October 17, 2023
25 Years Ago -October 20, 1998
Rescue efforts at Dravo Lime's Black River Plant on Highway 8 near Carntown came to a halt at 10:18 p.m. Tuesday, October 13. The body of 45-year-old Michael Sanzere, of Dayton, KY, was found by rescuers under the funnel cone that had ruptured and broke loose from a silo storage bin. The accident happened at 9:40 a.m. October 12. Approximately 600 tons of limestone came crashing down on the roof of the single-story, cinder block maintenance/storage building, burying Sanzere underneath.
Some of the firefighters who came to help at the Dravo accident site came on board fire trucks, emergency vehicles, cars, trucks, and by TANK. Both days, over 100 firefighters and other emergency personnel were on-site working and waiting to help take turns in crews that went in to shovel limestone, cut beams, remove collapsed pieces of ceiling, walls, and cut metal pieces from the funnel-shaped storage bin's bottom that collapsed.
50 Years Ago - October 19, 1973
The October Grand Jury Monday returned an 11-count indictment charging two men with murder, armed robbery, and rape to connection with the slaying of a Lexington minister and his two children on October 1st. Fayette Circuit Judge L. T. Grant set bonds at $750,000 each for Wilmer F. Scott, 33, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and James William Sloan, 24, of Louisville, who are now confined at Eddyville. Scott and Sloan are under $250,000 bond each in Pendleton County in connection with three slayings at Falmouth, making total bond at $1 million for each man.
President Nixon nominated House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford, 60, Friday night to become vice-president and summoned Americans to "a new beginning" for the sake of national unity and strength.
The Falmouth Pee-Wee Football team defeated the Florence Razor Bucks by the score of 18-6 here Thursday.
75 Years Ago - October 22, 1948
Sheriff Alvin Thompson and deputy Clarence Aulick and the Falmouth police force are on the lookout the week for the individuals responsible in robbing the Hancock & Moore Oil Co. in Falmouth Saturday morning. The thieves got a number of tiers, some tools, a radio, and a quantity of pennies belonging to the firm. Entrance was gained by breaking a year window in the service station, which is located on the new U.S. 27 and by breaking a padlock on their warehouse in the rear of the property. A ball gum machine belonging to Russell Ballinger of Falmouth was also taken.
Again this year, the Morgan Future Farmers of America will sponsor a donkey basketball game on Wednesday, October 27, at 8 p.m. Once you see one of those games, you won't miss another.
An enthusiastic audience of 200 heard Miss Sara Rives speak on "Mental Health of School Children" to the Falmout Parent-Teacher Association]n at its meeting Thursday night, October 14, in the school auditorium.
100 Years Ago -October 19, 1923
G. W. Brejel, manager of the Expansion Department of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, was in Falmouth making arrangements with the city officials for the coming of the Cincinnati business men on Tuesday, October 23. The purpose of making this trip is for these Cincinnati business men to learn more concerning the territory to be visited and particularly to see our city in order that they may better understand its possibilities from a business standpoint, and furthermore, that they may meet customers with whom they have entertained business relations, in some instances of many generations standing.
In June, the prospect looked gloomy for supplying all the schools with teachers because our county had only 40 percent resident teachers; but after more than four months of constant effort on the part of this office, our county faculty was completed last week and the last two schools began then, Galloway and Blackburn.
Ed Houston, one of the best fellows in the world, residing near Concord, presented the editor of the outlook with a flour sack full of choice Jersey sweet potatoes, some of which weighed two pounds.
The Falmouth football team will play the Original Ibold team of Cincinnati at the Fairgrounds Park on Sunday afternoon, October 21, at 2:30 o'clock.
The case of the administrator of Elmer Price, deceased, for $10,000 against a Kenton county sawmill was settled Tuesday at Independence after going to trial. Young Price was killed last May when he was working with a sawmill outfit. He fell and struck the circular saw and was cut in two. Byron & Cole represented the plaintiff.