Wayne County Press
Fairfield, Illinois
Thursday Oct. 5, 1995
Sect. 2, Page 8

Photo
That's Randall Fenton and his little sister, Donna Fenton Haegele. It was snapped in 1953. Randall runs Fenton's Body Shop in Fairfield, while Donna lives in Union, Ky., with her husband, Randy and son, Grant.
 

     Rev. C. R. Wise is the new pastor of the Ellen Moore Methodist Church, succeeding the late Rev. Terhune. Dr. C. L.  Peterson is reassigned to the Fairfield First Methodist Church for his third year . . .  Marriage licenses: William J. Fawcett and Ruby Boyd; William E. Farmer and Nora Davis; Warren Wheat and Doris Lee Taylor . . . The Fairfield Mules defeat Olney, 13 to O. Bob Elliott and Willie Wilson score the Fairfield touchdowns . .  . Miss Pearl Karr, daughter of the Ralph Karrs, near Johnsonville, weds Lt. Col.  Melvin Durkee, of Evansville . . . Mrs.  Flo Fritchey, of Claremont, former Fairfield girl, is in a Vincennes hospital with a fractured skull received in a car accident Clyde R. Mayberry, 38, former Wayne City resident. is killed in a car wreck near Harvey . . . The Fairfield city council is thinking about installing parking meters as a way to ease the city's parking problem . . úÀ Fairfield hosts library officials from nine Southern Illinois counties . . .  Fairfield got five inches of rain in September . . .  Pfc. Roy Rogers, son of Mr.  and Mrs. Clarence Rogers, of Jasper Township, is killed in a truck accident in the Philippines . .  . James Howard Malone, son of Mrs. George Harper here, is reported en route home, after release from a Japanese war camp . . . Miss Katherine Puckett daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Miles Puckett, of Cisne, weds S/Sgt Dan Gunter, from Oklahoma.
 

35 Years Ago
Oct. 6, 1970

     Charles Odum, Fairfield oil pumper, dies . . . Courtesy boxes will be placed at locations on Main Street, to allow motorists to pay their parking meter fines without going to city hall . . . Airtex and the Union are still deadlocked on contract talks . . . A black panther is sighted southeast of Fairfield . . .  The DeSelms Brothers Store in Cisne is ceasing operations . . . Virgil Elliott
observes his grocery store's twenty-fifth anniversary . . . Mrs. Iris Crus, of Flora, is the new consulting dietician for Fairfield Memorial Hospital . . . Wayne County Republicans set up campaign headquarters in the Scott building on East Main . . . The new state highway garage building here is finished . . . Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Etheridge have a new son . . . Mrs. Laura Fuhrer, a native of Wayne City, dies in Florida.
 

     Marriage licenses: James A. Gruner and Judith Ann Cox; Charles Hutchcraft and Betty Maidlow; Leonard L. Robertson and Martan Marvell; Clyde Harris and Linda Lou Lane . . . Mrs. Loolah Ellen Melton, of Orchard Township, dies . . . Chester F. Newby , a Mill Shoals boy, is named Adjutant for the Illinois Dept. of the American Legion . . . The Virgil Milner home east of Geff is hit by lightning and severely damaged by fire . . . Lawrence Gene Garrison, 18, Sims youth, is killed by a Southern freight train in that village . . . Dick Berry resigns his post as an announcer at WFIW . . . George O. Henson, of  Kenith, dies.
 

     Mrs. Gil Wallace is named Chief of Nurses at Fairfield Memorial Hospital.
     The city will halt leaf burning through Board of Health action and the city will haul the leaves away.
     The Press reports an Olney Central College Foundation is being formed.
     Fairfield temperatures range from 40 to 79.
     Marriage license: Stephen Clyde Acord and Marietta McCarty.
     One thousand dollars in prizes will be given away at the Fairfield Retail Merchants Treasure Chest Days in October.
     The Jackie Shell family of Keenes, is burned out of their home for a second time.
      Frank Vaughan, Fairfield's world traveler, speaks at the Fairfield Rotary Club, showing trip slides.
     The Wayne County Schoolmasters, in their third year, will hold its first meeting at Berry School. Edward Wiser, of Fairfield, is president. and Robert O'Daniel is vice president.
     Bill Grimes resigns as an Airtex Products employee, after twenty years service.
     The Fairfield C of C gets a preview of a locally made film depicting fifty years of growth here.
 

     The three FCHS homecoming queen candidates, Carol Ann Young, Kathy Randolph and Debbie McNeely, are pictured on page one of the Press.
     One 1-64 grading project bid is rejected by the state.
     Four persons are hurt in a car-truck wreck at the New Hope curve.
     Mr . and Mrs. Ivan Jones buy the Mrs. Frances Dorsett home at 400 West Center.
     Democrats gear up their campaign here with a $5 a plate rally.
     Fairfield temperatures range from 34 to 86.
     A timetable for Pond Creek Watershed action may be set up at a meeting here this week.
     Marriage license: Leland Earl Marshel and Lorene Lee Tabor.
     Ivan King, of Geff, is new vice president for the Wabash Economic Development Association.
     Mrs. I.B. Book falls at her home and cracks a bone in her left shoulder.
 

     The Press calls the city's new sewage treatment plant project "Murphy's Law At Work." Whatever can go wrong will.
     The state reprimands a Fairfield physician over issuing of diet pills.
     The Fairfield Retail Merchants plan a Halloween promotion
     The Lions are seeking girls for their "Miss Fairfield"' pageant. Sherri Taylor holds the crown now.
     The American Legion will award over $200 in prizes at a downtown Fairfield Halloween masquerade.
     Fairfield temperatures range from 30 to 80.
     Daylight savings time will end Oct. 27.
     Henry Mathews is home from the Evansville hospital after abdominal surgery.
     A businessmen's breakfast is planned by the Fairfield Chamber of Commerce to gain input from store owners on what is needed in Fairfield.
     The Fairfield Lions will conduct their annual candy sale for Halloween on Oct. 11.
     Norman Massie is re-elected president of the Wayne County Fair Board.  Jerry Wylie, Wayne Smith and Jack Fearn are re-elected to the board.
 

     A breakfast meeting of the C of C brings complaints from some that Fairfield is "cold" and sports a negative attitude.
     Fairfield Memorial Hospital has a new $29,000 front entrance.
     Fairfield temperatures range from 30 to 70.
     The Fairfield Jaycees announce plans for a Halloween Haunted House.
     Congressman Terry Bruce schedules a Fairfield meeting.
     A hearing to establish a Little Wabash River Conservancy District will be held here Oct. 10.
     David Harvey gets the first bow and arrow deer kill of the season in Wayne County.
     The Lions Halloween window painting contest is suspended for this year.
     The B & PW Club is unhappy over failure to get a new welcome program for newcomers to Fairfield off the ground.
     Lee Ann's Apparel signs a contract to move its operations to the former Fairfield Garment building in south Fairfield.