Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 46, DeMotte, Jasper County, 15 October 1948 — State-Wide Dewey Rally To Be Held In Rensselaer Saturday [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

State-Wide Dewey Rally To Be Held In Rensselaer Saturday

Plans for Gov. Dewey’s appearance in Rensselaer Saturday are practically complete. Gov. Dewey is scheduled to arrive at Monon station in Rensselaer at 10:15 a.m., and is scheduled to appear at St. Joseph’s college fieldhouse shortly thereafter. He will leave Rensselaer on his special train at 11:30 a. m. en route to Owasso, Mich. When you go out to the St. Joseph’s fieldhouse Saturday morning to see and hear Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, you are urged to take a bus- from downtown Rensselaer and leave your car at home. Beginning at eight a.m., a fleet of 30 county school buses will load passengers along the entire block of Main Street across from the court house. Climb aboard a bus and ride out in style. After the ceremonies, all the buses will be on hand to whisk you back to town —at the rate of about 900 persons per trip. It’ll be fun, easy to do, and will save precious parking spaces on the St. Joe campy's for caravans of motorists coming from far away. This bus transportation will be free. If you live in the county, police chief Robert Bostwick urges you to park your car in Rensselaer and board a bus. Buses will pick up the Rensselaer high school band shortly before nine a.m. at the high school. Robert Mau and his bandsmen will help the* crowd while away the time in the fieldhouse with a concert. County chairman Cope J. Hanley will present second district congressman and house majority leader Charles A. Halleck, who will present “the next president of the United States.” There will be short speeches of welcome by Gov. Gates and Hobart Creighton. Indiana congressmen will also be introduced, beginning with Senators Jenner and Capehart. Emil Hanley’s ushering crew will also be picked up by bus at the court house at eight thirty. Jojmny Moore will be on hand to dispatch buses as they are loaded along Main Street. Buses will disembark passengers immediately next, to the fieldhouse. They will return to downtown via the “back way,” down Grace Street to Cullen, north on Cullen to Main Street again. A corps of more than 20 Indiana State Police, to whom large crowds are a weekly experience, will meet in Rensselaer Friday to discuss how to handle the crowd. Cope Hanley, local Republican chairman, will open the meeting as soon after ten fifteen Saturday morning as Gov. Dewey and his party arrives. The invocation will be given by the Rev. Alfred Zanolar, president of St. Joseph’s College.

Gov. Thomas E. Dewey

CHARLES A. HALLECK