Looking Back

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10 YEARS AGO
Bobby Strelow crowned Miss PHS 2004. Hailey McClelland was first runner-up. 
Pittsburg Lions Club turns 50.
Pittsburg High School Band wins sweepstakes award. Jason Steele is the band director. 
Lady Pirates  advance to area softball play-offs with a 3-1 victory over Bullard. 
20 YEARS AGO
A truck and a Southern Pacific train collide at Clayton Street crossing. Over 20,000 dozen eggs were strewn down the track. No one was injured.
Grand opening and ribbon cutting held at Subway.
Alicia Lyle is named Miss Pittsburg High School. First runner-up is Dara Dodson.
30 YEARS AGO
Pittsburg High School top graduates announced. Sharon Griffin is valedictorian with 98.33 grade point average. Paula Bradshaw and Stephen Davis tie for salutatorian with 94.2 average. 
Ambulance service holds open house at new facilities on Church Street.
Byron Linwood elected defensive captain for Texas Christian University’s football team.
Gordon Bynum retires from post office. He began work in November 1962.
 
40 YEARS AGO
John Waddell Co. of Longview began construction of a $444,000 two-story wing to the local hospital.
Camp County ranked third in peach production in Texas with a total of 28,000 bushels from 29,000 bearing-age trees (figures released from 1973).
50 YEARS AGO
Junior high honor students are Paula Matkin and Henry Garrett. Jill Spratt named Rodeo Queen.
60 YEARS AGO
May Fete presented at football field. Lacy Seale named Pittsburg High School top athlete by coach Joe Blount. Seven baby wolves found in county. Band wins sweepstakes honors.
70 YEARS AGO
Sterling Wood Products Co. receives new machinery for expansion. Senate passes largest Naval bill in history.
80 YEARS AGO
Dr. Pat Neff addresses senior class at Pittsburg High School. Texas had 10 candidates for governor. Four houses in Happy Hollow destroyed by fire.
 
110 YEARS AGO
Hens were selling for 25 cents. A Dallas audience pays Madame Sembrick $7,000 for three songs. Many Pittsburg residents were making plans to attend the World’s Fair.
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