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C-8 Wednesday, March 18, 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 WHS football team 1939 In 1939 Winslow had their fi rst and only football team. It just played one year and never won a game. The team was coached by Lawrence Young. Members of the team were, first row, Gene Hayden, Hubert Hopkins, Wilson Simpson, Paul Jones, Leon Ehrlich, and Weldon Young. In the second row are Billy Auten (student manager), Beaulis Doughty, James Greenfield, James Price, Marvin Snyder, Jack Woolsey, and Warren Knockenmus. The third row consists of Law- rence Young (coach), Jack McCandless, Olus Nichols, Jack Keasling, Kenneth Richardson, Newton Thompson (principal), and Robert Arnold (absent). SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Friday and Tuesday, Nov. 10 and Nov. 14, 1944 With only an exception or two, the stores of Peters- burg will be closed Saturday and Sunday to observe Ar- mistice Day. The Petersburg merchants knowing that other towns are not going to close reached this decision, feeling that they are doing a respectable thing, not only in the memory of the boys from the first World War, but for those in the services at the present time. Stores will remain open late Friday night to accommodate shop- pers. Joe Quiggins died in the Washington hospital as the result of an accident last Thursday night on Highway 57, just west of Petersburg. The car struck a tree beside the old cemetery and pinned Mr. Quiggins between the steering gear and the front seat. Passersby freed him and he was rushed to the hospital, with three compan- ions who were badly cut and bruised. Mr. Quiggins had just had his driving permit returned to him after hav- ing it revoked in Washing- ton. The car, a '41 Ford, was completely wrecked. Police are also investigating the li- cense plates of the car, as it was charged that the license plates on the car at the time of the wreck were stolen plates. Others injured in the wreck were Yvonne Thom- as, Mildred Taylor and Au- drey Burton. The paper shortage has finally caught up with The Petersburg Press as notice of a new rationing plan for newsprint was announced last week. Under the terms of the new rationing plans, papers who use as little as 25 tons of paper per year are ra- tioned to the extent that they may use 1 1/4 tons of paper per quarter for each day the publication is issued or an amount equal to an aver- age of the amount used dur- ing the first three quarters of 1944. The Press has been running right close to the limit and we now find our- selves in a position where care must be used so as not to over use on our quota. In the past, we have given subscribers a three months grace period after their sub- scription expired. This we must now change to a one month's period and if paper remains as short as it is, we may soon be forced to elim- inate any period of this sort and stop the paper imme- diately upon its expiration. The new ruling covers ser- vice men's papers very plain- ly. They cannot be sent un- less they are paid for and checking of unpaid papers can be made by the post of- fice. Therefore anyone wish- ing a service man's paper continued must send us a remittance before its expira- tion or as much as we hate to do so, we are forced to stop the paper. Billing is now be- ing made of all subscriptions that expire between now and the first of the year and will be sent a month in advance and unpaid subscribers will be removed from the mail- ing list on the last day of the month in which their sub- scription expires. Births: To Staff Sgt. Lloyd Lear and wife, a boy, Lloyd Carter, born at 11 a.m. Wednesday; To Mr. and Mrs. Ewell Like, a son, born No- vember 1 at Good Samaritan Hospital; To Sgt. and Mrs. Delbert Minnis, a boy, born Armistice Day at Good Sa- maritan Hospital. Marriages: Helen Mae Padgett and Clair Eugene Schnarr were united in mar- riage at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the First Chris- tian Church parsonage. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Thursday, Feb. 11, 1960 Mrs. Heber Battles, of Glezen, is sure treating her pet bird as though he were the king of the fowl world. And she has a right to do it, too. Saturday night, after the Battles had gone to bed, Mrs. Battles heard the bird start yelling and fluttering in the cage in the kitchen. At first, Mrs. Battles thought maybe a mouse had gotten into the cage. So, she went to investigate. When she walked into the kitchen, she immediately saw what was wrong. The electric plug of the refrigerator had shorted out and where it was plugged into the wall, it had started a fire. A pretty good size hole had already burned in the wall and flames were shooting up the wall. Mrs. Battles grabbed a bucket which was on the sink and filled it with water a couple of times and threw it on the fire. She soon had the fire out. Had the bird not awak- ened Mrs. Battles, the entire house would probably have been aflame before it was no- ticed. Two suits were filed in the Pike Circuit Court Thursday afternoon against the city of Petersburg on behalf of Car- ol A. Harvey and Robert Ste- phen, Petersburg city police- men who were dismissed by the Board of Public Works and Safety January 9 when the Green Republican ad- ministration took over the offices of the city from the Thomas Democratic admin- istration. Both Harvey and Stephens were policemen under Mayor L. Carol Thom- as. The suits charged that the dismissing of Harvey, who was chief of police, and Stephens was "illegal, arbi- trary, capricious, fraudulent and was motivated by polit- ical reasons." The Board of Public Works and Safety held a hearing concerning the conduct of all four Pe- tersburg officers on January 7. The decision of the board was announced January 9 at a meeting and Harvey and Stephens were fired and offi- cers Bernard Willis and Ber- tis Tisdale were retained on the force. Parts one, two and three of the suits filed Thursday were the decision of the board and the charg- es filed against the officers. The charges were mostly concerning the strike at the Midwest Telephone Com- pany and the enforcement of the parking meter ordi- nance. Marriages: John Lance and Norma Snyder ex- changed vows on Saturday, February 6 at the home of the groom's great aunt in Petersburg; Blanche Kneir and Fred H. Kirk were mar- ried Tuesday, January 26 at noon at the Friendship Gen- eral Baptist parsonage. Deaths: Delta Catt, 51, of Petersburg, died at home at 5 a.m. Tuesday; Omar R. Phillips, 77, of Hazleton, died at his home at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday Frank Covert Sulli- van, 72, of Velpen, died at 2 a.m. Monday morning in the Jasper Memorial Hospital; Rocky Eugene Drew, 2 1/2 months, died at 6 a.m. Sun- day, February 7 at his home in Oakland City. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, Feb. 26, 1970 Terry Wells, 17, was ad- mitted to Wirth memori- al hospital Monday after- noon suffering from a .22 rifle wound in his right leg. He was target practicing in the backyard at the home of his parents when he stum- bled, causing the rifle to discharge. The bullet went all the way through his right leg, just below the calf of his leg, missing the bone. The Grand Jury con- vened recently at Pike Cir- cuit Court and returned two indictments for perju- ry. Charged with perjury are Janet Huff, of Plainfield and Ruth Alice Choate, liv- ing presently near Indianap- olis. Janet Huff is charged with giving false testimo- ny in the Duane Choate tri- al recently. Choate was con- victed of second degree bur- glary for breaking and enter- ing ans stealing guns from the Quality Hardware Co. in Winslow. The Huff wom- an testified under oath that Choate was at her home at Plainfield when the robbery took place. The grand jury indictment read that she "did feloniously, willfully, corruptly and falsely com- mit willful and corrupt per- jury." Ruby Alice Choate, wife of Duane Choate, also charged with perjury, en- tered testimony under oath that she telephoned Duane Choate from a telephone booth in Birdseye and talk- ed with him while he was staying at the Huff home in Plainfield. She testified the phone conversation took place at a time which would have made it impossible for Choate to commit the crime. Charges on the Grand Jury indictment read the same as those on the Huff indict- ment. Births: To Mrs. Marian Powers, of Velpen, a son, Terrance William, Thurs- day, February 19 at St. Jo- seph's Hospital in Hunt- ingburg; To Mr. and Mrs. Mark Coleman, of Winslow, a daughter, Kristen Denise, Sunday, February 22 in Da- viess County Hospital. Deaths: Anna F. Rion, 50, of Petersburg, died at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 25 in Daviess County Hos- pital; Emma Grubb, 77, of Oakland City, died at 11:40 a.m. Monday, February 23 in the Wirth Memorial Hos- pital. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS The Press-Dispatch Thursday, Feb. 9, 1995 Police are investigating the theft of about $5,000 worth of tools from a maintenance shed at Lake Helmrich. State Trooper Frank Coleman said the theft was discovered on Monday. Coleman said some- one apparently entered a maintenance shed owned by the Lake Helmrich Village As- sociation and took the tools. A six-year-old girl escaped serious injury after falling from a second story window Sunday afternoon. Natasha Hammond, 6, of petersburg and her four-year-old sister Erica were playing upstairs in the Hammond residence. Na- tasha was accidentally pushed and then fell through a closed window, which was covered by plastic as well, according to the girls' father, Charles Hammond. Hammond said he was downstairs and an- other sister, Chylena, 9, ran downstairs and told him about it. He went outside and found Natasha crawling around the house. She was taken to Me- morial Hospital in Jasper where tests were run, but no broken bones or internal inju- ries were found and she was released. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth and Kristi Kaeck, of Velpen, in memorial Hospital on February 1, a son, Kyle Ed- ward. Deaths: Leland Ashcraft, 76, of Petersburg, died Sat- urday, Feb. 4 at 10 ;15 a.m. at Good Samaritan Hospital; Arthur Fulcher, 84, of Peters- burg, died Thursday, Feb. 2 at 9;50 p.m. at East Point Hospi- tal in Leheigh Acres, Fla.; George W.R. Myers, 78, of Monroe City, died at his res- idence at 11:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3; Blanche Hayes, 85, of Oakland City, died Sunday, Feb. 5 at 2:25 a.m. at Gibson General Hospital in Princeton; Harry R. Black, 81, of Oakland City, died Monday, Feb. 6 at 6:50 a.m. at his residence. Sunday, March 15 • Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather opens (1972) • Washington puts an end to the Newburgh Conspiracy (1783) Monday, March 16 • First liquid-fueled rocket (1926) • Motown soul singer Tammi Terrell dies (1970) Tuesday, March 17 • Saint Patrick dies (461) • Clark pleads guilty in Yale grad student slaying (2011) Wednesday March 18 • The Tri-State Tornado (1925) • Natural gas esplosion kills • nearly 300 at Texas school (1937) Thursday, March 19 • Firs U.S. air combat mission begins (1916) • First Academy Awards telecast on NBC (1953) Friday, March 20 • Black Death is created, allegedly (1345) • King Louis X VI receives U.S. representatives (1778) Saturday, March 21 • The Moondog Coronation Ball History's first rock concert (1952) • Massacre in Sharpeville (1960) Source: nbcwashington.com SubscribeToday! 354-8500 BE IN THE KNOW!