Looking back on Camp County the week of March 7

10 YEARS AGO
Christine Boyd won the Good Samaritan Award at the annual extension appreciation banquet. Greg Efurd took home the Agricultural Producer of the Year Award, and the Family and Community Life Award went to Brenda Westall.
Earlene Jones, with 20 years in the real estate business, joins Century 21.
Ed Hicks is honored with a retirement party at Hibernia Bank. Mr. Hicks has been in the banking business for 40 years.
20 YEARS AGO
Forty community leaders travel to the state capitol for Pittsburg Day in Austin.
Whitney and Brandy Page compete in District 5 4-H food show.
Jarrod Watson wins Drucilla Pitts Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution essay contest.
30 YEARS AGO
Michael Smead of Waynesville, Ohio, is in critical condition following a two-vehicle wreck on U.S. Highway 271.
State-ranked New Boston Lions defeat the Pirates 56-43 in playoff action.
Brian Ramsey, Greg Porzucek, Christer Fredriksson, Stephen Davis and Pat Parker make the All-Region Band.
40 YEARS AGO
Pittsburg National Bank declares stock dividend. W.R. DeWoody is named chairman of the PNB board.
Methodist youth enjoy Lakeview retreat.
Hospital volunteer auxiliary being formed.
50 YEARS AGO
Camp County FFA student Willie Joe Boyd wins Fort Worth press essay contest.
Open house will be observed at public schools.
60 YEARS AGO
Four traffic accidents reported in four-day period.
Boys’ basketball tournament under way.
80 YEARS AGO
Texas peach crop was killed and numerous cattle die from the cold.
An Indian pot and skull were unearthed near Cypress.
100 YEARS AGO
Pittsburg Electric & Ice Co. has another car of Dewar coal. It can be used in cooking stoves the same as wood without even changing grates.
The city council ordered a curfew ordinance prohibiting boys under 16 remaining on the streets after 9 at night without the permission of parents or guardians.
110 YEARS AGO
Fifty thousand dollars worth of intoxicants are sold in Camp County annually.
Four kinds of weather experienced in four hours.