4-14 Early Files

75 years ago                    
April 10, 1936

Resigns W.P.A. Post
L.V. Raley, for the past eight years city and county engineer in the Works Progress Administration program, submitted his resignation to the City Council this week and, with Mrs. Raley, will leave soon for Roanoke, Va., where he will be employed in the federal government’s reforestation program.

Cundiff heads Rotary
Roger F. Cundiff, director of athletics at Lebanon High School, this week was elected president of Lebanon Rotary Club by the organizations board of directors. He will take office July 1, succeeding C.J. Edmonds.

P.T.A. unit elects
Mrs. William Lancaster Smith was elected president of the St. Augustine Parent-Teacher Association for 1936-37 at the organizations annual business session held Monday at the school…Mrs. J. Bell Minor, president of Lebanon Parent-Teacher Association for the past year, was re-elected to another term in that post at a Monday meeting of the group.

Church stages play
Young people of Bradfordsville Christian Church tonight will present the play, “Me , Him and I,” at Bradfordsville School auditorium. The cast includes Lou Delia Drye, Ida Frances May, Elizabeth Drye, Thelma Dever, Louise Lane, Essie Crews, Viola Raney, Caroll Drye, Bill Raney, Randall Burke, Junior Glasscock and Orville Calloway.

50 years ago                   

April 6, 1961

Water plans taking shape
Residents of the St. Mary and Loretto communities took another step Monday toward providing themselves-and perhaps other Marion countians- with rural water lines.
Evidently encouraged by the experience of other Kentucky rural dwellers, as related to them by a Farmers Home Administration official, the St. Mary and Loretto groups voted to continue their exploration of the problems involved in establishing a rural water system.

Smith wins grant
A Lebanon student at Western Kentucky State College has been awarded a three-year scholarship to Tulane University School of Law, New Orleans, it was announced this week by Western President Kelly Thompson.
The award winner is John L. (Jack) Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Smith.

Wathen promoted in Florida
Patrick D. Wathen, Jacksonville, Fla., son of Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Wathen Sr., Lebanon, has been promoted to district auditor by the Winn-Dixie Food Stores Company.

25 years ago

April 2, 1986

EMT’s still working
Ambulance Service Manager Donnie Osborne along with several EMT’s attended the fiscal court meeting to discuss how the service was to continue to operate, with no money left in the ambulance service budget and some employees pulling 80+ hour per weeks.
Simply put, the ambulance service has trouble rounding up enough part-time help to man two ambulances 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and the county has no money to kick into the ambulance account to pay for its mounting bills.
The court decided to appoint a committee to consider various options regarding how to make the ambulance service solvent.