Thursday, August 15, 2024

BACK TO SCHOOL

Lisa Kiefer, Shelbyville Middle School sixth grade teacher, describes her Language Arts course to students’ families last night. | photo by KRISTIAAN RAWLINGS

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NOTEBOOK:

• A semi truck and trailer rolled onto its driver’s side on the westbound I-74 ramp at Exit 113. The driver said he felt the contents of his trailer shift as he went down the ramp, causing him to roll over. He had to kick the windshield to exit the vehicle since his door was pinned shut against the ground. The driver was transported to the hospital, and the semi and trailer were towed.

• Tom and Noell Krughoff have sold Seniors Helping Seniors, 32 E. Broadway, Shelbyville, to their daughter and son-in-law, Emily and Rusty Jordan, the company announced. The post said the new owners share “the same values, determination, professionalism, and dedication to our older adult community that Tom and Noell have.”

• Shelby County Democrats are hosting a combined fundraising party for fall candidates Joe Land, Chase Yanzer and Winnie Soviar, tomorrow, Friday, Aug. 16, 6 - 9 p.m., at Echo Effects, 102 E. Washington St., Shelbyville. The event features a silent auction and a Bluegrass band. Tickets, available at the door or from the candidates, are $50 each, which includes food, two beverages, and snacks. Attire is casual.

• Kyle James Lawson, 28, Shelbyville, has been charged after he reportedly shook his 3-month-old infant, “causing the infant to have to be taken to the hospital for a ‘near fatal event,’” FOX 59 reported. “The infant was taken to a local hospital, but was later airlifted to an Indianapolis children’s hospital because of a likely brain injury.” Doctors said the infant had 18 healing rib fractures, all in different stages of healing; a left tibial corner fracture; a fractured second finger on the left hand; a subdural hemorrages on both sides of the head; and blood on three total spots in the spine. The police investigation revealed security camera footage from the home reportedly showing Lawson “shaking the infant side to side three times while the infant was on a changing table,” Fox 59 said.

• NATIONAL NEWS: Demand is huge now for miniature versions of livestock, including mini goats, horses, donkeys and pigs. The trend is driven by hobby farmers looking for animals for smaller plots of land, as well as a surge in interest on social media for the admittedly adorable beasts of burden. Mini goats are very popular, and animal breeders have registered 8,330 mini goats with the Miniature Dairy Goat Association, up 73 percent over the year ending July 2021. Mini Moos LLC, a breeder of mini cows with a thriving TikTok presence that sold 190 calves last year, made between $2,000 and $30,000 per calf. (AP/Numlock)

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580 West Taylor St.

Editor’s Note: The following is the next installment in a serialized version of “580 West Taylor Street,” by Joseph E. “Joed” Landwerlen.

by JOSEPH E. LANDWERLEN

Home Deliveries, Part I

In 1947 or '48, Dad became a route driver to retail stores for Borden Ice Cream Company. He had a route in and around Shelbyville that he ran twice a week, on Mondays and Fridays, and two country routes, one north on Tuesday and one south on Thursday, that ended up at Madison, Ind. At our house, we had several drivers that came to our house on a regular basis. These are my remembrances.

Borden Milk Driver and Deliveryman

The home milk delivery man, Borden’s, was always cheerful and just left your milk on the front steps or the porch in his little metal carrier, and you always got the same or standing order every time that he came. All milk then came in glass bottles, either quart, pint, or half-pint, with a small cardboard cap pressed down in a recess on top, and that was the seal. There was no 1% or 2%; just whole milk. He picked up the empty bottles that you had left on the porch or steps and carried them back to the dairy milk bottler to be sterilized and filled again to be used over and over and over. The milk that you drank today was probably in a cow yesterday. It had been collected from several local dairy farmers, brought to a local milk bottler, tested for quality, pasteurized, cooled and homogenized, bottled, and delivered to your door the next morning. Before homogenization, in the top of the bottle was about an inch of the cream that had separated from the milk and would be poured off to be saved for cooking, or if we boys could get to it first, it was probably drunk, causing more than a few disputes as to whose turn it was.

The DePrez Ice Deliveryman

The Daniel DePrez Ice Co. delivery man came to our house two or three times a week. Like all but the richest families, we had an icebox. It was a minimally insulated, two-vertical door metal box with a drip tray underneath to catch the constantly melting drops from the ice. It was we boys’ job to empty that tray. One side was for your perishables, and one side held the ice that provided the cooling needed to prevent the food from spoiling. Each ice delivery day, Mom would hang an “ice card” on a nail on the post on our front porch. This card was printed in blue and silver about the size of a loaf of bread, with holes punched on both ends. Printed in big letters so that they could easily be seen from the street were the numerals 25, upside down 50 on one side, and 75, and upside down 100 on the other side. This way, Mom was telling the driver how much ice we needed that trip by hanging it with the appropriate amount visible right side up and on top. The driver then hopped out of the truck and picked the right amount of ice to bring in the house. 

He had around his upper body a contraption that he wore made of leather and rubber that when he would put his ice tongs on the amount of ice that Mom had ordered, he would sling that hunk of ice on his back, and this device would keep the wet and cold from the constantly melting ice off his back. The iceman expected the door to be unlocked, ‘cause he had that heavy block of ice on his back, and he did not enjoy standing at the front door waiting for someone to let him in, he would just walk right in and go to the icebox and put the ordered ice in its place. We kids always knew when the iceman was coming, and in the hot summer days we would follow his truck around, and he would normally use his holstered icepick to chip us off a little sliver to give to us to suck on and help us beat the heat if just for a moment.

The Mailman

The mailman delivered our mail to our house morning and afternoon every weekday and one time on Saturday.

There were mailboxes positioned around town that the post office truck would distribute the day’s presorted mail in. The mailman would then unlock those boxes and get the mail that needed to be delivered to that area on his route. At that time there was very little junk mail so that they could carry their mailbags from beginning to end of the routes.

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SHS Courier Archive Highlights:

January 30, 1952, Part I

• Sixty-three junior high school graduates had received certificates of graduation from Principal Emerson Bass. The Junior Robed Choir opened the program, Linda Weicks offered a prayer, Joy Berry gave a farewell message and Donna Gobel responded for the 8A’s. Rev. Melvin Phillips of First Baptist Church was the speaker. A cornet solo by Dick Ivie completed the program.

• Courier staff members were Elizabeth Barrett, Shirley White, Jim Lawrence, Jim Hardin, Sam Hawn, Jim Mewborn, Jerry Plymate, Janet Bass, Thorl Howe, Sheila Siefert, Jerry Fleming, Loisi Hill and Jim Skinner. Marion Chenoweth was the faculty sponsor.

• Bob Pence, SHS class of 1945, was on the Florida State University basketball team.

• SHS alumni PFC Robert Cheatum and Sgt. James McKeny had both recently died in the armed services. Cheatum died in Korea after a truck he was driving skidded on an icy road. Bob was a 1946 graduate and had attended Booker T. Washington. His half-sister, Esther Roberson, was a 10A student. McKeny, a former varsity athlete at SHS, had been killed in an auto accident as he was returning to the Air Force Base in Illinois. His sister, Zana, was a 10A student, and his youngest sister, Sara, was at the junior high school.

• The Class of 1952 decided to stage the first senior play at SHS in over a decade. Mr. Howard Ballard would “coach” the play, which would be held at Colescott Auditorium.

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This Day in Shelby County History

News around Shelbyville and the surrounding area as reported on or about this date in history. Selections are curated from the Shelby County Public Library Genealogy Department.

2014: A student who ran away from the Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired was found at a residence in Shelbyville after an extensive search by the Indiana State Police.

2004: Brian Fehribach was named interim principal at Waldron High School after Michael Stamper resigned as principal just as classes were set to begin. It was the sixth Shelby County school to have a principal change over the summer.

1994: The Blackburns hosted an open house for supporters and volunteers who had helped them obtain a new house five miles south of Shelbyville. The family had 28 adopted children.

A Canadian man in the region on vacation decided to enter the final stage of the Shelbyville Parks and Recreation Triathlon. He won, collecting the $50 prize.

1984: The Morristown Football program was suspended for at least a year due to lack of interest. By concentrating on the junior high program, head coach Perry Bailey hoped to field a team in the future.

1974: Mayor Jerry Higgins announced plans for “Operation Clean Sweep” to help clean up the city. Higgins said the city would pick up virtually any item placed curbside over the course of a week.

1964: Jack Tindall, Jim Tindall, Marilyn Dover and Mike Vaught were all winners in their age divisions in the city tennis tournament. Don Thompson, director of the city tennis program, presented the awards.

1954: Tom Wheeler of the Cave Stone Company, announced the winners of a rock-weight guessing contest held by the company at the county fair. The rock on display weighed 928 pounds, and both Lloyd Barnett of Flat Rock and George Neeb of Rays Crossing guessed 927 pounds. Each received a stone for a prize.

1944: The J.L. Reece Canning Company, at the end of Meridian St., began packing sweet corn for the armed forces.

1934: Burglars broke into W.N. Henderson’s general store and meat market in the old Knights of Pythias building at Blue Ridge. Henderson said the money in the store was stolen, but all items remained.

1924: Frank Sheldon purchased a Public Square building, which extended north to Franklin Street. Sheldon then sold other Public Square property to Mendel Wolf, allowing the latter to expand his store.

1914: The Schultz Concert Band, comprised of local musicians, performed on Public Square.

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OBITUARIES

Paul David Hendrickson, 81, of Shelbyville, passed away Tuesday August 13, 2024 at MHP Medical Center. He was born July 17, 1943 in Shelbyville, IN, to Walter Hendrickson and Etta (Rush) Hendrickson.

Paul graduated from Shelbyville High School with the class of 1961. He then went onto graduating from Barber College in Indianapolis right after high school. Paul was a member of Hopes Point Baptist Church. He was a prolific artist and was extremely creative with all his artwork. He served as Past President of Southside Art League in Indianapolis for two years and was a member since 1969. Paul was also a member of the Brown County Craft Guild, as well as SAGA here in Shelbyville. He was an avid baseball card and stamp collector. He also had a love for sports, especially watching the Cubs and Reds play. He was a lover of all types of music, from traditional gospel to new age pop hits. Family was the most important to Paul, and he cherished the times spent with his wife on the beaches of Lido Key, Florida.

He married Cathy (Coleman) Hendrickson on July 24, 1965, and she survives. Paul is also survived by his son, Todd Hendrickson (Leslie Benson); his daughter, Leigh Ann Vorhies (Jeff Ripley) and his son, Phillip (wife, Angie) Hendrickson; his grandchildren, Kristofer, Jessica, Brooke, Casey, Alexandria and Ross; his great-grandchildren, Kacen, Kyler, Stella, Trace, Ava, Emery, Daxton and Grayson; and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, three sisters and one brother.

Visitation will be Friday, August 16, 2024 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Murphy-Parks Funeral Service, 703 S. Harrison Street, Shelbyville, IN 46176. Funeral services will follow at 5 p.m. at the funeral home with Pastor Greg Albert officiating. Funeral Directors Greg Parks, Sheila Parks and Stuart Parks are honored to serve Paul’s family. Online condolences may be shared at www.murphyparks.com.