Published: July 24, 2009 07:15 pm      

Logan 15s win championship

10 Years Ago

Sammy Sosa clubbed his 39th and 40th homers as the Cubs prevailed over the Mets, 17-10.

Logansport’s Joe Ness pitched and hit his 15-year-old Babe Ruth All-Stars to the state championship. The Logansport team advances to the Ohio Valley Regional in Appleton, Wis.

Dawn Kasten is a hairdresser in Winamac.

Energy consultant Robert McCullough is evaluating the Logansport Municipal Utilities and a purchase offer.

The Cass County 4-H Fair is surviving under wilting heat that cut the livestock auction short. In addition to a Build Indiana Fund grant, the fairgrounds received $38,000 from an account at National City Bank that has been dormant since 1965.

Danni Smith is starring in the lead role in “Peter Pan” for Junior Civic Theater.

Dorris Cookerly is knitting in Royal Center.



25 Years Ago

Johnny Carson is dating a woman who tried to meet him by walking by his Malibu beachfront home.

Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker is warning of dangers posed by government borrowing.

Logansport Municipal Utilities manager Klaus Hemberger says all three utilities are in the best shape financially they have been in years.

Cass Commissioner Joe Long says Conrail has been lax in requiring flagmen at the 18th Street crossing to warn motorists of trains.

Showbiz Pizza is operating at the Logansport Mall.

Rookie right-hander Roger Clemens has shut out the Chicago White Sox, who had just seven hits.

In a guest column for the Pharos-Tribune, Indiana University economist Morton Marcus says local leadership has not held up its responsibilities in Cass County, which saw an increase in personal income of just 11.3 percent. Indiana’s income rose 18.8 percent during those years, and nationwide, incomes rose 32.3 percent. Since the turn of the century, Cass has dropped from the 14th largest county to the 30th.

A Soviet woman has become the first female to complete a space walk.

A 63-year-old San Francisco woman has sailed across the Pacific by herself. The journey took 78 days and ended 1,000 miles south of Tokyo. She often sailed nude because her clothes were constantly wet. She lost 22 pounds.



50 Years Ago

Rafael del Pino, leader of the White Rose Movement that’s the remaining opposition to Fidel Castro, has been wounded and captured in Cuba.

A hovercraft has made it across the English channel 50 years after the first flight across the 23-mile stretch.

Margaret Mary Huff and her sisters will be competing in a talent contest at Logansport High School in September.

Gay Hart, 21, has recanted a story that she was kidnapped before her wedding. She apparently had some pre-wedding jitters.

Sen. Vance Hartke has been taken to task in a Pharos-Tribune editorial because he has claimed that Logansport and other Indiana cities have slums for nearly half of all housing.

Clyde Lovellette, the 6-9 forward from Kansas who plays for the St. Louis Hawks, has signed a $15,000 contract. Lovellette has improved his vertical jump by 6 inches this summer. He has been working out in a specially-made 60-pound vest.

At Greensfelder Brothers, straw hats are half price and Jarman shoes start at $8.

Indiana’s personal income in May was up 16.8 percent over the same month last year, and that’s the largest one-month increase in the country, according to BusinessWeek magazine.

A new biography of President Benjamin Harrison recalls the little-known fact that he lost a U.S. Senate race the year before he won the presidency.

At the Logansport Drive-In, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward are starring in “Rally Round the Flag Boys”.

Peru city and utility employees are planning to strike after a breakdown in wage negotiations.

Hawaiians will go to the polls this week to vote for their first U.S. representatives and state legislators.

Yves Saint-Laurent, the 23-year-old designer who has taken over for the late Christian Dior, says hemlines are going up in his fall fashion line.

The Continental League, a third Major League for baseball, has been formed through the efforts of New York’s William Shea. The league will have a New York franchise as well as teams in Toronto, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Houston and Denver.

“South Pacific” starring Mitzi Gaynor has been held over at the Logan.

Chicago poet Carl Sandburg, 80, is heading to Europe.

Robert F. Kennedy is inviting Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa to sue him for libel if any of the statements he made about Hoffa on “Meet the Press” are untrue.



100 Years Ago

Doc Waddel, an Amerrican storyteller who travels cross country on an elephant, is in Logansport.

A passenger train has traveled the 117.5 miles from Logansport to Chicago in two hours, 27 minutes.

Railroader J.M. Kelley has broken his left shoulder.

Lillian Whitehead is staying in Rome City.

The captain of the local football team has called a practice for the coming season.

The Colonial Camp at Dykeman Springs has been dissolved, and everyone has returned to their homes.

Philip Voorhees has returned from Anderson with a new Lambert automobile.

• Dave Kitchell teaches journalism at Ball State University. He can be reached through the newspaper at ptnews@pharostribune.com