November 26, 2024
25 Years Ago - November 30, 1999
Gov. Paul Patton presented a $989,0000 for Pendleton County to Judge Executive Henry Bertram on Nov. 29.
The Community Development Block Grant is for the construction of 28 miles of water lines for a part of the county relying on contaminated cisterns.
“These households rely primarily on cisterns, most of which are contaminated,” Patton said.
An existing telemetry system also will be replaced.
The projected cost of the construction is $1.98 million.
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Retiring firefighter Richard Halcomb was honored Nov. 27 at the annual Falmouth Fire Department Christmas Dinner.
Presenting Halcomb with his retirement plaque for 20 years of service was his son, Doug Halcomb.
“Dedication is what this department is all about,” the younger Halcomb said. “Without the dedication of the department, I don’t know how hour family would have made it when my father was injured while fighting a structure fire in downtown Falmouth in the early ’70s.”
Halcomb had fallen and broken his back while fighting a fire at Charlie Tackett’s Hardware on West Shelby Street.
John Justice was also recognized as a retiring firefighter, with 12 years of service.
50 Years Ago - November 29 1974
Many tobacco farmers were disappointed Monday with opening day burley prices, even though $100 to $112 per hundredweight bids were common and broke price records.
Some warehouses in Lexington and Glasgow stopped sales as prices failed to satisfy tobacco farmers, who say the 1974 crop has been the most expensive on record to raise.
With 27 of the 30 Kentucky market cities reporting, the unofficial tally showed an average price of $108.90 per hundred pounds, $22.51 above last year’s opening day average.
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Falmouth fire Chief James “Shorty” Taylor turned in a resignation letter to Mayor Max Goldberg Dec. 4, citing ill health.
The resignation will be effective Jan. 1.
Taylor is leaving the department as it receives the best and prettiest and biggest fire truck in the history of the department, costing more than $35,000.
His many friends said they are sorry to see Taylor leave just as the department has reached the highest pinnacle in its history.
75 Years Ago - December 2, 1949
Veach Redd, prominent Cynthiana businessman for the past many years, was the principal speaker at the 25th birthday anniversary of the Falmouth Rotary Club on Tuesday night at the city school.
Mr. Redd was introduced to the 125 Rotarians from August, Williamstown, Covington, Newport and Cynthiana by Henry W. Bishop, the toastmaster.
After dinner, the group was called to order by Falmouth Rotary President Dr. Dexter Meyer. The invocation was given by the Rev. McClure of Cynthiana.
The Rotarians sang many of their familiar songs, led by the Rev. Carl Sears. The welcome address was given by C. Harold Ewing, and the response by Milburn Taylor, president of the Cynthiana Club, which fathered the local organization in 1924.
The benediction was pronounced by Walter Hobday.
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Pendleton County Airport was a life-saver Thanksgiving Day for two Army flyers who were in distress flying a National Guard plane AT-5 from Knoxville, Tennessee. They had wandered astray due to bad flying conditions.
Lt. R.T. Crowe, pilot, accompanied by his mechanic, didn’t recognize the city being Falmouth, and therefore didn’t know where to locate the local airport.
Their gas tank became so low while flying over Falmouth that they attempted to land in the fairground. However, after pulling up out of this property with their motor still sputtering, one of the men spied the 1,800-foot landing strip and landed the plane.
Lt. Crowe and his companion expressed their appreciation and a word of thanks for a landing strip so good in a town of this size.. The Pendleton County landing strip is an all-weather strip and can be used every day of the year.
A large air marker on the fairgrounds amphitheater roof has been painted by local air enthusiasts.
100 Years Ago - November 28, 1924
Friday, Nov. 28, has been designated as campaign day for funds for the Kentucky Orphans’ Home in Butler.
The quota for that section is $500.
It is hoped that the people of that town will respond liberally to this worthy cause.
The Falmouth campaign closed last week with total subscriptions amounting to $1,230.59, which was more than the quota set. The amount will be increased when several solicitors make their final reports.
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H.C. Pettit of near Butler won several big prizes at the Northern Kentucky Apple Show last week in Covington.
Some of the finest specimens ever produced in Northern Kentucky were on exhibit, and it is quite a feather in Mr. Pettit’s cap to capture the prizes.
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From the “This and That” column by J.U. Riggle:
• If you do not know much, do not talk much and no one will know what a big fool you are.
• The women of the present day never have any old clothes to work over or give to a tramp.
• Many a man has a heart as large as an elephant’s, but liberality is restricted in giving only advice.
• A great many men begin the world as poor boys and end it the same way.
• If a girl marries the right man, she will never have any trouble in supporting herself and poor relatives.
• An honest politician would do better in some other business where there is not so much temptation.