Published: October 08, 2008 10:00 am         

Flashbacks

Oct. 9, 1958

Retiring this week after 47years service with the Illinois Central railroad here is Newton E. Love Sr. of Kosciusko, who has served as the company’s agent since 1916. A “going away” party was given at the IC office for the retiring agent, with employees of the office and their families attending along with members of the Love family, and several former employees of the Kosy office.

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Kosciusko’s hopes for a new industry took a temporary setback Wednesday after members of the Chamber of Commerce’s industrial committee were advised by the Excel Corporation that the company’s directors had unanimously voted not to move “the entire Excel operations as far south as Kosciusko, Mississippi.”

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Fifteen of Kosciusko’s young matrons met Thursday in the home of Mrs. J. A. Chandler, president of the Book Lovers Club, and organized a Federated Club. The club will be known as the Cosmopolitan Club. The following officers were elected: Mrs. Joe Doty, president; Mrs. James Gregory, vice president; Mrs. Bill Pierce, secretary; Mrs. Thomas Craft, treasurer; Mrs. James D. Oliver, historian. The Cosmopolitan Club is sponsored by the Book Lovers Club, with Mrs. J.A. Chandler, Mrs. Hubert Davidson, Mrs. R.M. Graham, and Mrs. J.E. Billings, assisting in the organization.

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Services will be held Friday afternoon at 3 at Jordan Funeral Chapel here for Charles D. Blauvelt, vice president of Superior Coach Corporation, in charge of the foreign division, who died at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Mich., Monday after an illness of several months. He was 58. He moved to Kosciusko from Lima, Ohio, when the sales operation was moved here in 1951, and made his home here about eight years.

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Oct. 13, 1983

William E. Jones has sold his big pulpwood business headquartered in Kosciusko to members of a veteran timber family in South Mississippi. The sale involves all 11 Mississippi Wood Yards across four Central Mississippi counties, but does not involve Jones’ other businesses. Purchaser is D and D Pulpwood Inc., composed of Charles Donald of Port Gibson and his nephew, Dudley Donald of Quitman.

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A redistricting plan for Attala County has passed the first of two hurdles in federal District Court in Aberdeen. Judge L.T. Senter gave the compromise plan his stamp of approval and ordered immediate submission to the United States Justice Department for review.

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Attala’s county and city schools scored high in most of the areas covered by the recently issued Mississippi Educational Assessment Report. The Kosciusko Separate Municipal School District received plus symbol in all areas of testing in each of three grades. The school has never made a minus in any of the test topics during the past seven years the assessment has been underway, said Supt. A.D. McBeath. In the county schools, the scores were high with all pluses, except in three areas – fourth graders tested received zeroes in language expressions and language total scores and sixth graders were given a zero in language mechanics, meaning the classes were at the level expected, not any lower or higher.

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Cheek Ford-Mercury will have its grand opening Friday at the new dealership located on Highway 12 east. New model cars and trucks will be shown, refreshments served and door prizes awarded.

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Joseph J. Joseph, Doctor of Optometry of Kosciusko, attended the National Optometry Week Conference held recently in San Francisco representing Mississippi optometrists. He was a panel speaker during the three-day leadership conference.

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Attala County road crews began cutting a path this week to a remote 40-acre plot north of Kosciusko that will be the county’s new sanitary landfill. The effort is fueled by federal money and rooted in hope that the new location will end a long-running controversy over the present site of the county’s landfill near Youth Center Lake.

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A catfish restaurant franchise was launched here and area residents are invited to offer their opinions on everything from food to décor. “We want everybody to try us out, look us over carefully, and then make any criticism or compliment they want,” said Billy Thames, owner of the restaurant, “Mark Twain’s.” Thames, a state senator from Mize, said he felt Kosciusko would be ideal for beginning the franchise venture because he believes citizens would welcome the restaurant and pitch in to help him develop and improve the test store.