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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, May 30, 2018 C-7 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 and Tuesday, January 15 and 19, 1943 Attorney S. Hugh Dillon, of Petersburg, announced Tuesday that he has been ac- cepted by the U.S. Army as a volunteer officer candidate, and will leave for active duty on February 1, 1943. Mr. Dil- lon volunteered his services some months ago and passed the necessary examinations on November 10. Mr. Bill Malott, of Rumble- town community, was pain- fully injured Saturday eve- ning at his home, when one of the sliding doors of the barn came off the track and fell on him. He was taken to the office of Dr. Ropp in Oak- land City for treatment. No bones were broken, but Mr. Malott has several bad bruis- es about his chest and down his left side. The Petersburg High School Indians went to Ow- ensville Friday night and de- feated the Kickapoos by a score of 39 -28, in a very well- played game. Next weekend the Pike County Tourney will be held in the local gym. Both A and B teams will par- ticipate again this year. Mr. Glen Selby, age 33, living south of Winslow, was walking home from Winslow Saturday evening when he was struck by a car driven by Odell Pirkle going south towards Oakland City. Mr. Pirkle passed a car and failed to see Mr. Sleby walking on the left side of the highway. Mr. Selby was rushed to the Miller hospital, where it was found that his right leg was broken in two places. At this time he is getting along as well as can be expected. Starting Friday, the Press will run a sponsored series of ads urging church atten- dance. The ads will be paid for and sponsored by the merchants of Petersburg. The church space is open to all churches that care to have their program insert - ed. Any church so desiring is asked to contact the Peters- burg Press before Wednes- day noon. Marriages: A simple but impressive wedding ceremo- ny was performed Wednes- day afternoon, January 6 in Morganfield, Ky., when Miss Roma June Brashears, daughter of Mrs. Olive Bro- shears, of this city, became the bride of Mr. Edward B. Hawkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hawkins. Births: Born to Mr. and Mrs. Leo Van Sell, Indianap- olis, a daughter, Patricia Ann on the second of January at the Methodist hospital; Born Saturday to Mr. and Mrs. Jef- frey Corn, of Winslow, an eight pound daughter named Patricia Faye; Mr. and Mrs. Bill Miley are the proud par- ents of a boy born Thursday in the Methodist hospital in Indianapolis; Born Saturday, June 16 to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Russell, of Otwell, an eight pound girl; Born Friday, January 15, to Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Bottoms, a seven pound boy named Gene Al- len; Born Saturday to Mr. and Mrs. Denver Bolin, of Muren, a seven pound boy. Deaths: James Dun- nichay, a native of Scot- land, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. William Mor- ris, Tuesday evening, Febru- ary 12 after suffering a few days of bronchial pneumo- nia; James William Casey died at his home near Win- slow, Thursday morning, January 14, at 2:15 o'clock, after a long illness; Death claimed Mrs. Flora E. Lance, one of Spurgeon's most be- loved ladies Wednesday eve- ning at 8:45 o'clock; Rosette Dedrick, one of the oldest la- dies of the Burr Oak commu- nity passed away at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, fol- lowing a two week illness of asthma and heart trouble; The town of Union lost one of its good citizens in death of Rufus H. Fears, Sunday afternoon, January 17 at five o'clock. Mr. Fears was never married and made his home with his brother, Charles Fears, of Union; Funeral ser- vices for Margaret Pauline Davis, 10 -year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Davis, of Vincennes, will be con- ducted Wednesday at 2:30 o'clock at the Myers Funeral Home in Worthington; San- dra Sue, the little two month old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George James, of Indianap- olis, died at Riley Hospital Thursday morning, January 14; Mrs. Henry Hess, of Tell City, died at Morris Nursing Home in Winslow, Sunday, where she had been a patient for several weeks. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Tuesday and Friday, April 15 and 18, 1958 Albert Dosch is shown adding some soap as the city begins to wash-down the streets as part of Clean Up, Fix Up, Paint Up week here. Local business men joined forces to sweep down Main Street from 9th to 5th Streets last Friday after- noon. The city workers left to right are Bob Preston and Bill Jones. The streets were left clean for shoppers here Friday and Saturday. Claude J. Smith, gunner's mate first class, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Grace Smith, of Petersburg, is "piped over the side" of the escort de- stroyer USS McCaffery up- on retiring from active Navy duty March 27. Smith will spend ten years in the Navy's Fleet Reserve before going on full retirement. He attend- ed Petersburg High School before enlisting in 1938. Fishing at Long Pond in Knox County, 5.5 miles northwest of Petersburg, has attracted large num- bers of fisherman and Clif- ford Hale, owner of the City Cafe, here landed one 5.5 pound bass and three small- er ones weighing from two to three pounds. Fish are biting in many of the small spoil banks lakes in South- ern Pike County. White and Patoka rivers are too muddy and few fish are being caught in these two streams. The First Baptist church of Petersburg has just recently completed a remodeling pro- gram that has improved the church which has been in ex- istence here since 1880. The arch-type ceiling was low- ered into a 14-foot acousti- cal tile ceiling and new incan- descent lights were installed on the ceiling. Other major improvements include the placing of flood lights over the choir loft and two new spotlights; one over the bap- tistery, and the other directly over the pulpit stand to focus light upon the stand as well as the Communion table. The Petersburg High School Band received an ex- cellent rating at the State Or- ganizations Auditions last Saturday afternoon at Paoli. Winslow and Monroe City al- so received excellent ratings. Births: Master Sgt. and Mrs. James Barnett, of Ta- coma, Wash., announce the birth of a daughter, Sylvia Frances, April 9. Deaths: Walter Leo Kidd, 75 -year-old retired B&O machinist, and father of Dr. John M. Kidd, of this city died at the Daviess County hospital at 3:10 p.m. Saturday from complications follow- ing severe burns incurred Friday morning at his home in Washington; Funeral ser- vices for Mathais Corn, 82, were held at 2 p.m. Monday, at the Harris Funeral home; Mrs. Sinie Kaericher, 81, of Vincennes died Friday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joseph Gillep, in Washing- ton; Sarah White, 89, Mon- roe City, died at 6:45 p.m., Sunday, April 13; Robert Lee Carter, 86, Petersburg, passed away at the home of his son, Wallace Carter, at 3 a.m. Sunday; Perry Malott, 77, Princeton, passed away at the Gibson General Hos- pital at 3:15 p.m. Wednesday; Funeral services for Prentice Grubb, 73, Evansville, who died in the Deaconess Hos- pital Wednesday, will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Schaefer Fu- neral home; Charles Good- pasture, 53, passed away in the Daviess County Hospital at 5:30 a.m. Thursday. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, May 2, 1968 Petersburg's VFW Post 3587 color guard took sec- ond place honors at the 8th district Loyalty Day Parade held at New Albany last Sat- urday. The VFW supports a program in each district throughout each state in the nation to counteract publici- ty gained by Communists in their May Day celebrations. Wallace Selby, Joe Tislow, Gaylord Ashcraft and Clif- ford Chew are pictured with the trophy. Hilbert Shoaf, of Vin- cennes Avenue, Petersburg, was taken to Daviess Coun- ty Hospital in Harris ambu- lance Saturday at 3 p.m. Mr. Shoaf was suffering pain from two broken ribs and difficulty breathing. Upon arriving at the hospital he was placed under oxygen. Mr. Shoaf incurred the in - jured ribs while working in the attic over Stratton and McGaughey's office. A board he was standing on broke, causing him to fall across a stack of boards. He remains in a lot of pain at the hospital in room number 229. Kenneth Sargent, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sar- gent, who recently bought the J.W. Powell property near the school in Winslow, broke two bones in his right arm at the wrist. He received the in- jured wrist while pole vault- ing Sunday at the home of relatives in Chandler where the Sargents were visiting. He was taken to the Oakland City Hospital where the frac- tures were reduced and his arm put in a cast. Everett Willis, of Winslow, received three burned fin- gers on the inside of his left hand Thursday while at his work at Coleman Motors in Petersburg. Mr. Willis was welding when sparks flew into some thinner. He was attempting to beat out the sparks with his hand when the sparks stuck to his fin- gers and ignited the thinner on his hand. He was treat- ed at the office of Dr. Don- ald Hall for the painful burns. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Ronnie Merter, of the Iva community, a son, Ronald Jo- seph, born Thursday, April 25; To Mr. and Mrs. Earl Ray Phillips, of Kokomo, April 19, a daughter, Kathie Elaine; To Mr. and Mrs. Shelby Grubb, of Peoria, Ill., a son, Bryan Keith, Thursday, April 25; To Mr. and Mrs. William Eugene McCord, of St. Si- mons, Georgia, a son, Mar- vin Eugene, born April 8; To Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Kes- ter Dillon, of Indianapolis, a son, Ralph Kester, Jr., on Wednesday, April 24; To Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Allemang, Monroe City, their second child, a son, Jeffrey Wayne, Tuesday, April 23. Deaths: Angela Morton, 5, died Friday, April 26 at the Welborn Baptist hospital af- ter a week's illness; Low- ell "Perg" Heacock, 75, was found dead in his bed at his apartment in the home next door to Dr. John Manning's office one block east of Main street in Winslow, Tuesday at 10 a.m.; Elmer Hemmer, 63, a retired farmer of the Zoar community, was crushed to death Monday around noon under a tractor he had been using to disc some ground he had rented near his home; Miss Jeane Elaine O'Neal, 19, died in her sleep early Thursday morning at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Onie O'Neal. Death was attributed to interstitial pneumonia; Rufo McClure, 79, of Oakland City, died Saturday at the Oakland City Rest Home where he had been a patient for three days following an illness of two years; Victor May, a life- time resident of the Mack- ey community, died from in- juries received when he fell from his tractor on his farm Friday afternoon; T. Howard Brewster, 67, 923 N. 3rd Av- enue, well known Marshall- town, Iowa businessman, died at the Evangelical hos- pital Friday; Mrs. Bessie Ad- ams, 75, of Seattle, Washing- ton, sister of Mrs. Ralph (Ef- fie) Craig, of Otwell, died at 6 a.m. Tuesday, April 30, in a hospital in Seattle; Mr. and Mrs. Ray Owens, of Monroe City, received word Saturday that their son, Marine Corpo- ral Robert Franklin Owens, 20, had been killed in action; Ralph Fowler, 58, Boonville, a native of Winslow, died at 5 p.m. Monday, April 29. TWENTY- FIVE YEARS The Press-Dispatch Thursday, April 29, 1993 Past Little League pres- ident Edwin McDonald watches as Grayson Rich- ardson tosses the other open- ing pitch. Both were instru- mental, from day one, in the start of little league ball in Winslow, according to 1993 president Tom Schirr. Mc- Donald was the Giants coach and Richardson the coach for the Yankees. Now each have grandchildren playing on their respective teams. Officials in Pike County estimate less than one-tenth of the dogs are properly li- censed. The main cause ac- cording to township trustees is, people simply do not real- ize they are supposed to pay the yearly tax. "People don't know about it," said Crys- tal Hadlock, Washington Township Trustee. "My own granddaughter didn't even know about it," added Had- lock. Anyone who owns a dog or harbors a dog is obliged by law to pay $2 for each neu- tered dog and $4 for each un- neutered dog. Marion Town- ship Trustee Bettye Lee said the fee is due on May 15 of each year, however, most trustees will accept payment throughout the year. A Petersburg man was ar- rested in the Silver Dollar Sa- loon for burning a woman's face with a cigarette, accord- ing to police reports. John A. Corn, 26, of Cold Springs Ave., was arrested on suspi- cion of battery. Officer Brad Jenkins said he was called to the Silver Dollar Saloon, where he met Vicky Corn, who said Corn had burned her face with a lighted cig- arette. Jenkins said she had red marks on her face. Pike Central's May 28 graduation ceremony will officially begin at 7:30 p.m. that night, but a student-ar- ranged 7 p.m. Baccalaure- ate is set for the Pike Cen- tral High School graduates in the auditorium. This change in prayer use in the school is mandated by a new U.S. Su- preme Court finding, accord- ing to school corporation at- torney Val Fleig and senior class sponsor David Kincaid. A short devotion and prayer for about 15 minutes has been planned from outside the school corporation for se- niors only, according to Kin- caid. The 7 p.m. service will be arranged and conducted by the students and commu- nity in the High School Au- ditorium. Chawn E. Caniff, of Oak- land City, and new business owner in Petersburg, was named "Volunteer of the Year" by the United Way of Gibson County at the 1993 Indiana Association of Unit- ed Ways' State Leaders Con- ference recently at the Hilton at the Circle Hotel in India- napolis. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Darren Dedman, of Nobles- ville, a son, Zachary Scott, on February 23; To Rebecca Branum and James C. Hen- ning, of Winslow, on April 11, a son, James Jacob Henning; To Mr. and Mrs. Brent Mc- Candless, of Patoka, at Dea- coness Hospital in Evans- ville, April 13, a daughter, Whitney Ry Ann; To Mr. and Mrs. Mark Gray, of Vin- cennes, April 13, a daughter, Katie Suzanne. Deaths: Hazel C. Bellamy, 84, of Ayrshire, died Thurs- day, April 22 at 11:20 p.m. at Memorial Hospital in Jasper; Roy Loveless, 90, of Francis- co, died Saturday, April 24 at 7:10 p.m. at Good Samaritan Nursing Home in Oakland City; Jacqueline Joyce Quick, 60, of Winslow, died at 7:22 p.m. Monday, April 26 at St. Mary's Medical Center in Evansville; Randy Joe Scrap- er, 36, of Petersburg, died at 3:45 p.m. Saturday, April 24 at his residence; Ernest A. Self, of Oakland City, died Sunday, April 25 at 7:03 a.m. at Wirth Osteopathic Hos- pital in Oakland City; June Hopkins, 70, of Francisco, died Friday, April 23, at 2:37 a.m. at St. Mary's Medical Center in Evansville; Clarice June (Bell) Hale, 77, of Boon- ville, former schoolteach- er at Winslow, died at 2:45 p.m. Wednesday, April 21 at Warrick Hospital in Boon- ville; Robert (Bob) Finch, 73, of Terre Haute, formerly of Winslow, died Saturday, April 24 at 2 p.m. at a hos- pital in Terre Haute, suffer- ing from a heart attack; Hes- ther L. Dutton, 78, of Monroe City, died at 4:40 p.m. Satur- day, April 24 at Good Samar- itan Hospital in Vincennes; Georgia A. Snodgrass, 48, of Petersburg, died Mon- day, April 26 at 2:13 a.m. at Daviess County hospital in Washington. Winners of PC state welding contest 1988 Winners of the Pike Central state welding contest in 1988 included D. J. Eaton, Sean Hill, Kevin Cart- er, Jeff Brooks, Andy Willis and Myles Hickey. Willis brought back first place trophies and a scholarship to Ivy Tech for placing first in the State contest. • Wednesday, May 30 • Joan of Arc martyred (1431) • First Indianapolis 500 held (1911) Thursday, May 31 • Big Ben goes into operation in London (1859) • Deep Throat is revealed (2005) Friday, June 1 • CNN launches (1980) • Benedict Arnold is court- martialed (1779) Saturday, June 2 • Babe Ruth retires (1935) • McVeigh convicted of Oklahoma City bombing (1997) Sunday, June 3 • Crackdown at Tiananmen begins (1989) • Major Edward H. White becomes first American to walk in space (1965) Monday, June 4 • Battle of Midway begins (1942) • Tiananmen Square massacre takes place (1989) Tuesday, June 5 • FDR takes United States off gold standard (1933) • Bobby Kennedy is assassinated (1968) Source: History.com