KOSCIUSKO —
Aug. 5, 1962
Dan Oakes, native Attalan, and son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Oakes, is opening a new place of business this week. Dan Oakes Butane will be located in the old Attala Butane location on Highway 12W. Percy Overstreet, P.R. Nolan, Pelon Maddox, Mrs. Denton Trimble will be associated with Oakes in the business. Mr. and Mrs. Oakes have two children, live in the Carmack Community and belong to the Methodist Church.
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City Drug Store has a new pharmacist, Gene Windham of Grenada. Gene is single and has assumed his duties at the east side drug store.
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Mug ‘N Cone, owned by Ernestine and Robert Whitehead, had their formal opening on Thursday.
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Adding their names to the list of contestants for the Attala County forestry Queen contest are Mary Virginia Stanley and Peggy Price. The contest will be an event of August 16 at the West Side Elementary School.
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Miss Gail Roper of Jackson and Pensacola, Fla., bride-elect of Drew Chandler of Kosciusko, was honored Saturday morning with Coke party in the home of Mrs. Clayton Thornton.
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Painfully conscious of the unusually high repair costs experienced during the year on many Kosciusko streets, the Mayor and Board of Aldermen Tuesday night adopted a restrictive ordinance that bars trucking in certain residential areas. The hard freeze in February of this year caused excessive damage to the city’s black top streets in several sections and Alderman Rickitts reported that maintenance and repair costs this year have exceeded any year in the city’s history.
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All boys interested in playing football are urged to be present at a meeting to be held Saturday morning, August 11, at the Kosciusko High School gymnasium, according to Coach Larry Thomas. Equipment will be issued at this meeting, and plans made for the coming season. “All positions are open says Thomas and all boys interested in playing on the Whippet team are urged to be present for this meeting. First practice sessions will begin on August 15.
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August 6, 1987
The crowds looked large as people gathered around Attala’s new voting machines and the new way of counting the results was different, but fewer folks voted Tuesday than in past elections. Unofficial counts indicated that approximately 7750 persons voted in Attala down from 8,500 four years ago. The unpurged voter count on poll books stood at over 15,000 awaiting a new law next year which eases removal of names.
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Ackerman native Ray Mabus topped the field for governor in state and area voting results following the first leg of the race, but there will be a runoff August 25 with Glendora businessman Mike Sturdivant.
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Officials of the Kosciusko Museum and Information Center have targeted mid-August as the time the center will welcome its 100,000th visitor since its opening in 1984. In mid-
August, directors of the Kosciuszko Heritage Foundation as well as other area and sate dignitaries, will greet the 100,000th visitor and celebrate the event with a luncheon and a show of “southern hospitality.”
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Ronnie Ables of Jackson, formerly of Sallis, has been promoted to senior accountant in he Medicare Audit Department of blue Cross and Blue Shield of Mississippi Inc. Ables, a honor graduate of Holmes Junior College and Mississippi State University, has been employed with Blue Cross for four years.
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Dan D. Wright, Kosciusko, recently marked 40 years of continuous service with Mississippi Valley Gas Company, according to Wade Hart, district manager for Kosciusko.
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William A. (Billy Mitchell was named this week as president of the Kosciusko vision of Merchants and Farmers Bank. He moved from the presidency of Eastover Bank for Savings’ branch in Kosciusko.
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Features
Flashbacks
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The Nation’s Capitol: Ethel High School students see sites in Washington, D.C.
Usually students spend spring break in activities totally foreign to education – not so with a group of Ethel High School students. Although they did not attend classes, ten EHS students feel they furthered their education during the five days of spring break spent in Washington D.C.
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Flashbacks
May 23, 1963
When Mary Ellen Scarborough steps across the stage of the Kosciusko High School auditorium to receive her diploma on Friday evening, she will be the third child of Rev. and Mrs. Ben C. Scarborough to finish Kosciusko High with a perfect attendance record. Benjy, who finished KHS in 1959, will be graduating from Mississippi College on June 2. Jack, who finished KHS in 1961, graduated from Holmes Junior College on May 19. All three have been active in student, church, and community affairs and have been honor roll and dean’s list students. -
Relay for Life raises funds
Attala County Relay for Life was held May 10 in the Attala County Coliseum due to threat of rain. The event raised approximately $60,0000. See the photos attached for more about the event.
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Pioneer Day:Annual French Camp event provided activities for all ages
The historic district in French Camp, located adjacent to the Natchez Trace Parkway, was transformed into an area reminiscent of olden days.
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Flashbacks
May 16, 1963
The Redbud has been named as Kosciusko’s official tree and the rose as the official flower in a recent promotion of the Kosciusko Garden Club. The project was carried out by the garden club in connection with the Clean Up, Fix Up, Paint Up campaign now in progress. Among other trees suggested were magnolia, dogwood and pine. Running a close race with the rose was the iris, and the dahlia. -
Elvis and a snake. . . Oh my!
Ethel’s 31st May Day brings out people for shopping, food and entertainment Saturday. Here are photos from the day's activties.
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Flashbacks
May 9, 1963
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Lacey have received notification from the South America Indian Mission that they have been accepted as missionaries. They have been assigned to the country of Bolivia where the mission has been working since 1926. Lacy is presently serving as the Director of Christian Education in the First Presbyterian Church in Kosciusko. -
Long Creek holds motivational rally for upcoming state testing
More than 200 students and parents filled the Long Creek Elementary Gym in Sallis on May 2 for a pep rally to energize students for the upcoming state test.
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Area native remembers her days as Senate page
Alice Faye Roberts Leslie, 95 year-old Weatherford, TX resident, made a recent trip to her native Mississippi and visited briefly in Attala and Leake Counties with relatives and reminisced about days of her youth.
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Natchez Trace Festival photos
Check out these photos from the 44th Annual Natchez Trace Festival held in Downtown Kosciusko Saturday.
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