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B-6 Wednesday, December 27, 2017 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 SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Friday, September 25, 1942 Jack Engleman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Engle- man of Alford, is the proud owner of twin calves born to his dairy heifer, which took sweepstakes at the County 4-H Club Exhibit a year ago. The Owensville High School Six Man Football team will engage the In- dians at the local Athletic Field this Friday evening at 8 o'clock. Come out,. The teams are evenly matched. P.C. Masson of Prince- ton was arrested Wednes- day evening in Oakland City by Chief of Police Richard Hayes and Deputy Sheriff Long, on charged with forg- ing checks in Petersburg. The checks were amounted to $27.50 and were passed on the Farmers' National Bank in Princeton. Mr. Mas- son is in jail waiting before Judge Wood. Mrs. Minard Burress, who has a cereus plant in her garden back of the bar- ber shop, noticed that at 6 o'clock Tuesday morn- ing her plant was about to bloom. Despite the clear day, two blossoms were in full bloom by noon and al- though they were closing, were still in bloom at 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon when your reporter saw it. This plant has had six blos- soms on it this year, the oth- er four bloomed at night. The most serious prob- lem confronting our war effort today is the short- age of scrap iron and steel. There is sufficient scrap hidden around the country. The job is to LOCATE and COLLECT it, BUILD THE STOCK PILES in every vil- lage and city. The job cannot be put off for ONE day. The mills and foundries haven't enough scrap on hand to last more than two weeks. From stock piles all over Amer- ica steel mills must draw their scrap. Every piece of steel is half scrap. And steel mills must get scrap every day including Sundays and holidays...millions of tons per month. The steel short- age right now is interrupt- ing production in many de- fense plants and shipyards. The very life of the nation is involved. Marriages: Miss Win- ifred Fair, foster daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Gillie Barnes of this city became the bride of James Richard Vize Saturday evening; Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Weathers of Cato announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Ed- na Fern Weathers to James Weldon Meadors, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harley Meadors of Winslow on Saturday eve- ning. Births: Mr. and Mrs. John Jones of Indianapo- lis are the proud parents of an eight pound girl born September 10 named Bon- nie Marie; Marilyn Sue is the name given to the girl born to Mr. and Mrs. Stan- ley Howard of this city on Thursday morning; Mr. and Mrs. Ira West have an- nounced the arrival of a boy at their home named Her- bert Arthur. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Friday, November 15, 1957 The regular meeting of South Central district of I.S.N.A. will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, November 21, 1957 at the Stork Memori- al hospital in Huntingburg. Dr. Allan Scales will show slides of his experiences in the Western Pacific as a flight surgeon. A report of the I.S.N.A. Convention will be heard. Cup Creek Baptist church, located two and one half miles north of Stendal, and contents was destroyed by fire Monday evening. The fire is said to have originat- ed in the belfry. The church was recently remodeled and a new furnace and base- ment added. The loss is set at more than $ 6,000 which is partially covered by in- surance. The church was of frame construction and more than 85 years old. Pot Pies three for 79 cents at IGA. Well's Moonbeam Brand Bacon for 49 cents a pound. Three pounds of ham- burger for only $1.17. Marriages: Mrs. Charles Selby of this city announces the marriage of her daugh- ter, Georgia to Howard Wood of Rushville, Ind. Births: Mr. and Mrs. Dick Sterk of Valparaiso, Ind. announce the birth of a daughter, Kathleen Sue; Mr. and Mrs. Vernice Kruse an- nounce the birth of a son, Paul William; Mr. and Mrs. John Carter announce the birth of a daughter; Mr. and Mrs. John Christmas an- nounce the birth of a daugh- ter; Mr. and Mrs. Burt Bull of Evansville announce the birth of a daughter, Cinda Marie. Deaths: Maye Stella Himsel, 72, of Otwell died at 4 p.m. Friday, November 8 in her home; James A. Ste- phenson, 65, died at 6 p.m. Saturday, November 9, after being rushed to the hospital stricken with a heart attack; Funeral services for Mrs. Lillie Shaw, 85, Winslow, were at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Methodist church; Oz- ro Glenn Burlingame, 64, of Velpen, a retired coal miner, died 1:55 Wednesday in the Jasper Memorial hospital as the result of a cerebral hem- orrhage which he suffered November 4. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, November 30, 1967 Mark Sturgeon, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs. Shirley Stur- geon came near losing his life by suffocation Sunday evening around 5 o'clock. He and his brother, Mike were playing in a circular corn bin full of shelled corn at their home just off grapevine Road, near Alford. Their fa- ther who did not know they were in the bin started to empty the corn from the bin. When he turned the auger on, the corn began moving out of the center of the bin, making a hole which sucked Mark down. Mike, who was on the outer edge of the shelled corn saw his broth- er go under and jumped out of the bin and shut the auger off. When they got to Mark he was complete- ly covered in shelled corn. They dug until they uncov- ered his nose and mouth but there was so much pres- sure from the corn they had to summon help to get him out. A fter Mark was freed he was rushed by Harris ambulance to the Good Sa- maritan hospital where he was examined and treated, and then released. A new feature, recently started in The Press-Dispatch, "Spot- light On Sports" is gaining rapidly in popularity. Many persons have commented on the column and asked who is R.V. Boger. He has been a lifetime resident of this ar- ea. His hobbies are writing, photography, golf, and he is an amateur painter. His column has been appear- ing for the past few weeks in The Press-Dispatch and has been well read and en- joyed by many, according to comments heard by the Press-Dispatch staff. Tuesday morning Sena- tor Vance Hartke official- ly cut the first Christmas tree in Pike County for the White House Pageant of Peace Yuletide observance in Washington, D.C. There will be 53 red pines, all uni- formly shaped and 12 feet tall, cut from coal mined land, south of Cato, for use along the Pathway to Peace during next month's obser- vance of Christmas in the Nation's Capitol. Terri Hall, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Donald Hall of Petersburg and second grade pupil in the elementa- ry school at Petersburg fell Tuesday afternoon of last week, while playing on the school ground equipment and broke the large bone in her right leg between her knee and ankle. She was taken to the Daviess coun- ty hospital in Washington where the break was re- duced and a cast put on her leg. Lincoln Theatre in Peters- burg is reopening Friday, December 1 with its first picture "The Dirty Dozen" under the new owners, Dr. and Mrs. James Higgins of Terre Haute. Marriages: New Butler EUB church was the set- ting for the marriage of Miss Rhonda Kaye Furman and James L. Blaize on No- vember 19. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Barclay, Otwell, a son; To Mr. and Mrs. Glen Dillon, Hatfield, a son, Tony Joseph; To Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Poehlein, Shelburn, a son, John Frederick; To Mr. and Mrs. John Corn, Oakland City, a son, John Alan; To Mr. and Mrs. Larry Bakeis, Indianapolis, a son, Steven Michael; To Cmdr. and Mrs. Harold Hutchinson, Naples, Italy, a son, Robert James; To Mr. and Mrs. Roy Shro- eser, Vincennes, a daugh- ter; To Mr. and Mrs. Lar- ry Lemond, a daughter, Ta- mara Dee. Deaths: The accident Monday night which claimed the life of John Paul Harrel- son, 54, came as a distinct shock to residents of Oak- land City and surrounding communities when the news quickly spread. Mr. Harrel- son was dead upon arrival at Deaconess hospital at 6:45 p.m. from severe chest inju- ries and head and neck con- tusions received in a two car collision south of Daylight on highway 57 as Mr. Har- relson was returning to his home in Oakland City from his work in Evansville; Rol- lie Hamilton, 67, Francisco was found dead on arrival at Gibson General hospital at 10 a.m. Tuesday, November 21, of a heart attack; Charles C. Cooper, 67, of Princeton and son of Mrs. Mattie Coo- per of Winslow, died at 9:30 p.m. Saturday in the Gibson General hospital in Prince- ton after a 15 month illness of cancer; Mrs. Pearl Ash- by Allen, 88, sister of Mrs. Gertrude Buechele of Win- slow, died Saturday, No- vember 18, at the Passavant hospital in Jacksonville, Ill.; While Dean Shoulders, 61, and a friend were shooting pigeons in the barn loft at Mr. Shoulders' home, Mr. Shoulders lost his footing and fell from the loft and died on the way to the hos- pital from a broken neck and head injuries at 7 p.m. Sun- day; Funeral services for Le- roy Wolvin, 46, of Washing- ton, native of Petersburg, were Sunday at 2 p.m. at Harris Funeral Home; Em- mitt C. Carter, 74, native of Madison township, for ma- ny years a resident of near Monroe City, died at 2:30 a.m. Tuesday in the Good Samaritan hospital. TWENTY- FIVE YEARS The Press-Dispatch Thursday, November 26, 1992 An early Wednesday morning fire destroyed the Brian and Stacie Veale fam- ily mobile home of Rt. 2, Pe- tersburg. The home was in Cato. The Veale family lost all of their possessions ex- cept a small shoebox of pho- tos and some smoke dam- aged jewelry firefighters re- trieved. A Petersburg woman re- ported someone had van- dalized her mailbox. Mar- ilyn Schisel, Petersburg, told police that on Novem- ber 21 at 1:30 p.m. someone knocked down and ran over her mailbox. Petersburg of- ficer Rick Barnes said the mailbox's post was broken off at the ground. Damage was estimated at $25. The Winslow and Peters- burg Christmas parades will be next Saturday on Decem- ber 5. The Winslow parade will be at 10 a.m. with line- up beginning at 9 a.m. in front of the Winslow Gener- al Baptist Church on "Goose Hill." Immediately following the Winslow Parade the Pa- toka Township Lions club will be having Santa Claus in town so children may vis- it with him. The Petersburg parade is set for 1 p.m. in Pe- tersburg. Line-up will be at noon on Walnut St. in front of the Old Petersburg Gym. The area economy just got more bad news. Old Ben Coal, a division of Ziegler, announced 22 union posi- tions had been eliminated and that the Indiana Divi- sion Offices located in Oak- land City were going to be closed "over the coming weeks," said a news release from Ziegler, headquarters in Fairview Heights, Ill. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Phil Zimmerman of Peters- burg on Thursday, Nov. 12, a son, Colton Brooks; To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Blaize of Evansville, a son, Er- ic Wayne; To Mr. and Mrs. Dean Jones of Petersburg, a son, Timothy Dain. Deaths: Robert W. Falls, Sr., 61, of Petersburg, died at 4:15 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21; Charles Jerry Willis, Sr., 53, of Petersburg, died at 5:05 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 21 at Daviess County Hos- pital; Mae H. Pierce, 83, of Princeton, died Wednes- day, Nov. 18 at 5:24 a.m. at Gibson General Hospital in Princeton; Mazo D. Scales, 90, of Huntingburg, dies at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 29; Rosa Baldwin, 99, of Pe- tersburg, died at 2:33 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22; Moreland Smith, 66, of Oakland City, died Thursday, Nov. 19 at 3:55 p.m.; Hoyt (H.V.) Potts, 56, of Petersburg, died Tues- day, Nov. 17 at Good Samar- itan Hospital in Vincennes; Kenneth W. Himsel, 55, of Greenwood, died Thursday, Nov. 12 in a National Guard plane crash near Juneau, Alaska; Beatrice M. Gold- man, 77, of Princeton, died Tuesday, Nov. 17 at 12:05 p.m.; Garrett Abbott, 70, of Oakland City, dies Sunday, Nov. 22 at 10 :45 a.m.; Mary Ault Pettit, 79, died October 10 at West River, Md.; Ger- trude W. Taylor, 86, of Mon- roe City. died Friday, Nov. 20 at 12:20 a.m. at the home of her daughter. SOMETHING NEWSWORTHY? Give us a call: 812-354-8500 Wednesday, Dec. 27 • Radio City Music Hall opens (1912) • Office of Price Administration begins to ration automobile tires (1941) Thursday, Dec. 28 • First commercial movie screened (1895) • American's first Labor Day (1869) Friday, Dec. 29 • U.S. Army massacres Indians at Wounded Knee (1890) • British capture Savannah, Ga. (1778) Saturday, Dec. 30 • U.S.S.R. established (1922) • Rasputin is murdered (1916) Sunday, Dec. 31 • Panama Canal turned over to Panama (1999) • Rick Nelson dies in a plane crash (1985) Monday, January 1 • Batista forced out by Castro- led revolution (1959) • The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect (1863) Tuesday, January 2 • Georgia enters the Union (1788) • Nixon signs national speed limit into law (1974) Source: History.com Velpen Elementary School around 1959 Claude Kemp, principal and teacher at Velpen Elementary School poses in front of the school (prob- ably taken in the spring of 1959). Girls in the background are Yvonne Nolan and Carolyn Richardson.