Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 10, Number 47, DeMotte, Jasper County, 10 October 1940 — Corn Queen Greets Next Governor [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Corn Queen Greets Next Governor

Congratulations were received jy Miss Mary Louise Garrison, 18 years old. of Flora, who reigned as queen of the 1940 corn show at Fowler, Ind., from Glen R. Hillis, of Kokomo, the Republican nominee for Governor, when he visited Flora in the course of his campaign tour through the state. Miss Garrison will have an opportunity to return the courtesy

after November 6, when Mr. Hillis will have been elected to the state’s highest public office. As a farm owner on whose land some of the best corn in Howard county is grow r n, Mr. Hillis had more than a casual interest in the cotn exhibit at Fowler, as a candidate . . .[ well, what candidate would object; to being photographed beside a young lady pretty enough to win the title of queen?

Another example of New Deal “efficiency” is being provided Indiana voters in an inexpensive (to him) campaign procedure on the part of United States Senator Sherman Minton. In franked mail (which means the postal department handles it at the taxpayers’ expense) and on the letterheads provided by the

United State* government, there appears an imprinted appeal for reelection carried on correspondence to the folks “back home.’’ No informa, lion has been obtained as to whether one of the letters went to “Dear General St. Clair.” A reproduction of one of the imprints appears above. The imprint says, “Re-elect Sherman Minton ir 1940.”