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January 20, 2021

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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, Januar y 20, 2021 D-3 HISTORY Submit history photos: Call: 812-354-8500 Email: news@pressdispatch.net or bring in a hard copy: 820 E. Poplar Street, Petersburg Source: www.history.com • Photo source: thedeclarationatcoloniahigh.com Wednesday, Jan. 20 • FDR inaugurated to fourth term (1945) • Iran Hostage Crisi ends (1981) Thursday, Jan. 21 • President Carter pardons draft dodgers (1977) • John McEnroe disqualified from the Australian Open (1990) Friday, Jan. 22 • Ted Kaczynski pleads guilty to bombings (1998) • Roe v. Wade (1973) Saturday, Jan. 23 • Toy company Wham-O pro- duces first Frisbees (1957) • Madeline Albright becomes first female secretary of state (1997) Sunday, Jan. 24 • Boy Scouts movement begins (1908) • Walt Disney announces $7.4 billion purchase of Pixar (2006) Monday, Jan. 25 • First Winter Olympics (1924) • Charles Manson and his fol- lowers are convicted of mur- der of seven people (1971) Tuesday, Jan. 26 • "The Dukes of Hazzard" premiers (1979) • U.S. Olympic Committee votes against Moscow games (1980) WHS Drum Corps 1938 The Winslow High School Drum Corps consisted of Margaret Copeland, June Spaw, Katherine Cassiday, Jeanne Miller, Claudia Taylor, Roberta Buechele, LaVerne Ash- by, Mary McLain, Betty Bratton, Mary Helen Bellamy, Betty Jo DeTar, Edna Earle Evans, Laura Mae Davis, and Irene Royalty (sponsor). SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Friday and Tuesday, Jan. 18 and Jan. 22, 1946 Mr. and Mrs. Floyd ( Jack) Catt, of Bowman, were seri- ously injured about 9 o'clock Tuesday evening when they backed their car out of the ga- rage and onto the highway and a passing motorist, driving without lights, crashed into them. They were both injured. Mrs. Catt received a number of cuts and bruises and Mr. Catt had some ribs broken and chest injuries. Both cars were badly damaged. Mr. Catt operates a feed grinding mill at Bowman. Plans are being pushed for the erection of a new building on North Ninth St., near the railroad to house the rapidly expanding Fred Malotte Ma- chinery, Oliver Cletrac and J.I. Case. It will be 40 ft by 100 ft and will house the of- fices and display rooms of the company. Mr. Malotte is dis- tributor of the Austin Western Road Machinery, Oliver Cle- trac and J.I. Case Industrial equipment, along with several others, including Union Wire Rope Company. The compa- ny has another office in Indi- anapolis. Belva Davis had her right hand severely cut Sunday af- ternoon by broken glass in her car window. She was en- route to the funeral of Mrs. Catt, and there was steam on the window of her car. She did not notice that a small three cornered piece of glass had broken and was sticking out at right angles to the window. When Miss Davis brought her hand down to wipe off the steam, she cut deep gashes in two fingers. The cuts bled pro- fusely before she could reach a physician's office. Marriages: Betty Greek and Charles H. Dosch were married Saturday evening at 6 o'clock; Joyce Wolven and Carroll Stone were married on Saturday afternoon at the Methodist parsonage in Hen- derson, Ky. Deaths: Carolyn Sue Love- less, 3-week-old daughter of Harley and Vickey Morris Loveless, died at her home January 16; Rosa Catt, 77, died Thursday at the Daviess Coun- ty Hospital. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Pike County Dispatch Thursday, Jan. 19, 1961 A.D. Mueller, general man- ager of the Indiana Statewide Rural Electric Cooperative, predicted Tuesday that con- struction on a new REMC- owned electric generating plant in Southern Indiana, to be located about two miles northeast of Petersburg, on the White River, will begin the middle of this year. The statement was made by Muel- ler in outlining plans for the or- ganization's 26th annual meet- ing, which will be today and tomorrow in Indianapolis. He said that officers of the IREC have good reason to expect the approval of a Hoosier Co- operative Energy loan appli- cation now pending with the Rural Electrification Admin- istration in Washington, D.C., which will mean that construc- tion of the generating plant in Pike County may be started within the next few months or by the end of this year at the latest. Sheriff Wilmer Whitehead has in custody a 51-year-old Algiers resident who has ad- mitted setting fire to his home Friday about noon, which re- sulted in between $7,000 and $10,000 in damage. The sher- iff said that Paul Wiseman ad- mitted setting fire to the five- room semi-modern home and that he had used gasoline in the living room and kitch- en to set the house on fire, which was done following an argument with his wife. Ac- cording to a report from the sheriff, Wiseman and his wife had been having "troubles" ever since a New Year's Eve party. Following a heated ar- gument Thursday night, to which Deputy Sheriff Allen Smith was called, Mrs. Wise- man had gone to stay with her daughter about one-half mile from her own home. Wise- man went to get his wife to re- turn home Friday morning. When the two returned, they became engaged in anoth- er argument and Mrs. Wise- man left the home again. Ac- cording to the sheriff, Mrs. Wiseman reported that about five minutes after she left her home, she saw smoke coming from it. Sheriff Whitehead and State Trooper Paul Oxen- dine were called to the blaz- ing home. Persons watching the blaze said that Wiseman was sitting in his parked car along the highway. He was ap- prehended by the two officers and Sheriff Whitehead said that Wiseman was intoxicat- ed. A fter denying setting the fire, Wiseman finally admitted doing so later Friday evening. Sheriff Whitehead said that Saturday morning, Wiseman was very remorseful. Deaths: Sarah Jane Wiggs, 92, of Winslow, died Wednes- day at 11:15 p.m. in the Stork Hospital in Huntingburg. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, Jan. 21, 1971 The final 1970 Census Count for Pike County has been made available and the situation is dependent upon whether the observer takes an optimistic or pessimistic point of view. As was known, from the preliminary figures released at an earlier date, the population is lower than it was in 1960. Optimistically, a per- son can look at the statistics (down 516 people from 12,797 in 1960 to 12,281 in 1970), and say that "The rate of decline in population is lower and may- be we have 'bottomed out' and will rise when the 1980 cen- sus is taken." From the pessi- mistic point of view, it can be said, "We are continuing to have less people and we just might disappear altogeth- er." Population loss was gen- eral throughout the county, with only two political units showing any increase. Mari- on Township, with an increase to 516 people from 510 people, showed an approximate gain of one per cent. Washington Township, outside of the city of Petersburg, increased from 1,551 people in 1960 to 1,746 person in the current census. Overall, Washington Town- ship, including the city of Pe- tersburg, showed a net loss of 47 people. Percentagewise, Clay Township was the larg- est loser of population in the county. This political subdi- vision of the county showed a net loss of 41 people, bring- ing the population down from 408 to 368, a loss of slightly more than 11 percent. Monroe Township, with a net loss of 85 people was down approxi- mately 10 percent. The overall percentage loss for the entire county was 4.2 percent. This compares with a percentage loss of the decade of 1950 to 1960 of 14.7 percent. The per- centage statistics of the units of the county should not be given too much credence be- cause the numbers being used are compared with other sta- tistics that are so small that as few as five persons, in some of the units, will change the per- centage figures. Areawise, in the county, all of the political units still contribute practical- ly the same percentage of pop- ulation to the total county fig- ure as they did in 1960. The high point of Pike County's population was in the census of 1900, when the total popula- tion of the county was 20,846. Population has declined with every census, except for the "Depression Decade" of the 1930s, when there was a gain of 684 persons in the coun- ty. This is the first time since 1940 that the total number of people within the borders of the county has declined less than 2,000 people. Births: To LaDonna Tay- lor, of Ayrshire, Thursday, Jan- uary 7 in the Wirth Memori- al Hospital, Oakland City, a daughter, Stephanie Ranae; To Loraletta Quick, of Ayr- shire, Monday, January 11, in the Wirth Memorial Hospital, a daughter, Shawn Charlene; To Mr. and Mrs. Tom Nalley, of Velpen, Friday, January 15, in the St. Joseph's Hospital in Huntingburg, a son. Deaths: Nora Schade, 81,of Winslow, died at 3 p.m. Thurs- day, January 14 in Wirth Me- morial Hospital in Oakland City; Emelia A. Smith, 84, of Petersburg, died at 8:20 a.m. Thursday, January 14 at Bev- erly Manor Nursing Home in Vincennes; William W. Had- lock, 70, of Glezen, died at his residence at 4:45 a.m. Mon- day, January 18. TWENTY- FIVE YEARS The Press-Dispatch Thursday, Jan. 18, 1996 A Velpen woman was killed Thursday night when an on- coming car slid on snow and slush covered roads and slammed head-on into the pickup truck in which she and her husband were riding. Bar- bara Russell, 54, died of multi- ple injuries from the collision, according to State Police. Rus- sell was riding with her hus- band, Charles, 58, who was driving east on Highway 64, when Gary S. Roberts, 21, of Winslow, was driving west on Highway 64 and lost control on the slush covered road and went left of center, hitting the Russells' pickup truck head- on. The wreck was west of the Highway 257-64 junction, near the Augusta turn-off. Mr. Russell was taken to St. Joseph Hospital in Hunting- burg, suffering from a com- pound leg fracture and chest trauma. Roberts was taken to Wirth Hospital, suffering from chest injuries. He was trapped in his vehicle until members of Squad 51 arrived and removed him from the wreckage. State Trooper Coleman said Roberts was driving home from work at Merkley Meats near Jasper. The Russells were returning from a doctor's appointment in Evansville when the accident occurred shortly before 7 p.m. None of the three were wear- ing their seatbelts. Marriages: Linda Brown and Devin Neal Bradshaw were united in marriage on Friday, Dec. 1 at 3 p.m. at the Petersburg City Hall. Deaths: Maurice B. Baughn, Major U.S. Air Force (Ret.), 76, of Francisco, died Monday, jan. 8 at 7:30 a.m. at the VA Hospital in Danville, Ill.; Elmer H. Temme, 72, of Oakland City, died Monday, Jan. 8 at 11:33 p.m. at Deacon- ess Hospital in Evansville; Zel- pha B. McLaughlin, 95, of Ot- well, died Thursday, Jan. 11 at 4:48 p.m. at her residence; Kathryn Wiscaver, 78, of Ot- well, died at 9:15 a.m. Tues- day, Jan. 16 at Amber Manor Care Center. Quality Drive Away, Inc. needs CDL drivers with EXPERIENCE to deliver Motorhomes, Trucks, Buses, and Tractors throughout the USA. We have 20+ pickup locations. Must have DOT physical and be willing to keep logs. No DUIs in last 10 years, and clean MVR. Some Non-CDL positions available. Driven to Be the Best! TM OVER 30 YEARS OF SERVICE Apply Online at www.qualitydriveaway.com or call 574-642-2023 Want to share your news with others? The Press-Dispatch can help deliver it to Pike and the surrounding counties. NEWS! 812-354-8500

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