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B-10 Wednesday, June 17, 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 SOMETHING NEWSWORTHY? Give us a call: 812-354-8500 Source: www.history.com • Photo source: www.history101.com Monday, June 15 • U.S.-Canadian border established (1846) • George Washington assigned to lead the Continental Army (1775) Tuesday, June 16 • Valentina Tershkova becomes first woman in space (1963) • First roller coaster in America opens at Coney Island (1884) Wednesday, June 17 • Watergate burglars are arrested (1972) • Statue of Liberty arrives (1885) Thursday, June 18 • War of 1812 begins (1812) • Dr. Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space (1983) Friday, June 19 • James Gandolfini, Tv's Tony Soprano, dies at 51 • Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed (1953) Saturday, June 20 • Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States (1782) Lightning strikes Spurgeon High School Juanita Kays Bojack is walking to school next to the reconstruction of the smoke stack at Spurgeon school in 1943. The stack had been struck by lightning earlier that year. It was again hit by lightning in the 1950s. SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Friday and Tuesday, Feb. 9 and Feb. 13, 1945 Three Winslow boys all home on leave from the service were injured Tuesday evening about 1:30 a.m. The driver of the car, belonging to Charles Simpson, of Winslow, was Bill Evans, Chief Stewart Commissary. The boys were returning from Ferdinand and met a car on a curve between Ferdinand and Jasper. The lights of the car blinded Evans and he swerved the car to avoid a collision and the car turned over and crashed into a white post at the side of the road. The approaching car did not stop or slow down. The boys were picked up by a passing car and rushed to the Miller hospital in Winslow. One occupant of the car, Flight Officer Arnett Breidenbaugh was taken to his home in Jasper. Mrs. Edward F. (Ned) Corn, of Winslow, received a telegram from the War Department Friday that her husband, First Sergeant Ed- ward F. Corn, was missing in action since January 18. In the last letter received from Sergeant Corn, he was stationed in France with an Armored Infantry Division. Sgt. Corn enlisted in the ar- my 10 years ago and was sta- tioned at Fort Benjamin Har- rison for several years. A fter the attack on Pearl Harbor, he was transferred to Camp Campbell, Kentucky, going overseas last September from Camp Barklay, Texas. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. George W. Williams, a boy, George Alan, born at the Bloomington hospital; To Mr. and Mrs. Jerald W. Long, of Petersburg, a boy, Douglas Micheal, born in February 6. Marriages; Miss Mil- dred Schuetter and Mr. Paul Elmore, of Jasper, were married Saturday evening, at 4:00 p.m., in the Rectory of the St. Joesph's Church, in Jasper. Deaths: Pvt. Charles F. Jenne, 29, of Petersburg, was killed in action, in Bel- gium, on January 16; Reu- ben Brown, 88, of Peters- burg, died Sunday morning, at 6:30 a.m., at the home of his daughter. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Pike County Dispatch Thursday, May 12 1960 The Rev. Verlin Tuley, pastor of the Velpen General Baptist church, was injured around 3 o'clock Wednesday morning when his car was struck by a Southern freight train at the crossing near his home in Velpen. Rev. Tuley, ministerial student at Oak- land City college, was on his way to classes at the college when the accident occurred. It was reported that his auto- mobile was badly wrecked, but that Rev. Tuley was not as seriously injured as was at first feared. A fter the ac- cident, he got out of the wrecked car and was able to walk a short distance to the home of a neighbor. He was then taken to the Stork hospital at Huntingburg. His injuries included a cut on his forehead and side injured. The Petersburg Mer- chants will open their 1960 I-K league baseball sea- son Sunday afternoon at Huntingburg, Sending Roy Welsch of Oatsville to the mound in quest of Peters- burg's first I-K win in 15 years. The Merchants, an original charter member of the league 16 years ago, were re-admitted to the I-K a month ago along with Wash- ington. Other I-K games will find Tell City at English and Sunbeam at Washington. Rockport and Jasper are idle the first Sunday. All games start at 2:30 p.m. Local mer- chants helping sponsor the I-K venture include the Pike County Dispatch, McCord Auto Sales and Snyder's. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Sorgus, of Otwell, a daughter, born Monday Marriages: Miss Myrad- ene and John Deen, of Win- slow, were married May 1, Sunday afternoon, at 2 p.m., at the Winslow Chris- tian church; Alice Faye and Donald Kinder, of Glezen, were married Monday eve- ning, April 25, at 7 p.m., in the Little General Baptist church. Deaths: Dan Reller, 75, of Stendal, died Sunday, May 8, after being ill from a heart ailment; Audie Rob- inson, 67, of Winslow, died Monday morning, at 4:30 a.m., in her home. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, May 28, 1970 Winslow Marching Band will march in Indiana's sec- ond largest parade, October 10. The parade is the Indi- ana State University Home- coming parade. The pa- rade includes award-win- ning floats from all over the state of Indiana. The parade is also one of the longest pa- rades in the state. The band will also march in the Labor Day parade in Princeton. Application has also been made for the I.U. Band Day. "Pops Concert" stereo re- cordings are now in, and band members will deliver records to those in the com- munity who ordered the re- cords. The band and choir just completed the second band tour of the year. This time concerts were given at Washington Catholic, and Dubois High Schools. The Stage Band, Senior Band, Concert Band, and three local groups performed on the tour. The high pitched hum- ming that Pike Countians are hearing in the vicinity of woods and woodlots is the mating call of the Periodical Cicada — sometimes known as the 17 year Locust. Brood X of this insect, which has the longest developmental period of any known insect, is due to hatch in the Mid- west this year. The heavi- est infestation is expected to be found in South-Cen- tral Indiana and reports have already been rather frequent in Monroe, Jeffer- son and Washington Coun- ties. The Principle damage done by this insect is caused by the female of the species when she splits the bark of a twig or branch for future generations. The normal number of eggs deposited by one female ranges from 400 to 600. Once the eggs have hatched, the ant-like nymphs drop to the ground and burrow into the soils near the roots of trees. The survive by sucking sap from the roots until their develop- ment is finished, then they emerge to start the cycle again. Agriculturists have little need to worry about damage from this insect as they prefer woody plants. Orchardists — and those with ornamental plants — should be on the lookout for them. Ornamental plants to be watched for infestation by these insects are oak, ma- ple and flowering crab. They also attack most fruit trees. The Pike County Exten- sion Office also calls atten- tion to a popular misconcep- tion about the insects. The males are the insects of this species that make the noise and, contrary to popular be- lief, the noise is produced by two drum-like membranes on the sides of the first ab- dominal segment. The popu- lar misconception has been that the noise is caused by the insects rubbing their legs together or wings to- gether. The adult insects will live about 30 to 40 days if not controlled by insecti- cides, about the first week in July. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Garland, of Winslow, a son Randy Wayne, born on Wednesday, May 20, in Daviess County hospital; To Mr. and Mrs. Michael Sutton, of Oakland City, a son, Michael Adrian, born Wednesday, May 20, at the Wirth Osteopathic Hospital. Deaths: Robert M. Parke, 58, of Oakland City, died on Friday, May 22, at the Gib- son General Hospital;John Schmidt, 24, or Oakland City, died Saturday, at Crit- tendon County hospital in Kentucky, following a trac- tor-trailer accident. TWENTY- FIVE YEARS The Press-Dispatch Thursday, May 11, 1995 Area police served 25 felony warrants over the last week rounding up nine people in what Sheriff Jeff Clements said could be one of the biggest theft rings ever in Pike County. Clements said all of the arrests stem from arrests made April 5 after police staked out Dwight Cousert's barn. Clements said they watched three men steal about $ 3,000 worth of merchandise from Cousert's storage barns, then got a warrant and arrested them the next day at their homes. One of the suspects arrested was Greg Stafford, 34, of Petersburg, who's residence the police searched and recovered all of the items taken from Cousert's storage barn. Clements said that led to a four week investigation in which the 25 new felony warrants were issued. State Police and the Pike County Sheriff's Department began serving the warrants late last week and made the last of the arrests at about 9:45 a.m. Tuesday. Clements said the investigation is still on going and there are likely to be more warrants issues. He said he wasn't releasing any more details until later because of the possibility of more warrants being issued. For two Indiana wom- en, Mother's Day can't get here soon enough. For Car- olyn Hunt Hamm, of Pike County, it is a time to cele- brate the fact that her fam- ily is complete. For Denise Jackson Benham, of Green- wood, Mother's Day repre- sents a myriad of emotions dealing with finally finding the mother who had given her up for adoption 33 long years ago. The story of Carl Ruth Hunt and the daughter she was forced to give up be- gan in the summer of 1961. Carolyn was only 15 years old when she had to tell her grandparents she was preg- nant. Hunt had lived with her grandparents since she was three, and knew they wouldn't approve of her sit- uation. Hunt was kicked out by her grandparents and forced to move to Indianap- olis with her mother, who also told her that she must put the baby up for adop- tion. On February 9, 1962, Carolyn's baby born. Her mother had made arrange- ments with a local adoption agency to have the baby tak- en from her at birth. Hunt said she even had to sign an agreement saying that she would not search for the ba- by later on in life. The baby, who would become 'Denise Ann Jackson', was given to a Bloomington couple who couldn't have kids on their own. Jackson says she al- ways knew she was adopted, and that it had never been a secret. At the age of 15, De- nise's adoptive mother had passed away from ovarian cancer, an event that made her want to reconnect with her roots. Her adoptive fa- ther remarried a few months later, and when she couldn't get along with her new step- mother, she moved out at 16. Meanwhile, Carolyn re- turned to Oakland City and had fallen in love with Del- mas Hamm. They married in November of 1962 and had three daughters. Al- though she was very happy with her new family, she still felt an emptiness. Hamm said she would wake up in the middle of the night cry- ing, and when her husband asked what was wrong, she told him she heard her ba- by crying out to her in her dreams. Denise was also going through changes, as she had become a respira- tory therapist, gotten mar- ried and divorced after sev- en years, and started a job at the Indiana University med- ical center in Indianapolis. Her adoptive father died on January 31, 1993, and before he passed he called Denise and given her the name of her birth mother. At the age of 32 Denise had remarried and her and her husband decided to start search- ing. For three months they searched in vain, with a lot of false leads. When they fi- nally found her name, De- nise was left wondering if she should contact her at all. On October 3, 1994, De- nise had found the courage to make the mother impor- tant phone call of her entire life. On October 7, 1994, the two women met for the first time. In the months that fol - lowed they both learned that they had much in common, like that they both work in the medical field, they both like the same food, and that even their houses are deco- rated similarly. Now, both women wait with anticipa- tion for the day they spend their first mother's day to- gether. And, you can tell by the expression in their eyes as they look across the room at each other, that it will in- deed be a happy occasion. Marriages: Christina April Dawn Taylor and Mi- cheal Wayne Robling, both of Winslow, were married on April 15, at 5 p.m., at the Muren Church of God. Deaths: Jeneveive C. Wy- att, 79, of Petersburg, died Sunday, May 7, at 7 a.m., at Petersburg Healthcare Center; Mildred Peohlein Ashby, 89, of Winslow, died Monday, May 8, at Memori- al Hospital, in Jasper.

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