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C-8 Wednesday, July 17, 2019 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 10 and 14, 1944 Due to rising costs, The Petersburg Press, effective on May 1, will sell for $2 per year in Indiana and $2.50 out- side the state, except for mil- itary personnel, which will be accepted at the old rate of $2 per year. Prices have in- creased to the point that we are no longer able to publish twice weekly at the old rate. Newsprint has advanced al- most a third in cost and right along with the increase in pa- per ink, metal and other sup- plies have risen to a price out of proportion to the circula- tion rate. Ira Colvin was made a very happy man Saturday morning when he was noti- fied that his wallet contain- ing $ 355.60 and some valu- able papers had been found. He had transacted business at the Petersburg courthouse and then went to Washing- ton, and after making a pur- chase, noticed that his wal- let was missing. Mrs. Ethel Snider found the wallet con- taining the money. Her atten- tion was attracted to a dog running along the sidewalk with a wallet in its mouth from which hung a $20 bill. She took the wallet from the dog, found the identification card, which carried the name of Ira Colvin, Petersburg, and promptly notified him. Mr. Colvin presented proper identification and claimed his lost wallet after giving Mrs. Snider a liberal reward. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Abury Smith, of Velpen, in the Daviess County Hospi- tal, Tuesday evening, a nine- pound boy, Phillip Gerald; To Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Pen- nington, of Petersburg, on Wednesday, March 8, a nine- pound girl; To Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Sandelwick, of Ot- well, on Tuesday, March 7, an 8 1/2-pound girl; To Mrs and Mrs. Ferrel Sutton, a seven-pound, 10 -ounce girl born March 19 at the Daviess County Hospital. Marriages: Mr. Ce- cil Freeland and Mrs. By- ron Richardson, both of this city, were married March 8 at Morganfield, Ky.; Staff Sergeant Agnes Foster and Staff Sergeant George L. Cole were married in Janu- ary in Memphis, Tenn.; Mrs. Lucy Slayton and Mr George Fulcher were married at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon by Rev. Frank McLaughen at his home in a double ring cer- emony. Deaths: Prof. William Jor- dan, passed away Wednes- day evening at 7 o'clock, at the Welborn Baptist Memo- rial Hospital in Evansville, following a heart attack suf- fered shortly before noon Tuesday while teaching his classes at Oakland City Col- lege; Nancy Ann Krieg, 6 months, passed away at the home of her parents in Oats- ville Saturday afternoon at 12:30 o'clock. She had been ill of pneumonia and had suf- fered a relapse; Amanda E. Nash, 86, of Otwell, passed away at her home Saturday evening at 1:45 o'clock. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Thursday, June 11, 1959 Two Evansville boys and a Michigan man escaped death shortly after 9 a.m. Saturday when the cars they were driv- ing crashed into each other at the city limits west of Peters- burg on Highway 57. The car the boys were riding in was one of the worst wrecked au- tomobiles seen in Pike Coun- ty in several years. Accord- ing to police, the Evansville car, driven by Rob Roeder, 18, was traveling east toward Pe- tersburg. His passenger was 15 -year-old Johnny Wood. Roeder had passed another car in front of Ben's Barbe- cue. When he cut back into the right lane of traffic, the care went off the right side of the road. When the young driver cut the car back on- to the highway, it slid and crossed the highway direct- ly in front of the car driven by Oris C. Peters, 26, of De- troit. Mr. Peters said every- thing happened so quickly that he did not have time to even apply his brakes. His car hit the Evansville car in the center of the right side. The impact knocked the left rear door and center post out of the left side of the car in which the boys were rid- ing. The front seat was al- so knocked out of the car on the left side. Both boys were thrown out the left side of the car into the ditch. They were both still in critical condition on Tuesday. Wood had a seri- ous head injury. Roeder suf- fered a punctured lung, sev- eral broken ribs and other in- ternal injuries. Peters had a large hole in his right shoul- der and other minor injuries. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Howard West, of Hazleton, a daughter, born Friday in the Daviess County Hospital. Marriages: Miss Florence E. Sullivan and Clarence A. Schnarr were married Sat- urday afternoon, June 6 at 5 p.m. in the St. John Luther- an Church in Boon Town- ship; Miss Janice Stewart and William Craig, Jr. were mar- ried Saturday evening in the Pleasant Ridge General Bap- tist Church. Deaths: Eleanor Jean Er- win, 39, of Winslow, died at the Stork Memorial Hospital in Hunting burg at 1:30 p.m. Monday, following a long ill- ness of cancer; Froma C. Woolsey, 77, of Winslow, died at his home at 10 p.m. Mon- day, following a five-year ill- ness of cancer; Mrs. Etna Pipes, 79, died Saturday in the Welborn Baptist Hospi- tal, due to a blood clot; Mrs. Charles C. Abel, 61, of Camp- belltown, died of a heart at- tack Saturday night around 11:45 at the home of her son, John Abel; Henry L. Fierst, 78, of Petersburg, died at the Good Samaritan Hospi- tal in Vincennes at 8:30 a.m. Thursday; Am Hennin, 82, of Petersburg, died at the fam- ily residence at 10 :30 a.m. Monday following a long ill- ness; John Wesley Cherry, 78, of Oakland City, died at 10 :10 a.m. Saturday, June 6 of a heart condition. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, June 26, 1969 Wyatt Seed Company's grain elevator on the east side of Highway 61, near the Penn-central railroad cross- ing on the north side of Pe- tersburg, was destroyed by fire Friday night and its contents of 23,000 bushels of barley. The elevator had been empty for three weeks and they had just started fill- ing it Friday, and unloaded the last of three semi loads at 7:30 p.m., which filled the elevator one third full. A fter checking the building, work- men left the place at 8 p.m. At 8:45, Mike Western, pass- ing by, saw the blaze coming out of the top of the building and notified the volunteer fire department. The fire- men worked until 3:30 a.m. Saturday morning fighting the blaze. Fire Chief Willard Kelshaw stated that the fire apparently started at the top of the elevator. He also stated that he would judge the loss to be around $ 60,000. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Billie Collins, of Peters- burg, Wednesday, June 18, in Daviess County Hospi- tal, a daughter; To Mr. and Mrs. Ronnie Vaughn, of Vel- pen, in Daviess County Hos- pital, Saturday, June 14, a daughter; To Mr. and Mrs. Donald Pemberton, of Lyn- nville, a son, Michael Wayne, weighing 6 lbs, 10 ozs in St. Mary's Hospital; To Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Boger, of Pe- tersburg, in Daviess County Hospital, June 13, a daugh- ter, Denise Lynn; To Mr. and Mrs. Paul Roy, of Spurgeon, a daughter, Barbra Ellen, Fri- day, June 13, in Welborn Bap- tist Hospital in Evansville; To Mr. and Mrs. Barry Wil- liams, of Winslow, Monday, June 23, in the Welborn Bap- tist Hospital, in Evansville, a daughter, Stephanie Erin; To Mr. and Mrs. Michael How- ard, of Oakland City, a son, Mark Allen, Monday, June 15 at Gibson General Hospital. Marriages: Miss Caro Battram and Dr. William Ba- nas were married in Beck Memorial Chapel on the In- diana University campus at Bloomington on Sunday, June 22 at 2:30 p.m.; Inez Horrell and Lacy Mitchell, of Petersburg, were married Friday, June 20 at 7 p.m. in the chapel of the Methodist Home in Lawrenceville, Ill. Deaths: Novella J. Russell, 55, of Oakland City, suffered a heart attack at his home immediately after returning home from work Friday and was dead on arrival at Gibson General Hospital; Charles Edison, Willis, 53, of rural Pe- tersburg, passed away in his sleep due to a sudden heart attack; Hazel M. Johnson, 63, passed away at her home in Petersburg on Tuesday, June 24 at 8:45 due to an apparent heart attack. TWENTY- FIVE YEARS The Press-Dispatch Thursday, June 9, 1994 Tamela S. Sharp, of Oak- land City, was charged with operating a vehicle while in- toxicated and speed too fast to avoid a collision Tuesday afternoon, according to Indi- ana State Police Officer Paul Bastin. The Pontiac Grand Am she was driving slid 393 feet, crossed the center line, struck a ditch and then flipped end over end, coming to rest on its top. Sharp was southbound on SR 61, just north of CR 75 E, when she left the right side of the road- way, overcorrected and slid sideways to the other side, striking a mailbox and drive culvert belonging to Gardner Willis. Two small children, both in belts and restraints, were not injured. Sharp was also buckled in and only sus- tained minor cuts. About 100 people attend- ed an informational meeting at Washington High School last Thursday, where they were able to get answers about the proposed extension of I-69 from Indianapolis to Evansville. The highway has been pared down to two alter- native routs, however in some sections, there are a couple of alternatives for the route. One area where two alterna- tives for the same route ex- ist are on the south side of Petersburg. The route gen- erally runs up Highway 57, from I-164 to Bloomington. Don Shields, of INDOT, said Pike County would have one interchange on either of the two routes. According to the plans, it would be to access Highway 61 south of Peters- burg. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Tom Estey, of Petersburg, at Memorial Hospital in Jasper, Tuesday, June 7, a son, Jeffrey David. Marriages: Jeffrey Wil- liam Knight and Marcie Lynn Owens were united in mar- riage May 7 in Las Vegas. Deaths: Prentice Sel- by, 85, of Winslow, died Fri- day, June 3 at 8:35 p.m. at St. Mary's Medical Center in Evansville; Vernice A. Brake- bill, 65, of Otwell, died at 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 7 at Me- morial Hospital in Jasper. 1979 Pike Central Bus Drivers Pictured above are the 1979 bus drivers for Pike Central High and Middle School. Pictured are, front row (l to r): Bob Russell, Denver Gladish, Luke Brewster, Robert Weitkamp and John Allen; second row: Carolyn Weitkamp, Diana Gray, Donna Butrum, Jim McMillen and Udell Michaels; third row: Betty Willis, Arthur Ennis, Cleo Collins, Velva Flint and William DuPont; back row: Mike Erwin and Owne Erwin. Photo from archive. Wednesday, July 17 • Disneyland opens (1955) • Joe DiMaggio ends 56 -game hitting streak (1941) Thursday, July 18 • FDR nominated for unprecendented third term (1940) • Nero's Rome burns (64) Friday, July 19 • Rosetta Stone found (1799) • Doc Holiday kills for the first time (1879) Saturday, July 20 • Armstrong walks on the moon (1969) • Sitting Bull surrenders (1881) Sunday, July 21 • The First Battle of Bull Run (1861) • Monkey Trial ends (1925) Monday, July 22 • Battle of Atlanta continues (1864) • Cannibal and serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is caught (1991) Tuesday, July 23 • Miss America resigns (1984) • U.S. women take home gymnastics gold (1996) Source: History.com