10 Years Ago

The Logansport Redevelopment Commission has designated its first three Tax Increment Financing districts. The Logan’s Landing District is one of the first three to be approved, along with the combined airport/industrial park area and property along the Hoosier Heartland south of the city.

Rockfield has become the latest community to experience problems with septic systems. A Purdue University study finds that a third of Indiana septic systems are failing and 80 percent of Indiana soils will not support the systems.

Texas Gov. George W. Bush has tabbed Dick Cheney, the man who headed his vice presidential candidate search team, to be his running mate.

“X-Men” is playing at the state.

The Logansport 13-year-old all-stars are headed to the state championship round.

Phoebe O’Keefe has passed away at 65.

For the first time, the massive Concorde supersonic jet has crashed.

 

25 Years Ago

State Treasurer Julian Ridlen has announced he will seek the 5th District congressional seat held by Kokomo Republican Elwood “Bud” Hillis, who is retiring. Under Indiana law, Ridlen, a former Logansport city judge, cannot seek a third term as treasurer.

After the Cass County commissioners expressed their concerns, Conrail officials are making improvements to the 18th Street railroad crossing.

An anonymous letter to Loeb’s Department Store in Lafayette included $10 from a person who claimed to have an outstanding bill of 87 cents several decades ago.

Improvements at the Chrysler transmission plants in Kokomo will add nearly 500,000 square feet.

“Pale Rider” is playing at the Monticello Drive-In.

Alabama Gov. George Wallace is undergoing surgery to further his recovery from an assassination attempt 13 years ago.

The San Francisco 49ers have signed their first-round draft pick, Jerry Rice, a wide receiver from Mississippi Valley State who set 12 Division 1-A records.

Tim Hollibaugh sent the first water cascading down the new $31,000 water slide at Tower Park.

Bishop Desmond Tutu says times are desperate in Africa.

Gary is the nation’s murder capital.

Julie Rose is Miss Carroll County.

Pulaski Circuit Judge John Richert has issued injunctions against Logansport’s Controls plant and its employees.

Leon Spinks, a world light heavyweight champion, has earned the right to challenge Larry Holmes, who can tie Rocky Maricano’s 49-0 record in the bout.

Jeff Williams and Carolyn Moore of Logansport are on the dean’s list at Ball State.

Brandi Cox and Juli Magers are among local girls participating in a Houston gymnastics camp run by Olympic coach Bela Karolyi.

Rick Sutcliffe pitched the Cubs to a victory over the San Diego Padres, improving his record to 8-7.

 

50 Years Ago

Flora residents listened carefully as Rep. Charlie Halleck, R-Rensselaer, read a letter from Flora’s Ada Wheeler during a speech at the GOP National Convention in Chicago. Wheeler wrote that she had been told Democrats would reduce the crop surplus in the country by feeding the hungry in the world, but Halleck said under Dwight Eisenhower, 1,000 shiploads of grain have been shipped to

needy people abroad. Among area residents attending the convention are Courtney Justice of Cass County, Arthur Ash and Orland Goble of Winamac and Robert Roth of Monticello.

In Carroll, Cass, Fulton, Miami, Pulaski and White counties, there are 4,497 4-H’ers planning projects for local fairs.

Belgium is moving its troops out of the Congo at the urging of the United Nations.

Dean Martin and Judy Holliday star in “Bells are Ringing” at the Logan.

At Todd’s, dryers are available for only $2.60 a month.

Sgt. Gale Delon of the Peru post of the Indiana State Police caught an eight-pound, three-ounce pike in Crystal Falls, Mich.

Bruce Baker and Rick Long of the Logansport High School Tattler staff are among four local students at an Indiana University yearbook conference in Bloomington.

Ruby Palmer will teach at Jefferson Elementary this year. Ethel Baker will teach at Franklin. Elizabeth Blizzard, who has just returned from Venezuela, will teach at Fairview.

Joie Chitwood’s daredevil thrill show thrilled spectators at the annual Cass County Fair.

Indiana Republicans favored Kentucky Sen. Thurston Morton as the party’s choice for vice president, but Vice President Richard Nixon has chosen U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge instead.

 

100 Years Ago

Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show will be performing here soon.

Clyde Jenness was thrown from a motorcycle in Metea when the cycle struck a mule.

The Birkenruth Building was damaged by fire, and one firefighter was injured.

Sheriff Warren Butler is heading to Lake Manitou for a two-week vacation and Deputy Harness will be in charge during his absence.

Logansport’s Johnny “Red” Corriden has been recalled to the Major Leagues by St. Louis. He has been playing in Omaha.

A 185-foot smokestack is being built for the Logansport heating plant. L.C. Pittinger, a farmer near Burrows, has been found murdered on his farm.

Ash & Son Furniture on Linden Avenue now has electricity.

Police are warning of the possibility of burglars in the city.

Arthur Tritt of Walton is preparing for a balloon flight over Galveston.

The old basket factory at Walton has been destroyed by fire.

The first oats threshed this year went for 35 cents a bushel.

The state golf meet will be held at the Logansport Country Club.

• Dave Kitchell is a columnist for the Pharos-Tribune. He can be reached through the newspaper at ptnews@pharostribune.com.