Looking Back for June 13, 2019
Published 9:12 am Thursday, June 13, 2019
50 years ago
June 11, 1969
— Approximately 595 hourly employees of the Winchester projection lamp plant of Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. remained on strike. Members of the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agriculture Implement Workers of America (UAW), Local 1608, rejected the company’s proposed wage-benefit contract by a secret ballot, 454 to 87.
June 13, 1969
— Construction has started here on a $3.6 million apartment community. The community is to be built on a 20-acre tract of land off Lexington Road, near the Boonesboro Road-Lexington Road Bypass. The land is part of the O.L. Miller property adjacent to the Steak House.
25 years ago
June 10, 1994
— Wearing green baseball gaps that said “Fairness to Farmers,” and shouting, “No more taxes!” Clark County farmers made their voices heard on the steps of the state capitol, protesting a federal cigarette tax. After rallying for more than an hour, they marched down Capitol Avenue with about 4,000 other Kentucky farmers and dumped about 300 pounds of burley tobacco in the river in their version of the Boston Tea Party.
June 13, 1994
— A broken arm sustained in a car crash earlier in the week did not handicap Nikki Niemeier in the Clark County Junior Miss competition — she won. Niemeier is the daughter of Mike and Betty Niemeier, and said she has been watching and wanting to compete in the Junior Miss Competition since she was two years old.
15 years ago
June 14, 2004
— The track at GRCHS was full as the Clark County Relay for Life broke a fundraising record. The event which raises money for the American Cancer Society, raised more than $70,000.
— Three local golfers would find themselves in some elite company when they competed in the Kentucky Bell South State Amateur. Robbie Baldwin, Brian Holley and Andrew Davis were set to be part of the three-day event that featured 156 of the top golfers in the Bluegrass.