The Star-Herald
KOSCIUSKO —
Jan. 17. 1963
Attala County voters approved the proposed $400,000 Garan plant industrial bond issue by a whopping vote of 3,638 for to only 25 against, in a special countywide election held Tuesday. It was the first countywide BAWI bond issue to be submitted to the voters of the county, and it was approved by 68.4 percent of the qualified voters. Only 51 percent was required by law to vote in the special election and two thirds of those voting were required to approve.
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Miss Charlotte Hogue, who has served here the past two and one-half years as Attala County’s assistant Home Demonstration Agent with the Extension Service, has resigned her position to accept employment with the Mississippi Power Company.
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Contracts for additional paving on State Highway 19 between Kosciusko and Possumneck are scheduled to be awarded before Spring, according to W.F. Dearman, Central District Commissioner.
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W.C. (Bill) Stewart, has been selected as “Layman of the Year for 1962” in the First Methodist Church of Kosciusko and recently was presented the award in ceremonies at the church. Making the presentation was last year’s winner, Dr. Paul E. Mink.
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William A. (Billy) Mitchell, assistant Trust Officer of the Merchants & Farmers Bank of Kosciusko, was named as Kosciusko’s Outstanding Young Man of 1962 and presented the Distinguished Service Award at the Bosses Night banquet of the Kosciusko Jaycees Friday night at the high school cafeteria. Making the presentation was Dr. John Burge, 1961 winner of the award.
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Civitan officials and civic leaders from Greenwood, Aberdeen, Meridian, Oxford, Ripley, Jackson, Greenville, Columbus and Canton were in Kosciusko Tuesday night for the charter night Civitan Club. The new Civitan Club, sponsored by Civitan Club of Canton, has a total of 27 charter members. The banquet was held in the cafetorium of West Side Elementary School.
Jan. 21, 1988
Kosciusko officials Tuesday night voted to close one of two municipally operated swimming pools, blaming low revenues and increasing liability insurance rates. City recreation director Cletone Pope recommended to the mayor and board of aldermen that the swimming pool at Northside Park be closed and that the city operate only its Hugh P. Ellard Memorial Park pool in the future.
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The destruction in select areas of the Liberty Chapel Community was awesome. It came from a tornado, born of a strong thunderstorm front, which hop-skotched across Attala County Tuesday. The storm struck in at last 21 places between the Big Black River at Goodman and the Berea Community in eastern Attala.
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Volunteers from Helping Hands Ministries in Kosciusko are preparing for “Operation You are Special.” During February volunteers will send cards and letters to Attala’s elderly people and shut-ins “telling them how special they are,” said Jewel Harden, director of Helping Hands Ministries.
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A.M. Veasy was elected chairman of the Kosciusko-Attala Vocational Technical Center in a meeting Tuesday night. Veasy is one of three members of the Attala County school board on the vo-tech board.
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Attala County Civil Defense director Mike Martin said he believes the old Indian legend that Kosciusko will always be spared by tornadoes. That theory was tested again Tuesday when a line of damage from a tornadic storm system skirted just north of the city. Martin said the legend holds that Kosciusko was built on seven hills, which are hallowed Indian ground. Because of that, the town is believed to be protected from tornadoes or other natural disasters. That has proved true thus far in the city’s history.
