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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, December 12, 2018 C-11 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, August 6 and 10, 1943 A beer truck ran into a railroad engine at the cross- ing on lower main street about four o'clock Thurs- day evening. The truck was completely demolished. The driver of the truck escaped injury by jumping from the truck before the crash. About 5 o'clock Tuesday evening a fire occurred at the home of Ivan White, near the Aurand store in this city. Two small chil - dren of Mr. and Mrs. White were trying to light a fire in the gasoline stove and one of them spilled gasoline on the kitchen floor. This was ignited when they struck a match and one of the boys had to run through the fire to escape being burned to death. Hid feet were badly burned. Considerable dam- age was done to two rooms before the fire department arrived. Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. Burg- er, one of the most widely known and highly respect- ed older couples of this Wed- ding Anniversary, next Sun- day, August 9, at their home on south Eighth Street, this city. Both are 73 years of age and have lived practically all of their married life in this city, since their marriage on the 9th day of August, 1893, in Evansville, Indiana. A ten percent increase in sugar rationing for com- mercial users, which means more bakery goods, candy and soft drinks, will be put into effect within a few days, Price Administrator Prent- iss Brown disclosed. He in- dicated that the move might be a forerunner of a gener- al lifting of sugar rationing for all consumers. He said an announcement would be made in Washington, Tues- day "on the petroleum sit- uation." He declined to say whether or not in would in- clude a cut in gas rations for the middle west. Mrs. C.D. Chambers, wife of Charles D. Chambers, former County Agricultur- al Agent of this county for a number of years, fell at her home in Cannelton, In- diana, last Wednesday and sustained a broken bone above the elbow. Mr. and Mrs. Chambers have hun- dreds of friends in this city and county who hope that Mrs. Chambers may recover without any serious results. Marriages: Floyd E. Kin- caid, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Kincaid of near this city and Miss Alice Ruth White of 1815 N.A. St., Elwood, In- diana were united in mar- riage at 7:30 p.m. Saturday evening, August 7 at the St. John's Lutheran church in Elwood; Mr. and Mrs. Cleo Abernathy of Oakland City announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Norma Abernathy to Corporal Wal- ter Broshears, son of Mrs. Walter Farley of Winslow. The wedding took place Ju- ly 22, at Detroit, Michigan. Births: Twins, a girl and a boy, were born to Goldia De- Jarnett. The babies weighed 6 pounds nine ounces each and were named Frankie Rae and Frances Fay; Born Tuesday to Mr. and Mrs. George Davis, a boy; A boy was born Monday to Pfc. and Mrs. Ermal Hale; Caro- lyn Kay is the name given to the girl born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shafer of Oakland City; Born Wednesday to Mr. and Mrs. Everett Jones of Clark Station, a 7 pound boy; Born August 7 to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Bryant of Winslow a seven pound girl, The baby was named Susan Carol; A seven pound girl was born August 8 to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Johns of Oakland City. The baby was born in the Miller hospital and has been named Velma Diana. Deaths: John Daniel Jack- son died Thursday morning at 4 o'clock at the home of his daughter Mrs. Flossie Young in Muren; Willard A. Fleming, former county recorder and practically all of his life one of the leading citizens and business men of this city, died at the Home Hospital in this city Mon- day afternoon, August 2, at 3:30 o'clock after having suf- fered a stroke of apoplexy a few days previous. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Tuesday and Friday, November 4 and 7, 1958 Rev. R.W. Rogers, pastor of First Methodist Church was in a minor accident Monday morning, on his way to a meeting in Vin- cennes. Rev. James Smith of Winslow was a passenger in the Rogers car. No one was injured. Tonnie Lee Harvey, eight-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Harvey, re- ceived first and second de- gree burns Friday morning when his shirt caught fire at his home on the Vincennes Highway here. Young Har- vey was dressed for Hallow- een, wearing a long bloused shirt. He was watching his older brother, Billy, burn trash and accidentally backed into the fire catch- ing his shirt tail afire. Har- vey ran into a field behind his home and was caught by his brother and thrown to the ground. A neigh- bor, Loren Day, saw the af- fair and raced into the field and ripped the clothes off of young Harvey. Bill Harvey, local police chief and father of the injured boy, credited his son and Mr. Day with saving the life of the boy. Tonnnie has been returned to his home and is improv- ing slightly. Alvin Hensley, Tom Hill, and Jim Cox headed the eight-man all- P.A.C. football team picked by the coaches at the regular Pocket Ath- letic Conference meeting Monday night at Boonville. Petersburg tied Rockport with three men each on the first unit. Ron Taylor was named to the second team and Boyd Ashcraft and Bill Richardson received hon- orable mention. Hensley, a senior, was considered a top-notch defensive play- er. He had what coach How- ard Briscoe described as "a burning desire to play foot- ball." Hensley was also a fine pass catcher. Isaac Frencher, 73, Pe- tersburg, incurred a broken hip at 5:30 p.m., Friday when he was struck by a poultry truck. He was taken to the Daviess county hospital. The accident occurred at Eighth and Main streets in Petersburg. Thomas E. Witherspoon, Petersburg, has been named a night editor on The Indi- ana Daily Student, campus newspaper at Indiana Uni- versity. A A senior, he will serve in this capacity for the remainder of the first semes- ter. He previously was city editor on the paper. The Dai- ly Student is a laboratory pa- per for students in journal- ism and staffs are rotated each eight weeks to give stu- dents a variety of experience in production and writing. Marriages: Miss Ju- dy Ann Borders became the bride of Larry Delbert Foust, Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m., October 18, at the Atkinson Chapel Church. Deaths: Harry Carpen- ter, 82, of Paoli, passed away at 3 p.m., Sunday after a lingering illness; James Thompson Wallace, 84, died at 5 a.m. Friday at the home of relatives in Monroe City. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, November 14, 1968 Art Rumble displays a souvenir bullet he had been carrying around in his upper right side since 1945 when he was wounded during W WII. The bullet was re- moved from his body in Au- gust this past summer. Residents of Pike coun- ty reported to the Press- Dispatch very little dam- age to property or person- al injuries from the earth- quake Saturday at 11 a.m. outside of being scared out of their wits. Several chim- neys were cracked and the outside chimney at the home of Mose Howard at Glezen collapsed and fell to the ground. Saturday's quake was rated the most severe in the eastern half of the na- tion since 1944. Bryce Bottom fractured his right arm near the shoul- der in a fall Monday at the Bottom's apartments. He had been paneling a room in the Bottom's apartments on Main street in Winslow and had leaned a ladder against the wall to put up some molding along the ceil- ing. He started up the ladder and was on the second step when the ladder slipped, causing him to fall. He was taken to the Gibson General hospital in Princeton where his arm was placed in a sling cast he will be wearing for eight weeks. Ermil "Doc" Robling, 36, suffered painful facial inju- ries Thursday, November 7 at 8 a.m. at the Oatsville water flood when a valve ex- ploded on a pressure me- ter. The accident happened while Mr. Robling, an oil field worker, was checking an oil well. He was hit in the face by 850 pounds of pres- sure. The impact knocked him down and broke his dentures and was numb and stunned for a period of time. He drove his car to his home after the accident not realiz- ing how seriously he was in- jured. He was then rushed to the Daviess County hos- pital by Harris ambulance. He will probably remain in the hospital the rest of this week. Marriages: Miss Martha Jane Popp, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Roy Popp, who has been living with her uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Amos Mehne near Otwell and John David Whitsitt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Whit- sitt, of Huntingburg, plight- ed their marriage vows Sat- urday afternoon, October 19 in the Otwell United Meth- odist church. Deaths: Mrs. Lillie Akridge, 80, of Springfield, Ill., native of Winslow and former resident of Peters- burg, died at 1:55 p.m. in the Springfield Memorial hospital after suffering sev- eral strokes; Funeral servic- es for Mrs. May E. Murry, 90, of Decker, former res- ident of Otwell, were con- ducted at the Harris Funer- al Home Saturday at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Homer Leighty officiating; Adolph F. Whit- ney, 79, Logansport, died at 6:35 p.m. Saturday, Novem- ber 2 in Memorial hospital; Funeral services for Law- rence Steen, 75, of East St. Louis, native of Otwell and brother of Clyde Steen, and Mrs. Bernard (Mary) My- ers, of Otwell, died sudden- ly from a heart attack ear- ly Monday morning at his home; Robert Goodpas- ture, 50, of Petersburg, died from a heart attack Wednes- day, November 6 at the Vet- erans hospital in Indianapo- lis; Major William B. McK- inney, 40, a former resident of Lynnville and Boonville, died at 11 p.m. Saturday, No- vember 2 at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina after suffering an apparent heart attack. TWENTY- FIVE YEARS The Press-Dispatch Thursday, November 11, 1993 A Monday afternoon trash fire destroyed a shed and damaged the vinyl sid- ing of the home of Ron and Diana Fickel of Ayrshire, but no more thanks to the good Samaritan actions of Sean Gough of Jasper. He had happened by and saw the fire and joined with Ron Fickel in using garden hos- es to fight the fire and cool the home before fire fight- ers from North Patoka, South Patoka and Winslow arrived. Diana Fickel stated, "We were burning trash and heard a big boom." They ran outside and saw Gough who was on his way to alert them. Mrs. Fickel stated, "I think the fire department got here pretty quick." A Stendal teenager was injured in a one-car crash Friday morning on her way to work, when she ran off the road and hit a tree, ac- cording to police. Teresa D. Roettger, 18, of Route 1, Stendal, was east bound on Old Highway 64 about a half mile east of Stendal, when she went off the right side of the road, tried to correct it and then slid off the road and hit two trees, according to State Trooper Paul Bastin. He said she suffered minor head and neck injuries as well as abrasions. She was taken to St. Joseph's Hospi- tal in Huntingburg. Her 1984 Oldsmobile was a total loss. Bastin said she was cited for speeding too fast to avoid collision, in the accident that happened at 6:46 a.m. Minor damage was sus- tained to a 1976 Ford driv- en by Derek Brothers of Winslow when he went off the road in an attempt to avoid the car he was pass- ing. The accident occurred while Brothers was traveling north on SR 61 near CR 75E south of Petersburg. Pike County Sheriff Deputy John Palmer stated that Brothers was trying to miss a small black car that pulled out in front to pass as he was pass- ing it. He then went off the left side of the road, skidded back into traffic before slid- ing off the other side of the roadway, damaging a state highway sign. Three Pike County men have recently enlisted in the U.S. Navy and will take training at the Seaman Ap- prentice School. Michael Chad Stilwell, son of Judy Robling, of Winslow; Jason Duane Smith, son of Scott D. and Debra A. Smith, Winslow; and Erwin Donald Loveland, son of Norman V. Loveland, Otwell, are all to report to Recruit Training Center Great Lakes, Illinois in January. They will begin their active duty at that time and will undergo basic train- ing. Following basic training they will begin four weeks of schooling in the Seaman Ap- prentice School. Petty Offi- cer 1st Class James J. Bruce of the Vincennes Navy Re- cruiting Station noted that they may go on to addition- al schooling or be assigned to any one of the Navy's du- ty stations around the world. Petersburg Police re- port that the home of Mi- chael Lutz, Rte. 2 Edge- wood Apartments was bur- glarized sometime Friday, Nov. 5 while the family was not at home. Taken during the break-in was an RCA VCR with remote, a Fisher stereo with two speakers, an IBM typewriter, a ladies white gold wedding band set, a man's gold wedding band and a can of coins. Of- ficer Russell Green investi- gated, assisted by other Pe- tersburg police officers and the Indiana State Police. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Atkins of Petersburg, a daughter, Kelsey Michelle, on Friday, Oct. 22 at Dea- coness Hospital in Evans- ville; To Larry and Angie ( Wampler) Gates, at Union Hospital, November 2, a daughter, Lauren Rae. Deaths: Bertha D. Nal- ley, 60, of Scottsburg-Beth- el community, Oakland City, died at 6:05 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4 at St. Mary's Med- ical Center in Evansville; John Gordon Wilhite, 87, of Petersburg, died at 12:50 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7 at Pe- tersburg Healthcare Cen- ter; Robert H. Sorgius, 73, of Petersburg, died Friday, Nov. 5 at 9:56 a.m. at Dea- coness Hospital in Evans- ville; Mary Renee Buechler, 28, of Velpen, died Wednes- day morning, Nov. 3 in the emergency room at St. Jo- seph's Hospital in Hunting- burg; Marshall Deen, 79, of Hammond, died October 23 at his residence. 1952 Masons Grocery Pictured is the 1952 Mason's Grocery that was located at the southeast end of Coe and was run by Ivan and Georgia Mason from 1946 to 1953. Pictured are, front row: Gloria Mason, Shirley Mason and Ivan Mason holding Linda Mason; back row: Paulene Caldemeyer, worker, and Georgia Mason. Wednesday, December 12 • Da Vinci notebook sells for over 5 million (1980) • Pennsylvania ratifies the Constitution (1787) Thursday, December 13 • Al Gore conceded presidential election (2000) • Sir Francis Drake sets out (1577) Friday, December 14 • Roal Admundsen becomes first explorer to reach the South Pole (1911) • Indy "Brickyard" is completed (1909) Saturday, December 15 • Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens (2001) • The Bill of Rights becomes law (1791) Sunday, December 16 • The Boston Tea Party (1773) • Battle of the Bulge begins (1944) Monday, December 17 • First airplane flies (1903) • "A Christmas Carol" is published (1843) Tuesday, December 18 • Mayflower docks at Plymouth Harbor (1620) • Slavery abolished in America (1865) Source: History.com