Linton Daily Citizen from Linton, Indiana • Page 1

Mine Run Hub Product of a bwiM aa ai kind not epically a Brodie? ol thought. ot Tho news item that most Lin- PAGES people are now Anxiously waiting for is one giving them definite about that factory we have had our set so highly during the ist four months. This newspaper ii just as anxious to make some ch announcement as its readers a to have it. There is nothing, are assured by the news rs, that is being held back. All available information has al- ady been printed.

We are just aiting. THE LINTON DAILY CITIZEN in the Heart of Indiana Coal Fields in the State's Finest Corn and Fruit Belt, and in the Finest Trading Center of a 40 Mile Radius Printed WEATHER Cooler, scattered frost, low 34-39 tonight; warmer Thursday, high 64-68. With Anti-Freeze Set, Safe, Sure. LINTON, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1951 VOLUME LL NUMBER 167 This matter is mentioned here mw because Mine Run shares, with other local people, that a lxieiy and also feels a certain responsibility to readers to furnish them with information as it ii available and as It develops into form more tangible than rumor. Of rumor there is aplenty; some of it is without any foundation whatsoever.

The facts are as they were somewhat guardedly stated in the Daily Citizen on Oct. Id. These facts are that the 20-acre tract just off Twelfth street. East, and adjacent to the Illinois Central railway tracks, under option for purchase by the General Electric Co. Those options were taken over on that date from the Industries for Linton, which secured them.

It is generally known thai the company has been, for the past several months, working out and securing data on all points vital to the building and operation of a very large manufacturing plant in a new location That means many things and it requires time. All this is, as we have said, pretty generally known and, in fact, has been given out by representatives of the company. It must also be remembered that the General Electric Co. has never made any definite statements that could be construed as a promise to build a plant here now or at any time. The company has been very careful not to make any committments to our people and we have high respect for that attitude.

Local organizations and local men who have been working and for this project have also been very cautious and their seeming reluctance to give out what information they have is all for the general good Their actions have been guided by what we know to be in conformity with the wishes of the people with whom they are negotiating. Not having made any definite promises or statements the possibility of failure to realize on the hope that we have been feeling for months will not fall so hard upon anybody. And we should keep in mind while we are waiting with such patience as we can muster that nothing is certain yet but we can say this: It looks better all the time. It has been stated before that one of the principal reasons for delay in any positive announcement good or bad, is the restrictions on steel and other materials essential to the construction of any plant wholly engaged in producing defense materials." That situation probably still holds. It may change overnight.

More Duffy Definitions "Outdoor Indiana," monthly magazine of the State Department of Conservation, October number, has arrived aud we hasten to clip another column of daffy definitions run under the heading and Find These in Clip Joint A barber shop. Accelerator On which lots of men die with their boots on. Death As certain as taxes but get worse every time Congress meets. a fellow can eat dirt cheap. Dissipation By means of which you lengthen your nights and shorten your days.

Bowlegs Few and far between. clothing. whdn he dies, lies still. Pocket Something in which here will be little change this Year. Pedestrian An automobile owner with two teen-age youngsters.

Pint Two of which makes one cavort. Next histe 250 Hospital Patients Saved In Dallas Fire DALLAS, Oct. 24 Heroic nuns and nurses shepherded 280 patients out of St. Paul hospital today as a five- alarm fire burst through the roof and threatened to send it crashing down on them. The blaze was discovered at 12:27 a.

and was extinguished an hour and 28 minutes later. It roared through the roof of the five-story brick building as members of the hospital staff carried and guided the patients out into the 50-degree weather to await removal to other institutions. Patients who underwent surgery less than 24 hours before the blaze walked down as many as three flights of stairs. A mother whose baby was born yesterday dashed to the nursery and carried her child out in her arms. A child was born in a nearby home five minutes after the mother was removed.

Mothers, Babies First The 30 infants were taken to the nearby nurses home and assigned to trainees for care. The fire, believed to have resulted from defective electrical wiring, broke out in the fifth floor quarters of the nuns. Sister Alberta said she awoke to see the ceiling of the room and then it anti a wall broke into flame. It spread quickly through the Every ambulance in Dallas, dozens of police and department cars, countless taxicabs and a city bus used in the evacuation. Sixty-two patients were taken to Baylor hospital four blocks away; 30 were received at Parkland hospital; four were taken to Methodist hospital, and patients not seriously ill were taken home by relatives.

Fire Chief C. N. Penn said the blaze caused about $125,000 damage before it was extinguished at I 57 a. One patient, a 75-year-old woman critically ill with cancer, was the only sick person not removed from the hospital. She was carried on a stretcher to a ground floor office.

There a priest administered final rites of the Catholic church while firemen rushed hose and other equipment through the office. Egypt Forbids Rioting Today POLICE HOLD STRIKERS IN LINE AT BROOKLYN PIER A BELLIGERENT LONGSHOREMAN Is held In line by police at a Brooklyn, N. pier as he calls to men who are trying to go back to work. Strike has virtually tied up waterfront. (International Houndphoto) undergoes surgery Edward Alderson underwent major surgery in the Union Hospital in Terre Haute Monday.

He is in room 408. CAIRO, Egypt, Oct. 24. (UR) Egypt banned all anti-British demonstrations today and threatened drastic penalties for any recurrence of bloody battles between rioters and police. At the same time, the Egyptian government ordered its officials in the Suez Canal zone to follow a program of rigid non-cooperation with the British forces there.

The order was issued in defiance of a British threat to invoke "severe measures" against Egyptian workers. The Port of Suez, southern gateway to the canal, has been partly crippled by the walkout of Egyptian dock workers. In addition, Egyptian canal pilots have paralyzed ship movements at tho port by refusing to guide vessels with British military equipment In Cairo, Alexandria, and other centers, police were ordered to deal ruthlessly with any efforts to disturb law and order, informed sources said. Authorities took rigid precautions to prevent a repetition of in which police employed bullets, tear gas and clubs against Nationalist demonstrators. Officers Injured The worst riot occurred in Alexandria where one demonstrator was killed and four injured after police drove back a stone-throwing crowd witli clubs and shots.

One police officer and several policemen were reported injured. Interior Minister Faud Scrag El-Din Pasha denounced the anti-British demonstrations last night and threatened stern reprisals. traitors of their own country do not deserve the pity of the people and the he said. Scrag El-Din said the government will not hesitate to use severest hcreaf- to repress unruly elements. Poison Liquor Toll Is Now 31 ATLANTA, Oct.

24. A closed hearing began today into a poison liquor orgy that killed 31 persons who drank a lethal mixture of racing fuel and water that allegedly was distributed in the city by a man known to the police department. The death toll was calculated from doctors at Grady hospital which listed 25 dead and a report tfiled with his department by detective Lt. L. T.

Bullard listing six others who died at home. All out two of the fatalities were groes More than IOO blinded and pain-racked after consuming the stuff that was purchased during the week-end were treated at the hospital which battled its greatest emergency since toe 1946 Winecoff hotel fire. Solicitor General Paul Webb questioned 12 persons w'ho are being held on suspicion of manslaughter and selling the liquor. They said earlier they will plead innocent on grounds they bought their supplies from a and know it was dangerous. Three new patients were admitted to the emergency clinic today, indicating that the death-dealing intoxicant still is in circulation.

One of the three said he drank it last night. but two of the victims negroes, most of them residents of the section behind the state capitol. All had drunk the lethal popskull distributed in the area for 50 cents a pint Sunday. Atlanta detectives said today 12 suspects, including the manager of a negro nightspot, had been jailed, going to arrest the white man who peddled his stuff as soon as we can find Your Tax Deductions Will Be Increased WASHINGTON, Oct. Unless you can wangle a raise in the meantime, your pay check is going to be smaller next month.

First effects on the increase in income taxes under the new law will be felt then by all wage and salary earners whose pay is subject to- the federal withholding levy. The withholding rates will bo increased ll to 12 percent on all pay checks issued on or after Nov. as soon thereafter as employers can readjust their I bookkeepnig to do it. The Bureau of Internal Revenue says that because of the short time since the bill was enacted it will not insist on employers observing lite exact date. lf you are single, make $70 to $72 a week, and pay $10.50 a week through withholding taxes now, you will pay $11.60 a week.

If you are married, have no children, make $100 to $105 a week and pay $13.80 now through withholding taxes, you will pay $15.40 a week. Will Pay $18.20 lf you are married, have two children, make $140 to $145 a week, and pay $16 40 a week now, you will pay $18.20 under the new law. You can figure out for yourself about what your tax crease will be. For most people it will be close to 12 percent of what you pay now. The withholding tax is a pay- as-you-go device which for most taxpayers roughly approximates the actual amount of federal income tax.

But persons subject to withholding must file tax returns for 1951 sometime between the end of the year and next March 15. Two Percent Higher When they do so they will find that their total 1951 income tax is about two percent higher than it was for last year. This is because the 11 percent tax increase ill oe effective for only one-sixth of this year -November and December. On the annual basis, the full effect of the increase will be felt on 1952 income. Persons who pay all or part of their income tax in quarterly installments will make their next payment on Jan.

15. They can make it at the old rates if they I want to and not pay the increase until they make their final 1951 settlement on March 15. A taxpayer who had a big income earlier this year and little or none in November and December will not escape the in- crease. Final taxes are figured ion a full calendar year basis. Eagles Will Hold District Affair Here Members of the Eagles lodges from six cities are expected to be present tonight at a district meeting of the order with the Linton Eagles lodge as host organization.

The meeting will start the local lodge hall at 8:00 p. rn Members are expected to be present from Brazil. (Tinton, Terre Haute, Sullivan, Jasonville and Linton. District officers who will attend are: Ed Shea, grand deputy president. Terre Haute; George Rogers, chairman, Terre Haute; John Vaughn, secretary, Jasonville; Harry Jones, treasurer Brazil and Charles White, vice- chairman, Linton.

A fish supper will he served the Auxiliary of the Linton lodge following the meeting. TOLD OF DONATIONS All members of the Order of Eastern Star who are planning to give fruit to the Masonic home and donations for the Masonic dinner that will be held in the near future, are requested to have these donations ready for pickup. the latter part of this week and the first part of next week. Linton Patrons To Visit School Patrons of elementary schools ill pay a visit to the new Bedford elementary school building on Thursday, Nov. I.

under the sponsorship of local Parent- Teachers associations. The Parent-Teachers associations of the Northeast Ward, Northwest Ward and Central school buildings voted at recent meetings to pay transportation costs for school patrons wishing to make the trip. Busses will leave the three buildings at 8:30 a. Nov. I and will return before 3:00 p.

on that day. Luncheon will be obtained for a nominal cost, at the Bedford schtvol auditorium. Leaders of the program said was decided to make the trip on Nov. I so that the school could be seen while classes were being conducted. The visit to the modern Bedford school was arranged to focus attention on the need for a new' centralized elementary school building in Linton.

Those in charge todav invited all interested persons, including residents who will have children in school in the next few years, to attend. Reservations for the trip may be made with any elemen- tary school principal or at the office of the Linton-Stockton high school building. I It is expected that about three bus-loads of Linton residents will I make the trip Republican Men To Keep Promise I I An election promise made prior to the November election, 1950, will be fulfilled Tuesday, Oct. 30, when Republican men will be hosts to Republican women at the Linton Country Club. The I meeting is in charge of William I Powell, city chairman, of Linton and a good program is be- ing pronged.

All Republican wo- men are invited to attend. The I men ill cook, serve and wash the dishes. Aprons will be furnished for the help. Speakers for the evening wilt be Mrs. Mabel S.

Fraser, State Republican Vice-chairman and Mrs. Esther Bray, wife of the 7th District Representative. Both women arc widely known as speakers throughout the state. Other special features are also promised. Dinner will be served at 7:00 p.

rn. The meeting is being held in conjunction with the regular monthly meeting of the Greene County Republican club, but all Republican women are cordially invited to attend. WILL SPEAK HERE Lt. Wanda McGreagor and Lt. Jannie Clymer of Union City will be guest speakers at the prayer meeting of the Salvation Army that ill be held in the hull here Thursday evening at 7:00 Both officers have been stationed at the local post.

The public invited to attend this meeting. Pranksters Get Another Warning Destruction of property by lowe'en season pranksters is continuing in Linton and Greene county, local and county police officers reported today. In one community, some mail boxes were knocked over or removed, tho officers reported. They said that persons found responsible tor causing destruction of property would be prosecuted. In Linton, new reports that switches on electric meters have been pulled by the pranksters were received in the past few days.

This type of prank, police said, may cause heavy property damage. May Be Placed On Beef Prices WASHINGTON, Oft. 24 ATR) Price Stabilizer Michael Disalle said today he may put a ceiling on cattle prices as part of I his effort to enforce beef price controls. He made the statement in denying again that he intends to scrap all meat price controls as a result of refusal by Congress to restore his power to control the distribution and slaughtering of livestock. most emphatically will not," he said.

Disalle also said his field offices have reported that enforcement agents have uncovered beef price violations in 1,408 slaughtering plants out of a total 4,278 plants investigated to date. Despite numerous over-ceiling payments for live cattle by slaughterers, he said, serious shortage" of beef has developed at consumer outlets. May Expect Hike He said a seasonal increase in cattle marketing "can reasonably be expected in the near future. This, he said, should cause a softening of live cattle prices. The ceiling would be a lid on the price that a slaughterer could pay for any one steer or cow.

Under present beef price regulations, a slaughterer must make the prices he pays for all cattle merely average out to the ceiling price for each grade of cattle in each accounting period- usually four weeks. The present ceilings I range from about $19 to about $37 per IOO pounds depending on the grade of the animal. Grade Variations The ceilings also w'ould vary from grade to grade. They would be designed to help prevent the kind of beef price violations that the Office of Price Stabilization has found in more than one- third of the slaughterouses investigated during a crackdown that began Sept. 24.

These violations generally involved upgrading of cattle and false weighing, according to OPS. Slaughterers have overcharged customers in order to cover up illegal buying, OPS claims. Agency sources admitted that the ceilings would no: supply the whole answer to the problem. But they said it might help. Meantime, Price Stabilizer Micael Disalle took another swing at the meat industry, charging that a substantial minority of the industry has been waging "guerilla warfare" against price controls with callous disregard for the welfare.

Train Hits Cart; Nobody Is Hurt Carney Beebee Brookshire of Newberry last night escaped injury in the third train-auto collision in the Linton community in the past three weeks. A car driven by Mr. Brookshire was struck about 9:30 Tuesday night by an oil tank-car on the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific railroad tracks in West Linton. He told Linton police he was traveling at a slow rate of speed cist on state road 54-59 and that the lights of approaching autos on both street northwest and West Vincennes street blinded him.

A Milwaukee freight train was backing north on the railroad track and the car struck the 1947 model Brookshire auto, knocking it into a 10-foot ditch at the northwest side of the railroad-highway crossing. The car did not overturn. Mr. Brookshire received only a minor cut on the forehead. The front part of his auto was damaged extensively.

The accident occurred shortly before the crowd from Linton that attended the Linton-Jasonville football game arrived at the crossing and traffic was tied up for a considerable distance west of the crossing. Former Resident Called by Death Funeral services were held in Noblesville Tuesday afternoon ijuy ivicKim, oi years oi age, A'ho died at his home there Sun- iay. The McKims formerly lived Linton and left here about thirty years ago. He is survived by the widow nu one daughter Dorothy Shell of Noblesville, three brothers, Tom McKim of Linton, Ray IVIcKim of indianapolis, and Frank McKim ot Marco and two sisters, Mrs Hattie White of Linton and Mrs. Ed Talbott of Plainfield.

Burial was made at Noblesville. Stage Is Set For New Peace Talks In Korea PANMUNJOM, Korea, Oct. 24 U.S. troops built a tent city today for tomorrows reopening of truce talks with a speed that left communist onlookers agape. Resumption of the talks at ll a rn.

tomorrow (8 p.m. today STJ was announced today following communist ratification of the conlerence Less than an hour later, U.S. troops arrived in a 22-vehicle convoy. The Americans installed a wooden floor, heat and lights in the communist-errected conference tent and threw up six additional tents to house, feed and guard the United Nations delegation w'hile 25 North Korean and Chinese onlookers gulped at their speed. Even while the work progressed, U.S.

Lt. Col. Norman B. Edwards of Diamond, W. arid North Korean Col.

Lee Pyong ll I met in the conference tent to arrange the mechanics of joint tpie.rig the radius neu- irai zone around tile tent. First business on the conference agenda Thursday will be tile oi a eease-tire line and miler zone across Korea the same problem that deadlocked 22 consecutive meetings before the truce talks were suspended Aug. Z3 two months and two days ago. The communists want the line to be along the 38th parallel, pre-war frontier between North and South Korea. Tne UN command says the line must he along the present battlefront, at some places 45 miles north of the parallel.

Mrs. Hays, 19, Taken by Death Mrs. Veneta Maxine Hays, 19 years old, of Owensbrug, formerly of Dugger, died at 4:30 o'clock Tuesday morning in the Freeman Greene county hospital here of complications that arose after she became the mother of a son. Steven Max. Mrs.

Hays was born at Detroit, on March 12. 1932. the daughter of Max and Hazel Lctson Quillen. Silt' was a member of the St. Peter's Catholic church at Linton.

Mrs. Hays is survived by the husband, Marvin R. Hays, the son, Steven Max; the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Max Quillen of Owensburg; four sisters, Mrs.

Marilyn Cox of Bedford, Mary Ann Quillen of Indianapolis, and Margaret Jane and Esse Quillen, both at home; one brother, John Dow Quillen; the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Dotson of Lake, two aunts Mrs. John Hoke and Mrs. Wilbur Corner, both of Dugger, and several relatives in Michigan.

The body was taken to the Lehman Funeral home in Owensburg and will lie in state at the home of the parents in that community. It will be removed at 9 OO Friday morning to the Catholic church at Dugger. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 Friday morning at the Dugger Catholic church and burial will be made in the Dugger cemetery. Swarm of Jets In Air Struggle Across Korea TOKYO, Oct. 24 (UR) An estimated 155 communist jets batttled a United Nations air fleet all the way across the 100- mile waist of North Korea today in their boldest challenge yet to Allied air supremacy.

American and Australian jet fighters escorting and screening B-29 Superfortresses on a bridge- busting raid shot down at least one Russian-built MIG-15 and probably destroyed another. Other enemy jets have been knocked down by the B-29s. One American Sabrejet was lost the running air battle, which extended all the way from the west coast just below to the east coast, northwest of Wonsan. There was no indication whether any B-29s had been hit. It was the deepest mass penetration of Korae ever made by communist jets.

The battle carried them nearly 200 miles from their Manchurian bases. Toll Is Boosted The day's tentative bag boosted tho UN toll of communist MIGS in four days of swirling air battles over North Korea to nine destroyed, five probably destroyed and 14 damaged. Ground fighting in Korea dwindled to a series of Allied hit-run raids and patrol action. Lt. Gen.

James A Van Fleet served notice that his 8th Army is prepared to exert whatever added pressure is necessary to force the Red armies in Korea to make peace. Van Fleet issued the warning in a statement for United Nations Day of the eve of resumption of Korean, truce talks, B-29s Strike Bridge The latest air battle over Korea was touched off by a raid by eight B-29s on a railroad bypass bridge at Sunchon, 93 mile southeast of the Manchurian border and only 23 miles north of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, First to contact the enemy were 35 American Sabrejets flying out ahead of the bombing formation The F-86s took on 70 MIGS in a 10-minute scramble from 18,000 to 44.000 feet over Sinanju at the southern end of "Mig alley." The defiant new communist attack followed the biggest air battle of the war Tuesday, when B-29s and American jets shots down a record eight MIGS, probably destroyed two more and damaged IO in a 250 to fray. Three B-29s and one es- corting Thunderjet were lost and most of the remaining five B-29o were damaged. COMMUNITY SING A community sing will be held in the Pilgrim Holiness Church it Jasonville Sunday afternoon. it was announced today by tim pastor Rev.

Harry Gray. Rev Stanley Sipes will aet as chairman. The public is invited to attend. SOLDIER RETURNS Pfc. Leonard O.

Ringo of Bloomfield route one was aboard a Military Sea Transportation Service transport that docked yesterday at San Francisco. California, accord I ing to a United Press report received here Aboard the ship u-ere rotation combat veterans, Enlisted Reserve corpsmen and other Army personnel. County Musicians Entertain at Camp The Patoka Valley Boys of Linton, the Hoosier Cornhuskers of Bloomfield and Shirley Knight and Vollie Charles entertained I several hundred men at Service I Club 15 at Camp Atterbury Sun- day with a two and a half horn I 'Hillbilly and Pantomine Round, up." The Patoka Valley Boys conj sist of i and Betty Jo Thompson and Skippy Cody of Linton, Bud Burns of Bedford, and Dale Walters of Terre Haute. The Hoosier Cornhuskers consist of Pete Weaver, Earl Haywood, Bob Baker and Bob Warnick of Bloomfield and Allen Arthur of Evansville. Shirley Knight, of Bedford, and Vollie Charles of Crane, dance team, contributed eight numbers in tap and pantomine acts.

During the show, Curly Lambert. formerly with the Clyde Moody baud of Nashville, Term joined the group in singing, guitar and mandolin selections. From the audience soldiers from tile Camp Atterbury band joined in other selections. This entertainment was arranged by Mrs William oi Bedford, who was introduced by the club hostess arid in turn thanked the service boys for their attention and appreciation of the a i bein brought to Camp Atterbury. The entire group was asked to play a return engagement in the near future.

ASKED TO PHONE All members of the Civic Garden club who are planning lo attend the Wor Shop in Hoi ti culture that will be held in Bloomington at Indiana uriiver sity Oct. 29, are requested to -bone 460 Immediately..