Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 17, Number 48, DeMotte, Jasper County, 24 October 1947 — 1948 AUTO LICENSES TO BE BLUE AND WHITE [ARTICLE]

1948 AUTO LICENSES TO BE BLUE AND WHITE

Indiana’s 1948 automobile license plate in blue and white will make its first appearance Saturday at the Butler UniversityWestern Michigan homecoming football game. H. Dale Brown, Biyeau of Motor Vehicles director, will present a large reproduction of the plate to the homecoming queen at ceremonies between halves. White numeials on blue were selected in honor of Butler, for the first time in the motor vehicle bureau’s history, Brown said. License plates for 1949 will be cream and crimson for Indiana University. Bureau officials had hoped for a cream-colored plate with crimson numerals, but because of production problems had

to settle for a crimson plate with cream numerals. COWBOY ACE KILLED Row well, N. M., Oct. 22 Bob Crosby, who cheated death a thousand times on bucking broncs and wild-eyed steers, is dead from a jeep accident. He died of head and chest injuriss near here yesterday when his jeep plunged 30 feet into the dry riven bed of the Pecos river.