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Fifty Years Ago This Week – 1967
C.R. Wilsey was named to serve as chairman of the Heart Fund in Marion County. He was charged with coordinating the work of more than 9,000 volunteers, whose goal was to raise $163,500.
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More than 900 owners and managers of Indiana retail stores planned to introduce legislation in the General Assembly to halt Sunday retail sales, excluding food and drug items.
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Jimmy McDaniels played the piano Monday through Saturday nights at the Driftwood Lounge, 3512 Madison Ave. (Editor’s note: Teenagers loved the place because it was known for serving minors.)
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The new Eli Lilly and Co. building under construction off the 1200 block of Madison Avenue was going to be the tallest structure on the Southside.
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St. Patrick Grade School’s seventh-and eighth-grade basketball team won the Sacred Heart Holiday Tournament behind the offensive firepower of Ray Boylan, Paul Lombardo, Frank Venezia and Dan Bayt.
Forty Years Ago This Week – 1977
Gas was 52.9 cents a gallon with the purchase of a car wash at Kopetsky’s 224 E. County Line Road.
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The Gorman English Avenue Boys Club was celebrating its 50th anniversary.
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Dr. Frank W. Fortuna was elected president of St. Francis Hospital’s medical staff.
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Pant suits and jump suits cost $10 and $12, respectively, at Callie’s Clothes Closet, 111 N. 17th Ave., Beech Grove, where blouses and slacks were priced from $3.
Thirty Years Ago This Week – 1987
Jennifer Herron, a 1980 graduate of Roncalli, was a choreographer for the Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders. She also operated a fitness studio at 2210 E. Southport Road.
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The Midwest Antique Fruit Jar & Bottle Club was going to meet at the Holiday Inn Southeast, I-465 and Emerson Ave. The gathering would feature a “jam session” for collectors of jelly containers.
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Southern Plaza was hosting a winter Mardi Gras sale-a-bration.
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Roncalli’s Eric A. Schott and Anthony J. Farrell were named to the All-State Faith and Family football team.
Twenty Years Ago This Week – 1997
Russell Bertram, a 1983 graduate of Perry Meridian, won the Phillips 66 National Diving Championships in platform diving.
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Reach for Youth, an award-winning agency located at 5110 Madison Ave., was one on 29 Indiana youth organizations that would benefit from a $891,000 grant from Eli Lilly and Co.
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Calvary Lutheran first-grader Kiersten Scifres, daughter of Don and Jill Scifres, won a bike in a drawing held during the school’s walkathon.
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The Greenwood Police Department was seeking clues in the theft of $14,000 worth of sound and lighting equipment from a Party Time Sound van.
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Re/Max Realtor Daniel T. Moriarty was appointed regional vice president of the national Residential Sales Council, which served Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. He and his wife, Melinda, had two children.
Ten Years Ago This Week – 2007
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