KOSCIUSKO —
Feb. 28, 1963
Game of all games, as far as about 800 elementary school youngsters of Kosciusko are concerned, will be the championship basketball match at the Whippet gym between East Side and West Side Elementary School teams. Coaching the West Siders is Jerry Sawyer, while coaching the East Siders is Perry Owen. Tickets for Tuesday night’s play will be 25 cents and 50 cents.
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The latest in modern grocery stores comes to Kosciusko with the Grand Opening of the new Sunflower Store No. 10 Thursday morning at 8:30 a.m. The store on North Wells Street, just off Highway Business Route 12 west, was relocated to better serve the people of Kosciusko and Attala County. Manager of the store is Holmes Mitchell, with Harry Middlebrook as market manager, and James Brown as produce manager, and the same personnel who served at the old No. 10 on the square.
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Ethel’s Championship Basketball team is the only Attala County team still in the running for the Mississippi Championship. Members of the team are Mary Wasson, Wattine Frazier, Jenny Armstrong, Margaret Parish, Florence Threet, Ruth Curtis, Barbara Grantham, manager, Delores Braswell, Rene Myatt, Ann Pee, Rose Marie Sims, Linda Sprayberry, Mary Armstrong, Billie Jean Sloan, Rachel Prewitt, Sandra Kerr and Bonnie Halderman. Coach is M.B. “Bo” Holmes.
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Miss Mary Helen Hopkins of French Camp was crowned homecoming queen at a ceremony held in the gym at French Campo Academy. The ceremony was held before the homecoming game with Sturgis High School. Both the girls and boys teams played. The queen was escorted by Marvin Braswell. Her maids with their escorts were Miss Blanche Van Horn and William Mason, Miss Johnnie Thomas and David Alley, Miss Linda Thomas and Larry Hipp, Miss Sherry Thomas and Howell Morgan. The maids of honor were Miss Mary Ellen Hale and Jimmy Cash and Miss Janet Pee and Jack Sherill.
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March 3, 1988
The Kosciusko High School Lady Whippet basketball team finished third in the 3A South State Tournament last week at Southeast Lauderdale and then Tuesday won third first round in the state tournament, 78-60 over Rolling Fork. The team is the first KHS girls team to make it to the state tournament since the 1958 squad. Members of the Lady Whippets are Christy Jones, Tracey Bain, Mechele Moore, Paula Pettit, Jennifer Potts, Jennifer Cockroft, Amanda Price, Gwen Cwiklik, Marilyn Robinson, Margaret Potter, Brenda Carter, Shelley Sanders, Stephanie Swafford, Angela Benton, Robin Henry, Rhonda Brown and Yolanda Riley. Stirling Madden is coach.
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Mayor Freddie George cut the ribbon in ceremonies at Capt n’ George’s Restaurant on Monday morning officially opening the business at its new location on East Jefferson Street near the entrance to Globe Weis. The restaurant moved from Bailey’s Northside Shopping Center last November. Owners are George and Lu Weathers.
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Eight nominees will vie for the Attala County’s Outstanding Citizen award at a banquet sponsored by the Kosciusko Lions Club. They are Bettie Patterson, Louise Bain, Mildred Journey Beckham, Shelton Bond, Wade Hart, Barbara S. Woodard, Mary Thornton and Rebecca Doty.
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Miss Mary Virginia Potts, who has served as reading supervisor and elementary curriculum supervisor in the Kosciusko City Schools since 1967, has retired. She was honored at a tea given by staff members last Tuesday afternoon.
, Feb. 23, at the Lower Elementary School.
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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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Flashbacks
May 2, 1963
Dale McBride will be the new coach for McAdams High School for the coming 1963-64 season. He will replace Charles Porter who is leaving to accept the head coaching job at Noxapater, it was announced by Glen Cain, Superintendent of McAdams School. -
Communities Matter @ Your Library: Attala County Library celebrates with week-long activities
Activities at the Attala County Library held in observance of National Library Week lived out the theme of “Communities Matter.”
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'Fancy Nancy' tea part held at library
A “Fancy Nancy” tea party was held at the Attala County Library Saturday morning with little girls dressed in their Sunday best dresses.
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