Down memory lane 11-21-2024

Down memory lane

Down memory lane for this week follows:

10 YEARS AGO

2014—Melinda Ballantine brings Heavener Chamber back after it was closed 18 months…KCS Holiday Express coming to Heavener middle of December…Lights on the Island at Wister Lake starts Saturday…Commissioners approve contract for printing election ballots…Heavener eighth grade students send care packages to U.S. servicemen in honor of Veterans Day…Changes made to Christmas food baskets…Fundraiser dinner planned for Heavener First Assembly of God Church…Methodist Church to hold annual Thanksgiving dinner…

20 YEARS AGO

2004—William Hopkins of Howe dies in an auto accident…KCS representatives to discuss overpasses…Lions Club to distribute food baskets…Local veterans honored by school…Courtney Mode to marry Jamie Altstatt…Heavener defeats Haskell, 22-21, in playoff opener.

30 YEARS AGO

1994—Ok Feed Milll near completion…Heavener under a boil water for water…Jim Hamilton recognized as outstanding legislator by Oklahoma Highway Patrol…Jackie Hinds named employee of the month for Heavener Elementary School…Hontubby Community Center nearing completion.

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50 YEARS AGO

1974—Oklahoma Game and Fish Commission releasing 50,000 channel catfish into Wister Lake. Another 50,000 were released earlier in the year…Cedar Lake will receive 4,000 fingerling channel catfish this month…Cleo Ritter returning to Heavener to take post as local representative for OG&E…Heavener Police Department issues 21 citations in October, which brought in $344 in fines…Mr. and Mrs. Tal V. Morris celebrate 60^th anniversary. They were married in 1914 at Bellville, Arkansas…Jimmy Janway has a 1970 Plymouth for sale for $1,150…Fish and foul nights are Monday at the Wood-N-Rail Restaurant…Leonard Bland will be at the deer pen Dec. 8 to buy furs…Hamburgers to go three for $1 at the Hub Café…Washers and dryers are only 25 cents at the Morrow Fabric Care Center.

60 YEARS AGO

1964—Heavener’s new water plant to be dedicated Nov. 29. Congressman Carl Albert will be the speaker at the event…The delayed work on the delayed Talimena Drive begins. The first 6.3 miles is now being constructed…Santa Claus plans visit to Heavener Dec. 4. Heavener Lions Club has scheduled the parade, which features Santa…Kenneth Capps reports Heavener received 5.67 inches of rain this week…Fannie’s Gift Shop in Heavener is going out of business…Daily home delivery of milk is just 18 cents per quart…Regular gas is 27.9 cents per gallon at the Deep Rock Station in Heavener…Dale Franklin has a 1960 Ford Station wagon for sale for $595.

70 YEARS AGO

1954—Heavener City Manager Mac Sims resigns. He will be replaced by Gordon Bryan…Some 16 windows at the high school were broken out last week by a BB gun and rocks. A second grade youth was apprehended for causing the damage…James Simmons has opened the former Reese Sinclar Station East First Street south of the post office…Curtis A. Norvell has a 285-gallon butane tank for sale…Heavener Bakery makes fresh donuts every day.

80 YEARS AGO

1944—Air in area turns crisp this week…Extra express trains have been added to passenger trains to carry added mail and express loans…Mayor A.W. “Dub” Salter is home after serving in new Guinea. He is in the Army Air Corp…Blackwell & Hall Service Station can recap your worn tires for $7 each.

90 YEARS AGO

1934—Contract is expected this month for the proposed bridge over the Arkansas River north of Spiro. The bridge will provide a direct route from Sallisaw to our area…Everything is ready for the big annual football game between the Heavener Mountain Wolves and Poteau Thanksgiving day…Heavener Airport has received a grant for an additional $2,000 for buildings…Eight red fox imported from Illinois have been released near Whitesboro in the Kiamichi Valley. The fox are full grown…Addison’s 5c & 10c store in Heavener is having its 10^th birthday sale…Tom Brand of Heavener has a wagon and a set of harness for sale.