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Local ........ A1-10 Sports .........B1-5 Classifi eds ..B6-7 Fair Sched ...... B8 Church ........C1-3 Home Life....C4-8 Obituaries....... C9 History ......... C10 Opinion .. C11-12 WHAT'S INSIDE: CONNECT WITH US: NetEdition ...pressdispatch.net/edition Facebook.....facebook.com/pressdispatch E-Mail .........news@pressdispatch.net Phone:.................. 812-354-8500 Fax: ...................... 812-354-2014 E-Mail . editor@pressdispatch.net NEWS TIPS: PIKE PUBLISHING See SECURITY on page 2 See CHASE on page 2 Wednesday, July 18, 2018 Volume 148 Number 29 Phone (812) 354-8500 Petersburg, IN 47567-0068 (USPS 604-34012) $ 1 See 4-H FAIR on page 2 Three sections 30 pages Six inserts Frank Heuring, Jr., publisher of The Press-Dispatch since Sep- tember 1952, died Wednesday, July 11, 2018, at the age of 87. He remained active in The Press-Dispatch until recent months when he moved into Assisted Living at Amber Manor. He was born in Winslow on December 18, 1930, to Frank, Sr. and Beulah Heuring. He was married in April 1950 to Rachael Clark and she sur- vives. He was drafted in 1952 and served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He was honorably discharged after nine months service, shortly af- ter his father, Frank, Sr., died in June, and his grandfather, A.J. Heuring, a former president of the Hoosier State Press Asso- ciation and founder of the The Winslow Dispatch in 1898, died in August. These deaths left his mother, Beulah Heuring, oper- ating the newspaper by herself. He was in the rare position of having the Army determine he was needed more at home than in Korea. He said he was called into an office and told, "Son, they need you at home more than we need you here." He returned to the Winslow Dispatch in September of 1952. At the age of 21, he took the reigns of the newspaper with his mother and never looked back. He was publisher of the news- paper two months before the first Evansville television station went on the air. In 1967, Pike Publishing, parent company of the Winslow Dispatch, purchased the county seat newspaper, the Petersburg Press. It became The Press-Dispatch. Heuring had long been a member of the Hoosier State Press Association and in the mid-1970s, he was named to the board of directors and continued to serve through the early 1980s, serv- ing one term as vice-president. In September 1991, under his guidance, Pike Publishing pur- chased the Owensville Star-Echo and Fort Branch Times, merg- ing them into the South Gibson Star-Times. In 2014, The Press-Dispatch placed third in General Excellence for non-dailies of more than 3,000 in circulation. Heuring's newspaper career spanned nine decades, from the handset type era to the digital age. He worked with five genera- tions, including his grandfather, A.J. Heuring, the publication's founder; his father, Frank Heuring, Sr.; his sons, John and An- dy, who are still active in the publication and his grandson, Al- den, who worked as the Star-Times editor and currently is a col- umnist for both publications. He continued to have his hand in every part of the business, from inserting envelopes for the annual October Bargain Days subscription drive to driving a van to the printer in the wee hours of the night. He continued this until 2010. At the age of 80, he decided to let younger men fight the heat of summer and snow of winter to load and distribute the papers. He was a member of the United Methodist Church in Winslow, where he taught the men's Sunday School class for several years. Through the years, he served as Chair of the Administrative Board, Chair of the Pastor Parish Committee and Lay Leader. He was a lifetime member of the Gideon's International, which he joined in 1973. He served as a speaker for the Gideons. He was a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association and enjoyed shooting sports, hunting, fishing and canoeing. He is survived by his wife of 68 years, Rachael, his sons, John (Angela) and Andy (Phyllis); grandson, Alden ( Jill); and two great-grandchildren, Flannery and Amelia. He was preceded in death by his father, Frank, Sr. in 1952; and his mother, Beulah, in 2005. Funeral services were at 5 p.m. Sunday, July 15, 2018, at Har- ris Funeral Home in Petersburg, with Rev. Frank Coleman and Rev. Raymond Snyder officiating. Visitation was from 3 p.m. until service time at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Gideons Inter- national. –30– The Press-Dispatch publisher dies at 87 Heuring's newspaper career touched five generations, spanned nine decades, from the handset type era to the digital age. Frank Heuring Parade is Sunday; free carnival begins Thursday By Andy Heuring The 2018 version of the Pike County 4-H Fair officially kicks off at 4 p.m. Sunday when the pa- rade will make its way down Main St., Peterburg and out to the fair- grounds at Hornady Park. This year will again feature free carni- val rides on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, motocross racing, a ro- deo and demo derby along with lots of other fun activities. For the first time the Miss Pike County Pageant will be Saturday night in the Pike Central High School air-conditioned auditori- um. The Miss Pike County pageant will be the culmination of a day of pageants that begin at 3 p.m. on Saturday with the Little Miss and Little Mr. pageants. This will be followed by the Junior Miss Pag- eant at 5 p.m., Teen Miss Pageant at 6:30 p.m. and Miss Pike Coun- ty at 8 p.m. Contestants in the Little Miss pageants are A zalin Jai Vennard, Aubrey Ella Sturgeon, Addison Wibbeler, Elle Marie Wiscaver, Kiersten Wood, Jenna Harris, Addison Jolynn Mitchell, Natlyn Ashby and Kinley Catt. Little Mr. Contestant is Drayvin Nossett. Junior Miss contestants are Jordan Minnis-Bradfield, Ava Sturgeon, Katie Burkhart, Wren Kabrick, Calleigh Wibbeler, Em- ily Riker, Elle Readle and Kaitlyn Clark. Teen Miss contestants are Maddie Williams, Kayla Can- non, Carlie Halbrader, Peyton Thorne, Jerzey Reibold and Hon- ey Ralston. Miss Pike County contestants are Emily Brasher, Micah Hopf, Aspen Wynn, Keeley Schell, Shawna Wiscaver, Skylar Willis, Miss Pike Co. pageant is Saturday Miss Pike County contestants are, front row from left: Emily Brasher, Micah Hopf and As- pen Wynn. Second row: Keeley Schell, 2017 Miss Pike County Bailee Sutt and Skylar Willis. Back row: Mackenzie Deweese and Kylee Shoultz. The pageant will be 8 p.m. Saturday, July 21 at the Pike Central Auditorium. See photos of other pageant contestants on page A-8. Samantha Willis photo By Ed Cahill Pike County School Corpora- tion will spend more than $1.2 mil- lion in local and grant monies over the next few months in an on-go- ing effort to make its schools the safest in the United States. In February, the board voted to purchase the NetTalon Emergen- cy Response System – heralded as the safest, most advanced sys- tem in the nation – for each of its schools at a total cost of $ 922,779, which is being financed by a loan that will be paid back in five an- nual installments of $211,044.57 starting on Sept. 1, 2018. NetTalon Emergency Response System will provide Petersburg and Winslow schools and Pike Central Middle-High School with the capability to have immedi- ate, continuous contact with 911, make classrooms protected spac- es, implement intelligence sys- tems and have the ability to im- plement counter measures. In June, School Superintendent Suzanne Blake announced that the corporation had been award- ed a 2018 Safe Haven Grant from the Indiana Criminal Justice In- stitute in the amount of $102,003, which – along with a local match of $102,003 to make the total grant $204,006 – will be used to cover the expenses of four school resource officers for one year. "Whether it's individuals, whether it's a combination of indi- viduals with LawMan (Security & Consulting), this is significant for us, because our desire is to move towards having four, so that ev- ery building has their own SRO," Blake said during the meeting on Tuesday, June 12. "This would help the funding for at least a year, and help us continue to have time to find other resources as well. PCSC to spend $1.2 million+ on school security By Andy Heuring A Velpen man was injured when a Mustang fleeing police at high speed crashed into him at about noon Friday. Aaron Sanders, 25, of Peters- burg, was arrested when he crashed after leading police on a high speed crash from Petersburg to near Velpen. Frank Rode, 68, of Velpen, suf- fered broken ribs in the crash. Rode was driving his Chevro- let pickup truck south on High- way 257 near CR200S when he saw the chase behind him and at- tempted to turn left into a drive- way to get out of the way. Instead Sanders attempted to pass him on the left and crashed into the driv- er's side of Rode's truck. The im- pact caused Rode's truck to over- turn and come to rest upside down in the grass on the east side of the road. Sanders' mangled Mustang came to rest in the southbound lane. Trooper John Davis said it start- ed when he was sitting in the Farm Bureau office parking lot, next to Main St. watching for seat belt violations. Trooper Davis said he attempted to stop Sanders, but Sanders didn't stop and turned on- to Fourth St. next to Casey's, stop- ping at the stop sign by the rail- road tracks. He continued driv- ing through back streets and out to Highway 61 before turning to- ward Vincennes, and then back into the side streets. Davis said Sanders, during the first part of the pursuit, was just driving nor- mally, but wasn't stopping even though he had his emergency lights on and hit his siren a cou- ple of times. Sanders got on Seventh St. High-speed chase ends in crash; multiple charges filed Aaron Sanders' Mustang came to rest in the middle of the Highway 257 just past the over- turned Chevrolet truck of Frank Rode, 68, of Velpen. Sanders fled police through the streets of Petersburg and eventually all the way to near Velpen on Highway 257 before crashing in- to Rode's pickup at about noon Friday. Police said Sanders drove 80 mph most of the chase, but reached 90 mph at times. PCHS SPORTS YEAR IN REVIEW PIKE CO. 4-H FAIR B-1 Preparations and schedule INSIDE THIS EDITION JULY BARGAIN PERIOD SAVE $4 ON YOUR SUBSCRIPTION SEE DETAILS ON PAGE A-3