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August 19, 2009

Anonymous The Star Herald Wed Aug 19, 2009, 09:35 AM CDT

Aug. 20, 1959

A new Liberty Cash food store will be opened in Kosciusko probably about the first of October, according to Frank C. Wilson of Grenada, a native Attalan now in the supermarket business in Mississippi and Missouri. He has leased the former Franks Furniture Co. building near the new Highway 35 and East Jefferson Street crossing, from Ben Weiner, who recently purchased the property from M.F. Franks.

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Attala County’s first bale of cotton of the 1959 season was ginned Saturday afternoon at the G.W. Comfort Gin here. It was grown by Maurice Crowder on his farm at Sallis.

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Chamber of Commerce manager Frank Gayden disclosed today that about 2,000 four-page illustrated brochures had been printed here, highlighting the history of Kosciusko. The attractive and unusual pamphlet was completed after the work of many months by Manager Gayden and his wife, Mrs. Janis Hull Gayden, who serves as a secretary at the Chamber of Commerce office. The idea for the pamphlet originated with the Gaydens when so many requests came in almost every mail for information concerning the history of Kosciusko.

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The Central Mississippi State Dairy Show and Attala County Livestock and Poultry Show is in full swing here at the Central Mississippi Fairgrounds. Entries in the various divisions of the show have exceeded all expectations, according to Frank Buchanan, Attala County Agent, and member of overall committee to supervise the exposition.

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Pvt. William Earl Overstreet, son of Mrs. Christine Overstreet and the late Homer H. Overstreet of Kosciusko, is now serving with the Military Police Detachment US Army in Fort Dix, N.J.

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Aug. 23, 1984

Montfort Jones Memorial Hospital officials are not ready to don rose colored glasses, but an upturn in economic indicators in July has them breathing easier about the next fiscal year. Administrator Thomas Bland said the new numbers have led to revised projections for the 1985 fiscal year that envision more income and lower write-offs than were anticipated a month ago. A tentative budget that was worked up last month projected total expenses and income of $4,915,800 for the next fiscal year, using economic data that was available through the end of June.

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The operation of Kosciusko schools during the 1984-85 education year will cost $3,915,727, according to a budget presented to city officials Tuesday night. The budget amounts to about a five percent increase in total expenditures over the $3,739,952 figure adopted for the 1983-84 school year and a 10 percent hike in local ad valorem taxes.

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Although it was already in full swing, Active Sportswear was officially dedicated in Kosciusko this week with what a co-owner called “a lot of community pride.” IDC Chairman Marlin Ivey presided at the dedication.

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Life Scout Bob Stewart of Boy Scout Troop 44 was awarded the Eagle badge during Sunday morning services at Kosciusko’s First United Methodist Church. Making the presentation was Scoutmaster John Morris Ward. Present for the awarding of scouting’s highest honor was Stewart’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.C. “Bill” Stewart, his pastor Rev. Charlie Wiggers.

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Garan employees recently presented pins designating five and 10 years of service to the organization were Lottie Winters, Tommie Adams, Barbara Fowler, Kathy Lee, Lora Wilder, Bernice Micou, Rosie Foster, Emily Adams, Willie Whitcomb, Bessie Lusk, Lyndal Black, Leroy Watson, Katie Gibson and Linda Gibson.

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Miss Yolanda Jamison and Christopher S. Winters have been awarded the Annie and Dan Shumaker Memorial Scholarship to attend Jackson State University.

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Miss Barbara Gayle Ricks and Charles E. Newman Jr. exchanged marriage vows in an afternoon ceremony on July 21 at 2 p.m. at Liberty Baptist Church in Noxapater.

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