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D-4 Wednesday, May 4, 2022 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 Source: www.history.com • Photo source: www.vox.com Wednesday, May 4 • Rhode Island declares inde- pendence (1776) • Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 debuts (1824) Thursday, May 5 • Alan Shepard, Jr. becomes first American man in space (1961) • "Spider-Man" becomes first movie to top $100 million in opening weekend (2002) Friday, May 6 • Final episode of "Friends" airs on NBC (2004) • Hindenburg explodes in New Jersey (1937) Saturday, May 7 • Edvard Munch's "The Scream" recovered after theft (1994) • Serial killer H.H. Holmes is hanged in Philadelphia (1896) Sunday, May 8 • V-E Day is celebrated in Ameri- ca and Britain (1945) • Betty White becomes old- est "Saturday Night Live" host (2010) Monday, May 9 • Woodrow Wilson proclaims the first Mother's Day holiday (1914) • Buffalo Bill's Wild West show opens (1887) Tuesday, May 10 • Transcontinental railroad com- pleted (1869) • Thomas J. "Stonewall Jackson dies (1863) Want to share your news with others? The Press- Dispatch can help deliver it to Pike and the surrounding counties. NEWS! 812-354-8500 SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Friday and Tuesday, May 2 and 6, 1947 Christmas Mail Lost at Sea Last Fall: An official release from American Red Cross con- cerns Christmas mail which left San Francisco on November 27, all of which was lost when the Lakeland Victory encountered a hurricane 1700 miles off shore of Korea. There were 2800 bags of mail, including parcel post, magazines and newspapers which were all damaged or lost. There was no letter mail aboard. Potato Serving: Studies by the national famine emergency committee indicate that Ameri- can families average only slight- ly more than one serving of po- tatoes a day. Farming Business: The busi- ness of farming in the United States employs 25 million men, women and children. Sparkling Glassware: An add- ed sparkle in glassware can be obtained if a few drops of am- monia and bluing are added to warm soapsuds. Marriages: Bertha DeMotte and Bertis A. Artman were married April 26, at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. Su- sie Wineinger in LaCrescenta, Calif.; Pearl Maxine Bush and L. A. Richardson were issued a marriage license April 26, 1947. Deaths: Oliver O. Parker, a retired banker, died Wednesday morning, at Good Samaritan, he was married to Bertha Catt in 1916; Arminta McGraw, 72, wife of John McGraw, died Saturday at her Stendal home. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Pike County Dispatch Thursday, May 3, 1962 A tornado rips through the ar- ea and causes extensive dam- age. Winds of hurricane force roared over Pike county Mon- day night around 10 p.m. with a sound of a train directly over- head. The wind dipped down in most every section of the coun- ty blowing down buildings, up- rooting trees lifting a car from the highway and slamming it against the bank, limbs were ripped from the trees leav- ing the trunks standing. The greatest damage from the storm was at Paul's Market on highway 64 south of Winslow. The large three-section build- ing with a 250 foot frontage owned by Charles R. Paul, was two-thirds demolished. The east section of the build- ing was occupied by Potter's Food Market. The walls and roof of this section were blown down and fell inside the build- ing. Had the storm been two hours earlier the store would have been full of people stated Mr. Paul. If that were the case, many may have been killed or injured. Miss Kathryn Farm- er was on her way home from Oakland City college where she had been helping make prepa- rations for a May Day program and was in front of Paul's Mar- ket when the storm struck. Her car was picked up by the wind, turned completely around and slammed against bank. Miss Farmer was not injured, how- ever, she was treated for shock, then taken to her home. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Potter estimat- ed damage to the contents of their food market to be around $10,000. South of Winslow on highway 61 a huge tree at Louis Gieselman's home blew across the highway and many small- er trees were uprooted, limbs broken off with the trunks still standing. Petersburg homes were badly damaged from trees and limbs blown on them. Shin- gles were blown off the home of Mrs. Imogene Carlisle. The roof at Voyles IGA store was bad- ly damaged. Carpenters were called out at 11 p.m. to put a tem- porary roof on the store. Most every street in Petersburg was blocked by uprooted trees and large limbs. Storm warnings were broad-casted throughout the day Monday, but as usual many of us paid little attention to these warnings. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Don Corn, of Oakland City, a son, Mark Edward, April 27. Marriages: Sarah Carter and Darrell Douglas were mar- ried, the bride is formerly of Winslow. Deaths: Alva W. Stephens, 72, of Oakland City, died Sun- day, April 24, of a heart attack while getting his mail; Dora Hurt, 84, widow of Alozo Hurt, died Tuesday, at the Church Nursing Home; Mary Kathleen and Maria Kathryn, twin daugh- ters of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fish, of Lenwood, Calif., died recently, mother was former- ly of Oakland City; Robert H. Simmons, 82, of Petersburg, died Saturday, April 28; Maud M. Carlisle, 72, formerly of Pe- tersburg, died in the Navy hos- pital at Portsmouth, Va. while undergoing a brain operation. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, May 4, 1972 Grace Bradfield received a broken hip in an accident in Pe- tersburg, Monday. Bradfield lost control and hit a parked rac- ing stock car, knocked it into a parked 1970 Plymouth and hit two utility poles and a sign be- fore coming to a stop. She was admitted to the hospital and her husband Charles was treat- ed and released. Mark Rothrock, valedicto- rian of the graduating class of Winslow High School, received the annual award of the Read- er's Digest Association for stu- dents who, by their successful school work, give promise of at- taining leadership in the com- munity. Announced by Howard Briscoe, principal, Rothrock will receive an honorary one year subscription to the Read- er's Digest and a personal cer- tificate from the editors "in recognition of past accomplish- ments in anticipation of unusu- al achievement to come." He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Ro- throck. Wayne Popp, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Popp, Otwell, received the Chapter Star Farmer Award and the Ruritan Award at the banquet of the Otwell Chapter of FFA, April 27. Otwell honor society's liter- ary contest winners were Judy Popp, Terri Whitehead, Tony Camp, and Doreatha Houtsch. They are guests at the society's banquet April 28, at the Otwell United Methodist Church fel- lowship hall. David Dudgeon, son of Rev. and Mrs. William O. Dudgeon, Petersburg, received a broken arm, head and ankle injuries when a truck he was driving for the Howe Fire Apparatus Com- pany overturned on Highway 36, Thursday. Dudgeon braked to avoid an on coming car and skidded out of control. He was taken to the Muncie hospital. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Wil- liam Hoover, of Oakland City, a daughter, Wendy Lynn, Wednes- day, April 25; To Mr. and Mrs. Mike Schurshel, of Bedford, a son, Dale Robert, Tuesday, April 25; To Mr. and Mrs. Duane Ash- craft, of VanBuren, a daughter, Christina Beth, Saturday, April 29; To Mr. and Mrs. Roy Allen Cooper, of Princeton, a daugh- ter, Terri Dawn, April 16; To Mr. and Mrs. James Merriman, of Arthur, a son, Christopher James, Wednesday, April 26. Marriages: Rebecca Dorsey and Larry Gregory were mar- ried on Saturday, April 8. Deaths: Alpha Jones, 48, of Columbus Ga., formerly of Pe- tersburg, died Thursday, Apr. 27, a W WII veteran; Clara O'Ne- al Hale, 65, of Petersburg, died May 1; Randall C. Gray, 58, southwest of Petersburg, died Thursday, April 27; Clarence W. Springer, of Terre Haute, died Sunday; Roscoe Miley, 42, of Pe- tersburg, died Saturday, April 29; Laura Whitman Marshall, 74, of Shoals, native of Winslow, died Thursday; Fern Richard- son, 78, of Winslow, died Tues- day, May 2. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, May 1, 1997 Members of the Pike Central welding team that placed first in the 18th annual Mid-West Team Welding Tournament are Aar- on Beck, second in SMAW; Er- ic Rohrscheib, third in theory; Rhett Hartke, first in OAW-C; Black school—1891-1943 Black school was located in Monroe Township. It apparently was founded in 1891 and the last teacher at the school was Aaron Mason in 1943. Other teachers at the school were 1891, Lizzie Thompson; 1921-22, John Davis; 1922-23, Basil Burns; 1923-29, unknown; 1929- 30, Howard Mason; 1930-31, Carl Fowler; 1932-33, Haskell Woolsey; 1932-33, unknown; 1933-34, Haskell Woolsey; 1934-36, Delphus Henke; 1936-37, Cecil Durham; 1937-38, Wayne Erwin; 1938-39, Earl Johnson; 1939-40, Jewell Dyer; 1940-41, Eugene Thompson (called to service March 1941—Wayne Erwin filled in); 1941-42, Earl Johnson; and 1942-43, Aaron Mason. There were no other teachers listed and it probably was the last year for the school. There was a shortage of teachers, because of the war. Jarrett Beck, eighth in GTAW; and Josh Miley, sixth in GMAW. The school received oxy-acety- lene cutting equipment for hav- ing the first place team. Mem- bers of the third place team in the Mid-West Team Welding Tournament are Kyle Sharp, Tim Stafford, Nathan Hyneman, Randy Singleton and Jesse Nixon. Sharp placed sixth in SMAW, Stafford was third in GTAW, Hyneman was fifth in theory, Singleton finished third in OAW-C and Nixon placed fourth in GMAW. Sugar Ridge Fish and Wild- life Area Property Manager John Wade measures the beard of a turkey killed by Bruce Hurley, of Evansville. Hurley brought the bird into the check station Saturday morning. The turkey weighed 20 pounds and had 23 mm spurs. Jeff Nelson helped Stan Reed with a piece of sheet metal and Mike Morton drilled holes in the metal pieces while working on a roof for a new 4-H horse barn being built at Hornady Park. A Solar Sources employee grades ground at the park in prepara- tion to build a new horse arena. Emmett Williams, the president of the 4-H Horse and Pony Club said several businesses donated equipment, material and man- power to help with the project. Rich Coan recently opened a Radio Shack franchise at his Computer Plus store on Main St. in Petersburg. Terry Mor- ris, of Budget Temperature Con- trol, was busy installing the Ra- dio Shack sign on Friday. Four victims will never forget the drunk driver who changed their lives- When Robby Teague, Billy Teague, Greg Ridao and Jeff Kimmell left the campus of the University of Southern Indi- ana they had no idea their lives would forever be changed on a dark stretch of Highway 13. The drunk driver was a habitual traf- fic offender. He had several con- victions for drunk driving. His license had been revoked and he had no insurance. It didn't matter. It didn't keep him off the road the night of September 30, 1996. Robby, who was driving, tried desperately to avoid the drunk, but it was to no avail. The two vehicles hit with such force the bumpers were weld- ed together. The drunk driver would never know the carnage he had caused. His LTD burst into flames and he died. The Pike county teens in the Bron- co had to escape the vehicle be- fore it was engulfed into flames, however, Jeff was knocked out, Greg had broken both elbows, Billy's arms had been mangled and he had a broken leg, Rob- by was unable to move and was the most seriously injured of the four boys. Three migrant crop pickers were in the truck that came by and stopped to help. Two of the men rushed to the Bronco while the third went to get help. The two men pulled Robby and Jeff from the Bronco and saved them from the flam- ing wreckage. Later, the Teague family would discover that Rob- by was not expected to survive his serious injures, and then not expected to walk. Both Teague boys were in intensive care for quite some time. However, all four boys survived. Robby, who was not expected to walk again, was able to meet his goal of walking into prom without us- ing his walker. Robby, Billy and Greg have been friends since they met each other in kinder- garten class. Through the years they have formed strong bonds of friendship and loyalty to one another. From being involved in schoolboy pranks to graduating from Pike Central together, the three have been inseparable. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Mar- cus Scales, of Evansville, a son, Christopher Markus, April 19; To Mr. and Mrs. Mark Gibbs, of Newburgh, a son, Samuel An- thony, April 27; To Rev. and Mrs. Jeff ( Janell) Sumner, of Pales- tine, Ill., a son, Evan Michael, April 10. Marriages: Pamela Jean Ool- ey and Joseph Michael Cialkow- ski were married Saturday, Mar. 22, at Sugarland Wedding Chap- el in Gatlinburg, Tenn. Deaths: Herman Paul Knight, 81, of Winslow, died Monday, Apr. 28, at Memorial hospital; Beulah Powell, 65, a former resident of Vincennes, died Monday, Apr. 24, at her daughters home in Blairsville, Ga.; Sharon Lee (Norrington) Porter, 57, of Garrett, formerly of Winslow, died Saturday, Apr. 19, at Lutheran hospital; Helen Glennabell Kellams, 83, cousin of Mary Miley of Petersburg, died Friday, Apr. 18, in Clare- more, Okla.; Robert Richard Cooper, 57, of Indianapolis, died Sunday, Apr. 20, at Community Hospital East, a U.S. Navy Viet- nam War Veteran; Scott Shep- ard, 59, of French Lick, died Friday, Apr. 25, at St. Elizabeth hospital, a retired coal miner in Pike County.