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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, October 24, 2018 B-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, June 15 and 18, 1943 Monday morning started the busiest day of the Mayor's Court since the new Mayor took office. Nine Pike Coun- ty men were held for trial and two soldiers were removed from the county jail and taken to Camp Breckenridge, where they were to be tried by their commanding officers, Of the nine local men brought before the Mayor, five were charged with drunkenness and three with assault and battery while one was charged with drunk- en driving. The fines ranged from one dollar and costs to suspend sentences for 30 days. Rockport, undefeated and conquerors of Tell City, Can- nelton and Princeton defeat- ed the Petersburg All Stars 4 to 3, Sunday, June 13. The ball game was close all the way. Petersburg collected on- ly 4 hits, while Rockport gath- ered 7. Adrian Stafford, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Staf- ford, of Petersburg, suffered head injuries Tuesday after- noon in a collision on State Road 61, four miles south east of Vincennes. Adrian was riding in an automobile driven by Carl Wyant of Mon- roe City which collided with a coal oil truck on the cure of the road. The truck was driven by Albert McClanna- han of Lawrenceville and be- longed to Gerton Brothers of Brazil. The truck was so bad- ly damaged it was necessary to transfer the load to anoth- er truck. The front of the au- tomobile was badly damaged. Mr. Wyant and Adrian Staf- ford were rushed to the Good Samaritan hospital in Vin- cennes. Mr. Wyant suffered only cuts and bruises and af- ter being treated was released from the hospital. Adrian Staf- ford suffered injuries about the head. One Plainville man was shot in the abdomen and an- other was severely beaten Wednesday in a flareup of an old argument over the al- leged killing of a coon dog. Earl Goodwin, Jr., age 22, was in the Daviess county hospi- tal Wednesday in a serious condition from .32-calibre re- volver wounds which author- ities said were inflicted by a gun fired by Charles England, 59 -year-old business man of Plainville. Mr. England was beaten and bruised, receiv- ing treatment for severe facial and head cuts and injuries. He voluntarily submitted to technical arrest pending the completion of an investiga- tion and was permitted to go to the hospital this afternoon for treatment On the advice of his attorney, John S. Hastings, Mr. England had no state- ment to make other than that he show Goodwin in self-de- fense when Goodwin accost- ed him on the street. Marriages: Miss Caro- lyn Myers, daughter of Mrs. Maude Myers of this city be- came the bride of Samuel West, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam West, Sr., of this city, Sat- urday, June 5 in a single ring ceremony performed by the Justice-of-the-Peace, Charles E. Jones; Patty Manhart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Manhart, of Peters- burg, was married at 4 0'clock Sunday afternoon in a double ring ceremony to Lieut. Don- nell Culley of Evansville, Indi- ana. The marriage took place at the home of the bride's par- ents with the Reverend R. M. Taylor, officiating; Rev. R. M. Taylor performed a single ring ceremony Wednesday evening at his home which united in marriage Mrs. Ethel M. Barker and Mr. P. M. Rum- ble. The newly married couple will live in Mr. Rumble's apart- ment on Vincennes ave. Births: Mr. and Mrs. By- ron Fowler are the proud par- ents of a seven pound girl born June 8 in Indianapolis. Joanna Kay is the name given to the new baby; Born Tues- day morning to Mr and Mrs, Oval Decker of Petersburg, a nine pound boy; Born in the Miller hospital, Tuesday, June 15, a boy to Lieut. and Mrs. Lowell Whitehead. The boy was named Lowell Kent. Deaths: George I. Miley, of Campbelltown died at 8:30 a.m. Saturday in the Deacon- ess hospital, Evansville from injuries received that morning when his motorcycle crashed with a car at Highway 62 and Oak Hill road, Evansville. Six others were injured. Among them was William Richard Bentley of Winslow; Mrs. Car- rie Josephine Songer died Sat- urday morning at 5 o'clock at her home in the Brenton cha- pel neighborhood. She sub- mitted to an operation for a malignant growth more than a year ago and had been able to do light housekeeping du- ties until a few days ago. She was confined to her bed only one week; Mrs. Louise Fletch- er, age 85, died at her home in Winslow, where she had lived for 50 years, at 2:15 o'clock Friday morning. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Friday and Tuesday, September 16 and 19, 1958 The Petersburg Freshman squad rolled to its second straight victory last week by downing Oakland City, 20 - 8. The game was played at Oakland City. The Fresh- man, made up of freshman and sophomores, are being coached by Buddy Burton and Bill Schaefer. Max Dilley, Rodney Hale and Larry Mor- ton scored the Petersburg touchdowns. Hale accounted for the extra points on runs. Wayne Craig brought a 10 -foot stalk of corn with three fully developed ears on it to The Press office last week and he feels that it is quite a corn stalk. The corn was grown on the Lelah Preston farm near Alford and is Funks G No. 711 variety. He planted 10 -pounds of this seed and he states that the stalks are uniform and each have two to three ears. This is the type of corn used by the Lamar Rad- cliff, Mississippi resident, in reaching the world's record of 304 bushel on one acre two years ago. Former City Police Chief, Elijah "Skeet" Hale, was se- riously injured Wednesday morning when a car he was driving left Highway 57 and rolled into a ditch. The ac - cident happened about two miles from Petersburg. Po- lice report Mr. Hale was trav- eling towards Petersburg at the time of the accident. Mr. Hale is reported to have three broken vertebrae, head lacer- ations and undetermined in- ternal injuries. He is in very serious condition at the Da- viess County hospital in Washington. The members of the local V.F.W. Post No. 3587, and its officers have approved and are in the process of an ex- tensive remodeling program to better serve its members and the community. The gen- eral contract of razing the second story of the old build- ing and installing a complete basement for meeting rooms, utility room and rest rooms and enlarging the main floor of the Club Room 36x40 ft. is being done by Sims Construc- tion Company of Petersburg. Marriages: The marriage of Miss Louella J. Stafford to Mr. John R. Upton will take place in the Alford Methodist church on Saturday, Sept. 20. The ceremony will be at 7:30 o'clock. Deaths: Mary Hays Frank, 85, of Atlanta, Georgia died suddenly at 7:30 Monday, while visiting with her broth- ers, Lorenzo and Curtis Hays at Otwell; Wood C. Smith, 65, former Chevrolet dealer in Petersburg, died suddenly at his home in Oakland City, at 3 a.m. Sunday; Harvey H. Noe, 71, died of a heart attack at 6 a.m., Thursday at his home in Monroe City. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, September 26, 1968 The accelerator stuck on the 1963 Buick of Ollie Gil- lie's of New Haven, Satur- day, at 6:30 p.m. as he pulled up in the yard at the home of his mother, Mrs. Edna Cox to park his car by the side of her house. The car ran over a water hydrant, knocked the corner post from the porch and ran into the living room, knocking over two televisions. His mother, whose home is in the east end of Winslow, was a passenger in her son's car when the accident occurred. Petersburg held their an- nual homecoming parade Fri- day, September 20 at 6:30 p.m. Leading the tribal party was the Petersburg fire truck and police car; next was the var- sity cheerleaders, the mights P.H.S. Band, antique care and mounted horses followed. The two main attractions were the lovely queen candidates and the class floats. Phillip V. Frederick, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Freder- ick, Hazelton, was recently notified by the Indiana State Scholarship Commission that he had earned the distinc- tion of being named a "Hoo- sier Scholar" and recipient of a state scholarship. Phillip graduated from Petersburg High School with the class of 1968. He is using his scholar- ship attending Indiana Uni- versity where he began his studies September 10. Nancy Frederick, Phillip's sister, was named a "Hoosier Scholar" in 1966 with the first group of students from over the state to receive the scholarships. Marriages: Mr. and Mrs. Barry DeWayne Thomas are residing at 1031 Heath Street, Lafayette, following their marriage September 1. They both are attending Purdue University, where he is a se- nior and she is a sophomore. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hammond of Win- slow, in the St. Joseph Hospi- tal in Huntingburg, a son; To Mr.a nd Mrs. Danny Jones of near Otwell a daughter, Car- rie Lynn; To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sweany of Wheeling, a son, Robert Dale; To Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Skinner, of Bicknell, a son, Donald Jer- ry, Jr.; To Mr. and Mrs. Don Harting, of Oakland City, a son, Randy Gene; To Mr. and Mrs. Joe Simpson, of Velpen, a son, September 22. Deaths: Funeral servic- es for Mrs. Opha Tislow, 94, were conducted at Harris Fu- neral Home at 2 p.m. Sun- day; Floyd Eilert, 68, of Hat- tiesburg, Mississippi, native of Stendal, died Friday, Sep- tember 20 at 7:30 a.m. in the Mercy hospital in Hatties- burg; Mrs. Bessie Matte- son, 68, Petersburg, wife of William Clayborn Matteson, died Tuesday at 2:20 p.m. in the Daviess County hospi- tal in Washington where she had been a patient since ear- ly Sunday morning; Denise, baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Nelson, of Win- slow, who was born Wednes- day, September 18, lived on- ly eight hours; Joseph F. Wil- liams, 89, of Vincennes, a retired farmer and former res- ident of Pike County, died at 6:45 p.m. Thursday, Septem- ber 19 at a Vincennes nursing home; Memorial services for Mrs. Minnie B. Lahr, 92, were held Monday, September 16 at 2 p.m. at Gardner Funeral Chapel in Vincennes. TWENTY- FIVE YEARS The Press-Dispatch Thursday, September 23, 1993 A semi-tractor overturned near Otwell carrying 1,200 turkeys at about 11 p.m. Tues- day. The truck had just left Danny Bush's turkey farm and was in a sharp curve on County Road 250 N., near the IOOF Cemetery just east of Otwell. It was driven by Ste- ven R. Shreve of Portland. His trailer wheels got off into the soft roadside causing it to overturn despite the cab be- ing in the road. Deputy Sher- iff Jeff Clements said the truck was a total loss. It was estimated about half the birds survived and Shreve was un- injured. Police are investigating the vandalism of a fish pond. Di- ana Frandsen of Petersburg told police someone took a hose and sprinkler and turned the hose into her fish pond in the back yard. She told po- lice it caused about 40 assort- ed varieties of fish to die. She said it occurred sometime be- tween 3 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday. Indiana State Police troop- ers Paul Bastin and Paul Bu- cher were making one of their last training dives at "Killer" pit off Line Road Monday when their practice recovery techniques netted two sto- len vehicles and a plate from a third. The pair was finish- ing their SCUBA diving cer- tification with four other In- dian State Police and Depart- ment of Natural Resources divers when a 1978 Chevrolet Blazer, a 1987 Camaro and a 1989 Honda sedan were locat- ed in the pit. Bastin stated, "We were practicing recovery techniques and search pat- terns when the vehicles were found." It was the same pit where several other vehicles were located last year by Pike County rescue divers Jeff Cle- ments and James Capozella. Also recovered by the div- ers was a Schwinn 10 -speed bike. The plates on the vehi- cles were checked and two came up stolen and the third is yet unknown. The divers attempted to raise the Blaz- er with lift bags but were un- able to bring it all the way ac- cording to Bastin. Upon com- pletion of the diving course, Bastin and Bucher will be the only Indiana State Police div- ers in this district, a six coun- ty area. The two are responsi- ble for water recovery in the rivers, lakes, streams and pits and will train on insertion by helicopter. Police are investigating an incident with local CEDA (Commission to End Drug Abuse) coordinator Mark Lemond of Petersburg. He was found unconscious and bleeding from a severe frac- ture of the lower leg early Fri- day morning according to Pe- tersburg Police Chief Mike Key. Lemond was transport- ed to Daviess County Hospi- tal where he was transferred to Good Samaritan in Vin- cennes to have emergency surgery for a compound frac- ture. Lemond was found ly- ing on the front seat of his car parked off Main St. at the rear of Wheatley auto sales build- ing. Key responded to a call at 7:03 a.m. and stated that Le- mond was unaware of his in- juries until he was awakened and asked to get out of the car. At that time Lemond, Indiana State Police officer Mike Hil- debrand and Key discovered heavy bleeding and the com- pound fracture. Lemond was reported to be unable to ex- plain his whereabouts or how he was injured according to Chief Key. The incident is still under investigation. Key is chairman of the Pike Coun- ty CEDA organization which is an arm if the Governor's Commission for a Drug Free Indiana. More than 200 antique autos from the 20 Century Carfest based in Washing- ton, visited Petersburg Satur- day night. The caravan drove from Washington to Peters- burg and parked on Walnut Street for a while to allow in- terested persons to get a good look at the cars from the past. Through traffic was snarled on both highway 61 and 57 during the time the cars were being driven into town and be- ing parked. Police led the cars down Main Street to the for- mer Ford agency on south- west Main where they turned and came back up Main Street and parked on Walnut. Marriages: Matthew Jines and Judy Krieg were married in a double ring ceremony on July 10 at Knights Chapel Church with Rev. Ralph Mill- er officiating. Births: To Robin and Tonya Willis, at Memorial Hospital in Jasper, September 16, a daughter, Cierra Lynn; To Mr. and Mrs. Rich Bush of Velpen, at Memorial Hospital in Jasper, Saturday, Sept. 18, their first child, a son, Colton Eugene. Deaths: Charlotte Eskind, 75, of Winslow, died at 8:52 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 15 at Deaconess Hospital in Evans- ville; Alvin E. Charles, 68, of Evansville, formerly of Pe- tersburg, died at 3 p.m. Satur- day, Sept. 18 at his residence in Evansville; Hilda Rumble Black, 81, died at 11:52 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 14 at Peters- burg Healthcare Center; Hel- en L. Weisheit, 71, of Chan- dler, a native of Pike County, died at 1:40 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 16 at St. Mary's Medi- cal Center in Evansville; Bar- ney Bushers, 80, of Hunting- burg, father of LaNell Brown of Otwell, died at 12:50 p.m., Friday, Sept.17 at Hunting- burg Convalescent Center; John Henke, 63, of Stendal, died at 1:55 p.m. Friday, Sept. 17 in the emergency room at St. Joseph's Hospital in Hunt- ingburg. Wednesday, October 24 • First barrel ride down Niagara Falls (1901) • George Washington Bridge is dedicated (1931) Thursday, October 25 • Pablo Picasso born (1881) • Charge of the Light Brigade (1854) Friday, October 26 • Shootout at the OK Corral (1881) • Erie Canal opens (1825) Saturday, October 27 • New York City subway opens (1904) • Quakers executed for religious beliefs (1659) Sunday, October 28 • Gateway Arch completed (1965) • Statue of Liberty dedicated (1886) Monday, October 29 • John Glenn returns to space (1998) • Hancock resigns as president of Congress (1777) Tuesday, October 30 • Orson Welles causes nationwide panic with "War of the Worlds" (1938) • Naval committee established by Congress (1775) Source: History.com Mt. Olympus School 4th and 5th Grade Classes – 1946 Miss Essie Rumble, Teacher Graduating Classes of 1953-1954 Front row (l to r): Jerry Reneer, Carl Hammond, Yvonne Williams, Jane Kolb, Martha Jane Ice, Leona Thompson, Sue Ellen At- kinson, Eleanor Jones, Sharon Elliott, Bonnie Brittingham and Vivory Brittingham. Middle row (l to r): Jimmy Smith, Harold Fred- erick, Riley Thompson, Mary Etta Lytle, Mary Betty Pauley, Jimmy Jones, Sally Kolb and Sandra Dillon. Back row (l to r): Bertis Tolbert, Jackie Horrall, Jimmy Ackman, Ernie White, Jerry Daubenspeck, David Harvey and Martin Luther Cloin. Contributed by Sue Ellen (Atkinson) Barton.