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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, March 17, 2021 B-7 HISTORY Submit history photos: Call: 812-354-8500 Email: news@pressdispatch.net or bring in a hard copy: 820 E. Poplar Street, Petersburg Source: www.history.com • Photo source: www.biography.com Wednesday, March 17 • Saint Patrick dies (461) • Clark pleads guilty in Yale grad student slaying (2011) Thursday, March 18 • The Tri-State Tornado (1925) • Natural gas esplosion kills near- ly 300 at Texas school (1937) Friday, March 19 • War in Iraq begins (2003) • Elvis Presley puts a down pay- ment on Graceland (1957) Saturday, March 20 • Black Death is created, alleged- ly (1345) • Lyndon B. Johnson sends feder- al troops to Alabama to protect a civil rights march (1965) Sunday, March 21 • The Moondog Coronation Ball History's first rock concert (1952) • Martin Luther King, Jr. begins the march from Selma to Mont- gomery (1965) Monday , March 22 • Naval hero killed in duel (1820) • Mudslide in Washington state kills more than 40 people (2014) Tuesday, March 23 • "OK" enters national vernacu- lar (1839) • Hollywood icon Elizabeth Tay- lor dies at 79 (2011) SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Friday and Tuesday, Mar. 15 and Mar. 19, 1946 Settlement of long-stand- ing strikes against Gener- al Motors and General Elec- tric was announced Wednes- day, opening the way for the return of 275,000 workers to the task of reconversion. The 113-day old General Motors strike, which cost an estimat- ed $1,000,000,000 in lost wag- es, sales and commissions and cut the automotive industry's production schedules to one- sixth of advance estimate was settled at Detroit in mid-af- ternoon. A few hours later, settlement of the 57-day Gen- eral Electric dispute was an- nounced. The striking CIO Auto Workers were granted an hourly wage boost of 18.5 cents. The same increase was agreed upon by the Gener- al Electric Company and the CIO United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers. The agreement, which the com- pany said would run for two years, will be submitted to the union's General Motors coun- cil Friday and then to the strik- ers for ratification. Walter P. Reuther, UAW vice-president and top union man in the pro- longed negotiations, said the strikers could be back on the job within a week following ratification. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. El- za Suddith, a daughter, at their Petersburg home, Thursday, March 14; To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Perry, a daughter, Di- anna Kay, at their Madison Township home, Wednesday, March 13; To Mr. and Mrs. Ira W. Leighty, a son, Denver Ear- ly, Monday, March 11. Marriages: Helen L. Young became the bride of Virgil W. Lindy in Vincennes on March 7; Bruce Colvin and Mildred Matthews were married at 10 o'clock Saturday morning in Morganfield, Ky.; Mary Kath- ryn Kraus and Warner Wheat- ly exchanged vows on March 16 at 8:30 p.m. at the First Methodist Church. Deaths: Jack Scales, 75, of Augusta, died Wednesday, at the Daviess County Hos- pital; Mavis Ellen Young, 24, of Petersburg, died Saturday at noon in Evansville; Robert Nelson Abbott, 74, of Oakland City, died Sunday evening at the home of his daughter in Petersburg. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Pike County Dispatch Thursday, Mar. 16, 1961 Some helpful helpers were in "high spirits" Friday morn- ing when the spirit of help- fulness seemed to get the best of them. It all happened when volunteers agreed to help transfer 1,000 cases of Bulldog malt liquor from an overturned tractor-trailer on- to another truck just south of Spurgeon on Highway 61. Oth- ers who were at the scene, so it was reported, helped re- moved the liquor, but not from one truck to the other. They helped move it some place where it could later be used by them. The beginning of the thing was when a truck haul- ing the malt liquor from Chi- cago, Ill., to Tallahassee, Fla., missed a curve at 3:30 a.m. Friday. Robert Lee Cochran, of Thomasville, Ga., driver of the truck, escaped serious injury when the truck over- turned. He was treated for rib injuries in a physician's office in Lynnville. Sheriff Shelton, of Warrick County, estimated the damage to the tractor-trail- er at $15,000 and the loss of malt liquor at $500. The truck was later pulled into Spurgeon until it could be disposed of by the company. One man, Cey- land Saunders, 33, who volun- teered to move the liquor from the wrecked truck to the other truck became involved in trou- ble with the law when he de- cided to sample the unfamil- iar brew and his spirits grew in proportion to the liquor consumed, Sheriff Shelton said. He finally was arrested by Sheriff Shelton for public intoxication. The sheriff said that Saunders slept soundly in the Warrick County Jail for a few hours after being arrest- ed, but when he awoke, he was not in the jovial spirit he was in when he arrived. According to the sheriff, Saunders became angry and tore out all of the plumbing in his jail cell, caus- ing an estimated $100 dam- age. The sheriff said that ad- ditional charges had to be filed against the Lynnville man in connection with the damages. Some days it just doesn't seem to pay to lend a helping hand, especially when "spirits" are involved. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Hale, a daughter, at Good Samaritan Hospital on March 8; To Mr. and Mrs. James Marsee, of Ayrshire, a daughter, Connie Faye, born March 3 in the Daviess Coun- ty Hospital; To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thomas, of Oakland City, a son, Jeffrey Robert, born Wednesday, March 8 at the Gibson General Hospital. Deaths: Bessie Mills, 53, of Petersburg, died at the home of her brother at 8:45 a.m. Sat- urday; David Everett Miller, 74, of Spurgeon, died Sunday night at Baker Rest Home in Boonville; Cora Johnson Ash- by, 82, formerly of Winslow, died Wednesday night at the home of her daughter in Evansville. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, Mar. 18, 1971 The 27-year-old Larry Ron- ald Davis, former convict from Conyers, Ga., has been sen- tenced to life in prison for the murder of Susan Doty, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. George Doty, of Petersburg. Davis entered a plea of guilty before Cobb County Superior Court Judge Luther E. Hames, who sentenced him to four life sen- tences on charges of murder, kidnapping, robbery and care theft. Judge Hames gave Da- vis the four life sentences for the first four charges, to run consecutively. Court officials said Davis would be eligible for parole in seven years, but District Attorney Ben Smith said with Davis' record, it would never happen. A string of purchases on Susan's cred- it cards led officers to San An- tonio, Texas, where a woman companion turned Davis in to the police. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Herschel Satterfield, of Ot- well, Wednesday, March 10 in the Daviess County Hospital, a son; To Mr. and Mrs. Gor- don Craig, of Otwell, Monday, March 8 in Daviess County Hospital, a son, Jason Gordon. Marriages: Claudie Estes and Stephen Frederick Hall were married January 29 at the First Baptist Church in Dickson, Tenn. Deaths: Otto Ragle, 76, of Velpen, died at 2:45 a.m. Thursday, March 11 in St. Jo- seph Hospital; Albert Tatum, 64, of Spurgeon, died at 4:30 p.m. Saturday in Spurgeon; Carson J. Blair, 73, of Oak- land City, died at 8 a.m. Mon- day in Gibson General; Boyd Shepherd, 73, of Glezen, died Saturday, March 13 at 11 p.m. TWENTY- FIVE YEARS The Press-Dispatch Thursday, March 14, 1996 Five people were injured early Saturday morning when a pickup truck ran off the road, snapping a telephone pole and then rolling over, ejecting at least two teens, according to Pike County Deputy Sheriff Brad Jenkins. Jenkins said Ja- son Query, 22, of Petersburg, was driving west on Highway 56 about a quarter of a mile west of Hornady Park, when he ran off the road and hit the pole. Query and his four pas- sengers were all taken to the hospital, "some with serious injuries," said Jenkins. Query was listed in fair condition at Memorial Hospital in Jasper on Monday. He suffered head injuries in the accident. Britta- ny Claridge, 15, of Petersburg, was listed in fair condition on Tuesday at St. Mary's Hospi- tal in Evansville. Luke Cox, Sy Neese and Nathan Mann, all 18 years old, were treated and released. However, according to the Pike County Ambulance Service, Cox suffered a bro- ken nose and other possible fa- cial injuries. Jenkins said the accident took place at about 3:45 a.m. Query was driving a 1995 Toyota "cab and a half" pickup. Jenkins said the acci- dent was still under investiga- tion and he was still attempt- ing to talk to all of those in the accident. A Petersburg attorney died while skiing in Colorado Sat- urday afternoon. Thomas C. Gray, 48, was skiing at Snow- mass, a large sister area to As- pen, when he collapsed at the Coney Glade lift line and never responded to rescue person- nel. Ron DeMotte and David Tisdale, both of Winslow, had traveled to Colorado with Gray and had been skiing with him earlier in the day. Demotte said they had been skiing hard Saturday morning on the Co- ney Glade lift. As the group tired, Tisdale and DeMotte decided to move to a higher part of the mountain and Gray stayed on the lower part of the mountain, which is at an alti- tude of 10,000 feet above sea level. DeMotte said he re- turned to their lodging late in the afternoon and Tisdale came back a little later. Gray did not return and DeMotte said they didn't worry because it was not unusual for them to return at separate times. At about 7 p.m., they received a call from Aspen police notify- ing them of Gray's death. De- Motte said Monday night an autopsy report showed Gray died of a massive heart attack. Births: To Brenda and Charlie Heller, of Washington, a son, Kevin Cain, on Sunday, January 14 at Daviess County Hospital; To Angie Rowe and Cody Snow, of Winslow, at St. Joseph's Hospital, February 13, a daughter, Nikki Kay. Deaths: Virginia Camp- bell, 90, of Petersburg, died at 12:45 p.m. Saturday, March 9 at Petersburg Healthcare Cen- ter; Ted Howell, 70, of Oakland City, died Tuesday, March 5 at 6:55 a.m. at Wirth Region- al Hospital in Oakland City; Fred W. Corn, 42, of Oakland City, died Thursday, March 7 at 10 :55 a.m. at Warrick Coun- ty Hospital; Gerald W. Goss, 82, of Otwell, died at 6:35 a.m. Saturday, March 9 at Memo- rial Hospital in Jasper; Mary Ann Mullins, 99, of Oakland City, died at 6:19 a.m. Tuesday, March 12, at the residence of her daughter. Quality Drive Away, Inc. needs CDL drivers with EXPERIENCE to deliver Motorhomes, Trucks, Buses, and Tractors throughout the USA. 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