By Dorothy Jerse
Special to the Tribune-Star
TERRE HAUTE
May 31, 2008 07:55 pm
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Dorothy Jerse looks back at local history from 10, 25 and 50 years ago as reported in the Tribune and Tribune-Star.
1998
• Turner Coaches stopped its shuttle run from Terre Haute to the Indianapolis International Airport. Co-owner John Turner said the service didn’t generate enough riders to operate five runs each day.
• A study commissioned by U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.) reported “substance abuse among youth in the state’s 71 rural counties is higher than the state’s urban areas or the national average.”
• Dan Tanoos, principal at Chauncey Rose Middle School, was named Vigo County School Corp. interim superintendent to succeed Betty Poindexter.
• The team of Duane Klueh of Terre Haute and Tom Frew of Carmel won the men’s 55 doubles in the Duane Klueh Senior open tournament played in the Wabash Valley Tennis Club’s bubble because of rain.
• Allen and Mara Hayne, Chris and April Newton and Dan and Susan Newton opened Edgemaster, a continuous concrete curbing business.
• A Design and Construction Subcommittee, appointed by Mayor James Jenkins, concluded it would cost $6.31 million to renovate the basement and first and second floors of the vacant Terre Haute House.
1983
• Mary Elizabeth Smith, retiring in July, was honored by the Wabash Valley Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. She presented her farewell concert at the First Baptist Church, 4701 E. Poplar St.
• Service awards were presented to Max G. Miller, Vigo County extension agent, and to Patrick R. Ralston, superintendent of Terre Haute parks and recreation, at the graduation ceremony for the fifth class of Leadership Terre Haute.
• Martha Van Laningham, Barbara Eletson, Elmer Porter, Susie Dewey and Mardelle Haas were the new officers of the Pen & Brush Club.
• The 10th annual Banks of the Wabash Festival was under way at Fairbanks Park. All concerts were performed in the new amphitheater.
• Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology graduated its largest class. Of the 250 who received degrees, 23 were men from Vigo County.
• Robert Kadel succeeded James McDonald on the Hulman Regional Airport Authority Board.
• Charles Kuralt was in the Turkey Run State Park area filming future segments for his “On the Road” television series.
1958
• The Wabash Valley Pilots Association sponsored an Air Show at Hulman Municipal Airport in celebration of the 31st anniversary of the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean by Charles Lindbergh.
• C. L. Bartley Sr. put all the furniture in stock on sale to empty his Bartley Furniture Mart located seven miles north of Terre Haute on U.S. 41. Plans called for the construction of a new and larger store with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Frey as managers.
• The first public offering of a limited number of building lots in the new Woodgate subdivision was listed. The development bordered the No. 6 fairway of the Terre Haute Country Club in Allendale. A. K. “Kish” Hert was the general manager.
• The 30th anniversary of the founding of the High Twelve Masonic luncheon club was observed at a dinner meeting at the Kerman Grotto home on North Eighth Street. Leroy A. Francis was the president.
• The annual Vigo County 4-H forestry and wildlife tour was conducted on the A. D. Luers farm in Honey Creek Township.
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