Published: April 09, 2008 11:19 am         

Flashbacks

April 10, 1958

Ready for their initial game of the season here Sunday afternoon at 2:30 with Holmes Junior players are the Kosciusko Semi-Pros. They will be wearing their bran new uniforms contributed by baseball minded business firms and organizations. They are Jimmy Graves, Larry Therrell, Jimmy Pacquinette, John Niles, Sonny McDonald, Allen Payne, James Benton Campbell, Bobby Lowe, Wade Brown, Pete Shumaker, Ramon Jackson, John Ables.

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Selected as “Coach of the Year” for girls basketball teams by Choctaw Conference coaches in session at Philadelphia Saturday was Kosciusko’s Head Coach, Adrian McBeath. Members of the girls’ and boys’ basketball teams of Kosciusko high school were honored Tuesday night at a banquet at the high school cafeteria by a group of basketball fans with arrangements made by J.R. (Bob) Henry. Sponsors were Robert Holmes, Billy McMillan, V.C. Allen, D.H. (Buddy) Hayes, Dr. S.L. Bailey, Roy Braswell, James Watts, Wallace Poole, Ramon Jackson, Henry Power and J.R. Henry.

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In his job as an Army Communication Chief, Sfc. James A. Jackson of Kosciusko has been stationed at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. for the last two years as instructor of Field Communication. In his new assignment he leaves on a tour of duty in the Far East.

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Advertisement for bids for remodeling and enlarging Kosciusko’s City Hall is being issued. The building will be extended in the rear for a 16 x 42 assembly room to be used for board meetings, Mayor Rone disclosed. A lounge and locker will be constructed for the clerks, and locker rooms for the police. The front of the City Hall will be arranged to provide a separate room for the mayor’s office, along side of the city clerk’s office, and back of the mayor’s office will be a police station. Plans and specifications for the project were drawn by Henry Paul Sullivant, architect.

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Newest organization in Kosciusko is the Kosciusko Chess Club, which will hold meetings Monday night of each week. Elected as officers are Dr. Claude A. Jackson, president; Wayne Branch, vice president; Aaron Condon, secretary-treasurer. Other members of the club are Mrs. F.Z. Jackson, Doty Jackson, Lewis Gwynn, Harold Teasley, Charles Ashford, F.Z. Jackson III, Alson Catledge, Ramon Jackson, W. S. Fowler. The club will meet in the “wake up room” of the Dr. Pepper plant here.



April 14, 1983

Attala and Holmes Counties will receive about $663,000 in loans and grants from the Farmers Home Administration for water and sewer improvements. The towns of Ethel and McCool in Attala County will get approximately $305,000 while the Sweethome water and sewer district in Holmes County will get a grant and loan combination totaling $358,000, the largest amount in the state. Ethel will get a loan of $253,000 for overhaul of its water system, which serves about 230 customers. In McCool, the town will receive about $52,000 for water system improvements, which will include a new well and storage tank. The system served 228 customers. The Sweethome grant will be $254,000 and the loan will be $104,000.

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Six members of the Ethel High School Band have been named 1983 United States National Award winners. They are Nancy Mims, Liz Strittman, Tammy Simmons, Tanya Moore, Nancy O’Bryant and Alicia Rone. They were nominated for the honor by Ethel Band Director Johnny Doude.

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The Attala County Board of Supervisors re-voted last week to avoid a county unit system for the next four years. State law requires each board of supervisors to vote individually by July 1 and each four years following in order to keep from operating as a unit system.

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One of the last gravel roads on the state maintained highway system has been paved near French Camp. Highway 409 was formally dedicated Monday in a ceremony that brought northern highway commissioner Bobby Richardson and a dozen area officials to the event.

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The Lawrin Company has been named Attala County’s nominee for the 1982 Governor’s Industrial Glove Award. That announcement was made this week by Marlin Ivey, chairman of the Kosciusko-Attala Industrial Development Committee. Lawrin is one of 58 industries nominated for five Mississippi awards – one from each congressional district – that are based on industrial growth and community service during 1982.