Looking Back

25 Years Ago - April 20, 1999

Jerry Warren, 55, of the Louisville area, was piloting a single-engine Mooney airplane at 5:30 p.m. April 17 when engine trouble forced him to make a crash landing on the AA Highway near Iler Road, about a quarter mile south of the Pendleton County line.

Warren survived the landing without injury, but later succumbed to an apparent heart attack.

Warren’s was one of two planes flying together. In landing, Warren’s plane tapped a horse trailer being pulled along the AA Highway from behind, which knocked a wheel from the bottom of his plane. The plane skidded to a halt in the middle of the roadway without striking any vehicles.

Dispatcher Sandy Heck took the call at Pendleton County Communication Center. Emergency personnel on  the scene were Northern Pendleton Ambulance, Northern Pendleton Fire Department, Bracken County EMS, Augusta Fire Department, Pendleton County Deputy Craig Peoples and Kentucky State Troopers Derek Hall and Michael Keeney.

Warren was transported to St. Luke Hospital East by Bracken County EMS. The accident remains under investigation by Hall and the Federal Aviation Agency.

50 Years Ago - April 19, 1974

After Falmouth Mayor Max H. Goldberg and Kentucky State Police had come to an “understanding” last week, the whole thing has no resulted into a “misunderstanding” and as a result, the Kentucky State Police are no longer enforcing Kentucky law in the city of Falmouth.

However, Kentucky State Police are continuing to patrol and enforce the law in Pendleton County, outside the city limits of Falmouth.

Goldberg has the sole authority to order the state police out of his city. However, he has shared the responsibility with his city councilmen, namely Mike Fisher, Howard Showalter Jr., Mike Moore, Alexander Caldwell and Cliff Podar, who all met Monday night to discuss a final letter of Col. I.C. Pyles, commander, in the state of Kentucky.

Goldberg’s letter of April 8 states, in part, “It is my understanding now that the state police will not be patrolling side streets in the City of Falmouth and hiding behind corners to make arrests, and it is my further understanding that any arrests made will be on the highway running through the City of Falmouth only.”

Pyles’ succinct reply on April 10 states, in part, “As the matter of our jurisdiction now stands, we do not have jurisdiction in the City of Falmouth and cannot accept piecemeal jurisdiction that you have offered in your letter of April 8, 1974.”

Goldberg is the mayor who originally invited the Kentucky State Police into the city approximately 20 years ago and the relationship has been good all this time until recently.

75 Years Ago - April 22, 1949

Falmouth City Council is $5,378.17 richer this week through their efforts and that of their city clerk.

The check received Thursday morning at the office of City Clerk F.T. Chipman from the United States government includes $588 in interest.

The check covers a period of four years and represents tax money Falmouth has paid the government when actually, the city was exempt.

Mayor D. Barnett Casey, council members and the clerk began wondering some months ago why the city must pay manufacturer’s excise tax of its percent of the gross amount of money received from water and light bills.

Casey investigated and found that Falmouth was exempt from this tax. An effort to regain this money for the city has been made for the past several months.

100 Years Ago - April 18, 1924

S.J. Lawry, connected with the Agricultural Extension Department was in Falmouth last Saturday and was anxious that Pendleton County engage a farm agent for this year.

The federal government pays one half the salary of the farm agent.

Bracken, Campbell, Kenton, Boone, Grant and Harrison counties have the services of a farm agent, and these counties are making great strides in advancing the condition of the farmers in raising better crops, fruit, cattle and poultry.

The services of a live farm agent is a great benefit to the farmers, and the progressive citizens of the county should get together and make an effort to have a farm agent.