A search for original registration was done in periodicals for the year 1948. There were no registrations for the Logansport Pharos-Tribune. There's no evidence of original copyright for the publishing newspaper.
Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.