Through the Years: 1947 - Sugar rationing ended
Birth: A son, Lincoln Harrison, born to Matt and Lacy O’Malley.
Deaths: Vivian Fowler, 92; Ruth “Alberta” Bates, 82; Ruby Harmon, 96; Denis “Mac” McDonald, 69; David Smith, Sr., 58; Michael Ooley, 76.
Anniversary: Ed and Sue Zehr celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.
The Spencer-Owen Community School Corporation’s Board of Directors voted to terminate the contract of Spencer Elementary 2nd grade teacher, Nicole Young.
After 25 years of teaching, Alexis Gilbert retired from the Spencer-Owen Community Schools.
Angie Fender retired from Duling Insurance Agency after more than 22 years of service.
Rural Transit was in desperate need of funding.
John Fitzgerald Dillard, 53, Spencer, pleaded guilty to failure to register as a sex offender as required by law.
Artist Becky Hochhalter painted a mural over the old Bell telephone sign at the now-defunct Spencer Coffee House on the corner of North Main Street and Franklin Street (not to be confused with the thriving Main Street Coffee on North Main Street).
June Wallace was remembered by family on what would have been her 87th birthday.
10 years (2012)
Deaths: Annette Kern, 31; John May, Sr., 81; Virginia Vielhaber, 85.
Anniversaries: Ralph and Nila (Snodgrass) Shumaker celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. Claude and Edwina (Eiks) Bell celebrated their 61st wedding anniversary.
The Owen County Robert (Bob) E. Clark Recycling Center was dedicated.
Kyle Shipp resigned as Owen Valley High School Athletic Director.
Gary Collier, of Cloverdale, authored the book, Scripture, Canon, & Inspiration: Faith in Pursuit of Conversation.
Lela Nirkirk celebrated her 99th birthday.
Emmamay Skirvin celebrated her 100th birthday.
Gosport Town Marshal Randal VanArsdale resigned.
Tulip Tree Scale Insects were causing a huge mess across Indiana.
Amy Dennison was remembered by family on what would have been her 37th birthday.
Dean Kelley was remembered by his widow, Dora, on what would have been their 55th wedding anniversary.
Ed Hammond was remembered by family on the 2nd anniversary of his death.
Darrell “Windy” Hendricks was remembered by family on the 22nd anniversary of his death.
25 years (1997)
Births: A daughter, Elizabeth Ann, born to Jeff and Renny Mauder;a son born to Roger and Jennifer Woods; a daughter born to John and Donna Hamilton.
Deaths: Walter Montgomery, 64; Conrad Hardesty, 62; Warren Trinkle, 57; Carl Kindred, 77; Della Black, 98; Roscoe Partin, 80; Gene Gore, 82; Violet Oswalt, 73; Sharon Williams, 58; Mamie Aynes, 79.
Anniversaries: Jim and Debbie (Starnes) Fulk celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. Burless and Ethel (Evans) McCallister celebrated their 66th wedding anniversary.
The Owen Valley High School Agricultural Science and Business department was ranked #1 in Indiana.
Pete Kitka resigned as Band Director at Owen Valley High School to accept a position at Southview High School in Brazil.
Cloverdale High School lost its 3rd varsity boys basketball coach as Bill Chestnut resigned to take a position at Turkey Run High School.
Emily Dieter received the Ray Kroc Award.
Cecil Parrish celebrated his 75th birthday.
Opal West celebrated her 98th birthday.
Stevens Mini-Storage, owned by Tony Stevens and Denny Wood, opened on Rocky Hill Road.
Fred Rumple was remembered by family on what would have been his 74th birthday, June 12th, and what would have been the 50th wedding anniversary of Fred and Betty Jean (Haysley) Rumple.
Darrell “Windy” Hendricks was remembered by family on the 7th anniversary of his death.
Perry “Bill” Stahl was remembered by family on the 7th anniversary of his death.
50 years (1972)
Deaths: Charles Mock, 92; Ruth Dunigan, 72; Richard Dittemore, 37; David Campbell, 91; Ida Everett, 57; Claude Draper, 73; Roy Jordan, 74; Fred Wampler, 76; Emma Rood, 80; Luckey Booe, 81.
Ron Eaton was hired as head varsity football coach at Owen Valley High School.
Debbie Shields, 12, and Richard Baugh, 8, were rescued by Owen County Deputy Dave Hunt from drowning in a rain-swollen McCormick’s Creek.
Mr. and Mrs. Troy Harrell were leaving the state and auctioning off personal property 3.5 miles west of Gosport.
3,648 housing units in Owen County had television sets while 128 had central air.
A coin-operated copy machine was added to the Owen County Public Library with copies costing .10 cents each.
The E. Albertsons wrote in to encourage citizens to contact Charles Keating, Jr, Chairman of the group Citizens for Decent Literature, in support of banning “all advertisement of obscene movies.”
Gubernatorial candidate Judge William Sharp characterized his Democratic opponents as The Party of High Taxes and accused them of being “permissive toward criminals.”
Records Drive-In was screening The Wild Country, starring Steve Forrest, Vera Miles, and Ronny Howard.
Sallie Meek was remembered by family on the 3rd anniversary of her death.
Lillie Mae Childress was remembered by family on the 5th anniversary of her death.
Lillie Honn was remembered by family on the 7th anniversary of her death.
75 years (1947)
Birth: A son, Michael Oliver, born to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Galimore.
Death: Maude Secrest, 54.
Veteran John James Rohloff, 23, of Richmond, Indiana, a student at Indiana University, was killed in a car crash in front of the Ashbury Holt Farm at the crest of Schneider Hill, 2 miles east of Spencer, near the entrance to McCormick’s Creek State Park in an accident that also injured the driver, Charles Rutan, of Frankfort and another passenger.
Sugar rationing ended.
Parr’s Variety Store reopened in its new location at the corner of Marker and Main streets, Spencer.
Cream producers and their families were invited to a “Quality Cream” program at the Courthouse auditorium where the films Music in Her Method, about butter separation, and That Boy Joe, about caring for equipment and livestock and effective planning, along with ice cream and other refreshments.
Clayton Winders and Sons concrete block manufacturing plant was operational and producing up to 960 blocks a day.
Edward Lee Skinner underwent a tonsillectomy.
Local Boy Scout Camp, Cap Wapehani, was dedicated five miles southwest of Bloomington.
Della Rubeck was remembered by family on what would have been her 67th birthday.
This article originally appeared on Evening World: Through the Years: 1947 - Sugar rationing ended
