What made news in Monroe County, 1970-1979

The auction of The Herald-Times print archive has begun. Volunteers spent about three weeks looking through the books to identify key moments in history. To make it easier to see what's inside the books, we're publishing lists of what they found. They did not have time to look in every book. This list covers 1970 to 1979.

1970 January, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages. Key content: Jan. 21, IU sesquicentennial.

1970 March, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages. Key content: Herald-Telephone editor Perry Stewart dies; IU sesquicentennial special section Feb. 27.

1970 May, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages. Key content: IU protests over Cambodian invasion, Kent State shootings; series of stories on My Lai massacre.

1970 June, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed. Key content: Democratic convention coverage, June 28 Ind. 37 4-lane construction.

1970 September, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages. Key content: Coverage of unbeaten Bloomington High football team.

1970 October, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages. Key content: Coverage of unbeaten Bloomington High football team.

1970 November, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages. Key content: Coverage of unbeaten Bloomington High football team.

1971 March, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages. Key content: Bob Knight hired as IU’s new men’s basketball coach; IU wins fourth straight NCAA men’s swimming championship.

1971 September, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed. Key content: Coverage of unbeaten Bloomington High football team.

1971 October, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed. Key content: Unbeaten Bloomington High football team sets state record. IU’s Assembly Hall opens.

1971 November, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed. Key content: Coverage of unbeaten Bloomington High football team; Frank McCloskey elected mayor of Bloomington; five-hour debate on proposed landlord-tenant ordinance.

1971 December, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages. Key content: Dec. 10, IU dedicates Assembly Hall, Branch McCracken court.

1972 June, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages. Key content: Bloomington South wins IHSAA state baseball championship, 5/25.

1972 August, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed. Key content: Bob Hammel’s coverage of Munich Olympics, including Mark Spitz and other IU swim team members, coaches Doc Counsilman, Hobie Billingsley, begins Aug. 24. Spitz wins first of seven golds Aug. 28.

1972 September, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages. Key content: Bob Hammel’s coverage of Munich Olympics, including Mark Spitz and other IU swim team members, coaches Doc Counsilman, Hobie Billingsley, continues. Spitz wins seven golds. Attack by Palestinian terrorists kills 11 Israeli athletes. Key Coverage of Bloomington South extending Bloomington High football team’s unbeaten record.

1972 October, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages. Key content: Coverage of Bloomington South extending Bloomington High football team’s unbeaten record.

1972 November, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages. Key content: Nov. 11, Richard Nixon re-elected president. Coverage of Bloomington South extending Bloomington High football team’s unbeaten record, with polls naming Panthers state champs.

1973 January, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages. Key content: United States signs peace deal ending Vietnam War.

1973 March, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages. Key content: IU men’s swimming team wins sixth straight NCAA title; IU men’s basketball team falls to UCLA in Final Four semifinal game; Indiana Legislature debates Equal Rights Amendment; last U.S. military unit leaves Vietnam.

1973 April, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages. Key content: Kent Benson named Mr. Basketball; Delta Chi wins Little 500; top White House aides resign over Watergate; local gas stations prepare to ration gasoline.

1973 September, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages. Key content: Coverage of Bloomington South extending Bloomington High football team’s unbeaten record.

1973 October, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages. Key content: Coverage of Bloomington South extending Bloomington High football team’s unbeaten record.

1973 November, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages. Key content: Bloomington High/Bloomington South’s unbeaten streak comes to end at 60 games with 3A semi-state loss to Cathedral. Extensive coverage, special section. Energy crisis prompts lower speed limits. Batchelor Middle School opens, days numbered for old Central Junior High gym.

1974 February, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages. Key content: Bob Dylan performs at Assembly Hall.

1974 June, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages. Key content: June 28, Elvis plays Assembly Hall.

1974 August, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed. Key content: Aug. 8-9, President Richard Nixon resigns over Watergate.

1975 April, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages. Key content: Former Bloomington High/Central Junior High gym demolished to make way for Seminary Square, Kroger store, April 8; Truman Capote speaks at IU; Feature on Bill Oliver’s success with Oliver Winery, April 20; Peoples Park shops feature.

1975 November, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages. Key content: Frank McCloskey re-elected mayor of Bloomington.

1976 May, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed. Key content: Extensive local PCB pollution coverage.

1976 November, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages. Key content: Jimmy Carter elected president, county and state elections.

1977 January, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages. Key content: Indiana Legislature becomes 35th and last state to approve Equal Rights Amendment.

1977 September, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages, sticky tabs. Key content: IU student Ann Harmeier vanishes north of Martinsville on way to campus, stories Sept. 14-18,

1977 October, Daily Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages, sticky tabs. Key content: Body of IU student Ann Harmeier found, stories Oct. 19-21. Winslow Sports Complex opens Oct. 20.

1978 January, The Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed. Key content: Blizzard of ’78.

1978 June, The Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed. Key content: Legionnaires’ disease cases tied to Indiana Memorial Union; zoning approved for Meadowood; city-county building authorization nixed; series on Comprehensive Employment and Training Act; Earl Jackson plans Atlantic crossing.

1978 July, The Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed. Key content: PCB levels high in Bloomington sewers.

1978 August, The Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages. Key content: Filming of “Breaking Away” (working title “Bambino”) happens at several locations in Bloomington and on IU campus; fourth death attrributed to Legionnaires' disease exposure at Indiana Memorial Union, tests find bacterium in building's air conditioning cooling tower, in Jordan River.

1978 September, The Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed. Key content: Emily and William Harris, Indiana University graduates, plead guilty to kidnapping Patty Hearst, vow more activism; Tommy James and the Shondells perform in Bryan Park on Labor Day; continued filming of "Breaking Away" scenes includes staging a Little 500 race with locals as crowd extras at 10th Street Stadium; Bloomington violin prodigy Joshua Bell, a sixth-grader, travels to play in national 12-and-under tennis tournament; feature on IU athletics announcer Chuck Crabb,

1978 November, The Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages, sticky tabs. Key content: Republicans win Monroe County elections.

1979 June, The Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages. Key content: Coach Bob Knight and U.S. team prepare for Pan American Games with exhibition game against a collection of past IU stars at Assembly Hall; protests at under-construction Marble Hill nuclear power plant near Madison, concerns about shoddy work; trucker strike causes supply issues; concerns about inflation, gas prices.

1979 July, The Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages. Key content: July 3, at Pan American Games in Puerto Rico, U.S. coach Bob Knight ejected after altercation with police officer; July 10, charges filed against Knight over altercation with Puerto Rican police officer.

1979 December, The Herald-Telephone − Fragile/Yellowed/Few loose or damaged pages, sticky tabs. Key content: IU football team wins Holiday Bowl.

Volunteers could not search every book and no key content was noted in the following volumes. The Herald-Times microfilm archive is being digitized. Help us make this list a resource for the future by purchasing one of the below books and telling us what's inside.

1970 February, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1970 April, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1970 July, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1970 August, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1970 December, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1971 January, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1971 February, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1971 April, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1971 June, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1971 July, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1971 August, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1972 January, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1972 February, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1972 March, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1972 April, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1972 May, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1972 July, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1972 December, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1973 February, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1973 May, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1973 June, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1973 July, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1973 August, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1973 December, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1974 January, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1974 March, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1974 April, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1974 May, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1974 July, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1974 September, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1974 October, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1974 November, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1974 December, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1975 January, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1975 February, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1975 May, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1975 June, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1975 July, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1975 August, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1975 September, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1975 October, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1975 December, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1976 January, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1976 February, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1976 April, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1976 June, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1976 July, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1976 August, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1976 September, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1976 October, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1976 December, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1977 February, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1977 March, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1977 April, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1977 May, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1977 June, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1977 July, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1977 August, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1977 November, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1977 December, Daily Herald-Telephone; 1978 February, The Herald-Telephone; 1978 March, The Herald-Telephone; 1978 April, The Herald-Telephone; 1978 May, The Herald-Telephone; 1978 October, The Herald-Telephone; 1978 December, The Herald-Telephone; 1979 January, The Herald-Telephone; 1979 February, The Herald-Telephone; 1979 March, The Herald-Telephone; 1979 April, The Herald-Telephone; 1979 May, The Herald-Telephone; 1979 August, The Herald-Telephone; 1979 September, The Herald-Telephone; 1979 October, The Herald-Telephone; 1979 November, The Herald-Telephone.

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This article originally appeared on The Herald-Times: Herald-Times archive online auction what's in each volume 1970-79