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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, September 26, 2018 C-9 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, May 14 and 18, 1943 In a Food For Freedom program conducted by the Purna Mlls of which E.P. Dougan is a dealer, Mr. Dougan was awarded a $25 United States War Bond. Object of the program was to impress on the dealers the opportunity to serve the country by helping farmers stretch their feed and thus raise as much livestock as possible on a minimum of grain. A fire causing heavy dam- age occurred at the farm of Jesse Dixon east of Win- slow, Tuesday morning about 2 o'clock. One hun- dred and sixty chicks, a brooder house, garage and car were totally destroyed. The fire is thought to have started from the brooder stove. Mr. Emmett Johnson, a former Petersburg man but now a welder in the Evansville Shipyard has been awarded a citation and award pin for outstand- ing work on the second front of the war production industry. He has been em- ployed at the shipyard nine months. On display in the window of Conrad's barber shop is a corn cob which had formed in a Y shape. The corn had been removed from the cob and from all appearances it had carried a good crop of kernels. Maybe the top of the Y was a V to signify the coming victory that we are all waiting for. The Petersburg High School track team placed fifth in the Sectional Track and Field Meet held at Vin- cennes last Friday after- noon. The field and track were both soggy from the recent heavy rains and no records were broken. Births: Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hollis are the proud parents of a 5 pound boy born Wednesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Davis, parents of Mrs. Hol- lis; A nine pound boy was born Tuesday to Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Walters of Al- giers; Born Tuesday to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Rhodes, a boy named James Davis; A boy was born Wednes- day to Mr. and Mrs. Her- bert Mathews of Littles. The baby was named Jer- ry; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fair of Detroit, Michigan are the proud parents of a 6 pound baby girl, born May 8. She has been named Wilma June. Deaths: Reverend Law- son A. Coble, a retired Christian Church minister, and one of the most wide- ly known and beloved men of this and Gibson county died at his home in Madi- son township, Sunday eve- ning at 6:30 o'clock, after a short illness due to the infirmities of age; Ora G. Robinson, one of the most highly respected and wide- ly known men of the Camp- belltown community died at his home Sunday evening at 8 o'clock, after an illness of several months duration. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Friday and Tuesday, August 15 and19, 1958 Dick Farley, former Win- slow High School basketball standout and member of In- diana University's N.C.A.A. championship team in 1953, just signed a contract with the Detroit Pistons. Farley, who still holds the Big Ten record for field goal shoot- ing percentage in one game, has finished two years of service in the Air Force. He had previously played two seasons with the Syra- cuse Nationals. Byron Brenton, former Petersburg High School all-around sports standout, has signed as head track coach and assistant foot- ball coach at Mooresville High School. Brenton left Petersburg Thursday to as- sume his duties. He former- ly coached at Richland be- fore spending two years in the Army. He played base- ball at Waycross, Ga., in the Milwaukee Braves baseball chain this summer. Bren- ton is the son of Mrs. Lucy Brenton of Petersburg. On the occasion of his retirement from the Army after more than 21 years service, Major Lawrence W. Biggs was awarded the Commendation Ribbon with performance of du- ties while assigned as Ar- my Advisor, 83d Medical Group, PARNG. Col. Byron L. Paige SA A PARNG made the presentation at Indian- town Gap Military Reser- vation on 19 July, 1958. Ma- jor Biggs attended school in Petersburg, Indiana, gradu- ating from Petersburg High School in 1936. Mrs. Mollie Doades of Jefferson township raised a tomato in her garden that measured 12 inches around. Norfolk, Va.- Lawrence J. Boller, grandson of Mrs. Roxie H. Veeck of 406 Low- er Main St., Petersburg, Ind., completed three weeks of amphibious training July 30, at the Little Creek Na- val Amphibious Base, Nor- folk, Va. He is one of more than 100 Naval Reserve Of- ficer Training Corps college juniors who received indoc- trination in the latest meth- ods of amphibious assault during July. Births: Mr. and Mrs. Barney Elkins, Jr. announce the birth of a six lb. 11 oz. daughter, Jamie Elaine, Monday at the Good Samar- itan hospital. Deaths: Marion Bradley, 60, died at his home in Sten- dal community a few min- utes after midnight Monday of a heart attack as he was preparing to leave for work in the Enos mine between Stendal and Spurgeon; Mrs. Ida B. Ferguson, moth- er and sister of two Pike Countians, passed away at the home of a daughter in Huntingburg, Wednes - day at 11:30 a.m. She was 90 years old; Danny Arm- strong, four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Arm- strong was killed Wednes- day in Indianapolis, while running after an ice cream truck. Danny was going af- ter some ice cream and the driver of the truck didn't see him. Young Armstrong was struck down and killed. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, August 29, 1968 Arthur Rumble suffered a severe hemorrhage Thurs- day, August 22. He was tak- en to the Gibson General hospital where X-rays re- vealed a bullet was lodged behind his lungs which had been somewhere in his body since World War II. He was then removed to Lou- isville, Ky. and admitted to the Veterans hospital where major surgery was per- formed Tuesday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Steve Fulk and son of Oakland City and Mrs. Rumble spent Sunday with him. Two men were injured Saturday evening and their automobiles were total loss- es in a two-car crash around three miles east of Oatsville on a county road. The acci- dent happened near dusk at the crossroads near the Cal- vin Baldwin residence when Sammy West, 56, driving a Chevrolet pick-up truck came out of the main from the east and headed south and was struck by William R. Jines, 20, of Vincennes, driving a 1962 Ford. Jines had come over a hill and applied his breaks when he saw Mr. West, who by that time had gotten his truck straightened up in the right hand lane. Mr. West, uncon- scious, was trapped in the wreckage of his truck and for a time it was feared the car would catch fire, as it was smoking badly. He was freed by Jack Brenton and taken to Daviess Coun- ty hospital where he was treated, then released. He suffered severe head lacer- ations and a deep cut on his left arm. Mr. Jines was not seriously injured but suf- fered a mouth injury when his front teeth were jammed into his gums. No charged were filed. With the Labor Day Sav- ings, Red & White was sell- ing 14 ox. bottles of Catsup 4 for 79 cents. Fewer people filed un- employment insurance claims last week than in any week since last Octo- ber. Dwight D. Kelly, chief of the Research and Statis- tics section of the Indiana Employment Security Di- vision, said that the 17,719 total was about 15 per cent below that of the week be- fore and 16 per cent under that of the same week in Au- gust last year. Vacation and inventory layoffs reduced by nearly 2,600 the number of claims from people out of work a week or more. Marriages: Miss Con- nie France and Lewis But- ler were married Saturday, August 17, at the Nazarene church in Mattoon, Illinois; The wedding of Miss Linda Sue Abell and James Eu- gene Willis took place Au- gust 17 at 4 p.m. in the Pla- inville Methodist church. Deaths: Funeral servic- es for Steven Dawn Riesen- beck, 17, of Pikeville, Vel- pen, were conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday, August 24 by Rev. Herschel Long at the Nass and Son Funer- al Home in Huntingburg. Steven died at 1:45 p.m. Wednesday, August 21 in Welborn hospital in Evans- ville from injuries received in a two car collision a few hours earlier, which also claimed the life of the driver of the other car, Belinda R. Bair, Dubois; The Winslow community lost a well loved citizen in the passing on Au- gust 22 of Clarence C. Eh- rlich; Harvey Lee Ballard, 72, of Mattoon, Illinois, died at 9 p.m. Wednesday, Au- gust 14 at Memorial hospi- tal; Word has been received by relatives in the county of the death of Mrs. Mae No- lan, of Connersville, who died Sunday night at 9 p.m.; Lawrence "Jack" Veeck, 52, of Gary, formerly of Peters- burg, died Saturday, August 24 at 10 a.m.; Mrs. Florence Alley, 74, of Chrisney, moth- er of Albert Alley of Peters- burg, died Saturday, Au- gust 24 at 2:45 a.m.; Leslie McQuery, 64, a former res- ident, died Friday in Albu- querque, New Mexico; Ben Boger, 75, formerly of Pe- tersburg, died at the St. Jo- seph hospital in Mishawa- ka, Saturday August 17, at 10 :20 p.m. TWENTY- FIVE YEARS The Press-Dispatch Thursday, August 26, 1993 Injury was avoided in a serious accident last Wednesday morning when a truck and car collided try- ing to avoid a third car that had made a bad pass, ac- cording to Deputy Jeff Cle- ments. Monty G. Murphy, 38, of Washington, told Cle- ments he was driving south on Highway 257, when a car attempted to pass an on- coming truck. Murphy said he attempted to miss the car and lost control hitting the auto driven by Eldon K. Hollingsworth, 32, of Lin- ton, who was being passed. The accident caused more than $10,000 damage to Murphy's 1994 Ford truck, which overturned and be- tween $5,000 and $10,000 damage to Hollingsworth's 1987 Ford. GAB Bancorp and the Ot- well State Bank announced last Friday they had signed a letter of intent for GAB Bancorp to acquire Otwell State Bank in an all stock transaction. GAB Bancorp is based in Jasper and are a three0bank holding com- pany with assets of about $ 300 million operating 11 offices in Dubois, Martin and Pike Counties. Otwell State Bank has one office with total assets of $15.6 million as of June 30, 1993. A contingent of Peters- burg officials took $4,400 in tornado relief donations to Petersburg, Virginia last week. Mayor Randy Har- ris, former Mayor Jack Kin- man, Jeff Stratton and Jerry Church rove to the Virginia city of 40,000 that was hit by a tornado in August. Four people died in that storm. "The people of Petersburg, Virginia were very appre- ciative, and I think they were glad to be able to talk with another group of peo- ple who had experienced a similar disaster," said May- or Harris. "The devastation brought many memories, but they are well on their way to recovery." A rural Winslow teen was injured Monday night in a four-wheeler crash on a county road near the Pike State Forest. Tommy Nowark, 16, of Route 1, was riding the Yamaha 350 cc off-road vehicle north on County Road 450 E near the entrance to Augusta Lake, when he saw a pickup truck and lost control, according to State Conservation Of- ficer Mike Collier. Collier said Nowark sideswiped the S -10 Chevrolet pickup driven by Chris W. Weis- man, 21, or Route 1, Jas- per, sliding down the side of the truck until Nowark's rear wheel collided with the rear wheel of the pickup and then flipped over, throwing Nowark off the vehicle. Col- lier said Nowark had head and facial lacerations and his injuries came from hit- ting the ground and/or the four-wheeler rolling over him not from hitting the truck. Nowark was taken to Memorial Hospital in Jasper where he was treat- ed and released. Quick action by Peters- burg city employees and Public Service Indiana re- stored water to Petersburg following transformer and well pump motor failure last week. The outage ran the water tower low after sever- al hours, but it was quickly recovered when power was restored. Marriages: Vicki Grubb, daughter of Arvel (Buddy) and Joan Grubb, of Peters- burg, and Kevin Edwards, son of Rocky and Nancy Edwards, of Oakland City, were married July 10 at Glezen Revival Center in Glezen. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Chris Rothrock, of Win- slow, at Memorial Hospital in Jasper, Saturday, Aug. 14, their first child, a daughter, Bethani Christine, weigh- ing six lbs.; To Mitch and Leeann Stephens, of Win- slow, at St. Mary's Medial Center, Evansville, August 5, a daughter, Jalen Eliza- beth. Deaths: Paul D. "Ox" Oxendine, 64, of Velpen, formerly of Winslow, died at 2 p.m. Friday, August 20 at his residence; Charles E. McQueen, 56, of Colum- bus, formerly of Petersburg, died at 11:07 a.m. Tuesday, August 24 at the Columbus Regional Hospital; Nettie E. Rinehart, 90, formerly of Pe- tersburg, died Wednesday, Aug. 18 at 11 p.m. at Gibson General Hospital in Princ- eton; Cleo Collins, 78, of Petersburg, died Monday, August 23 at 11:55 p.m. at I.U. Med Center of compli- cations after suffering inju- ries from an auto accident. Wednesday, September 26 • First Kennedy-Nixon debate (1960) • Drake circumnavigates the globe (1580) Thursday, September 27 • John Adams appointed to negotiate peace terms with British (1779) • Jesuit order established (1540) Friday, September 28 • Ted Williams becomes last player to hit .400 (1941) • Battle of Yorktown begins (1781) Saturday, September 29 • Nazis and communists divvy up Poland (1939) • Allied forces break through the Hindenburg Line (1918) Sunday, September 30 • USS Nautilus commissioned (1954) • James Dean dies in car accident (1955) Monday, October 1 • Yosemite National Park established (1890) • Mao Zedong proclaims People's Republic of China (1949) Tuesday, October 2 • Hollywood icon Rock Hudson dies of AIDS (1985) • Checkered flag waves at first postwar U.S. road race in Watkins Glen, N.Y. (1948) Source: History.com WES 6th grade 1970—Mrs. Lucille Wood Front row: Charles Denton, Dale Nalley, Phillip Ferguson, Eddie Bailey, David Hill, Russell Hale, Terry Coleman and Alan Robling; Middle row: Nancy Pirkle, Hazel Wade, Cynthia Samples, Dixie Grissom, Janice Embry, Martha Jones, Nyla Riddle and Gloria Bruce. Back row: Kimberly King, Sandra Alford, Alan Todd, Hubert Barrett, Gary Couts, Timothy Newton, Donald Weathers, Ethel Meinhart, Peggy Butler, Ronald Taylor and Beverly Bennett.