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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
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12 – The Casey County News, Liberty, Kentucky
FOCUS ON THE PAST
photo submitted/THELMA WOOD RASNICK
2 bikersOtha McGuire and Bernard Shoemaker were taking a spin on a motorcycle in Sept. 1929. This photo wastaken on Ky. 198.
10 YEARS AGOMar. 13, 2002
Phelps Elementary was on the national map of school recognition by being one of only four schools in the state to win a National Title I Distinction Award.
Liberty received a free fi re truck from the Castleton Fire Department of Law-rence Township in India-napolis. The 1980 E-1 truck was being retired by the Castleton department.
According to the Univer-sity of Kentucky Depart-ment of Agriculture, Casey County was one of the top fi ve vegetable producing counties in the state. Tom-my Yankey, Casey County Extension Agent for Ag-riculture, said there were about 500 acres of commer-cial vegetables being grown in the county.
The Liberty Care Center graduated 12 students from its certifi ed nurse’s aide program.
Howard and Marcella Adams celebrated their 71st wedding anniversary.
Mr. and Mrs. Ancil Cain celebrated their 46th wed-ding anniversary.
The Casey County High School Danz Team got a fi rst-place trophy in the 12th Region dance competition.
The Casey County High School academic team completed their fi rst season with Phillip Allen and Brian Stucker advancing to the state competition.
Emily Rader was one of 20 third-place winners in a statewide essay contest sponsored by the Good Sa-maritan Foundation. She won $500 for her efforts.
USDA Choice T-bone steak was $4.99 per pound; Doral cigarettes were $16.99 per carton; and a loaf of Butternut bread was 59 cents at Abe’s Pic-Pac Supermarket.
Obituaries: Maurine H. Ellison, 84, Carey Shoaf, Jr., 81; Christine Sharp, 82; Tyrone Raney, 64; Geneva B. Stiles, 91; Russell Glenn Cain, 64; Nora F. Martin, 79; Mary M. Hammond, 96; Ernest W. Mills, 91; Jose-phine Shepard, 98; Orville P. Meece, 84.
20 YEARS AGOMar. 11, 1992
Local dentist, Dr. Wood-row Lester, retired after 45
½ years in practice.Casey County enjoyed a
week of spring-like weather with temperatures in the 70s then snow was forecast.
Two escapees from the Marion County Jail were ap-prehended in Casey County. They had overpowered a female jailer and forced her into a cell.
Liberty City Coun-cil members were having trouble deciding whether to leave parking meters in town or to remove them from the streets.
The owners of seven busi-nesses were cited for fl ood-plain violations: George Abe Luttrell, Micah and Debbie Beard, Ronnie Wes-ley and John Wesley, Hu-bert Cornett, Harold Spears, Bobby Allen and Glen Al-len, and Ron Davis.
Karen Minton and Aman-da Wahl were promoted at the Liberty branch offi ce of Lincoln Federal Savings Bank. Minton was named manager and Wahl was named loan offi cer trainee.
Pvt. Kevin C. Williams completed U.S. Army ba-sic training at Fort Jackson, S.C.
Students of the Month for February at Casey County Middle School were Jean-netta Foster, Karen Turpin, Jessica Brown, Dustin Whited, Matt Willoughby, and Barry Meeks.
A 10-pound bag of Idaho potatoes was 99 cents; fryer breasts were 89 cents per pound; and two-liter Coca-Cola products were 89 cents at Save-A-Lot.
Obituaries: Stella Murl Carr, 76; James Matthew Carmicle, 18; Cara Comb-est Wilham, 94; Mildred Overstreet Monk, 69; Lester Warfi eld, 45; Henry L. Grif-fi n, 85; Larry W. Ashley, 56; Taylor M. Edwards, 75; Ruby M. Hatter, 98.
30 YEARS AGOMar. 10, 1982
Sheriff Carl Meece arrest-ed a 45-year old Michigan man who was being sought in at least four Michigan counties on charges of wel-fare fraud.
Iva Dean Pittman, who donated land and money for the development of Gate Way Park, was named Out-standing Woman of the Year in Lexington by the Lexing-ton Branch of the American Association of University
Women.Liberty homeowners near
the area of Montgomery Street and Whipp Avenue fi led lawsuit against the Liberty Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses. The homeowners state that the house at that intersection had been converted into a meeting place for the con-gregation and activities there at various hours of the day and night were becom-ing a nuisance.
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Bas-tin celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary.
Two Casey girls won scholarships at Centre Col-lege. Georgeanna Carmicle was the recipient of the Myrtle Critchfi eld Mitch-ell Scholarship and Andrea Weddle was the recipient of the Evans-Sumrall Memo-rial Scholarship.
The Casey County High School Rebels were the 46th District basketball cham-pions and the Lady Rebels were runners-up.
Tide detergent was $5.99 for a 171 box; semi-bone-less chuck roast was $1.59 per pound; and two tall cans of Hy-Top evaporated milk were 85 cents at Food World.
Obituaries: Hazel Ralston, 75; Ruth Chapman, 75; Wil-liam Atwood, 66; Jammie Inet Turpin, two months.
40 YEARS AGOMar. 16, 1972
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony York took over management of Baldwin Men’s Store in Liberty.
The fi rst purple martin ar-rived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Estes on March 13, considerably earlier than the usual March 17 or 18. Jim McWhorter and Robert Mushin hadn’t reported in yet.
Ronnie Wesley resigned his job as mechanics teacher at the Casey County Voca-tional School. He had pur-chased a third interest in the W. S. Allen Company in Liberty.
Phil Williams, Tony York, Ron Terrell, and James Withers were named to the all-district basketball team.
Residents of Casey Coun-ty expressed an interest in establishing a day care cen-ter.
Hickory Hills Country Club was holding a St. Pat-rick’s dance for $10 a cou-
ple. Sounds, Inc. from Rus-sell Springs was to provide the music.
Teena Carman and Mark Sanders were the 4-H speech champions in the Lake Cumberland Area Speech Program held at Russell County High School. Teena represented a Middleburg 4-H club and Mark repre-sented a Liberty club. They were to compete again in the state contest at the Uni-versity of Kentucky in July.
“Arizona Bushwhackers,” “The Railway Children,” “The Boys in the Band,” and “The Last Rebel” were showing at the Kentuckian Theatre.
Carl Story and the Ram-bling Mountaineers were coming in person to the Kentuckian Theatre.
Two cans of Sweepstakes mackerel were 45 cents; a quart of Kraft cooking oil was 79 cents; and two cans of Gasper chili with beans were 49 cents at Frederick & Godbey in Yosemite.
Obituaries: Dennie Sweet, 78; Zack Isaac Dye, 61; Cora Sinclair, 90; John M. Lane, 96.
50 YEARS AGOMar. 15, 1962
The Kiwanis Club and the Veterans Funeral Squad were planning to hold a spe-cial event that would honor Col. Frank Wolford and the First Kentucky Cavalry. The event was being planned for the Labor Day weekend.
The county and Liberty school boards held a joint meeting and came to no defi nite agreement on the matter of consolidation of the two systems.
A new oil well to be known as Luttrell No. 4 came in on the Flora Luttrell farm on Thomas Ridge.
Barney Carr, assistant superintendent at the Pos-sum Trot station of Co-lumbia Gulf Transmission, was presented an award for safety. Possum Trot had 26 employees and had not lost a single day from accidents in two years.
The home of a known female bootlegger was searched twice in one week by county offi cers with search warrants. Both searches drew blanks. The woman had been asked to leave the county two or three years earlier and she
moved across the line intoPulaski County.
County Judge Ralph Wilkinson reported that thecounty’s scrapbook, whichwas entered in the statecontest of the Industrial De-velopment Association, wasamong the best he had seen.It had already won in the re-gional contest in Frankfort.
Ruby Elliott and GlennWayne Murphy were on theDean’s List at the Univer-sity of Kentucky for the fi rstsemester. Both had gradepoint averages of 4.0.
James Phelps, son of EdnaPhelps Estes, was stationedwith the U.S. Navy at theGreat Lakes Naval Station.
“Seven Ways From Sun-down,” “Teenage Cave-men,” “Breakfast at Tif-fany’s,” and “The BigCountry” were showing atthe Kentuckian.
Joan of Arc kidney beanswere three cans for 39 cents;Chicken of the Sea tuna wasthree cans for 89 cents; andthree pounds of spare ribswere 99 cents at A&D Su-per Market.
Obituaries: Res Julian(R.J.) Luster, 71.
Fred’s FinestFive drivers arrested at once
Originally published in the June 23, 1955 edition of
The Casey County News
Five drivers of automo-biles were arrested at one time on Monday night of this week by city and county of-fi cers in what is no doubt a record of some sort.
All fi ve of the drivers, ages 22 and under, were acting like a funeral procession by following one another over the town and particularly around the square.
There was also some blow-ing of horns and other noise in the deal.
Sheriff Clayton Thompson warned the boys once but they continued driving.
After another half hour of driving, they were hauled in before Police Judge Winslow Roy.
Four of the boys, all from Liberty proper and high school students, pleaded not guilty to the breach of the peace charge.
Actually, the arrest stems
from a series of past perfor-mances when boys of about this age have chased after the fi re truck, police cars chasing another car, or con-gregating in the streets after any incident.
Offi cers said they are tired of these incidents and they
intend to clamp down.Editor’s Note: As space
allows, The Casey County News will reprint some of the columns, stories and editorials written by the late Fred Burkhard, former Pub-lisher/Editor of The Casey County News. Stories may be slightly edited.
By Fred BurkhardThe Casey County News
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