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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, October 23, 2019 A-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, June 16 and June 20, 1944 The green Ford sedan be- longing to Royal Benjamin was stolen Sunday night from the side of his home on East Main St. It is believed that two soldiers heading north who were unsuccessful in hitching a ride, stole the car. The car was found Sunday night about 1 1/2 miles out of Olney, Ill. The car was not damaged, only thing wrong, the car was out of gas and the fog lights were gone. Mr. Ben- jamin had a brand new tire in the back of the car, which had not been molested. For the first time in Peters- burg, an effort will be made to give swimming lessons and life saving training this year. Sponsored jointly by the Pe- tersburg Press and the rec- reation program being con- ducted by the Petersburg Ki- wanis Club, the program will offer free swimming lessons to children six years or older who are willing to learn and are not afraid of the water. The Davidson twins will act as instructors and the pool at Washington will be made pos- sible through the Washington Pool Association and The Da- viess County Red Cross chap- ter. The course will be broken into two separate parts. The first two weeks will be for all swimmers, beginning and ad- vanced swimmers while the second two weeks will be for the purpose of teaching life saving only. The courses will be conducted on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, each week, with the group leaving Petersburg at 9 a.m. and re- turning at 12:30 p.m. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Donald Neal, a girl, Alice Ann, born Sunday morning in the Good Samaritan Hos- pital; To Mr. and Mrs. Elza Craig, Friday, June 9, a son, Donald Ray; To Mr. and Mrs. John Fowler, a boy, Gaylord Brice, born Monday; To Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Willis, a girl, born Wednesday; To Mr. and Mrs. Randall Arnold, a boy, born Sunday afternoon; To Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Swiss, a girl, born Saturday at 12:30 p.m. Marriages: Clarice June Bell and Orville Hale were wed in a single-ring ceremo- ny in the Arthur Church of Christ at 8:30 o'clock Sunday morning June 11. Deaths: Hannah Hopkins, 80, of Winslow, died June 17 in Evansville at the home of her daughter; Anna Hage- meyer, 75, of Stendal, died at the home of her daughter Sunday morning at 2 o'clock. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Thursday, September 17, 1959 A joint announcement was made Tuesday by the Peters - burg Jaycees, American Le- gion Post 179 of Petersburg and the Petersburg Go-Kart Club that arrangements have been completed for the first go-kart race ever held in Pike County to be held Sun- day afternoon at the Ameri- can Legion Fairgrounds in Petersburg A new track has been completed for the event, which is expected to draw more than a thousand per- sons from the entire South- ern Indiana and Illinois ar- ea. Go-Karting has become the nation's number one rac- ing sport this summer and is sweeping the country more each day. Dr. John E. Manning, Jr., of Indianapolis, will be asso- ciated with Dr. L.R. White in Winslow beginning Septem- ber 21. Dr. Manning graduat- ed from Butler University and then served in the Korean war. He graduated from the Chicago College of Osteopa- thy and Surgery in 1958. He recently completed his intern- ship at Saginaw Osteopathic Hospital, Saginaw, Mich. Anatomy of a Murder, star- ring James Stewart, and The Old Man and the Sea, starring Spencer Tracy, were playing at the Lincoln Theater. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Lance, of Winslow, a son, Johnny Michael, Wednesday, September 2 in the Oakland City Hospital; To Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mi- ley, of Winslow, a son, Jeffrey Benjamin, born Tuesday, Sep- tember 8 in the Daviess Coun- ty Hospital. Deaths: Elza Purdue, 76, of Stendal, died Thursday, September 10 at the home of his half-sister; Cora Florence Yarber, 76, of Augusta, died Sunday at her home; Ray La- vern Kays, 13, died sudden- ly Sunday at the home of his grandparents; Mrs. Den- nie Hollenberg, 90, of Vel- pen, died Saturday at 6 p.m. at her home; William Frank Evans, 37, of Petersburg, died suddenly Saturday morning from septicemia; David L. Mason, 88, of Oakland City, died at 8:50 a.m. Thursday, September 10 at his home; Beulah Martin Glass, 43, of Somerville, died at 11:55 a.m. Wednesday, September 9 at the home of her parents. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, October 2, 1969 All of Southern Indiana is basking in the limelight be- ing shed by one of its native sons, Gil Hodges. This young man's success in the world of big time, professional sports has endowed him with more hometowns than any oth- er person since the histori- ans have tried to claim that George Washington slept in every house from Concord to Atlanta, Ga. "Bud," as the people who knew him when he was all-sports athlete at Petersburg High School, is getting reams of publicity because of his feat of taking a pre-season, 100 to 1 choice, seemingly inept baseball team, the New York Mets, to the top of the Eastern Divi- sion of the National League. The Mets will play the Atlanta Braves, winners of the West- ern Division of the Nation- al League, for the privilege of opposing the American League in the World Series. Gil, who was born in Princ- eton, moved with his family to Petersburg at the age of 11, where his father was em- ployed in the coal mines. He attended Petersburg High school, where he was voted the Outstanding Sportsman- ship award in 1942, the year of graduation. During high school, he played American Legion ball with the Prince- ton team. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. George Phillips, of Oakland City, a daughter, Georgia Elaine, Friday, September 26 at Gibson General Hos- pital; To Mr. and Mrs. Ros- coe W. Miley, Sr., of Peters- burg, in Daviess County Hos- pital, Thursday, September 25, a daughter, Stacy Lynn; To Mrs. Alan E. Stone, of Pe- tersburg, a daughter, Dana Michelle, Thursday, Septem- ber 25 in St. Joseph Hospital in Huntingburg. Marriages: Kathy Gladish and Mike Robling were mar- ried Friday evening, Septem- ber 26 in Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Peters- burg. Deaths: Robert Weisheit, 77, died Saturday night, Sep- tember 27 at 11:30 p.m. at his home; Leona M. Minor, 72, of Petersburg, died at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, September 24 in the Daviess County Hospi- tal; Mrs. Alma Lemme, 82, of Mackey, died Sunday at St. Mary's Hospital; George Smith, 79, of Petersburg, died at his home on Saturday, Sep- tember 27 around noon. TWENTY- FIVE YEARS The Press-Dispatch Thursday, September 15, 1994 A Sunday morning fire that killed two people in Pe- tersburg has been declared an arson, according to po- lice. A search warrant was issued Sunday to search the apartment and truck of Ron Fleener and also the apart- ment of his girlfriend, Sara Goemaat. No arrests have been made in the case. An- gela Houston, 24, and Cara Abell, 5, of Petersburg, died of smoke inhalation in the fire that broke out just before 9 a.m. Sunday morning. Three others narrowly escaped as Cara's father, brother and sis- ter were found by firemen un- conscious on the floor of the Silver Dollar Saloon, near an attic ladder. They were re- vived. Kevin Abell, 33, of Pe- tersburg, lived in one of two apartments above the silver Dollar Saloon at the corner of Sixth and Main sts. Angela Houston was Abell's fiancée and Cara was Abell's daugh- ter. The bodies of Abell and Houston were found upstairs near the ladder. Firemen and rescue personnel were praised for limiting the num- ber of fatalities to two and the major part of the damage to the one building. A fire destroyed a trail- er and all the possessions of the Roy and Kathleen Hen- derson family little more than an hour after the Sunday morning Petersburg apart- ment fire claimed two lives. The Hendersons were not at home when the fire broke out at about 10 :15 a.m. Roy Hen- derson was in Texas on ma- neuvers with the Air National Guard at the time of the fire. The Hendersons had no in- surance. A late Tuesday afternoon fire caused at least $20,000 damage to the Raymond Mills family home in Glezen. Only a teenager and three year old were home at the time of the blaze and they go out of the house with no injuries. The fire was confined to the child's bedroom, but smoke damage was throughout the one-month old home. The three year old playing with a lighter was the cause of the fire. Births: To Barry and Rhonda Dillon, of Petersburg, at Daviess County Hospital in Washington, a son, Dalton James. Deaths: PFC Jason L. Smith, 20, of Velpen, died of natural causes at 10 p.m. on Monday, September 5 in South Korea; Thelma Kindler, 84, of Spurgeon, died Monday, September 12 at 5:15 p.m. at Gibson Gener- al Hospital in Princeton; Lin- da R. Gehlhausen, 52, of Win- slow, died at 1:50 a.m. Satur- day, September 10 at Memo- rial Hospital in Jasper; Robert H. Lawyer, 81, of Petersburg, died Friday, September 9 at 7:07 p.m. at Welborn Baptist Hospital in Evansville; Mae Rothrock, 90, of Winslow, died Monday, September 12 at 6:50 p.m. at Petersburg Healthcare Center. 1986 Pike Central Jazz Ensemble Pictured are Pike Central 1986 members of the Jazz Ensemble, front row (l to r): Kelly Shoup, Shannon Beard, Rita Cummins Selby, Cathy Abell, Sarah Fuhrman, Pam Nalley, Kristy France, Jennifer Chesser and Kristi Hightower. Row two: Eric Meyer, Cindy Morton, Kim Rhodes, Jeff McKinney, Angie Broek- er, Kiply Myers and Tony Mann. Row three: Darren Dedrick, Joseph Esarey, Lynn Manges, Sue McNallin, Keith Thomas and Terry Jones. Back row: Cary Van Alstine, Susan Ropp, Jay DeJarnett, Dewayne Spaw, Gary Loveless, Yavonne Sturgeon and Stacy Vaughn. Photo from archive. Wednesday, Oct. 23 • Hostage crisis in Moscow theater (2002) • Brutus commits suicide (42 B.C.) Thrusday, Oct. 24 • First barrel ride down Niagara Falls (1901) • George Washington Bridge is dedicated (1931) Friday, Oct. 25 • Pablo Picasso born (1881) • Charge of the Light Brigade (1854) Saturday, Oct. 26 • Shootout at the OK Corral (1881) • Erie Canal opens (1825) Sunday, Oct. 27 • New York City subway opens (1904) • Quakers executed for religious beliefs (1659) Monday, Oct. 28 • Gateway Arch completed (1965) • Statue of Liberty dedicated (1886) Tuesday, Oct. 29 • John Glenn returns to space (1998) • Hancock resigns as president of Congress (1777) Source: History.com net edition pressdispatch.net/edition Web, Smartphone, Tablet Streamline the Headline! 812-354-8500 • 820 Poplar St., Petersburg, IN • ads@pressdispatch.net