Published: March 22, 2008 07:36 pm            

LOOKING BACK: 1983-Vigo County prosecutor agrees to drop 10 obscenity distribution cases

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



1998

• Members of Lois Johnson’s fourth grade class at West Vigo Elementary School produced their own “A Date with a Dare” opera.

• Matt Downs, a student at Terre Haute Christian School, delivered a 15-minute sermon at the high school academic meet of the Indiana Association of Christian Schools. Phillip Woods was the school principal.

• Elizabeth Purcell, West Vigo Middle School, was recognized by the Vigo County School Board as Vigo County’s Teacher of the Year.

• Linda Edwards, previously director of Providence Center at St. Mary-of-the-Woods, was appointed executive director of Wabash Valley Habitat for Humanity.

• Kiwanis Club of Terre Haute named Marilyn Peffley, founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), as its 1998 Handclasp Award winner.

• “Artists in the Attic,” Swope Art Museum’s largest fund-raising event, was co-chaired by Ned and Phyllis Turner and Doug and Margot Gillespie.

• Republicans served ham and beans at their “Old-Fashioned Lincoln’s Day Dinner” at the Wabash Valley Fairgrounds.

1983

• Vigo County Prosecutor Eric M. Abel agreed to drop 10 obscenity distribution cases, and the owners of the two Terre Haute adult bookstores agreed not to sell “hard-core” reading materials.

• Jack Hanes, better known locally as TV’s Captain Jack, took time off from his new position at Vincennes University to help celebrate the one-year anniversary of his 70-pound weight loss, according to a Nutri-System advertisement.

• Tribune-Star writer Penny Blaker Ruiz asked women readers to share their solutions and problems in surviving the challenges of current unemployment, inflation and high utility rates.

• Glenn J. Cardwell, director of the welfare department, reported the number of people in Vigo County receiving food stamps had increased 25.7 percent from January 1982 to February 1983.

• Terre Haute meter maid Nola Rhoads wrote 1,050 parking tickets downtown since mid-February. Two other meter maids had been laid off because of the money shortage.

• Lee Phifer, director of the local Convention and Visitors Bureau, reported the Indiana high school boys semistate basketball tournament at Hulman Center had added $190,500 to the Terre Haute economy.

1958

• Fifty-six florists and their wives attended a dinner and reorganization meeting at the Elks Building. The Allied Florists of Terre Haute became the Allied Florists of the Wabash Valley. Charles Pound of the Blossom Shop was the president.

• The Insurance Women of Terre Haute celebrated their third anniversary. Elizabeth Fenton of Branan & Williams was installed for her second term as president.

• Residents of Honey Creek, Linton, Pierson, Prairie Creek, Prairieton and Riley townships met at Wiley High School to learn more about school consolidation. The six-township area covered 202 square miles and involved 1,568 elementary and 541 high school students.

• The A&P store, 16th Street and Wabash Avenue, celebrated the opening of its new parking lot – “three times bigger – easy to enter – easy to leave.” Other A&P stores were at Eighth and Poplar streets and at 1168 Lafayette Avenue.

• Austin Oberholtzer of Clay County was named general manager of Paul Cox Field by Terre Haute Aviation Inc.

        

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