Looking Back on Camp County March 21

10 YEARS AGO
The Volunteer Christian Builders traveled to Camp County to help fellow Christians at Piney Grove Baptist Church build a new facility.
Rick Rowe, a roving reporter from Channel 3 in Shreveport, La, was in Pittsburg doing a live show from the Prayer Tower.
Kendall Todd is named basketball’s Coach of the Year for District 15-AAA. Lamar Hughes was co-winner of Most Valuable Player, and Brannan Moton was chosen as Offensive Player of the Year. Pirates named to the First Team were Marvin Porter, Colin Friday, Brayland McIntosh and Joe Mumphrey.
20 YEARS AGO
First State Bank has been ranked among America’s strongest financial institutions by Bauer Reports, a national rating service.
Primary school students Brandy Hill, Yorsheika White, Dana Shirley, Kristi Berry and Evan Clinton earn five places in the District University Interscholastic League (UIL) competition.
Pittsburg High School baseball team raises its record to 8-4.
Northeast Texas Rural Heritage Museum, in existence for only 19 months, is named most outstanding in the region by the Northeast Texas Museum Association.
30 YEARS AGO
Dallas man drowns in Lake Bob Sandlin.
Pittsburg Independent School District employs Ronny Menn as head football coach.
Sonya Warrick crowned Junior Miss Northeast Texas.
Arts council presents Riverboat Ragtime Revue.
40 YEARS AGO
Bennie Allen receives National Achievement Scholarship.
New regional radio links area law officers. Sixty-foot tower erected on courthouse lawn.
Don Reynolds elected president of Library Friends.
Jim Jones is new assistant band director.
Pirate runner Eddie Champion sets new record at Kilgore Relays.
50 YEARS AGO
Early morning fire destroys the Hoffman Brothers potato storage warehouse.
Dr. Jorge Toledo, M.D., to join M&S Hospital staff.
60 YEARS AGO
A.H. Skipper was exhibiting a hammer he had used for 34 years which was carrying the same handle.
Floyd Berry received the first monthly courtesy award given by the chamber of commerce for most courteous salesman.
70 YEARS AGO
Camp County’s war bond quota was $11,500.
Harris Brothers sells their 3,000 bushels of yams to S.D. Carpenter for $3 a bushel.
The OPA raises the price of bread crumbs to two and a half cents per pound.
80 YEARS AGO
President Roosevelt declares a bank moratorium as part remedy for the nation’s financial trouble.
Dr. R.L. Martin and family moved to Pittsburg from Dallas.
Rural schools were facing a four-month term in 1933-34.
110 YEARS AGO
The Rev. Burrell Cannon was preparing to make lectures in the north on the principle of the Ezekiel Airship.
The county goes dry on a 187 vote margin.
Everett Bryson receives a severe cut on his arm while wrestling with a playmate.
Twenty arrested near furniture factory for shooting craps.