Published: April 22, 2008 06:32 pm         

Flashbacks

April 24, 1958

New deluxe bookmobile, purchased by the Mid-Mississippi Regional Library, has arrived at headquarters here for service to rural areas of Attala and Winston Counties. Estimated cost of the new bookmobile is $10,000. Contract was let for its manufacture by an Ohio company after submitting bids. The new bookmobile replaced the outdated eight year-old bookmobile which began service here in November and will begin operation next week. Driver is Emmett Davis of Kosciusko, with book service equally divided between Attala and Winston Counties, and personnel of the two libraries alternating in its operation.

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Bill Bigby, Lackland Warhawk scoring ace named to the All Air Force basketball squad by the Air Force times, received an engraved wrist watch sent by the Times. Bigby, an airman first class whose home is Kosciusko, racked up an average of 26 points per game during the 1957-58 playing season. The six foot, four inch center was previously named most valuable player in the south district of the Air Training Command. He was an All Gulf Coast conference selection while attending college before joining the Air Force.

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Pvt. Robert H. Chipley, son of J.K. Chipley, Route 4, Kosciusko, graduated April 17 1958 from The Provost Marshal General’s School, Ft. Gordon, Georgia. During eight weeks of military police training, Pvt. Chipley received instruction in MP subjects such as traffic control, civil and military law, map reading, prisoner-of-war control and judo. He was inducted into the Army Nov. 4, 1957 and completed basic infantry training at Ft. Carson, Colo, before arriving at the PMG School.

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Economic importance of the pulp and paper industry to the Attala area, how growing pulpwood may help alleviate some of Attala’s agricultural problems, and the tremendous economic opportunities more productive forests offer in years ahead were highlighted at the open house held at Kosciusko’s wood yard of International Paper Company for observance of pulp and paper day.

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April 28, 1953

Promoters say they have completed preparations for welcoming and entertaining a big increase in the town’s population this weekend when the 13th annual Natchez Trace Festival unfolds. Mrs. Hollis Cheek is chairman of the 1983 festival which is an annual project of the Kosciusko-Attala Chamber of Commerce and Industrial Development Corporation. The festival began in 1971 primarily as a flea market. The arts and crafts sale remains the highlight of the event, but contests and entertainment have been added through the years to expand the program. The weatherman is smiling on the festival. At midweek, forecasts for the weekend called for dry weather with partly cloudy skies and temperatures in the 80s.

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Stephen Cheek, landscape architect and contractor of Kosciusko, has been awarded a $838,881 contract with the Corps of Engineers for vegetative maintenance and erosion on a section of the Tombigbee Waterway in the Iuka area.

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Mrs. Ann H. Jackson announced this week that she is a candidate for the state House of Representatives in the district representing all of Attala County and the Poplar Creek area of Montgomery County.

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Congressman Webb Franklin’s Kosciusko field office will open Tuesday in the office complex at 207 N. Madison Street and next door to the Strand Theatre. The congressman announced the opening of the Kosciusko office early this month. It is one of three in the second congressional district and is for the “hill” section.

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There’a a new dessert on the market in Kosciusko in the form of a Cool Cookie. LuVel Dairy Products added the Cool Cookie to its line of products last week. Jack Briscoe, president and general manager, said LuVel will distribute the cookies in Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee and Alabama. During the initial phase of operation, the cookies are being produced on a one day a week basis.

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Dr. William E. Cochran of Kosciusko was re-elected a director of the Better Vision Institute at the group’s 54th annual meeting held in Washington D.C. on April 15.

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Holmes Junior College employees can expect a 10 percent pay increase and extra health benefits, it was decided at a board of trustees meeting last Thursday.