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February 3, 2010

Anonymous The Star Herald Wed Feb 03, 2010, 09:23 AM CST

Feb. 4, 1960

Ten Kosciuskoans have had the honor of being nominated by civic and service clubs for the outstanding citizen of 1959 in Attala County in the 19th annual citizenship project sponsored by Kosciusko Lions Club, according to Dr. W.M. Myers, president. They are: Miss Annie Smyth, Mrs. C.H. McWhorter, Jack A. Briscoe, W.W. (Billy) McMillan, Earl Blair Goza, Mrs. C.A. (Ethel) Stewart, C.D. Maddox, John Robert Henry Jr., Mrs. Lettie Ward and Tom Shields.

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Attala County’s Board of Supervisors rejected an appeal from the Industrial Development Corporation to assist in financing the non-profit industrial group. The corporation, organized in 1959 and nearing the end of its first year of operation, has been financed by 62 members who contributed $250 each and by a $15,000 contribution from the City of Kosciusko. A delegation appeared before the supervisors Monday requested that the supervisors approve a $15,000 contribution to provide half of the support, sharing with the city the expense of the IDC’s annual budget. Members of the IDC’s board of directors, meeting Monday night, were notified that the board had turned down the proposal.

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Mr. and Mrs. James Otis McBride of Hesterville Community, announce the engagement of their daughter, Sarah Ann, to William Franklin Lacey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ned Lacey of Kosciusko.

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Mr. and Mrs. James Otis McBride of Hesterville Community, announce the engagement of their daughter, Sarah Ann, to William Franklin Lacey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ned Lacey of Kosciusko.

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EDITORIAL –Now’s a good time

We might remind our city fathers that now, while the Methodists are in the middle of their building program, might be a good time to reinstall the system of one-way streets that worked some relief for our traffic problems once before. The necessity of having heavy trucks and other equipment at work at the church annex, coupled with the normally heavy traffic experienced on this street, now make it virtually impossible to drive through here during most of the day. Traffic in Kosciusko is terrible, and it’s costing us money. Did you ever try to drive down East Jefferson when a truck was meeting you in the first block off the square?

Jan. 31, 1985

Montfort Jones Memorial Hospital ended the 1984 fiscal year just over $60.000 in the black, down from a profit of $160,000 a year ago, according to the operation’s annual audit. Much of the reduction in profit was attributed to cutbacks the federal government began during the fiscal year in Medicaid and Medicare programs.

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The cost for Kosciusko doctors to recruit others to work in the area has been severally cut by an action of the board of trustees of Montfort Jones Memorial Hospital. At a meeting Friday night, trustees voted unanimously to pay half of the cost of physician recruitment up to $12,000 for each new doctor brought to town. They limited the payment to the first three doctors and said the new physicians must sign firm letters of commitment by July 1 of this year or the offer is revoked.

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Jack Fleming was presented a certificate marking his retirement from the Kosciusko post office. Making the presentation was Kosciusko Postmaster Emmett Clifton. Fleming began his postal career in Freeport, Texas and transferred o the Kosciusko office in 1965.

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The Kountry Krafters Homemakers Club has donated a compact refrigerator to the Visitors Center on the Natchez Trace Parkway. The appliance will be available for use by the volunteers who serve as hosts at the center each day.

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The Attala County Improvement Club held its annual banquet with churches throughout the county sponsoring contestants in the “Miss Attala County Improvement Club” contest. Miss Buffalo UMC, LaShawn Speed, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James O. Carson, won first place by raising the highest amount. Second place winner was Miss Jackson Street First Baptist, Thelma Nash, daughter of Mrs. Francis Nash, and Miss Christian Liberty, Theresa Chism, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Teague won third.

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