Looking back at Clark County for Aug. 29, 2019
Published 11:00 am Thursday, August 29, 2019
- From Aug. 28, 1969: Expected to see considerable duty during the season grid opener are the Clark County players show above. Standing, from left, are Gary Watts, David Ballard, Mike Thomas and Freddie Shortridge; kneeling from left are Sammy Williams, Phil Littrell, Billy Vanicek, Mark Hensley, Danny Johnson, Dwayne McGuire and Mike Griffith. (Sun file photo)
50 years ago
Aug. 27, 1969
— Miss Martha Monroe received a scholarship for tuition from Mrs. Allen Neely, president of the Clark County Woman’s Club. A scholarship was also awarded to Miss Linda Willoughby. Both the young ladies will attend Midway Junior College and are graduates of George Rogers Clark High School.
Aug. 28, 1969
— Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Abner, Meadowbrook Plaza, visited abroad the battleship USS Alabama and the World War II submarine USS Drum recently in Mobile, Alabama.
— Robert M. Simmons, a 1958 graduate of Winchester High School, received his masters of art in education degree from Eastern Kentucky University during summer commencement exercises.
Aug. 30, 1969
— An enlargement project totaling some $250,000 is nearing completion at the Winchester Country Club. Included in the project was the doubling of the number of holes on the course to 18.
75 years ago
Aug. 27, 1944
— Nearly 1,000 U.S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators carried the smashing new aerial offensive against Europe through the third straight day, battering oil targets in Germany.
— Winchester waste paper collection campaign netted 36,100 pounds of paper for the war effort, Chairman Thomas B. Williams, of the special paper committee, reported.
— A 94-acre farm three and one half miles from Winchester on the Jackson Ferry Road, owned by Treffert Ballard, was sold at public auction to John Oliver for $93 per acre.
— Beverly G. Yeiser, former agriculture instructor at the Clark County High School, is now associated with F. W. Rickard, it was announced today by Mr. Rickard.
