In celebration of opening a shop at 6952 Madison Ave., Swengle Ice Cream Store featured a buy one, get one free special on all of its fountain treats.
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Harry Tilson’s Orchestra was scheduled to perform at the St. Roch Catholic Youth Organization’s ball at Lake Shore Country Club, where Louis Annee Jr. and Barbara Kuhn would be crowned king and queen.
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Ground was broken for St. Francis Hospital’s $12 million expansion, which would improve the X-ray, surgical and emergency centers and provide residence quarters for Franciscan sisters who worked at the hospital.
Fifty Years Ago This Week – 1964
Harlow Hickenlooper, the local host of “The Three Stooges” television show, was going to make a special appearance at Indianapolis Public School 31’s spring bazaar and fish fry.
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The folks from General Electric erected a huge “bubble tent” at Southern Plaza so J.C. Brill Appliances could host a sale that featured 23-inch console televisions for $158 and 19-inch portable sets for $112.88 with a trade.
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The Perry Township elementary school under construction in the 400 block of East Stop 11 Road would be named in honor of five-star Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who had recently died.
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Safeway Quality Foods, 1202 Prospect St., advertised pork chops for 59 cents a pound; pork roast, 39 cents a pound; 20 pounds of potatoes, 99 cents; and seven cans of applesauce for $1.
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The starting pay in Perry Township Schools for a teacher with a bachelor’s degree was $5,150.
Forty Years Ago This Week – 1974
The PTA of Burkhart Elementary was planning its 17th annual home and garden tour, which featured the residences of Mr. and Mrs. C.G. Antcliff, Mr. and Mrs. Jay Denny, Mr. and Mrs. Winston Hawkins, Mr. and Mrs. R.E. Laughlin, Dr. and Mrs. E.H. Massey, Jackie McCarthy, Mrs. and Mrs. Gordon Zeider and Mr. and Mrs. John Dallas.
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Officials from Indiana Central College were reviewing their blueprints for a $6.25 million library and media center.
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Charles Sonnenberg, vice president of Kennedy Tank and Manufacturing, was elected to head the Steel Tank Institute, which represented companies that fabricated vessels of all sizes.
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Manual seniors and twins Mark and Tonya Campbell were crowned king and queen of the school’s pow-wow dance.
Thirty Years Ago This Week – 1984
William “Don” Payton and Robert Lee Marley announced their candidacies for the Indianapolis School Board. Marley a graduate of Indiana State University, considered himself a “bright, young, highly visible and energetic candidate who was concerned with the total educational process of the present and future generations.”
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Residents of Carriage Estates, near Stop 11 Road and Shelby Street, were holding their second annual neighborhood garage sale.
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Harold P. Jordan, a 1929 graduate of Southport, was named the school’s inaugural Alumnus of the Year. He had been a state and national figure in the promotion of farmers cooperatives for many years.
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Dorothy Reinacker Monroe was named Manual’s Alumnus of the Year. She graduated from the high school in 1944 and earned her bachelor’s degree from Butler four years later. A longtime teacher at Manual, she and her husband, Harry, had two daughters, Peggy Standish and Mari Monroe.
Twenty Years Ago This Week – 1994
Tri-Land Properties purchased Southern Plaza and announced that it would invest $4 million in the shopping center over the next two to three years. The center suffered from a 37 percent vacancy rate.
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Erica Conway, Morgan Landis, Amy Fiedman, Breanne Stroub and Kelli Bush from Dancedreams Studio took honors in tap, ballet and jazz during a regional dance competition. They were pupils of Jenna Casselman.
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Matt Tebbe and Kristen Conkin starred in Roncalli’s production of “Guys and Dolls.”
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Politicians Mike Murphy, Larry Buell, Norman E. Clampitt, Jack Cottey, Chuck Stumpf, Rich Eskew and Dan Burton pleaded their cases through ads on why they should be elected to various offices.
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Perry Township’s 10-year-old AAU basketball team from Burkhart and MacArthur elementary schools completed its season with a fine showing in the state tournament. The squad featured Jay Sandefur, Nick Heneger, Robert Funk, Rob Cox, Scott Wenclewice, Billy Sering, Brandon Moore, Matt Hogan, Kirk Cothran, Ross Baron, Cody Bell, Eric Vargas, Scott Hensly and coaches Ed Vargas, Paul Weaver and Bruce Moore.
Ten Years Ago This Week – 2004
A van veered off of the 1100 block of East Thompson Road and crashed into Perry Township Fire Station No. 1. The damage wasn’t extensive, and the motorist was transported to Methodist Hospital, where she was listed in stable condition.
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Editor Jerry Cosby reported on his 15-minute flight in a Black Hawk helicopter over Indianapolis.
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Erick Reisinger, son of Rick and Reisinger, attained the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest honor attainable in Scouting. He achieved the distinction after organizing a coat drive for the homeless.
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Dani Sylvester and Nick Stanton were crowned queen and king at Southport’s prom. Other members of the court were Eric Bockelman, Brent Rosenburg, Brian Cairns, Andy Busch, Jimmy DuPriest, Rachel Kriese, Whitney Dulla, Jennifer Zinser, Elana Knight and Kim Rhodes.
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The first recorded pair of bald eagles nesting in Indianapolis produced the city’s first eaglets. Department of Natural Resources photographer John Maxwell confirmed two chicks in the nest at Southwestway Park. A second nest had been sighted on the Southwestside near the White River.