December 31, 2024
25 Years Ago - January 4, 2000
Fiscal Court voted in a special meeting on Dec. 30 to proceed with all phases of the emergency command center project, including purchase of property.
Before the vote, the court went into closed session to discuss land purchase for the center to be built on.
After the 1997 flood, the Army Corps of Engineers determined the county would not be eligible for any money for flood control, but it would qualify for funds for an early warning system. The county qualified for $400,000 in Federal Emergency Management Agency funds that can be used toward building an emergency command center, which will house the 911 center. The county would be responsible for 35 percent of the $400,000.
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Despite all the dire predictions of Y2K dilemmas such as computer failures, acts of terrorism, bombings and other horrors, most Pendleton Countians entered the new millennium in relative quietness.
In readiness for Y2K complications, local emergency personnel did, however, make preparations.
“We didn’t treat Y2K as a disaster, but as an event, Mike Keeney of the Kentucky State Police said. “We were looking for DUIs.”
50 Years Ago - January 3, 1975
Pendleton County Circuit Court Clerk Judy Booth was pictured with the new camera that will be used this year to take photos of auto and truck drivers.
The cost of driver’s licenses will be $4. Licenses will be good for two years.
Booth invited the public to drop by to see the camera in action. The first license photo was taken about 9 a.m. Jan. 2, when the office opened for the new year.
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Many citizens and businesses gave to the Falmouth Firemen’s Christmas Fund to buy toys, candy and fruit for children and families in need, Chief Melvin Hart said.
Hart listed contributors and their gifts, totaling $354.02 in cash, plus donations of fruit, toys and candy from several businesses, including Bi-Rite Super Market, Wyatt’s Grocery, Lerman’s Store, Moreland Drug, Western Auto, the Pendleton County Food Bank, Paul Klee and Charles Tackett.
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Morehead State University is offering a graduate course in mathematics in Pendleton County during the spring semester.
Math 675, Problem Solving and the Teach of Math in the Elementary School, will be taught at 4 p.m. Thursdays at Southern Elementary School.
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Morgan Christian Church will hold a special “Service of the People” congregational participation event involving new insights into the parables of Jesus.
Service is set for 7 p.m. Jan. 5.
75 Years Ago - January 6, 1950
The body of 2nd Lt. Desmond Earl Steele will arrive in Falmouth 10:30 a.m. Friday on an L&N train.
Steele was serving aboard an American bomber that was shot down over Germany in 1944. The War Department told his parents, Mrs. and Mrs. Garnett Steele, that he was missing in action.
After 4 1/2 years, his body was found buried in a prisoner of war cemetery in Germany, and is now being sent home for burial.
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Butler Council in its first meeting of 1950 on Monday voted to retire $1,020 in water bonds that had been issued in 1933. The bonds were scheduled to be retired in 1953.
Council also ordered that all bills be paid, and recessed until Jan. 16.
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The champion team of the Falmouth invitational basketball tournament is the Morgan Raiders, coached by Richard Gulick.
Morgan beat Berry 40-35.
Morgan, which had defeated Berry earlier in the season, was forced to use every resource to win the game. Leading by only a point at halftime, 16-15, Morgan outscored Berry 14-11 in the third quarter.
In the consolation game between Falmouth and Williamstown, the Falmouth Red Devils emerged the victor, 52-40.
Leading scorers for Falmouth were forward David Parker with 20 points and forward Billy Johnson with 14.
100 Years Ago - January 2, 1925
An unusual combination of circumstances caused the loss of a camp truck belonging to J.T. Jones, nomadic corn plaster salesman, on Christmas Eve.
Jones, with his wife and four little children, have been camped at Lake View for a month.
They started from their home in Pittsburgh early in the fall, and were going to Florida. But after arriving in Falmouth, they met many tourists coming back from the South, who advised them not to attempt the Florida trip, owing to the condition of the roads.
So they decided to state in Falmouth for the winter in their tent, which is built on the body of a small truck.
Mrs. Jones was ironing some clothes about dusk Christmas Eve and glass jar of gasoline, which was sitting on a shelf above the stove, fell and broke. The fluded ran over the floor. When it reached the flame of the family stove, it ignited, and in an instant, the thin walls of their canvas home were in flame.
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S.A. Teacher of Indianapolis returned to Falmouth Monday, accompanied by two consulting engineers, who, it is reported, will go over the entire territory of the proposed hydroelectric dam on the Licking River three miles from Falmouth.
The engineers, it is reported, will open offices at once in this city, as there is a vast amount of work connected with the final survey for the dam.
Practically all options have been taken from the point where the dam is to be built to Myer’s Eddy, a distance of about 40 miles, and the point where the great pool created by the dam will terminate.