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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, April 21, 2021 D-3 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.historyforkids.net Wednesday, April 21 • Rome founded (753 B.C.) • Legendary musician Prince dies at 57 (2016) Thursday, April 22 • The first Earth Day (1970) • Germans introduce poison gas (1915) Friday, April 23 • William Shakespeare born (1564) • Judy Garland plays Carnegie Hal (1961) Saturday, April 24 • Easter Rebellion begins (1916) • Library of Congress established (1800) Sunday, April 25 • The Flint water crisis begins (2014) • President Truman inaugurates White House bowling alley (1947) Monday, April 26 • Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth dies (1865) • Test triggers nuclear disaster at Chernobyl (1986) Tuesday, April 27 • Parliament passes the Tea Act (1773) • German forces enter Athens (1941) SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Friday and Tuesday, Apr. 19 and Apr. 23, 1946 Don Owens, 25, of Wheat- land, slipped an fell from the scaffolding on the First Meth- odist Church Tuesday morn- ing and fell some 85 feet to the ground. In falling, Mr. Owens struck a jutting portion of the scaffold that threw him out in- to a nearby tree, which broke his fall. He was rushed to the Washington Hospital, where it was found that no bones were broken and that except for a nose bleed and several bruis- es, he was none the worse for his long fall. A number of on- looker saw the fall and stated that Mr. Owens turned a com- plete circle on his way down. Other workers on the scaf- folding immediately left the job, leaving their tools where they had laid them down. A foreman int he late afternoon returned and gathered up the tools, but Wednesday, the crew returned to build safety rails on the top before resum- ing the repair job. Roscoe Sims fell Wednes- day morning from the top of the new Fred Malotte build- ing on North Ninth St. and broke his left arm, just above the wrist. He also sustained a bruised face and several oth- er bruises in his fall. One child was killed and two were seriously injured Wednesday morning when the three children ran into the road in front of a car driv- en by Alt Houchin on Augus- ta Road. Don Lee, 3, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Lee, was in- stantly killed. His brother, Dallas, was taken to the Wash- ington Hospital with internal injuries and Ronald Vaughen, a cousin, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Vaughen, of Stendal, also was taken to the hospital and it was discovered he broke his right leg in two places. The children were playing in front of the lee home, chasing each other, when they happened to run out in the road in front of the Houchin car. The accident was witnessed by Mrs. Al- vah Newton, a neighbor, and state patrolman, James Sut- ton, absolved Houchin of all blame. In trying to miss the children, Mr. Houchin turned his car over after carrying the two surviving children on his bumper for some distance. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Os- car Bays, of Winslow, a daugh- ter, Monday, April 23 at their home. Marriages: Margaret Lou- ise Green and Ronald Pride were married at three o'clock Sunday afternoon, April 14 at the First Baptist Church in Evansville. Deaths: The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brewster, of Winslow, died at birth at the Oakland City Maternity Hos- pital Thursday morning; Har- ley Kinman, 68, of Petersburg, died at his home Friday after- noon at 4:30 o'clock. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Pike County Dispatch Thursday, Apr. 20, 1961 Mrs. Frances Barrett and sons, Sheldon and Clark Bar- rett, started home Sunday morning from Morocco. They got as far as Fowler on High- way 41 when they ran into the snowstorm. They were strand- ed 14 hours. The string of cars were a mile long both ways. The wind was so bad and snow so high, they could just see the tops of cars. At 8 a.m. Monday, snow plows and trac- tors dug them out. They were taken to farm homes along the road. The Barretts were taken to a lady's home with a hun- dred other persons. Another home took in 118 children, an- other farm home took in 75. Mrs. Barrett writes that this is an experience they will nev- er forget as they were all near- ly frozen. They all ran the mo- tors of their cars to keep warm until they ran out of gas. They were very grateful to the fine people living along the high- way who took them in. The home of Dallis Willis on Cato Road, east of Winslow, burned to the ground with all its contents Thursday at 4:30 p.m. The Willises were in one of the bedrooms when Mr. Willis noticed smoke coming through the window. He ran upstairs to find it all ablaze. When he came back down- stairs, the kitchen ceiling had begun to fall in. On the way out of the house with his fami- ly, he grabbed three quilts and three quilt tops, everything else was destroyed in the fire. The house and contents were covered by insurance. They are living in the home with Rev. Stephen Graves and fam- ily until they can find a place to move to. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hopkins, of Winslow, a daughter, born last week in Gibson General Hospital; To Rev. and Mrs. Edgar Robin- son, of Stendal, a daughter, Mary Ann, born April 11 at Stork Memorial Hospital; To Mr. and Mrs. John Perry, of Enos Corners, a son, John Mi- chael, born Thursday, April 13 in Stork Hospital; To Mr. and Mrs. Rodney T. Feldman, of Oak Hill, a daughter, Rebec- ca Sue, born April 11 in Gib- son General Hospital. Marriages: Ruth Etta Vines and Phillip Monroe Hunt were united in marriage at Mt. Car- mel Saturday, April 8. Deaths: Rosa E. Beck, 80, of Petersburg, died in an Evansville hospital at 9:30 p.m. Thursday; Effie Mor- ton, 80, of Winslow, died Fri- day, April 14 at 8:30 a.m. in the Evansville State Hospital. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, Apr. 22, 1971 Pike County will, for the first time in a few years, be on the same time as the rest of the state, with few excep- tions. There are a few coun- ties around Louisville said to be going on "double daylight" time again this summer. Sat- urday night, set your clocks up one hour. Officially (or unof- ficially) the time changes at 2 a.m. Sunday morning. All the counties in Southwestern Indi- ana now on Central Standard Time apparently are moving their clocks up one hour. The Indiana counties which are on Easter Standard Time are not moving up their time. There- fore, all will be on the same time. Federal law provides that a state must either totally adopt 12 months of the same time or six months standard time and six months daylight time. To comply with this or- der, most counties apparently will leave a few official clocks on slow time and "officially" change office hours. At the courthouse, the clock in the auditor's office will be left on Central Standard Time. Com- missioners officially voted to change courthouse hours, designating that they open and close one hour earlier by the "official" clock. The same will be done at the city halls in Winslow and Peters- burg, and apparently in most Central Standard Time coun- ties in Southwestern Indiana. In recent years, the time was different in Petersburg and Winslow, with Petersburg being one hour faster than Winslow. One spring not too many years ago, the time was changed back and forth three times before being settled. Ap- parently, this will be the first time in quite a while that ev- eryone will be able to go from one portion of the state to an- other without compensating for an hour gained or lost. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Michael McLain, of Winslow, Thursday, April 15 at Good Sa- maritan Hospital, a son, Mi- chael Scott; To Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Aydt, of Oakland City, Tuesday, April 20, a daugh- ter; To Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Arnold, of Algiers, a daughter, Amy Lynn, Friday, April 16 at Jasper Memorial Hospital. Marriages: Donna Perry became the bride of Joseph Bilskie, Jr. at 8:30 on April 1 at St. John's Catholic Church. Deaths: Dr. Edgar DeVault Wright, 74, of Petersburg, died at 10 a.m. Thursday, April 15; Everett Burton, 65, of Peters- burg, died at 5:15 a.m. Thurs- day, April 15 at Good Samari- tan Hospital; David P. Leighty, 48, of Petersburg, died at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 14; Norman Brammer, 54, of Spurgeon, died at 9:30 p.m. Friday, April 14 in Welborn Baptist Hospital; Marie Ken- dall, 67, of Petersburg, died at 3:25 p.m. Thursday, April 15 in Daviess County Hospital; Clarence Willis, 81, of Peters- burg, died at 11 p.m. on Fri- day, April 16 at Good Samari- tan Hospital; Eunice E. Rain- bolt, 75, of Oakland City, died Wednesday, April 14 at Gibson General Hospital. TWENTY- FIVE YEARS The Press-Dispatch Thursday, Apr. 18, 1996 Illegal dump sites are a common and persistent prob- lem for the Pike County Sol- id Waste Management Dis- trict and other county agen- cies and officials. In the past few months, the PCSWMD, the Pike County Highway de- partment, Pike County Com- missioners and PCSWMD Enforcement Officer Doyle Shoultz have made exhaustive efforts to remedy the problem. County highway employees have cleaned up several illegal dumping sites. Shoultz has in- vestigated many illegal dump- ing sites and brought evidence found at the sites, such as dis- carded envelopes with peo- ple's names and addresses on them, before the county com- missioners. The county com- missioners routinely give each offender a period of time in which the site must be cleaned up and set fines for non-com- pliance with their rulings. To date, all their combined ef- forts have barely put a dent in the problem compared to the number of illegal dump sites which are in Pike County. But the county isn't alone in the battle to clean up these sites. Private industry is also joining the battle. One of those indus- tries is Peabody Coal Compa- ny. They stated they were go- ing to block off access to their property by digging a trench along the side of the property adjacent to the Haul Road and then build a five-foot berm to restrict access to the stripper pit. They also said that if any- one was caught dumping trash on their site, they will be look- ing at prosecution. A Petersburg woman died Friday from injuries received in a traffic accident near Bow- man on Thursday afternoon. Donna Butrum Texada, 56, was driving west on Highway 56, about a mile west of Horna- dy Park. State Trooper Frank Coleman said Texada had just made a sharp left curve and then ran off the right side of the road, hit a ditch, became airborne and collided with an- other small embankment and again went airborne. Texada died at 12:49 a.m. Friday and was examined by the coroner, who determined she died from injuries in the crash. Cole- man said a nurse was driving by and noticed the accident. She said Texada was uncon- scious at the time. Emergen- cy Medical Service Director Janet Hunt said Texada never responded to EMTs. Original- ly, they though she might have had a stroke prior to the acci- dent, but an autopsy revealed she hit her head on the steer- ing wheel, causing head inju- ries, according to Coleman. He said she was not wearing a seatbelt. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Al- an Tegmeyer, of Petersburg, at the Daviess County Hospital, April 2, a son, Tyler Lee. Deaths: Arch Day, 94, of Monroe City, died Tuesday, April 16 at 4 a.m. at his resi- dence; Ruby Knight, 95, of Pe- tersburg, died at 10 :55 a.m. Sunday, April 14 at Petersburg Healthcare Center; Delmas A. Tyring, 86, of Lynnville, died at 2:40 a.m. Wednesday, April 10 at Warrick Hospital. Otwell Mill in early 1900s The Otwell Mill as it looked in the early 1900s. It was the largest business in Otwell and was a large business for the entire county. None of the people were identified in the photo.