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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, June 30, 2021 B-11 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.britannica.com Wednesday, June 30 • "Gone with the Wind" published (1936) • Sandy Koufax pitches first no-hitter (1962) Thursday, July 1 • The Battle of Gettysburg begins (1863) • Last Ford Thunderbird pro- duced (2005) Friday, July 2 • Johnson signs Civil Rights Act (1964) • Congress votes for independ- ence (1776) Saturday, July 3 • Battle of Gettysburg ends (1863) • Washington takes command of Continental Army (1775) Sunday, July 4 • U.S. declares independence (1776) • Thomas Jefferson and John Ad- ams die (1826) Monday, July 5 • Bikini introduced (1946) • Salvation Army founded (1865) Tuesday, July 6 • Althea Gibson is first A frican American to win Wimbledon (1957) • Anne Frank's family takes ref- uge (1942) net edition pressdispatch.net/edition Web, Smartphone, Tablet 812-354-8500 • 820 Poplar St., Petersburg, IN • ads@ pressdispatch.net Skinner-Mason family Photo of the Skinner-Mason family taken November 25, 1919, after Simeon Mason's funeral. First row, (l to r): Chester Mason, Shelby Thompson, Mabel Mason, Lora Mason, Elnora (Mason) Riggs, Alma Mason, Henry Mason, Russell Mason, Eliza Mason and Dora Mason; second row: George Mason, Bill Mason, Flora (Mason) McKin- ney, Francis (Mason) Beatty, Eliza (Skinner) Mason, Elizabeth (Mason) Farmer, Lucy (Mason) Thompson, Shelby Mason, Michael Mason, Grover Mason, holding daugh- ter Ruth (Mason), and Lana (Sutton) Mason (behind Grover), Grover was the youngest child of Eliza (Skinner) Mason and Simeon Mason; third row: Vivian (Farmer) Fritz and Lonnie Fritz, John T. Mason and son Robert, with Audie (Grubb) Mason, Eliza Parker, Abijah Beatty (behind his wife), Lucy (Skinner) Taylor, Isaac Farmer (be- hind his wife), Alfred W. Thompson (behind his wife), Mary (Doerner) Mason (behind her husband), Edith (Farmer) Simpson, Alfred Thomas, Esther (Farmer) Hughes, and Lana (Sutton) (behind her husband). Photo submitted by Don Parke, Newburgh SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Friday and Tuesday, June 28 and July 2, 1946 The severest fresh meat shortage of modern times grew worse Wednesday. It hit the legitimate butcher shops black market and restau- rants. The thin run of live- stock to market already at a record low, dropped off still further as the senate debat- ed the fate of th OPA exten- sion bill. Receipts of hots at 12 leading western markets to- taled 19,200 Wednesday, com- pared to 26,452 a week ago and 46,842 a year ago. Total livestock receipts, which last week ran about 35 percent be- low the preceding year, have fallen another 10 percent this week. A survey of the nation's cities brought from every- where the same report: "Lit- tle or no fresh meat." In some cities, even cold cuts were hard to find in normal chan- nels. Poultry and fish, howev- er, were relatively plentiful. Mrs. Gerald Gray and Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Hilborn were painfully though not serious- ly injured Sunday when a car in which they were riding plunged down a 20' embank- ment and turned over. The ac- cident occurred near the Joe Hurst store. The injured were brought to the office of a local physician. Another passenger, Aubrey Willis, was not hurt. The car was badly damaged. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Cleo Craig, Tuesday, a girl, Sharon, at the maternity hos- pital in Oakland City. Marriages: Lillian Fine and Aja Harper were married at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, June 22 at the Methodist Church; Lilah Joyce Hostetter and Gerald Ja- cobs were united in marriage on Tuesday morning, June 18 at 9 o'clock; Mary Jane Stanley became the bride of Floyd E. Upton on June 16 at the home of the bride's parents in Terre Haute. Deaths: Marietta Cocker- ham, 72, of Monroe City, died at 4 p.m. Friday at her home; Atta I. Kirk, 75, of Oakland City, died Wednesday morn- ing at her home; Lydia Fran- ces Blair, 76, of Winslow, died at the Goodwin home in Winslow Thursday morning; John A. Bell, 75, of Otwell, died at his home on Wednes- day morning. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Pike County Dispatch Thursday, June 29, 1961 A native of Pike County, liv- ing in Francisco, was elec- trocuted by a high tension wire sometime near midnight Wednesday or early Thurs- day morning near the Bren- ton Chapel community. His uncle and a younger broth- er are being held in the Pike County Jail with three charges against them, malicious tres- passing, grand larceny and au- to banditry. The three were on property of the Ayrshire Col- leries Corp. when the elec- trocution of Ishmael Eugene Broshears, 27, occurred. At about 2 a.m. Thursday morn- ing, Mrs. Marion Smith called the Harris Funeral Home in Petersburg and said that a man was standing at her front door wanting an ambu- lance. She told Prentice Staf- ford at the funeral home that she did not know the man. She said that the man at the door said he had a man in his car who had been hurt. However, Mrs. Smith could see no car. Mr. Stafford said he told Mrs. Smith that he would call the sheriff and they would come out to Brenton Chapel. How- ever, when they arrived at the place which Mr. Stafford had understood the woman to give as an address, they could find no one there. They returned to the Brenton Chapel Commu- nity home of County Auditor Roscoe Sims and asked him if he knew of any Mrs. Smith. He said that he didn't. The ambu- lance returned to Petersburg. A fter the sheriff and ambu- lance left the Sims home, his next door neighbor called Mr. Sims and asked if something was wrong. He told her no and was explaining what the sheriff had said when a wom- an broke into the conversation on the party line and said she was the woman who had called the funeral home. She was vis- iting in the home on the Clar- ence Bell farm and told Mr. Sims that the man was still at her front door wanting an ambulance. Mr. Sims then re- called the ambulance and told them to stop at his house and he would take them to the Clarence Bell farm. When the ambulance, the sheriff and Mr. Sims arrived at the Bell home, they found Gary Lee Broshears, 21, of Decker chapel. He said that his broth- er had been hurt and was in a car down a dirt road. Unable to drive the ambulance down the small road, Richard Harris and Mr. Sims went with Bro- shears down the road. They did not find the car on the road and were informed by Bro- shears that it was in a field. Go- ing through mud and weeds, the trio reached the car and found Hansford Tisdale, 40, of Petersburg sitting in the front seat. In the back seat was the body of Ishmael Broshears. Mr. Sims then went to the home of Wayne Meyers and had him to bring his tractor to the car in the field and pull it to the road. The body was then taken to the O.D. Har- ris and Sons Funeral Home in Petersburg. Pike County Coroner Robert Harris said death was caused from elec- trocution when the man had touched a hot wire. Both if his hands were burned, Mr. Har- ris said. The wire which Bro- shears apparently touched was carrying 4,400 volts and was one which carries electric current to strip mining equip- ment in the area. Authorities said that several hundred feet of the copper wire has been stolen recently. A guy wire at an end pole was cut some time ago and the poles have since been caused to lean, making it easy for thieves to cut the wire. Pike County Deputy Sheriff Allen Smith said that a pair of pliers was found about 10 feet from the place where the car was parked and several rolls of copper wire were found near the car containing the body. Wednesday morning, Deputy Sheriff Smith told the Dispatch that no further ac- tion had been taken against the two men. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Vance, of Arthur, a son, born Friday in Daviess County Hospital; To Mr. and Mrs. Charles Strunk, of Oak- land City, a daughter, Shei- la Rae, born Saturday, June 17 at St. Mary's Hospital; To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kelley, of Otwell, a son, Karl Rob- bie, at Daviess County Hospi- tal on Thursday, June 22; To Mr. and Mrs. Donald White- head, of Otwell, a son, Mitch- ell Keith, at Memorial Hospital in Jasper, Thursday, June 22. Marriages: Fern Kemper became the bride of Dean Trummel on Saturday eve- ning, June 10 at 6:30 o'clock at Zoar Methodist Church. Deaths: Frank W. Holland, 68, of Petersburg, died at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Veterans Hospital in Louisville. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, July 1, 1971 Ray Miley, 15 -year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Miley, Nichols Avenue, Petersburg, was taken to Daviess County Hospital Tuesday evening of last week after the center toe on his left foot was completely severed during a mowing acci- dent. The toe next to his little toe was broken in three plac- es and partially severed. Doc- tors at the hospital set the toe and several stitches were tak- en to repair it. If circulation does not return, the toe will have to be amputated. The ac- cident occurred around 6:45 p.m. while Ray was using a power mower at the Farm Bu- reau Insurance Company on South Main St. in Petersburg. Ryan, 4 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Mitchell, of Winslow, received severe elec- trical burns on three fingers of his right hand one day last week. He stuck a bobby pin in a floor receptacle where his mother had just unplugged an air conditioner in their televi- sion room. The shock knocked him from this room into the hall. Reports are that he will possibly have to undergo skin grafts on the index finger. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Gerry Lee Whitney, of Peters- burg, in St. Joseph's Hospital, Monday, June 21, a daughter, Elizabeth Ann; To Mr. and Mrs. Tom R. Byrnes, June 18, a daughter, Tonya Sue; To Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Hathaway, of Winslow, at Good Samari- tan Hospital, Wednesday, June 23, a daughter, Denise Lynn; To Mr. and Mrs. Larry Fred- erick, of Petersburg, at Da- viess County Hospital, Tues- day, June 29, a son. Marriages: Karen Gray became the bride of James W. Martin in a garden wedding behind the Old Cathedral at 2:30 on May 1; Linda Rae Bass and Randall Ray Beyerstedt were married at Neu Chapel on the U of E campus on June 5; Rita Whaley and Rick Weis- man were united in marriage on June 12 at 7:00 at the United Methodist Church in Otwell. Deaths: Rev. Virnie Woods, 66, of Campbelltown, died Tuesday, June 29 at 8:15 a.m. at Good Samaritan Hospital; John Skinner, 69, of Peters- burg, died at 10 p.m. Monday, June 28 in Good Samaritan Hospital; G. Warner Tisdale, 83, of Winslow, died Friday, June 26 at 8:12 p.m. in Good Samaritan Hospital. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, June 27, 1996 Pike Central Curricu- lum Principal Mike Harding doesn't think the compari- sons made in a recent arti- cle in The Press-Dispatch be- tween Pike County's ISTEP+ test results and surrounding communities accurately por- tray the results. He also be- lieves the new middle school program did not contribute to the low sixth grade scores. In one comparison between the county's sixth graders and nine surrounding school cor- porations, Pike County ranked 10th. "In that comparison, we are last," Harding said, "but overall, we scored in the top one-third in the nation. That shouldn't be overlooked." Harding also said the compari- sons show very little statistical difference between Pike Cen- tral and schools scoring slight- ly higher. He explained that if the test was taken on a differ- ent day, Pike Central's sixth graders might have placed above the schools ahead of them. However, Harding did say the scores shouldn't be taken lightly and that the re- sults should be looked at to de- termine the needs of the stu- dents. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Brian Veale, of Winslow, at St. Mary's Medical Center, Wednesday, June 19, a son, Dillon; To Mr. and Mrs. Shawn Kunz, of Otwell, at Memorial Hospital in Jasper, on June 15, a son, Ethan Michael; To Na- than and Samantha Sue Rob- erts, Wednesday, June 19, at St. Joseph Hospital, a son, Jayson Spencer. Marriages: Lori E. Evans and Timothy L. Marchino were united in marriage on June 1 at 3:30 p.m. at Winslow General Baptist Church; Jer- ry Allen and Leonard Sieber were united in marriage Satur- day, June 15 at the First Chris- tian Church in Petersburg. Deaths: Eugene W. Couts, 75, of Winslow, died at 4:05 p.m. Wednesday, June 19 at Huntingburg Convalescent Center; Mada Robling, 88, formerly of Winslow, died at 1:50 p.m. Monday, June 24 at Good Samaritan Hospital; Lora Ropp, 86, of Petersburg, died at 4:35 a.m. Friday, June 21 at Daviess County Hospi- tal; Shirley E. Hedges, 59, of Oakland City, died Monday, June 24 at 9:13 p.m. at Wirth Regional Hospital in Oak- land City; Hazel Hughes, 79, of Oakland City, died at 11:50 a.m. Monday, June 24 at Good Samaritan Hospital.