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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1963
Page
1
A busy weekend slate features a Triad program at 7:30 p m in the High School auditorium with an Irving Berlin concert and sing along. Local candy sales by little league teams, a leukemia fundraiser by teens, a 100 mile Boy Scout hike to Jasonville, and notes on weather effects on arthritis accompany a humorous Reader’s Digest aside.
United Press International reports that in the first ten months of the 1963 fiscal year President Kennedy will surpass 100 billion dollars in government spending. As of March 31 expenditures stood at 99.4 billion with receipts at 90 billion, and monthly accounts will reveal higher totals in late May.
Tense talks over a desegregation pact involving Negro leaders and white businessmen cast a shadow on Birmingham’s racial truce. King warned demonstrations would resume unless the agreement was clarified, while Jackson Mississippi and Greensboro North Carolina saw related protests and NAACP actions.
State Conservation Director Donald Foltz told Southern Indiana Inc. members at Spring Mill State Park that the region has natural assets but needs three improvements to attract tourists: stronger promotion, quicker development of assets, and better overnight accommodations and restaurants. Gerald Landis of the Linton Chamber of Commerce joined the discussion and was named to an Industrial Development Committee to push southern Indiana growth through enhanced sites, highways, and labor supply.
Indiana Attorney General Edwin Steers declined to take part in prosecuting a union viewed as a prime arson suspect in a 5 million Terre Haute fire. He said he cannot independently prosecute and agrees with Vigo County Prosecutor Ralph Berry that the report lacks definitive evidence of arson. Berry offered to step aside. Sweeney of the fire marshal would provide a duplicate report seeking Steers’ aid.
Severe storms drenched the southern Plains into the Carolinas as rainfall totals rose. In Vandalia Illinois 1 1/2 inches fell in six hours with Missouri totals up to two inches. Indiana and Kentucky warned of more heavy rain and temperatures rose in the West while the South saw 80 degree heat. In Jefferson City Missouri a storm sewer blast blew a nine by nine foot hole flooding lines and triggering a gas explosion. hail piled up to a foot at Mount Vernon Illinois. a radio building was struck by lightning and crops and gardens suffered damage.
In Washington U S sources say Joan Kennedy wife of Senator Edward M Kennedy suffered a miscarriage. She was pregnant with her third child due in August and is resting at home in good condition with possible hospital admission later.
One hundred thirty eighth graders from Lin ton Stockton Elementary attended Honor Day in the high school auditorium. Awards certificates and attendance honors were handed out as the Junior High band and chorus performed.
The Linton Chamber of Commerce hosts a dinner at the elementary school cafeteria on May 23 at 6 30 p m with Harry Palmer associate director of the Indiana Department of Commerce as principal speaker Paul Shaw Southern Indiana Field Representative will accompany him The program titled Evaluating your community for industrial development includes a short film Tickets cost 125 per person and may be bought in advance or at the door All citizens are urged to attend
Wayne W Buck Keller was admitted to St Marys hospital Evansville on Wednesday after a heart attack He occupies room 543 His mother Grace Keller his mother in law Mrs Pearl Roush and Earl Roush were summoned to Evansville Mrs Keller and Mr Roush left for Linton Wednesday evening while Mrs Roush stayed behind
Indiana report shows Negro employment fell from 102 of 2053 to 100 of 2490 contractors in a year. Public accommodations survey in Terre Haute finds many facilities integrated but motels and some restaurants less so. Cooper returns aboard USS Kearsarge after 575000 mile mission, undergoes medical tests, praised team, reports good spirits despite weightlessness and a brief dizzy spell.
Rep Earl Wilson of Indiana accuses Sen Birch Bayh of currying favor with the Navy Secretary amid renewed dispute over criticism of Defense Department spending. Bayh had written to Secretary Korth apologizing for earlier charges about the Thresher tragedy. Wilson defends his past remarks and criticizes Bayh for political maneuvering.
Michael Andry of Pasadena Texas was sentenced to 2 21 years by Judge Edwin B Long for involuntary manslaughter in the June holdup and murder at the Van Orman Motel Bloomington His accomplice Milam McNeal also of Pasadena received a life sentence at Michigan City prison The case was moved from MonTree county to Greene County
Arguello California UPI reports the Air Force launched a satellite from the Pacific missile range using a Blue Scout booster combination rocket. Details of the launch were provided by the Air Force today.
Western diplomats see Premier Khrushchev increasingly hemmed in by domestic critics and the Sino Soviet split. A July 5 meeting in Moscow with Teng Hsiao-ping and Peng Chen aims to discuss differences, but Mao Tse-tung is excluded from the talks. The stalemate shifts priority away from Western options as Geneva disarmament talks also stall.
Neutral diplomats at the 17 nation disarmament conference warned East and West that new nuclear tests could jeopardize progress toward a test ban treaty. The eight neutral members voiced displeasure at any resumption of testing, following U S plans to explode devices in Nevada.
Larry Byrers filed for divorce against Eva Byers in Greene Circuit Court. The case was entered today as a new filing.
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