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C-10 Wednesday, August 8, 2018 The Press-Dispatch HISTORY Submit history photos: Call: 812-354-8500 Email: news@pressdispatch.net or bring in a hard copy: 820 E. Poplar Street, Petersburg SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Friday and Tuesday, March 26 and 30, 1943 Mrs. Maude Smith of this city received a telegram, Wednesday from her son Staff Sergeant Glen Smith that he was on the west coast and that he would be home soon. Sgt. Smith has been in active ser- vice somewhere in the Pacif- ic area for several months. He has been decorated with ser- vice medals, but at this time we are unable to say which ones. Friends and relatives gath- ered Wednesday evening at the home of Mary Evans in Winslow for a dinner in hon- or of Lieut. Opie Evans, for- merly of Oklahoma City, Ok- la., who is spending a few days furlough in Winslow visiting old friends and relatives be- fore he leaves for New York. Henry Haubry who for a number of years conducted a general repair and welding shop in this city, has reopened in the same location and is now ready for business. A few months back Mr. Haubry closed his place of business here and went to Bicknell, In- diana, where he took a place in one of the large mines near that city. His friends and for- mer patrons will be pleased to learn that he has returned to this city to continue his busi- ness. He will be found in the same location which he has always occupied on Locust Street and will welcome all of his former customers. He will do the same line of work as before. Betty Jean Berry, age 11 years, was just about the hap- piest little girl in Petersburg, one day last week when she returned from school to find the postman had left her a let- ter which contained a $25.00 war bond. It all came about like this. In the early part of December last year Betty was looking through a Life maga- zine and her attention was at- tracted to an advertisement of a "true confession" contest be- ing sponsored by the Kleenex Tissues Company. Betty en- tered the contest, and about a month ago received a let- ter saying they had received her letter. The next letter re- ceived contained the bond. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T.P. Berry. Last Friday night the city police received word that a woman was seen lying in the road west of Petersburg. Po- lice Chief Hayes and Sher- iff Willis responded to the call and found Judy Hast- ings, age 22, of Cincinnati, Ohio, lying in the road. She was unconscious and bleed- ing from head injuries. A fter receiving medical treatment she told her story. Her hus- band was in the army some- where out west and upon the death of her father, she start- ed West to be with her hus- band. In Kentucky she ac- cepted a ride from two sol- diers who brought her this far and then hit her head with a blackjack. A fter which they threw her from the car. Pen- niless she was unable to go any further. A purse was tak- en up and $ 8.50 was obtained with which she was returned to Cincinnati, Saturday after- noon to await word from her husband. Marriages: Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Klipsch announce the marriage of their only daughter, Doris, to Fredrick A. Diezger, Army Air Base, Sedalia, Missouri, son of Ms. Mary Diezger, of Grassrange, Montana. Births: Mr. and Mrs. Miles Jones, of Otwell, are the proud parents of a girl born Sunday. The little girl was named Ju- dith Kay; Born Thursday to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Blaize, of Winslow, a 10 -pound girl. The little girl was named Sha- ron Jean; Mr. and Mrs. Heber Miller, of Logan township, wish to announce the birth of an eight-pound girl born Tues- day morning at 9:25 in the Miller Hospital. Fonda Gail is the name of the new baby; Mr. and Mrs. Gene Goodrid, of Washington, announce the birth of a baby boy born in the Daviess County Hos- pital, March 23 at 4:32 a.m. She was named Sherry Ann; Mr. and Mrs. Francis Graul, of Evansville, are the proud parents of a baby girl born Friday, March 19 at the Dea- coness hospital in Evansville. The baby was given the name Carolyn Sue; A girl was born Monday evening to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Evans, of Peters- burg. The baby was named Ramona Charlene. Deaths: Mrs. Edna Wat- son Batcheldor, a native of this city, died last Wednes- day morning in the hospital at Lafayette, Indiana, follow- ing an illness of three weeks; Louis Franklin Erwin died at his home in Ayrshire Sun- day morning at 6:30 o'clock. He had been ill for sever- al months; Mark Knight, 85 years of age, and for ma- ny years one of the widest known and most highly suc- cessful business men of this city, died at his home in Man- atee, Florida, last Thursday evening, according to a tele- gram received by relatives in this city, Saturday; Death came to Lucinda Katherine Abbott, Saturday morning at 12:15 o'clock at her home in Winslow; Word was received here Sunday of the death of Marion F. Witherspoon at his home in Owensville, Indiana. He was the husband of the former Mrs. Lucile Fleming of this city; Lieut. and Mrs. John Ford, of Carlisle Bar- racks, Penn., were in Peters- burg, Thursday. Lieut. Ford was called to Oakland City due to the serious illness of his father, Hudson L. Ford. Mr. Ford passed away in the Princeton hospital, Saturday and the funeral was held in Oakland City Monday after- noon at 2:30 o'clock. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Tuesday and Friday, June 24 and 27, 1958 Mrs. Frank Weisheit brought in a gigantic head of cabbage to The Press office Monday morning. The cab- bage head weighed seven and one half pounds. The cabbage measured almost 10 inches in length. Alan, five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Willis, Glezen, was struck in the face with a ball bat while play- ing ball at his home Saturday evening. He was taken to the Good Samaritan hospital and released Sunday afternoon. He is suffering with a broken nose and bruises about the face. Alan is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ficklin. Lafayette, Ind. June 24. Robert Weisheit, a Pike coun- ty farmer living near Peters- burg, has won the 1958 Pock- et Area soft red winter wheat production contest with an estimated yield of 50 to 55 bushels an acre. Alfred Seib, Posey county farmer living near Wadesville, took second place, and Chris Buente and sons farming near Evansville, won third place. Roy L. Evans received the degree of Doctor of Philoso- phy at The George Washing- ton University's 137th Annual Commencement on June 4 in Washington, D.C. His field of major was Biochemistry. Mr. Evans, son of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Evans, Peters- burg, Indiana, received his BS degree in 1949 from Indi- ana Central College and his MS in 1954 from The George Washington University. He is presently with Mead Johnson & Company of Evansville, In- diana. Marriages: Miss Marlene Willis, daughter of Mrs. Ol- ive Willis and the late Robert S. Willis, became the bride of James Naylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Naylor. The double ring ceremony was performed at 1 p.m. Monday, June 23 in the Free Methodist church, by Rev. Ralph Bright, in the presence of the families of the couple. Deaths: Mrs. Minnie Lin- dy, 83, formerly of Union, passed away at 9 a.m. Thurs- day in the home of her daugh- ter, Mrs. Ruth Willis, Pre- stonburg, Ky.; Services for Mrs. Mary Alvera Kem- per, 45, Princeton, were at 9 a.m. Monday in the St. Jo- seph cemetery; Services for William "Matt" Cooper, 54, were held at the Harris Fu- neral Home at 2 p.m., Monday with the Rev. Homer Leighty officiating; Services for Eu- phrates C. Woolsey, 79, will be at 2 p.m., Friday (today) at the Augusta General Baptist church with Rev. W.D. Rich officiating; Mrs. Alma Nich- ols, Vincennes, passed away in the Good Samaritan hos- pital, Sunday, June 22. She had been in failing health for about two years, but suffered a heart attack and died in a short time. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, July 11, 1968 Dave Popp and Jeff Werner, co-captains of Citizens State Bank little league team, pre- sented the Championship tro- phy to Marion Klipsch, execu- tive vice-president of the Citi- zens State Bank. This marks the fifth time in 10 years the Citizens State Bank team has won the league champion- ship. Pike County's newly elect- ed school board held their or- ganizational meeting Friday evening. All members of the board are newly elected. They are Jan Holis, Gordon Curtis, Ronald Like, Claude Rumble and Shirley "Ike" Elliott. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene R. Laswell, of Granite City, Ill., and three other persons were fatally injured at 7:30 p.m. Sat- urday, June 29 in a head-on collision of two cars on High- way 80 in Marshall County, Ky. The dead included Mrs. Erma Della Helm, 87, mother of Mrs. Laswell, and two Ken- tucky men who occupied the other car. Mr. and Mrs. Las- well and the two men were killed instantly in the crash. Mrs. Helm died at 11:20 p.m. in Lourdes Hospital at Pa- ducah, Ky. The two men who died in the crash were Paul D. Adams, 22, of Mayfield, Ky., driver of the car, and Elmer Penny, 31, of Murray, Ky. Millard Hightower, 10th Street, Petersburg, suffered a heart attack while in down- town Petersburg, Saturday. Mr. Hightower began to feel ill and went to the office of Dr. Omstead. He was sent from there by Harris ambu- lance to Good Samaritan hos- pital at about 3 p.m. where he was placed on oxygen in the Intensive Care ward. He re- mains in a critical condition. Mr. Hightower has no previ- ous history of heart trouble. Not all electric cars are drawing board ideas. One will be in Petersburg, July 16 and it offers an answer to clean-air transportation in the future. Owned by Public Service Indi- ana, this vehicle is one of sev- eral experimental-type, bat- tery-powered cars being de- veloped. Interest in fumeless electric cars has heightened because of air pollution prob- lems caused by internal-com- bustion engines. The electric car, called Mars II, is tour- ing the utility's service area to demonstrate progress in the development of a practi- cal battery-powered highway vehicle. Robert Hollingsworth, of Bethalto, Ill., was sentenced by Judge Lester Nixon for two to 21 years in the Indi- ana State Prison Monday. Hollingsworth was charged with first degree murder on two counts and sodomy on a third charge. The trial was set for Monday, but a preliminary hearing on a writ of Habeas Corpus, Knox County Prose- cutor Murphy Land accepted a plea of guilty to the reduced charge of manslaughter. Hol- lingsworth is charged with killing Charles E. Weibel, for- merly of Wheatland. Weibel's body was found in a ditch near a cornfield two miles from Bruceville in Knox county on March 5. He was charged by a Knox county grand jury of first degree murder and then asked for a change of venue. His case was venued to Pike county at that time. Marriages: A Nupital Mass at St. Peter and Paul's Catholic Church in Peters- burg united in marriage Miss Karla Kay Foster and Ronald Keane Ficklin, Satur- day, June 29 at 2 p.m. Father Lawrence Vieck officiated at the ceremony; Miss Sharon R. Gray and Terry D. Krieg were united in marriage in a Nupi- tal Mass at 11:30 Saturday, June 29 in St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Petersburg. The Rev. Lawrence Vieck offi- ciated at the double ring cer- emony. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Danny Osborn, Monroe City, a son in the Daviess County Hospital, Sunday, July 7; To Mr. and Mrs. Luther Mann, Otwell, Thursday, July 4 in the Jasper Memorial Hos- pital, a son; To Lt. and Mrs. Michael Vire, of Fort Knox, Ky., a son, Timothy Howard, born Friday, July 5; To Mr. and Mrs. John Davis, Peters- burg, Monday, July 1 at the Daviess County Hospital, a daughter, Tina Michelle; To Mr. and Mrs. Horace J. Win- kler, of Francisco, a son, My- ron Kent, Tuesday, July 2 at St. Mary's hospital; To Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Miley, Pe- tersburg, Thursday, July 4 in the Daviess County Hospital, their first child, a son, Roscoe William; To Mr. and Mrs. Wil- liam Evans, Petersburg, Sun- day, July 7 at the Daviess County Hospital, their first child, a son, William Chad Mi- chael; To Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Coleman, of Oakland City, a son, Jay W., at Gibson Gener- al Hospital, Sunday, June 30 ; To Spec. 5 and Mrs. James R. Cook, Jr., of San Francisco, Calif., a daughter, Kathryn Dianna, born July 7 at the ar- my hospital. Deaths: Funeral Servic- es for Mrs. Edna Esarey, 81, were conducted at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Harris Funeral Home, Petersburg; Funer- al Services for Elmer Scott Hunt, 76, who died at 3 a.m. Monday at Gibson Gener- al Hospital, were conducted Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Wheeling Methodist church; Mrs. Flora E. Quiggins, 83., of Petersburg, died at 10 :35 p.m. Tuesday, July 9 at the Hedges Nursing Home in Oakland City; Roscoe West, 78, of Oakland City, died sud- denly at his residence at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 3 from a heart attack; Mrs. Christine Johnson, 84, former resident of Petersburg, died Wednes- day morning, July 3 at Terre Haute. She had been failing health for several months; Charles Richardson, 70, a lifetime resident of the Iron Bridge community in Mar- ion township, east of Win- slow, died at 9 p.m. Friday, July 5; Mrs. Ethel Tevault re- ceived word Monday morning from the Philippine Islands of the death of her brother, Law- rence Bennett; Alice Abbott, Otwell, received word Satur- day that Ernest N. Chaille, of Carrollton, Ky., passed away Wednesday, July 3; Lysle Bas- inger died July 2 in a Roches- ter, Mich. hospital after an ill- ness of several months. TWENTY- FIVE YEARS The Press-Dispatch Thursday, July 8, 1993 Petersburg police are in- vestigating a hit and run ac- cident. Virginia Robling, of Petersburg, told Petersburg officer Terry Kerns someone had backed into the rear pas- senger side door of her 1991 Chevrolet, while it was parked at either the Jaycee Food Store or Hook drug store. The damage occurred on July 3 at about 1:30 p.m. Damage was estimated at $200. Pre-kindergarten students are taking part in a six-week program that is a Chapter One project to help pre-kin- dergarten students develop basic skills they will need in school. There are five class- es in Pike County schools this year. Each class has five or six students and they work on skills such as recognition of colors, four basic shapes, writing names, counting, rec- ognition of numbers and us- ing scissors and various oth- er art projects. Despite rising waters in the White River making ar- ea farmers nervous, weath- er officials say barring an ex- tremely heavy rain they don't need to worry about flooding in the Pike County area. Al Shippe, who is a hydrologist with the National Weather Service in Indianapolis, said the White River was at 13 feet on Tuesday morning and was expected to crest at 13.5 feet Wednesday, "depending on fu- ture rain." A very competitive pedal tractor pull for three weight categories up to 100 pounds was conducted in the Old Ot- well High School Gym Sunday afternoon with nine children winning trophies for their ef- forts. Roger Knight operated the pull with help from Todd Dawson, Jason Dickson, Bran- don Williams and Trina Ebley. Holly Meyer won the 76 -100 lb. class in a pull-off with her brother Bart Meyer. Chris Fuhrman won the 51-75 lb. weight class and Phil Hoff- man won the 0 -50 lb. division. Paige Edrington, six-year- old daughter of Tom and Lo- ri Edrington won Little Miss Firecracker for 1993. Brittany Byrd, seven-year-old daugh- ter of Joe and Tina Byrd was first runner-up and Danielle Meyer, six-year-old daughter of Steve and Mary Meyer was second runner-up. Births: To Greg and Tra- cy Stafford, of Fruitland Park, Fla., June 20, at LRMC Hospi- tal in Leesburg, Fla., a daugh- ter, Tia Lynn, weighing seven pounds and 14 ounces. Deaths: Doin Leighty, 68, of Petersburg, died Sun- day, July 4 at 12:53 p.m. at his residence; Vada A, Davis, 83, of Petersburg, died Mon- day, July 5 at 6:35 a.m. at Am- ber Manor Care Center in Petersburg; Sadie Dovie Ear- ley, 91, of Wheatland, moth- er of Dwayne Earley, of Pe- tersburg, died at 7:45 a.m. Wednesday, June 30 at Crest- view Convalescent Center in Vincennes; Helen F. Wil- hite, 77, of Princeton, moth- er of Lynn Ellis, of Hazelton, died Thursday, July 1 at 11:30 a.m. at Gibson General Hos- pital in Princeton; Eva Jane Thompson, 83, of Princeton, died at 1:40 a.m. Monday, Ju- ly 5 at Gibson General Hospi- tal in Princeton; Girard F. Lit- tle, 87, of Oakland City, died at 12:20 a.m. Sunday, July 4 at Good Samaritan Nursing Home in Oakland City; Dai- sy G. Robling, 77, of Winslow, died Sunday, July 4 at 8:40 a.m. at her residence follow- ing a lengthy illness; John Dewey Williams, 94, of India- napolis, formerly of Oakland City, died Tuesday, June 29, at 3:20 p.m. at West Side Retire- ment Village in Indianapolis. Wednesday, August 8 • Nixon resigns (1974) • Truman signs United Nations Charter (1945) Thursday, August 9 • Manson cult kills five people (1969) • Jesse Owens wins 4th gold medal (1936) Friday, August 10 • Smithsonian Institution created (1846) • Truman signs National Security Bill (1949) Saturday, August 11 • Federal prisoners land on Alcatraz (1934) • Last U.S. ground combat unit departs South Vietnam (1972) Sunday, August 12 • Skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex discovered (1990) • East Germany begins construction of the Berlin Wall (1961) Monday, August 13 • Berlin is divided (1961) • Atec capital falls to Cortez (1521) Tuesday, August 14 • Blackout hits Northeast United States (2003) • Russians settle Alaska (1784) Source: History.com WHS BB queen and court 1971-1972 Left to right: First runner-up, Cindy Boyd, Queen Angi Floyd, and second runner-up, Debbie Phillips. Angi Floyd was crowned the 1971-1972 Winslow High School Basketball Queen by Captain Nick Smith at the Haubstadt ballgame. Winslow won the game 78-64.