The Dads Club at Manual High School held its annual fish fry, which featured Principal Edgar Stahl as head chef. Fish sandwiches and hot dogs cost 25 and 15 cents, respectively. Side dishes were a dime.
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Tuition at Indiana Central College’s evening school was $10 per credit hour.
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Margaret Brand’s dog gave birth to seven babies, and her cat delivered four kittens.
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Grocery specials included a pound of bacon for 39 cents, 10 pounds of potatoes for 29 cents and a 7-ounce can of pineapple for 10 cents.
Fifty Years Ago This Week – 1965
Known for its popular McGinty Dodge Boys, McGinty Dodge, 3419 S. East St., was celebrating its first anniversary with a blowout sale on all new cars.
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Cosmas Mascari was installed as grand knight of Monsignor Downey Knights of Columbus Council 3360, 511 E. Thompson Road. Also installed were Paul Schroeder, deputy grand knight; William Penish, chancellor; Sherman Sheridan, recorder; William Schaefer, financial secretary; and Charles Racer, lecturer.
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El Dorado Country Club, 2080 S. State Road 135, Greenwood, hosted a Hawaiian luau. Guests made their way onto the grounds by driving through a torch-lit driveway and entered the clubhouse via a grass shack. Mr. and Mrs. Jack C. Denhart, Mrs. and Mrs. Paul Ziegler and Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Casse were responsible for most of the arrangements.
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Adrian Orchards, 500 W. Epler Ave., boasted a large supply of tree-fresh McIntosh and Jonathan apples as it opened for its 33rd season.
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G.C. Murphy in Fountain Square was hosting a toy sale. All of the following items were 99 cents each: a four-pack of Play-Doh, plastic trucks, battery-operated cars (batteries not included), a dart game and six children’s books.
Forty Years Ago This Week – 1975
Indianapolis mayoral candidate William Hudnut and Beulah Coughenour, who was running for a seat on the City-County Council, were busy on the campaign trail.
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Dick Russell, manager of Preferred TV and Appliances, 7105 Madison Ave., announced that he was holding a spectacular sale on his Quasar TVs, including a 19-inch color set that was marked down to $318.
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Mount Pleasant Christian Church, 381 N. Bluff Road, Greenwood, held a groundbreaking ceremony for its educational wing.
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Joe and Dick Miller, who owned Miller’s Regal Market at the corner of Madison and Terrace avenues, were facing a dilemma as vandals were stealing their grocery carts, which cost $55 each.
Thirty Years Ago This Week – 1985
For the first time in its 70-year history, St. Francis Hospital was laying off employees and closing departments. The cuts were blamed on a falling patient count.
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Illegal dumping was becoming such a nuisance that Mayor William Hudnut launched a major offensive against those violating the law. He planned to utilize additional police officers and a helicopter to track down offenders.
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Southport Christian Church, 201 E. Epler Ave., held a mortgage-burning ceremony.
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The Perry Soccer Club’s under-16 team finished third in the White River regional tournament. The squad featured Jeff Bell, Derick Mosher, Paul Kinser, Erick Cox, Scott Risser, Gary Bopp, David Wunch, Craig Welch, Shawn Cannon, Pete Oaks, Tony Denizo, Matt Hostrawser, Erick Johnson, Mark Susemichael, Doug Wofal, Chris Miceli and coaches Mike Moore, Robert Lively, Bill Schrand, Nolan Taylor and Ken Mowrak.
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Joe Gillum and Mike Irmer each scored two touchdowns as Roncalli rolled to a 45-6 win over Manual. Mike Caskey and Ron Roembke also scored for the Rebels. The Redskins’ TD came on James Shelton’s 68-yard run.
Twenty Years Ago This Week 1995
Greenwood Municipal Airport celebrated its continued growth and new runway by hosting an open house. The event featured $10 plane rides, aerial games by local pilots and a fly-in by a huge military helicopter from the Indiana National Guard.
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Fireside South Restaurant, 522 E. Raymond St., was putting its new Jazz Cellar to use by hosting Cathy Morris and Collage.
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Butch Costello of Mooresville hit a hole-in-one and won a new Buick Riviera during a golf tournament sponsored by Jim Stewart Tire Co. at Royal Oak Country Club in Greenwood.
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Microsoft reportedly paid The Rolling Stones $12 million to use the song “Start Me Up” as the theme of its Windows 95 software campaign.
Ten Years Ago This Week 2005
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