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75¢ Wednesday, May 21, 2014 Volume 146 Number 27 Phone (812) 354-8500 Petersburg, IN 47567-0068 (USPS 604-34012) Four sections 66 pages Six inserts Local ........A1-12 Obituaries ...... A3 With this ring . A7 Sports ........B1-9 Classifi eds B12-13 Church .......C1-8 Opinion .......... C2 History ........... C7 Travel ........D1-32 WHAT'S INSIDE: CONNECT WITH US: NetEdition .... pressdispatch.net/edition Facebook .... facebook.com/pressdispatch E-Mail .......... news@pressdispatch.net Phone: .................812-354-8500 Fax: .....................812-354-2014 E-Mail . editor@pressdispatch.net NEWS TIPS: PIKE PUBLISHING English was sniper in Vietnam Parade, Honor Guard highlight weekend Kyle Runyan named boys' hoops coach at Gibson Southern By Alden Heuring PC Athletic Director Kyle Runyon was named Gibson Southern High School boys' basketball head coach and business teach- er at the South Gibson school board meet- ing on Tuesday evening, May 20. Runyon was named coach of the Titans after Beau Hobson resigned days after ac- cepting the position. Runyan coached boys' basketball at Pike Central for four years from 2008 to 2012. His records each year were 9 -14, 6 -17, 4- 19, and 1-20, for an overall record of 20 -70. He served as assistant principal at Pike Central and this year as athletic director. During a press conference following the South Gibson School Board meeting. Ru- nyon said he did not apply for the position the first time it was open, but after Hobson resigned he decided to apply. Runyon said spring sports had started. In his duties as principal and athletic di- rector he was extremely busy and thought he would like less hours with a young fam- ily. Runyon and his wife, Adrienne, have a five-year-old son. The new position takes effect at the end of the 2013-2014 school year. He has a bas- ketball camp planned for June. By Andy Heuring Pike County Commissioners approved bids on reassessment of new property, hired a new mechanic and continued a hearing on closing CR 200 S. during the Monday night meeting. The commissioners voted 3-0 to award a contract for new construction and annu- al reassessment to Rellers's Southern Indi- ana Appraisal for $14,900. Reller's bid was $ 900 more than Property Assessment So- lutions' bid. A third bid was for Indiana As- sessment Service for $23,071. Assessor Kim Mendel recommended Reller's. She said this firm, owned by Pike County native Kirk Reller, had 27 years of experience with extensive experience in Pike and surrounding counties dealing with coal mines and power plants. She also said the ratio study completed for 2013 by Reller's was one of only a few in Indiana that was approved on its first sub- mission by the Department of Local Gov- ernment and Finance. Continued on page 4 Continued on page 7 Reassessment contract let by commissioners Backyardadventures 32 page section inside The Travel guide cenTered on Pike and gibson counTies By Andy Heuring Veterans will be honored with ceremo- nies at 25 cemeteries throughout Pike County, and a parade at 2 p.m. in Winslow. VFW Coleman-Stewart Post 3587 will conduct observances to honor veterans of all wars at 11 cemeteries in the north- ern part of Pike County and the Winslow American Legion with be at 14 cemeter- ies in the southern part of Pike County on Memorial Day. At each location the honors rendered will consist of a prayer, 21-gun salute and Taps being played. There will be an extended program at Walnut Hills in Petersburg at 10 :45 a.m. with Mark Schlechty, pastor of Peters- burg Free Methodist Church as the fea- tured speaker. United States flags should be flown at half staff in the morning and then at noon on Memorial Day it should be raised to the top of the pole. Individuals and organizations can pick up flags for placement on veterans' graves from the VFW Post at 102 Main St., Peters- burg. Tom Hensler of the VFW said, "A ceme- tery custodian can draw the proper number of flags for each use. If veterans are buried in a family or non-custodian cemetery, then an individual is invited to draw flags for this use," said Hensler. He added, "The post re- quires certain information from those indi- viduals drawing flags to prevent duplicate issues. It is requested that custodians and individuals retrieve the flags after Memori- al Day and save them for future use." MeMorial Day paraDe in WinsloW Winslow Lions Club will sponsor a Me- morial Day parade in Winslow. It will start at 2 p.m. on Monday, May 26 with line-up beginning at 1 p.m. at Winslow Elementa- ry School. The parade will proceed from the Ele- mentary School down Porter St. to Main St. and then south to Union St., then east to Oak Hill Cemetery, where there will be a memorial service. All clubs and organizations are encour- aged to participate. For more information call Lawrence "Buster" McCandless, 789 -2255. Below is a schedule of cemetery cere- monies: Clean sweep gathers 120 bags of trash On Saturday, the Clean Sweep, sponsored by German American Bank, paid 10 teams of volunteers for each bag of trash they collected, up to 12 bags. Above: Beth Coleman, of the Women's Ministries team, picks up trash she found in a ditch along Sycamore St. The 10 teams participating were: Pike Central boys' tennis team, Women's Ministries Center, Mt. Pisgah's Prayer Bears, Tractors for Trenton, Lions Club, Pike Central German Club, Esteem Coffee Shop, Glezen Revival Youth Group, CAVE of The River of Life Church, and the Living Faith Church. Continued on page 6 By Andy Heuring Almost 50 years ago, Pike County native James English, known to many of his friends as Jamie, went to Evansville and signed up for the Marines during the peak of the Vietnam War. In a few months, he was in Vietnam serv- ing his country as a sniper. It is a service he is proud of and he still carries scars, both physi- cal and mental, with him to this day. English graduated from Otwell High School after growing up most of his life in Algiers, the son of Dallas and Marie English. His father was a Cumberland Presbyterian minister. He graduated in 1966 and worked construc- tion, helping build the Winslow Elementary School and Winslow Bank. "You knew they were going to get you," said English of the draft. "Our Marine Corps is known throughout the world. I thought if I'm going to go, I'm going to go with the best," said English. He went to boot camp in 1968 and ended up in San Diego by surprise. "Usually everyone east of the Mississippi were sent to Paris Island, S.C., and those west of the Mississippi went to San Diego. We were taking off from the air- James English holds an exact replica of the sniper rifle he used in Vietnam in the late 1960s. He was able to purchase the replica Remington Model 700 rifle.