manhattan directory. READ THE WANT-ADS.
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