Published: April 07, 2007 06:14 pm            

Looking Back: 1982: Colorful eggs brighten Deming Park for 49th annual Easter Egg Hunt

Dorothy Jerse looks back at local history from 10, 25 and 50 years ago as reported in the Tribune and Tribune-Star.

1997

• Indiana State University baseball team’s 16-9 victory over Wright State gave Bob Warn his 800th victory as coach of the Sycamores for 22 seasons.

• The Vigo County license branch was moving from 248 S. Seventh St. to Southland Shopping Center at Seventh Street and Margaret Avenue.

• Claudia Tanoos won the Tribune-Star Oscar Predictions Contest for the second straight year.

• Members of Farrington’s Grove Historical District Inc. were restoring a small home at 1315 S. Fourth St. which had been damaged by an arson fire.

• State Sen. Robert F. Hellmann was the only legislator in attendance at the final Crackerbarrel session at the Vigo County Public Library. About 100 residents had crowded into the meeting room, many of whom opposed the proposed casino to be located near West Terre Haute.

• Annie Orman of Marshall, Ill., appeared with a select group of high school students in the March 31 issue of Time magazine. She was the only Illinois student among 100 Tandy Technology Scholars selected natonwide.

1982

• The Enrvironmental Protection Agency (EPA) cited the water systems of five Vigo County mobile home parks and one other Wabash Valley community for failure to sample and test for coliform bacteria levels.

• Gartland Foundry of Terre Haute celebrated its 80th anniversary.

• Congressman John Myers and political satirist Mark Russell were the speakers at the Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce 86th annual dinner. U.S. Sen. Dan Quayle and Gov. Robert Orr were honored guests.

• Nearly 1,000 colorful eggs were hidden at Deming Park for the 49th annual community Easter Egg Hunt co-sponsored by the local business community and the Vigo County American Legion Council. Fred W. Schwartz and Ross Hedges co-chaired the event. Thomas Gregory was in charge of the egg-dying crew.

• West Vigo parents and students were protesting because the contracts of Ken Allen and Harold Walt were not to be renewed. Allen and Walt were the band directors at West Vigo Middle and West Vigo High schools.

• Parents of Rio Grande Elementary School students met to discuss recurring problems of vandalism at the school.

1957

• The Indiana State Police reported seven deaths on U.S. 41 in Vigo County during 1956. This highway north of Terre Haute was known as one of the 12 worst stretches of highway in the state.

• The Six Men of Note played for the “Matzo Ball” at the Phoenix Country Club. Mrs. Burton Shapiro and Mrs. Samuel Zoll of the local Council of Jewish Women were the co-chairs.

• Tryouts were open to youngsters for the Terre Haute Little League season. Evening clinics for players, managers and coaches were under the direction of Coach Bill Welch.

• Attorneys Leonard P. Kincade and Ralph Berry formed a new law partnership located at 522 Ohio St. Mae Fleener was the office manager.

• Postmaster Frank L. Miklozek announced the discontinuance of home mail delivery and window service on Saturdays as ordered by the U.S. Post Office Dept. Service was restored 11 days later when a supplemental appropriation bill was enacted by Congress.

        

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