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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, June 16, 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.wall.alphacoders.com Wednesday, June 16 • First roller coaster in America opens at Coney Island (1884) • Valentina Tershkova becomes first woman in space (1963) Thursday, June 17 • Statue of Liberty arrives (1885) • Battle of Bunker Hill begins (1775) Friday, June 18 • War of 1812 begins (1812) • Dr. Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space (1983) Saturday, June 19 • Julius and Ethel Rosenberg exe- cuted (1953) • First Nickelodeon opens (1905) Sunday, June 20 • "Jaws" released (1975) • Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States (1782) Monday, June 21 • U.S. Constitution ratified (1788) • The KKK kills three civil rights activists (1964) Tuesday, June 22 • F.D.R. signs G.I. Bill (1944) • Congress issues Continental currency (1775) SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Friday and Tuesday, June 14 and June 18, 1946 The country home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bradfield, 4 miles east of this city, was de- stroyed by fire of an unknown origin early Sunday morning. Mr. Bradfield was awakened about one o'clock, he looked out of the window and noticed the yard lit up and discovered the back part of the house in flames. He called for help and most of the furniture, bedding and clothing was saved from two rooms. The contents of the dining room, kitchen and smoke house was a total loss. A large quantity of meat, lard, canned fruit, several bushels of potatoes and all furniture in the back of the house were burned. The loss was partly covered by insurance. The Midwest Telephone Company has just completed the stringing of three new cop- per lines to Winslow from Pe- tersburg. Theses lines will be put into operation just as soon as installer arrive from an Ohio concern to connect them into the switchboards. These lines with Enos Coal and Ayr- shire now removed from the Winslow lines should relieve the congestion on those lines considerably. Bread and flour shortages for at least another year was the forecast handed Ameri- can housewives Wednesday despite the start on harvest- ing another of the nation's bumper wheat crops. The ag- riculture department reported considerable improvement in bread and flour supplies is ex- pected in another month, but hardly to the extent needed to meet all domestic and fam- ine relief demands before the 1947 harvest. The bread scar- city in a number of major cit- ies meanwhile verged on the acute state, and an Associat- ed Press spot survey also dis- closed the same held true for meat. Soap, butter and cook- ing fats ranked next on the list of increasingly hard-to-get items. The outlook is the cit- ies covered seemed to be that these shortages would grow worse before the situation im- proved. Harvesting of the new wheat crop promised to ease the bread-flour picture, but complex uncertainties made the prospects dubious for any big improvement in the supply of meats, butter or fats. Marriages: Elvin Cox and Miss Florence Rice were mar- ried last Thursday at Hender- son, Ky.; Ruth Evalyn Wal- Winslow second team in 1921 The basketball second team did not get to play very many games in 1921, but they won every game they played. The team members were larger than the first team and were expected to develop into a winning team the next year. Members of the team were: Owen Barnett, Lester Doerges, John Wood, Chelsie Leighty, Brice Bottom, Lo- rel Coleman, Mark Dedman, Cleon Woolsey and Carl Harmeyer (coach). ton became the bride of Bax- ter Weeks at the home of the bride's parents; Lela McCallis- ter and Bill Beach were mar- ried at 3 o'clock Sunday at the First Methodist Church in Princeton. Deaths: William Hoagland, 92, of Iva, died at his home at 11 o'clock Tuesday; Nathan- iel Griffith, 76, of Cato, died at his residence on Tuesday afternoon at 6:30 ; Courtney M. Colvin, 80, died Monday afternoon at the home of his daughter. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Pike County Dispatch Thursday, June 15, 1961 The stork couldn't wait Friday morning, June 9, but at least he was considerate enough to stop in the driveway of a Winslow doctor. The nine pound boy born to Mrs. Al- an Selby, of Winslow, arrived at 2:15 a.m. in the car in the driveway of the Winslow doc- tor when it was seen that there would not be time to continue the trip to the Daviess Coun- ty Hospital. Mrs. Selby was spending the night with her sister-in-law and brother-in- law, Mr. and Mrs. Gary Cox, near Stendal, when she sud- denly found that she needed to be taken to the hospital. Since Mr. and Mrs. Cox did not have time to get someone to stay with the children or take them anywhere for the remainder of the night, they loaded them in- to the car with Mrs. Selby and started for the hospital. When the carload reached Winslow, Mrs. Selby knew she could not make it to the hospital and Mr. Cox headed for the home of the doctor. But by the time they pulled up to the doctor's house, Mrs. Selby was having the baby. As soon as the doctor reached the car, he took the baby into his house, where his wife dressed it. A fter at- tending to Mrs. Selby, and sending her on to the hospi- tal, the doctor and his wife took the baby to the hospital. Mrs. Cox stayed at the home of the doctor with the chil- dren and called her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Prentice Selby to come to the doctor's home for them. The mother and ba- by were both released from the hospital Monday and are getting along fine. Mrs. Selby is the mother of two other chil- dren, Nancy, two, and Steven, one. The new baby was named Scotty Joe. The father of the new baby, A-1c Selby, missed the whole thing. He is in the Eglin Air Force Base in Flori- da, where he graduated Tues- day from missile training. He will arrive home in a few days. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Norrick, of Oakland City, a son, Joe Scott, Thurs- day, June 1 at Gibson General Hospital; To Mr. and Mrs. Rob- ert Nelson, of Cato, a daugh- ter, Betty Jane, born Thurs- day, June 8 in Daviess County Hospital; To Mr. and Mrs. Ste- phen Allen Potter, of Winslow, a son, Stephen Barr, Wednes- day, June 8 in St. Mary's Hos- pital. Marriages: Jeanne Malott and Larry W. Minnis were wed in the Arthur General Baptist Church June 3 at 7:30 p.m.; Melinda Thompson and Rich- ard A. Wirey were married Sunday afternoon, June 4 at 4 p.m. in the Winslow General Baptist Church. Deaths: Lula Catt, 64, of Petersburg, died at 7:30 a.m. Monday at her home; Glen M. Arnold, 52, of Campbelltown, died at Daviess County Hospi- tal at 9 a.m. Thursday. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, June 17, 1971 A Petersburg fire truck was called Friday, June 11 to the Coomer Engineering Compa- ny in Campbelltown around 10 :30 a.m. to extinguish a fire in a barrel of oil located on the outside of the building that was threatening the safety of the building. Coomers Engi- neering is located in the build- ing that was formerly Long's Butchering and is managed by William Coomer. Helen Sharp, of Route 1, Winslow, was injured Tuesday morning in a one-car accident near Arthur. She was travel- ing west on Highway 64 when she apparently lost control of the 1959 Volkswagen she was driving. She ran off the side of the road, pulled back onto the highway, ran off again and hit a mailbox in the yard of Rus- sell Kirby. The car turned over in the Kirby yard. Russell stat- ed Sharp was in the car and he could not get the doors open and had to get a tool to pry them open. Sharp was taken to the Welborn Hospital, where she was treated for bruises. It was reported that she did not seem too seriously injured, however, she was not immedi- ately released from the hospi- tal. A State Trooper reported that the shoulder of the high- way was washed away at the point she ran off the road. The car was a total loss. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Jack Tooley, of Petersburg, in Gibson General Hospital, Monday, June 7, a son, Jack Deke. Marriages: Connie Ann Beadles and Boyd Ross were married at Immanuel Baptist Church on June 5. Deaths: Minerva Hamm, 69, of Campbelltown, died at 4 p.m. Thursday, June 10 in the Good Samaritan Hospital; George Denton, 88, of Oak- land City, died Wednesday, June 9 in the Convalescence Home in Madisonville, Ky.; Ethel Langford, 78, of Spur- geon, died at 5:30 p.m. Satur- day, June 12 in Gibson Gener- al Hospital; Homer D. Vaughn, 55, of Otwell, died at 7:45 a.m. Sunday at his home; Wanda J. Coomer, 48, of Oakland City, died at 11 p.m. Thursday, June 10 in University Hospital in In- dianapolis. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, June 13, 1996 Nearly six inches of rain fell on Pike County last Thursday causing the county road sys- tem to deteriorate further and adding to the massive head- ache of cleaning up the mess. "We're back to square one," Young said in frustration on Friday morning. "We've got wash outs o County Roads 50W and 825W and if it keeps raining I know there will be more," he said. "We were out at 825W from 9:30 to 12:30 last night," Young said. "We're not getting anything done towards roadwork," Young said refer- ring to the heavy rains which have plagued Pike County this spring. "It's ridiculous. I don't know what we are going to do. I have never seen this much rain. My gauge showed 5.5 inches just for yesterday." Farming in southern In- diana is about as far behind as it has ever been Farmers are talking about switching from corn to beans and now from beans to milo or maybe not even getting out a crop. Some fear thousands of acres in both the White River and Patoka River will not be plant- ed this year. "It is getting se- rious now," said Roger Craig, who farms and sells Pioneer seed corn. On June 10typi- cally a cut off date for plant- ing corn it was still raining and less than one third of the corn that was planted last year has been planted, according to County Agent Ken Salkeld. Births: To Bill and Bridgette Thomas, of Mary Esther Fla., at daughter, Jes- sica Lynn, on May 22 at Ft. Walton Beach Hosptial; To Mr. and Mrs Stephen J. Merkley, of Newburgh, a son , Evan Jo- seph, on June 6 at St. Mary's Medical Center in Evansville. Marriages: Gloria M. Barrett and Steve M. Bell II were wed on May 31 at Loud- on Church of God in Pigeon Forge; Amy Hale and Brent Willis were wed on May 11 at Rumbletown Free Methodist Church. Deaths: Anthony Hess, 9, of Oakland City, passed away from drowning Thurs- day, June 6; Laura McGillem, 97, of Connersville native of Pike County, passed away at the home of her son on Tues- day, June 11; Dr. Doyle Man- hart, 65, of Petersburg, passed away at his residence on Sun- day, June 9; Heath Shelton, one week old, of Washington, Passed away at Riley Hospital in Indianapolis on Thursday, June 6. net edition pressdispatch.net/edition Web, Smartphone, Tablet 812-354-8500 • 820 Poplar St., Petersburg, IN • ads@ pressdispatch.net