Looking Back for Sept. 19, 2019

Published 9:32 am Thursday, September 19, 2019

10 years ago

Sept. 21, 2009

— Students from Clark County Schools’ migrant program were guests of Joe and Sheila McCord for the last freshwater shrimp harvest at McCords Produce on Lexington Road. The McCords were getting out of the shrimp business after 13 years.

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25 years ago

Sept. 19, 1994

— Gary N. Lyle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gary D. Lyle of Winchester, and a graduate of George Rogers Clark High School, has enlisted in the U.S. Army for training as an automated logistical specialist.

Sept. 22, 1994

— A 14-year-old Winchester boy, William “Mel” Stewart, rescued a bus full of screaming school children when he dashed to the front of the bus and stopped it from careening off East Washington Street near Sequoia Village after its driver lost consciousness.

50 years ago

Sept. 21, 1969

— Laughing, crying, curious or indifferent, Clark County first and second graders and children in kindergarten and daycare centers received the vaccine for Rubella (German measles) at school around the county.

75 years ago

Sept. 21, 1944

— Thirty German war prisoners were at work in Clark County tobacco fields, the first contingent of Nazi prisoners coming here to relieve the labor shortage dangling the 1944 burley crop. The men, in units of 10 each, were at the farms of B.D. Goff Jr., John A. Snowden and R. Foster Adams.