Flashbacks

March 2, 1945

Sgt. Earl E. McLaurin was slightly wounded in action February 13th in Germany according to a message received by his wife Mrs. Sybil Stribling McLaurin of Bay Street, Philadelphia, Monday.

March 3, 1955

The play-offs for the North Mississippi basketball title held in Philadelphia last weekend was probably the most successful ever held. Financially speaking, the games drew more cash customers than ever before, thereby leaving the association treasury in fine shape.

March 4, 1965

Neshoba County's 148 retail establishments had $12,300,000 in sales in 1963, an increase of 28 percent from 1958, the U.S. Bureau of the Census has reported after tabulating data gathered from all firms in the 1963 census of business.

A petition has been presented to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Philadelphia to re-zone Lot 4 of Block C of the Southeast Division of the city, it was learned from the board proceedings.

March 6, 1975

The Neshoba Community Development Club heard a progress report Tuesday night on the proposed Neshoba County Library building. The 10,000 square foot building will be located between Beacon and Main Streets and will cost approximately $400,000.

March 6, 1985

Cole Brothers Co., wholesale grocers,w as first organized as a stock-held corporation in April 1912, and after 73 years of operation will close as soon as the remaining inventory and equipment can be sold.

A six member team of the House and Senate were negotiating Tuesday on a compromise teacher pay plan. The House plan calls for a $2,500 one year pay raise plus insurance. The Senate plan is for $2,150 next year and $1,000 for the second and third years, plus insurance.

March 8, 1995 

Kenneth Breland of Philadelphia was installed recently as president of the Choctaw Area Council Boy Scouts of America. Breland has served as a member of the executive board for many years and vice president of property for the past several years.   

Transportation Commissioner Wayne Burkes announced today that a contract was awarded for improvements to Highway 16 in Neshoba County. Ronald Adams Contractor Inc., of Thibodaux, La., was awarded the contract with a low bid of $2,292,459.

March 9, 2005

Four year old Anna Brooke Skinner stared up in wild eyed wonder as the librarian made the book the "Naughty Puppy" come alive as part of a recent program begun at the public library. Skinner is one of several children who came out Thursday to participate in the library's new reading emphasis program called Spring Into Books.

A bill that will designate Mississippi 19 south to the county line as a memorial to three civil rights workers murdered here in 1964 has received overwhelming approval in the state Legislature and is headed to the governor's desk for his signature.

March 4, 2015

Tribal, state and federal officials ceremonially cut a ribbon Monay for the new $55 million Choctaw Health Center in what the Tribal Chief described as a "symbol of hope" for the Choctaw people built on "hallowed ground" which once served as a practice field for stickball.