100 years ago
May 13, 1926
Remonstrance was made to the city commissioners last night by a group of dissatisfied citizens relative to damage appraisals and tax assessments in connection with the condemnation of property for opening West Washington from Catalpa to Chestnut and South Woodland Avenue from Martin to Jefferson, which improvements were completed last year. Mr. and Mrs. John T. Downing and C. H. Steinbrook headed the delegation, which was composed of about half a dozen property owners.
Albert Scites last night resigned as a member of the Pittsburg board of education to become superintendent of construction of the new Lincoln and Lakeside school buildings, to be erected this spring. Dr. C. W. Ott. president of the board said today. Eimer A. Sellmansberger, cashier at the First State Bank, was unanimously elected to fill the unexpired term of Mr. Scates. Dr. Ott said today in explaining the action of Mr. Scates in resigning, that the school board's architect was in charge of hiring a superintendent of construction for the new buildings and that Mr. Scates has been obtained for the position through M. J. Stock, the architect’s representative.
Girard, May 13 - Catalogues containing complete information about the county fair to be held in Girard in July will be ready for distribution within a week or ten days, it was announced following a meeting of members of the fair board here last night. Further announcement was made that work will be started the first of next week of repairing and enlarging the barns, and repairing the grandstand and other buildings.
50 years ago
May 13, 1976
A committee of faculty members and administrators at the Kansas State College of Pittsburg is busy revising an affirmative action plan outlining college efforts to avoid discriminatory hiring practices. The plan will probably be submitted to the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare by Oct. 1, асcording to Dr. Gerald Kramer, KSCP director of employe relations and coordinator of the affirmative action committee. "They've certainly got to be the hardest working committee I've been associated with," Kramer said.
Gov. Robert F. Bennett will double as governor and actor Tuesday night in Pittsburg. The governor will have a small part in "Udell's Printer - '76" Tuesday night in the Memorial Auditorium. "He will make a speech as the governor of Kansas at that time," Mrs. Gordon Lohr, wife of the show's director, said. The musical melodrama is a dramatization of a novel by Harold Bell Wright, who lived in Pittsburg around the turn of the century. The production has been in rehearsal since February and will open Friday night.
Bicentennial pewter plates prepared as part of the opening night extravaganza for "Udell's Printer - 76" will not arrive from the manufacturer in time to be distributed at the play's premiere Friday night, Tom Murry, business manager of the Pittsburg Centennial-Bicentennial Committee, said Wednesday. The plates are scheduled to arrive from Graphic Directions in Chicago on May 19 and will be immediately delivered to purchasers, Murry said A pewter plate is part of the $37.52 package which includes two tickets to the play's premiere, a champagne reception Friday night, and a $17.76 tax deductible donation to the Centennial Committee, Murry said.
25 years ago
May 13, 2001
The Gorillas are on the loose - a new crop of graduates takes the streets this weekend, after commencement ceremonies at Pittsburg State University. The ceremonies took place at the Weede Physical Education Building at PSU. "Go get 'em," urged Mark Birmingham, Outstanding Senior Man, at the end of his commencement address Saturday. Festivities began Friday, with the U.S. ROTC Commissioning Ceremony and the Nursing Pinning Ceremony. There are also two commencement ceremonies at PSU, one on Friday evening for the graduate school, the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Technology, and one Saturday for the graduate school, the College of Business and the College of Education.
Companies may be cutting jobs nationwide, but one career seems to be quite stable these days - teaching. Graduates from education schools this spring are a hot commodity as district administrators scramble to fill vacancies, meaning this year's new crop of educators can afford to be choosy. Graduates can entertain offers form numerous Kansas schools or consider the signing bonuses and higher salaries dangled by some out of state school districts.
Brett Lewis, 7-month-old son of Mike and Angela Lewis, Pittsburg, may have noticed that his parents are happy and excited right now, but he probably doesn't know why. He'll understand though, when he starts college and is ready to use his $20,000 Celebrate 2000 Scholarship. The scholarship program was sponsored by The Morning Sun and the Morris Communications Foundation, which is providing a $20,000 scholarship to a baby born in each of its 29 daily newspaper markets as part of its Celebrate 2000 program. Any baby born during the year 2000 in Crawford County was eligible to enter the drawing for the local scholarship. Brett was born Nov. 7, 2000, at Mt. Carmel Medical Center.
