Tuesday, October 15, 2024
…Banner Yet Wave…
Thirty-mile-per-hour winds Sunday gave flags plenty of motion, including this one at the American Legion Post 70 on Miller Ave. (Below: Public Square) | photo by JACK BOYCE
NOTEBOOK:
In an effort headed by Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church, the local community donated over three trailer loads of items for hurricane relief, which the church is sending to North Carolina today. (Below, L to R: Connie Meece, Paul Freeman, Weston Barlow, (in the trailer) Josh Branson and Andy Orem, Larry Meece and Ali Barlow load a trailer of donated items at the church to be transported to North Carolina.)
Builders Lumber & Hardware is firing up the grills to host the First Annual EGGfest with Big Green Egg this Saturday, Oct. 19, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Featuring live music, grilling demos, spirits, games, football, savings and samples, proceeds from the event will support Shelbyville Central Schools’ fundraising efforts to introduce service therapy dogs into the school system. Tickets are $30 for adults, 2 for $50, ages 12 & under free. The goal is to raise $25,000 for the program. Full details here.
It’s a busy day for local government meetings. Shelby County Commissioners meet at 8 a.m., the Shelbyville Board of Public Works and Safety meets at 8:30 a.m., the Shelbyville rebranding launch is at the Intelliplex Conference Center at 5:30 p.m., Shelby County Council at 6:30 p.m. and a Candidate Forum hosted by the Northwest Shelby County Concerned Citizens Coalition, 7 p.m., at the Moral Township Fire Department building. Look for coverage in tomorrow’s edition.
NATIONAL NEWS: Severe natural disasters and housing increasingly being built in its path have meant highly profitable times for the many different elements of the U.S. disaster restoration industry, which includes fire damage repair and particularly mold remediation, a huge industry after flooding. Most of these businesses have historically been local mom-and-pop companies, but after a number of high-profile natural disasters, especially Katrina, private equity has been quietly rolling them up into larger nationwide companies. The industry is notoriously recession-proof, and globally the post-storm remediation industry is projected to grow from $70 billion this year to $92 billion by 2029. (Sherwood News/Numlock)
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WITHIN THESE PORTALS
Editor’s note: Given yesterday’s holiday, and hence, a slow news day, I went to the Courier archive for excerpts from “Within These Portals,” a long-running column.
Jan. 20 & Feb. 11, 1965
After being back in the swing of school once again, some of us may like to glance over the seemingly short Christmas vacation.
It was Wed., Dec. 16, and vacation was growing near. Out of holiday spirit and love, the Singing Stars bought a very appropriate Christmas present for their director, Mr. Schulz. Upon opening the box, he found a pair of undershorts with the letters G. O. P. on them and an elephant. Under the elephant in parenthesis were the words “Grand Old Poster- ior.” After joking about these, Mr. Schulz tacked them up on his bulletin board for the rest of his classes to see. On this same afternoon, WSVL appeared at SHS to take a dry run of the Christmas music, which was presented by the music department Friday. The schedule for the program was under the shorts, so Mr. Schultz, hurrying to find it exclaimed, “Oh, wait until I take off my underwear!”
Fri., Dec. 18, vacation was even nearer. Mr. McKinley, SHS chemistry teacher, was using a new piece of equipment purchased by the school. When he wrote on a special paper, a light shone on it and reflected through a glass onto the blackboard. During his talk, he was explaining graphs, and was caught once playing tic-tac-toe on it. At the end of the lecture, also concerning graphs, he was quoted as saying, “Tune in tomorrow, same time, same station, for more of the lives of Lienny and Luna Line. You might be able to call it a SLOPE opera.” One student put in, “Mr. McKinley, be careful you don't give away the PLOT.”
During the vacation, Richard Walts had a chance to show his true self when he played the part of Santa Claus for a group of children.
During a New Year Eve party held at the home of Rick Miller, Chris Rehme was told that at the stroke of midnight he would receive a gift. At the appointed time, a large box was brought into the room, which Chris carefully unwrapped. Showing above the paper confetti, completely covering the gift, was a rope. Chris, acting as any other normal person would have, pulled the rope. Greatly startling everyone, on the end of the rope was an uncleaned deer’s head which had been found by Steve Nentrup and Dave Bremer.
After a fun-filled, quick-passing vacation, all of the students eagerly hurried back to school, going directly to their lockers. A few senior boys, however, Keith Patterson, Duane Skinner, and Greg Moore, were unable to remember their combinations. They were, therefore, forced to go to the office and inquire. As if not bad enough the first time, Duane Skinner dutifully reported again on Tuesday - after forgetting it again.
You may have thought you saw Karen Marshall in the halls the other day with a new outfit on. This outfit looked almost identical to one she had worn before. These outfits, however, are both the same one; she just found out that she had been wearing the top backwards!
There have been many fads that have gone around, such as white lipstick, short shirts, and even hula hoops. But the one that seems most prevalent at SHS these days is walking on crutches.
Jim Schooley has recently been letting his hair grow long. While in English class, he continuously seemed to be nodding his head as if he wanted his hair to flop. Finally, after watching for as long as he could, Mr. Kocher told Jim that the next time he came to class, he should either bring some bobby pins or a hair net.
Was there an alarm clock in the sixth hour study hall every day last semester which told the students it was 3 p.m.? No, it was just Mike Schonfield burping.
When Wayne Poyz recently admitted in English class to being a loyal reader of Playboy, Mr. Coyner became aggravated. “Wayne,” he said, “reading trash like that is a complete waste of time. Besides, the last three issues haven't even been any good!”
Mr. McKinley has hung a voodoo doll above the blackboard in the chemistry lab. Under this doll appear the words, “Someone is watching you!” The chemistry students are baffled by its meaning. Does it propose a challenge for those in the classes, or does Mr. McKinley actually go so far as to cause physical pain by sticking pins in the doll when work is not completed? We wonder.
Dear Mr. Wicker - (If you are reading this column) - Jon Fox would like to have a nob put on his locker. There hasn't been a nob on Jon's locker since September, and Jon's fingernails seem to be getting ragged. Thank you.
Mrs. Webster asked her last hour literature class where they would go if they had only one day left on earth. Susan Mohr said, “I'd go to the ocean.” Manarda Payne said she'd choose the woods. Mike Chafee, brightening, declared that he would go to the same woods.
In Mrs. Ramey's beginning typing class, she asked the students to type names of relatives. She set a timer, and the students were to see who could get the most names typed in that time limit. When Denny Fox said he had 36, Mrs. Ramey, astounded, asked him to read his list. It read: Mom, Dad, Janet, 12 aunts, 12 uncles.
SHS Courier Archive Highlights:
October 30, 1931, Part II
The SHS band, led by drum major Lawrence Lemasters, performed for the first time of the season at a parade before the “Mackmen” (SHS) played Rushville. “The drum major will appear in full regalia: a beautiful shako has been purchased.” The game was scheduled for 8 p.m., but if there were poor weather conditions, school would be dismissed early, and the game played at 3 p.m. SHS had beaten Greenfield, 52-0, the previous week.
Coach McCullough attended the Hoosier Southern Athletic Conference meeting. “On account of the costly errors committed in play as a result of jerseys being nearly the same shade, it was decided by representatives that the home team should wear colored shirts while the visiting team should wear white ones.” Also, “Perhaps because of the falling off in receipts from the games, the Conference also decided to use a $10 ball instead of the regular $14 sphere.”
Basketball tryouts had drawn 79 boys, not including members of the football team who would be trying out. The initial list was cut to 20 after two weeks.
There would be 20 games in the basketball season, including against new opponents Martinsville, New Castle and Vincennes.
Several SHS students were named to the 151st National Guard Infantry Regimental Band. They were Marshall Armstrong, Richard Conger, Warren Chesser, Rohr Smith, Oren Fox, Tommy Hoop, Lyman Houghland, Chester McKenney, Harold McCabe and Sumner Pond.
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: Editor’s note: Due to a microfilm processing error, the 2014 section for the next couple of weeks will serve to memorialize a local individual who passed away that year.) Maurice Dwayne Tennell, 83, of Flat Rock, died March 12. Born in Morristown, he was the son of Cecil and Dorothy Tennell. He married Sharon Lambert in 1991. He was a veteran of the U.S. Marines and served 30 years as a first responder for the Flat Rock Fire Department. He also served on the Citizens Committee in Flat Rock and had owned and operated Tennell’s Small Engine Repair.
2004: Several area builders formed the Shelby County Builders Association. The group had 25 members, David Adams, of A & B Co. and A & B Overhead Door, secretary of the new organization, reported. Many of the local builders had felt slighted when they were not given a chance to bid on subcontract work C.P. Morgan had done recently on a large local development. An association had existed some 10 to 15 years earlier, but business had gone into such a slump then that the group disbanded when there were only 11 building permits issued in the county the entire year.
1994: Several curricula written by Northwestern teachers and inspected by the school board had spelling errors on almost every page, board president Ted Burger said. “I know I’m being picky, but I think teachers should be role models.” A promotional brochure about vocational education offered by the Blue River Career Center at the meeting didn’t do much better. On the front page, “district” was misspelled twice.
1984: A large German Shepard escaped over the weekend from the dog pound by climbing a six-foot fence at the old shelter. The animal had been moved from the new building after workers saw he was trying to burrow under his door. “Officials stressed the 80-pound dog is not dangerous and is actually ‘a very friendly dog that just doesn’t like to be penned in,’” The Shelbyville News said. “They said in the two days he was in the facility, he hadn’t relieved himself and think that was a contributing factor to his escape. ‘I think he’s been housebroken and just wanted to get out to go to the bathroom.’” The dog had been spotted but was still on the loose.
1974: First Deputy Sheriff Tom Debaun and Special Deputy Jim Willard sustained minor injuries when their patrol car collided with a cattle truck driven by a Bloomington man. The patrol car, responding to a call about a burglary, was traveling 80 miles per hour. The car skidded for 130 feet then smashed into the truck and went into a soybean field on the Ralph Fox farm.
1964: Gubernatorial candidate Roger Branigin and his wife (Josephine Mardis), a Shelbyville native, gave a speech to a large crowd in front of the Shelby County Courthouse. Branigin, a Democrat, labeled his opponent, “Junior-Grade Goldwater.”
1954: A man reportedly hit by a car at Noble and Washington streets was taken to Major Hospital for treatment then arrested for public intoxication. Police said the man more “fell or stumbled” in front of the car.
Plans were announced for a modern supermarket on U.S. Highway 421 at the east edge of the city, owned by Mrs. D.J. Allen of Vevay. Construction of a 50-by-112-foot one-story brick veneer building for the supermarket was underway. The store would be called “Allen’s 421 Supermarket.” A 50-car parking lot was also under construction.
1944: Several locals attended a speech at Cadle Tabernacle in Indianapolis by Connecticut Rep. Clare Boothe Luce, who charged that President Roosevelt was “the world’s leading isolationist and appeaser” and had taken the country into World War II “with our eyes closed because he did not have the political courage to lead us into it with our eyes open.” She urged the election of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey.
1934: City Council approved the purchase of a police car, fire truck and street department grader. The current fire truck was 16 years old. The police car was five or six years old.
1924: Fred Schortemeier, a successful businessman running for Secretary of State, returned to his hometown of Shelbyville for a speech. “Fred used to play around East Broadway as well as about his father’s store, corner of Washington and Pike Streets. Tot Weakley and a number of other of the boys of the neighborhood, including Frank Carson, could give Fred the thrill of his life simply by (attending),” The Republican said.
An explosion of a piston at the Davison Machine Shop on Jackson St. damaged the roof and slightly injured Leslie Drake and Marion Talbert. The men had been heating the piston from a steam engine in the forge in order to weld it, when it blew up through the roof and pieces of iron knocked window glass out of the building.
1914: Mrs. Walter Doty, of St. Paul, suffered a broken nose after being kicked by her cow.
The Rally Day services of the Waldron M.E. Sunday School brought out the largest crowd in church Sunday School history: 303.
OBITUARIES
None today.