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B-10 Wednesday, May 13, 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 SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Friday and Tuesday, Jan. 5 and Jan. 9, 1945 On Saturday, January 13, the county will resume its monthly waste paper drives in an effort to aid the paper container shortage. All folks having waste paper, living in Petersburg, are asked to place the paper in bundles or boxes at the curb before 9 a.m. The drive in the county will be sponsored by the 4- H clubs. Any person having a large quantity of waste pa- per may bring it to the rail- road car on this day and present a weight slip and payment will be made af- ter the check comes back. This applies to dealers in the county who want to save the shipping charg- es on the paper also. Ship- ping cartons are used for so many war materials that it is impossible to list their need and uses for the war effort. Suffice it to say the need is great enough that a very great shortage exists. Remember the date, Satur- day, January 13. Janet Lee Riddle has been declared the winner of the baby contest sponsored by the Petersburg Merchants for the first baby born to a resident of Pike County. Ja- net was born at 1:05 a.m., January 1 to Mrs. Owen Riddle in the Gibson County Hospital at Princeton. Only other runner-up in the con- test was a boy born to Mrs. Dallas English of Jefferson township. A letter will be given to the parents of Janet Riddle, entitling them to the prizes as soon as they call for the letter at The Peters- burg Press. The Petersburg Fire De- partment was called to the Smith schoolhouse on Thursday, January 4 be- cause of fire on the roof. The fire started from a bird's nest and was being fought by the Loving Cup bread man, Mr. Van Donaldson, from the top of his truck with a bucket line when the fire engine got there. The amount of loss is unknown as of yet. Deaths: Mrs. Iva L. Sut- ton, 74, of Spurgeon, died at 5 a.m., Saturday morn- ing, at Gibson General hos- pital; Lavina Phelps, 77, of Winslow, died Wednesday morning, in her home; Mrs. Susan G. France, 26, of Oak- land City, died New Years night, at 11:30 o'clock, at the St. Mary's hospital in Evans- ville; Green B. Jenkins, 63, of Petersburg, died Friday Evening, at 7:30 o'clock, in his home; Donald Arm- strong, 23, formerly of Jef- ferson township, died in ac- tion, in France, on Novem- ber 22. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Pike County Dispatch Thursday, April 7, 1960 Oakland City Drive-In Theater on Highway 57, north of State Route 64, suffered a $15,000 fire Mon- day night at 9:30 which de- stroyed the theater's large screen and a section of the fence. The theater was par- tially covered by insurance, which was enough to re- build the fence, Siegle Thur- man, owner, stated. The fire was discovered by Gary Mc- Dowell. Volunteer firefight- ers had the fire out at 11:30 p.m. Mr Thurman, who had been repairing the theater, had planned to open it Eas- ter weekend. He plans to reopen but doesn't know when he will be able to get it ready. Officials of the Peters- burg Jaycees have an- nounced that the annual Easter Egg Hunt at Hornady Park in Petersburg will be held again this year on Eas- ter Sunday afternoon. The total amount of prizes to be found in the eggs have not been announced yet, but it is expected that $200 or more will be offered for prizes for the lucky eggs. Announce- ment of time and list of gifts will appear in The Pike County Dispatch. Plan now to let the children attend the event which in the past has drawn well over 1,000 chil- dren. Neval Willis, son of Fred Willis, south of Winslow, has received a National Sci- ence Foundation Scholar- ship to the University of Wy- oming at Laramie, Wyo. Mr. Willis is a graduate of Win- slow High School and Oak- land City College. He will be in school from June 13 to Au- gust 8. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Raymond France, a son, Da- vid Lee, born April 1, at Dea- coness Hospital, in Evans- ville; To Mr. and Mrs. Shir- ley Gene Morton, of An- derson, a daughter, Connie Ann, was born Sunday, April 3. Marriages: Marvin Roy Mosby and Donna Marie Wilson were married Sun- day, April 3, at 2 o'clock, at the First Baptist Church in Washington. Deaths: Mrs. Etta E. Hayes, 78, formerly of Win- slow, died April 1, at 7 p.m., at the home of her son; Von- da Kay Abell, six months old, of Petersburg, died Fri- day, at 9 p.m., in her home; Forrest Swain, 43, of Pe- tersburg, died Friday morn- ing, at the Daviess County Hospital; Alphonso Arthur White, 44, of Oakland City died of a heart attack, on April 2, in his home, only a few hours apart from his fa- ther; Thomas T. White, 83, of Oakland City, died Sun- day, at 2:45 p.m., at the Oak- land City Rest home, only a few hours apart from his son. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, April 16, 1970 James L. Bolte, Director of Bands at Petersburg High School, has received official word from the CBS Televi- sion Broadcasting Company from New York that the Ken- tucky Derby Festival Parade will re- ceive na- tion- al T V cover- age. CBS will tape the pa- rade on Wednesday, April 29, at 4 p.m. CDT and will broadcast it on Saturday afternoon, May 2, prior to the running of the Kentucky Derby. Pe- tersburg High School has a 125 member band and will be one of the largest bands representing a school of 360 enrollment. The band will leave Wednesday, April 29, at 9 a.m. for Louisville, Ky., and will arrive in Louisville before noon. The students will have the opportunity of touring Churchill Downs and the Museum. A fter the tour, the band will leave for the downtown area to line up for the parade, which will begin at 4 p.m. CDT. The students are now spending many hours of hard work to prepare for the national spectacle. David Lee Fulcher, 21, of Route 1, Petersburg, was dead on arrival at Da- viess County Hospital at 11:20 p.m. Saturday as the result of a head-on colli- sion on Highway 57, three miles north of Petersburg. Fulcher, an employee at U.S. Railway Equipment Compa- ny in Washington, died of a broken neck. Injured was Billy M. Harvey, 24, of 903 Vincennes Avenue, Peters- burg, who was taken to the Daviess County Hospital for treatment of broken ribs and possible chest injuries. State Police officials said the auto driven by Fulcher was enroute north on 57 and the car driven by Harvey was traveling south. Har- vey told state police he ob- served lights approaching in his lane of traffic. He cut sharply to the left to avoid a collision. Police said the Fulcher auto apparently did the same thing and the cars collided head-on. Marriages: Teresa Lynn Postin and William Eugene Potts will be married on Sat- urday, April 25, at 2:30 p.m. C.S.T., at the Contenders of Faith Church, in Otwell. Deaths: Alva E. Willis, 53, of Petersburg, died Tues- day, at 6 p.m., in his home; Mrs. Edna M. Hargrove, 81, of Petersburg, died Tuesday, April 21, at 12:50 p.m., in the Daviess County Hospi- tal; Sherman Withrow, 73, of Oakland City, died Sun- day, at the Oakland City Rest Home; Virgil P. Bo- ger, 73 of Petersburg, died at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, in Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes; Bonnie Benja- min, 48, of Petersburg, died Sunday, at 4:30 p.m., in her home. TWENTY- FIVE YEARS The Press-Dispatch Thursday, April 6, 1995 The Pike Central Char- ger Brigade will depart for Disney's EPCOT Center on Sunday, April 9. The Char- ger band is one of the few bands in the nation to re- ceive an invitation to par- ticipate in the Magic Music Day Parade, which takes place April 11, at the cen- ter, according to band direc- tor Richard Bernhardt. Ber- nhardt stated that very few bands have ever been invit- ed to participate in a parade inside the Disney theme parks, and that Pike Central has always had a reputation of being a good parade and contest band. Bernhardt al- so added that the band had been invited to take part in several national parades, in- cluding Pegasus Parade in Louisville, the cotton Carni- val Parade in Memphis and the Cherry Blossom Parade in Washington, D.C. The Pike Central band had to apply for the event by send- ing in video tapes of past performances, after which they were chosen from sev- eral band across the nation. In order to accept the invi- tation, the band had three pizza fundraisers, which helped their way to Flori- da. The brigade will leave Pike Central on Sunday af- ternoon and travel by mo- torcoach to Cape Canaver- al, Fla. They also plan to vis- it the Space Center, Cocoa Beach, Ron Jon's Surf Shop, Disney's Magic Kingdom and Disney's MGM Studios. The band's last day will be spent at Wet n' Wild Water Park, with dinner at the Me- dieval Times Dinner The- ater. The band will return to Pike County on Friday, April 14. Amazingly no one was injured in a collision Tues- day morning that left Chad Polen and his truck upside down at the intersection of Sixth and Maple Sts. in Petersburg. Polen, 16, was on his way to school, driv- ing east on Maple St., when he stopped at the stop sign and then pulled in front of Karl Shafer, 81, of Route 3, Petersburg, who was driv- ing north on Sixth St., ac- cording to Petersburg Po- lice Chief William Scales. Scales said that neither were injured, but the col- lision caused Polen's 1983 Chevrolet truck to roll over. Scales said both vehicles were drivable, but had con- siderable damage. Shafer's 1992 Chevrolet had an esti- mated $4,500 damage and Scales said Polen's truck might be a total loss. The crash happened at about 8:05 a.m. No citations were issued. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. John David Allison, of Wash- ington, a daughter, Sharon Ann, was born on March 31, at the Daviess County Hos- pital; To Mr. and Mrs. Rick Hardin, of Otwell, a son, Lucas Ryan, was born on March 27, at the Memorial Hospital in Jasper. Deaths: Richard G. "Dick" Dawson, 59, of Pe- tersburg, died Tuesday, March 25, at 7:15 p.m., at Willow Manor Nursing home in Vincennes; Nao- mi West, 77, of Petersburg, died April 2, Sunday morn- ing, at 3:10 a.m.; William Eldon Eads, 59, of Win- slow, died Monday, April 3, at 6:55 p.m., at the Jasper Nursing Center in Jasper; Opal Western, 93, of Evans- ville, died Thursday, March 30, at 9:20 a.m., at Regina Continuing Care Center in Evansville; Sarah Ann Hys- lop, 87, of Vincennes, died Friday, March 31, at 3 p.m., at Crestview Convalescent Center in Vincennes; Belva Wilder, 91, of Oakland City, died Wednesday, March 29, at 6:30 a.m., at Cypress Grove Rehabilitation Center in Newburgh. Source: www.history.com • Photo source: britannica.com Wednesday, May 13 • President Polk declares war on Mexico (1846) • Pope John Paul II is shot (1981) Thursday, May 14 • Lewis and Clark depart (1804) • The Warsaw Pact is formed (1955) Friday, May 15 • The Seven Years War begins (1756) • Governor George Wallace shot (1972) Saturday, May 16 • First Academy Awards ceremony (1929) • New York City establishes hospital for cholera victims (1849) Sunday, May 17 • Brown v. Board of Education is decided (1954) • Televised Watergate hearings begin (1973) N. Harris and Company Furniture and Undertaking The N. Harris and Company Furniture and Undertaking at Otwell was in 1910. Nick Harris is standing on the right with Clarence Ayers on the left and Em- ery Young seated. The dog was Old Tige. The photo was furnished by the Pike County Museum courtesy Sandy McBeth. Quick as a Click! 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