The Press-Dispatch
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C-8 Wednesday, March 4, 2020 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 CCC Camp in 1935 The CCC Camp number 541 was located in the southeastern part of Winslow where the ADM Growmark Inc. is now located. It was across the tracks of the Southern Railway depot. The camp was a government project to give men who had no jobs during the depression of the 1930s. In the photo are Robert Rus- sell, Jessie Grubb, and Cleon Dedman. Dedman now lives in Winslow. He recalls there 250 or more men in the camp. It had eight or more barracks, a latrine, mess hall and a place men could buy a few things. Wednesday, March 4 • Jackson holds "Open House" at the White House (1829) • John Candy dies (1994) Thursday, March 5 • Churchill delivers Iron Curtain speech (1946) • Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler hits #1 with "Ballad of the Green Berets" (1966) Friday, March 6 • The Battle of the Alamo comes to an end (1836) • Supreme Court rules in Dred Scott case (1857) Saturday, March 7 • Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first female director to win an Oscar (2010) • Defense rests in Andrea Yates trial (2002) Sunday, March 8 • Ali battles Frazier for heavyweight championship (1971) • MT V's Highest rated series premieres (1993) Monday, March 9 • Firebombing of Tokyo (1945) • Comedian George Burns dies at age 100 (1996) Tuesday, March 10 • Cuba plays in World Baseball Classic (2006) • Dr. David Gunn is murdered by anti-abortion activist (1993) Source: nbcwashington.com SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Friday and Tuesday, Oct. 27 and Oct. 31, 1944 The Jap fleet, having been located, is taking a great deal of punishment, accord- ing to the latest dispatches from the Pacific front. A large Japanese aircraft car- rier, a battleship and sever- al cruisers and destroyers already have been sunk and at least, two carriers and four battleships dam- aged at a cost of one small American carrier sunk and other warships damaged in continuing naval and air battles off the Philippines and Formosa. The Seventh and Third American fleets were arrayed against what was described by Adm. Er- nest J. King in Washington as practically all of the Japa- nese fleet. For the first time in more than a year, Japa- nese warships closed with American fleet units in gun battles. Two battles were fought in the Philippines from which defeated Japa- nese groups are fleeing. A third naval-air encounter broke off south of Formo- sa. The two battles in the Philippines were waged so close to where Gen. Doug- las MacArthur's invasion armies have been in oper- ation for less than a week that C. Yates McDaniel, Associated press war cor- respondent at Seventh Fleet headquarters, report- ed "the fate of the Ameri- can army ashore at Leyte hung in a precarious bal- ance for an hour Wednes- day morning." MacArthur announced that Vice Adm. Thomas C. Kinkaids' Sev- enth Fleet daringly was split up to take on two Jap- anese fleet groups simulta- neously. Although outnum- bered, the divided Seventh won both battles. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Verl Youngs, a boy, Robert Allen, born Tuesday; To Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Hubble, of Alford, a girl, born Tuesday. Marriages: Ardel- la Leichlyter became the bride of T/Sgt. Maurice Jones on Saturday after- noon at 1:30 p.m. in the Velpen General Baptist Church; Edna Mosby and Forrest W. Cockerham were united in marriage on Oc- tober 26 by Woodrow Dear- ing, Justice of the Peace, of Winslow. Deaths: Dora Alice McAtee, 60, of Oakland City, passed away on Oc- tober 22 at Gibson Gener- al Hospital; Adalaska Gal- braith, 75, of Jefferson Township, died last Thurs- day afternoon at 1:25 o'clock at his home. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Thursday, January 28, 1960 A two-ton 1957 Chevro- let truck, belonging to the Farm Bureau at Sullivan, was found hidden in brush between Stendal and Au- gusta in a thicket. The truck was stolen from Sul- livan January 9. The wheels had been removed from it when it was found by Vir- gil Hedge, who accidental- ly ran across it when he was walking. Jumping Jacks, starring Jerry Lewis and Dean Mar- tin was playing at Tivoli Theater. Journey to the Cen- ter of the Earth, starring Pat Boone, and Stalag 17, star- ring William Holden, were playing at Lincoln The- ater. Perfect Furlough, star- ring Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh was playing at the Ohio Theater. Never So Few, starring Frank Sinatra, and Story on Page One, starring Rita Hayworth, were play- ing at Astra Theater. Winslow Auto Sales was selling a 13 cu. ft. Frigidaire refrigerator for $299.95. Kent Furniture and Appli- ance Co. was selling a 13 cu. ft. GE refrigerator for $249.95. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Harold Offill, of Oak- land City, a son, Mark Al- len, born Monday, January 18 at the Oakland City Hos- pital; To Mr. and Mrs. Har- lan Mason, of Oakland City, a son, born Sunday, Janu- ary 24 in the Gibson Gen- eral Hospital. Deaths: Ora Johnson, 54, of Oakland City, died at 9:45 Tuesday morning at the home of his son; Eliza- beth Young, 84, of Muren, died Saturday at 8:20 a.m. at her home; Richard Bass, 94, of Stendal, passed away at the home of his daughter on Monday; Charles E. Sny- der, 44, died Monday at 7:30 in the Oakland City Hospi- tal; Nellie R. McAtee, 64, of Petersburg, died at 2:45 a.m. Thursday at Daviess County Hospital; Edward L. Krause, 74, of Peters- burg, died at Good Samar- itan Hospital at 10 :15 p.m. Thursday; George Bellamy, 61, of Oakland City, died at 3:20 a.m. Thursday, Janu- ary 21 at Good Samaritan Hospital. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, February 12, 1970 A two-car accident in- stantly killed Arthur Fen- tress, 67, and injured Nick- ie Meadors, 16, both of the Algiers neighborhood. The accident occurred Friday at 3:15 p.m. on CR 500, north of the dewy Adams corner, past Hubert Adams' home in the Dutchtown communi- ty. Mr. Fentress was headed north and was operating left of center when he collided head on with the car driven by Nickie Meadors, accord- ing to authorities. Mr. Fen- tress died from a crushed chest and head injuries. The Meadors youth received a fractured right thigh bone and bruises about his chest. He was taken by Harris am- bulance to the Good Samar- itan Hospital in Vincennes, where reports are that he is in a satisfactory condi- tion. Mr. Fentress was on his way home from the Ber- nard Garretsons, where he did part-time work, and Meadors was returning to the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.J. Meadors, one mile north of Algiers, after taking a school mate home. The Grand Jury has been called to meet next Wednes- day, February 18 at 9 a.m. at the Pike Circuit Court. Sev- eral items of business are on the agenda, of which is included 27 bad checks to be presented to the Grand Jury for criminal action. Several other matters are required by the Grand Jury to be performed once each year. Law requires that this body be called in at least one time during the year. At this time, anyone having any complaints may pres- ent them directly to the ju- ry. This is required in order that judges or prosecutors may not block criminal pro- ceedings from coming to trial before petit jury. It is also the duty of the Grand Jury to inquire into the case of every person imprisoned in the county jail on a crim- inal charge and not indict- ed. They must inquire in- to the case of every person in the county under bail to answer a criminal charge and not indicted. They must look into any willful and corrupt misconduct in office of public officers of every description and into any charge of extor- tion preferred against any such officer. The Grand Ju- ry must examine the jails of the county. These require- ments are set out in the In- diana Statutes. Named to the Grand Jury are Robert Snyder, Edward Gray, For- rest Burdette, Arthur El- more, Robert E. Clark, Den- zil Reed, Otho N. Beadles and Deloris Catt. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Hassel Coleman, a son, Hassel Stephen at the Da- viess County Hospital, Sun- day, February 1; To Mr. and Mrs. Keith Willis, of Peters- burg, Sunday, February 8, in Daviess County hos- pital, a daughter, Candy Jo; To Mr. and Mrs. Rob- ert McCormick, of Peters- burg, Thursday, February 6, in the Daviess County Hospital, a daughter, Bob- by Leanne; To Mr. and Mrs. David Reed, of Petersburg, Thursday, February 6, in the Daviess County Hospi- tal, a son, James Michael; To Mr. and Mrs. James Feldmeyer, of Lynnville, a son, Brent Alan, Monday, February 2 at St. Mary's Hospital in Evansville. Deaths: Ruth Britton, 65, of Winslow, died at 9 a.m. Saturday, February 7 in the Daviess County Hos- pital; Hiram Engleman, 76, of Cato, died Wednesday, February 4 at 3 p.m. in the Daviess County hospital; Everett Marsee, 77, of Pe- tersburg, died in Daviess County Hospital at 10 :40 p.m. Saturday, February 7. TWENTY- FIVE YEARS The Press-Dispatch Thursday, January 26, 1995 An arrest has been made in connection with break- ins at Winslow Town Hall and a county solid waste collection site near Win- slow earlier this month. Jer- ry R. Grissom, 22, of Win- slow, was arrested last week and charged with burglary, a class C felony, and theft, a class D felony. Last Wednes- day, an Indiana State Police diving team searched the Patoka River, about a mile south of Winslow on Coun- ty Road 350 E. State Police Investigator Mike Hildeb- rand said police were look- ing for a pistol that was tak- en in a January 11 burglary of the Winslow Town Hall. He said Grissom confessed to taking the gun and told police he threw it in the riv- er front he old bridge "on the back road out of town." Hildebrand said it was co- operation between police agencies that allowed them to make an arrest in the case. He said information obtained by the Pike Coun- ty Sheriff's Department, Winslow Town Marshal Steve English and State Police were complied to lead them to Grissom. Hil- debrand said a key piece of information was a witness who saw Grissom's truck parked and left running in front of Winslow Town Hall at 6:15 a.m. the morning the burglaries were discovered. Hildebrand said Grissom told him in an interview he broke into the Winslow trash collection site shortly before midnight on January 10, then the morning of Jan- uary 11, the items were tak- en from the Winslow Town Hall. Taken from the Win- slow trash collection site were a small television, FM and AM radio and a small microwave. Taken from the Winslow Town Hall were vendor candy supplies that worked on an honor sys- tem and the money paid for them, and a drug parapher- nalia display. English said most of the items from both thefts had been recovered. The dive team was unable to locate a pistol, but they narrowed where it might be. Pike County Sheriff Jeff Clements said Grissom gave them a better descrip- tion of where he threw the pistol. "We know where it is, but it just got too cold. They are going to come back lat- er and get it." Deaths: Marno L. Phil- lips, 93, of Winslow, died Thursday, Jan. 19 at 6:25 a.m. at Northwood Good Samaritan Health Center in Jasper; Delma A. Jerrell, 85, of Petersburg, died Mon- day, Jan. 23 at 3:50 p.m. at Amber Manor Care Center; Thurmond Vent Barley, 68, of Oakland City, died Tues- day, Jan. 17 at 2:45 p.m. at St. Mary's Medical Center; Bernard L. Wondra, 63, of Oakland City, died Satur- day, Jan. 21 at 11:11 p.m. at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville. SOMETHING NEWSWORTHY? Give us a call: 812-354-8500