Looking Back on Camp County Feb. 14

10 YEARS AGO
Possible debris from the Space Shuttle Columbia discovered at Paradise Village in Camp County.
Bernard Hamilton, a Frederick Douglass High School and Prairie View A&M graduate, spoke at the annual Black History Program sponsored by the Northeast Texas Rural Heritage Museum Association.
Sarah Beth Gooding and Corey Thompson qualified for the University Interscholastic League State cross examination meet.
20 YEARS AGO
The last of the old buildings in downtown Cason are torn down.
Renee Turner, Chris Smith, Neal Kemph, Brian Karnes, Heather Harrel and Cheyenne Davis Make the All-Region Band.
Intermediate school students’ “Jump Rope for Heart” raises $4,000 for the American Heart Association. Top money raisers were Crystal Bryant and Vicki Stokes.
30 YEARS AGO
Pilgrim Industries names John Haid as senior vice president.
City council approves construction of a new baseball field. The new park will cost approximately $10,000.
Eighth grade Pirates win District basketball title.
40 YEARS AGO
Gini Pendergrass named Miss Pittsburg in Business and Professional Women’s Club pageant. Brenda Kimbell named junior miss.
Chester Strickland is outstanding eighth grade basketball player.
Ogilvie Chapter plans centennial celebration.
Pittsburg Refrigeration to open.
50 YEARS AGO
Robert Turner appointed to school board after Fred Efurd resigns.
Future Farmers elect Glenda Barrett as FFA Sweetheart and Pam Richardson as Greenhand Sweetheart.
60 YEARS AGO
Camp County farmers set a silo tour.
Park board presents plans to voluntary work crew.
Boy Scout leaders hold area banquet.
Local stores are burglarized.
Mass meeting called to organize Little League.
70 YEARS AGO
Shoe rationing begins with three pair a year for each man, woman and child.
80 YEARS AGO
Temperature drops to 1 degree below zero.
W.C. Hargrove lectures about his trip to Europe at the Baptist Church.
Kiln-dried yams bring 60 cents a bushel.
100 YEARS AGO
Z. Bailey’s residence burns.
Texas ministers go on record opposing “buggy marriages.”
J.F. Albright was superintendent of the new ice and coal plant.
105 YEARS AGO
W.L. Garrett buys the C.G. Davis residence.
A prohibition election was called for the county.
While Misses Nora and Ella Black were driven to town in a one-horse buggy, one of the wheels came off and they ran at break-neck speed toward town for several hundred yards. The horse was stopped by Clyde Davis. One of the girls fainted.