LOOKING BACK

5 YEARS AGO

• County dump truck has an accidental roll-over.

• Pittsburg School Board begins construction on high school stadium renovations.

10 YEARS AGO

• Fireworks show postponed due to drought.

• Arrest is made two hours after aggravated robbery.

• Pittsburg School Board builds on plans to construct a junior high gym.

• Commissioners extend burn ban.

15 YEARS AGO

• Camp County Poultry growers are upset and shocked over rapidly escalating tax appraisals. “In 2001, the average poultry house was valued at $18,000,” said Jeff Kilburn, an area poultry grower and farmer. “In 2006, that figure has increased to an average of $65,000, with the range varying from $34,000 to over $100,000.

• LaQuedra Crowder goes on a month-long tour with the acapella choral group.

20 YEARS AGO

• Dr. Stanley S Wooden is the new principal at Pittsburg High School.

• Matthew Cox was nominated for Rookie Counselor of the Year.

25 YEARS AGO

• Pat Cowley heads to the Olympics in Atlanta. Mr. Cowley will perform security duties with police officials from all over the world.

30 YEARS AGO

• Otto Smith honored at First Baptist Church

• Gene Lee is new pastor at Fellowship Baptist.

35 YEARS AGO

• Sonya Warrick wins first place in runway competition at the John Roberts Powers School of Modeling competition in Dallas.

40 YEARS AGO

• Fifty foreign lawyers from over 30 different countries visit Pittsburg.

• Clint Combest, Jerald Walker and Vincent Nelms make the All-District Baseball Team.

45 YEARS AGO

• Paul Sewell, Tisha Covington, Tiffany O’Quinn and David Bradshaw win the fishing contest at Princedale on July 4.

50 YEARS AGO:

• Oiling begins on 210 miles of country roads.

• T.H. Sandlin was elected Masonic Leader.

55 YEARS AGO

• Candy Carpenter is named Miss Peach. Mrs. Fred Covin wins sweepstakes in food division.

• Desegregation plan sought by Pittsburg school board.

60 YEARS AGO

• Hughe Springs’ posse kills a 195-pound bear.

65 YEARS AGO

• Leo Hoffman is installed as president of the Rotary Club.

• Area experiences longest drought in history.

• Frank Johnston is awarded a Knight of the Road citation.

75 YEARS AGO

• The Edna Products Co. is shipping dry soap all over the South. The plant employs 35 people.

• Buck Hill is so severely cut by a woman that he died a few minutes later.

• Senate outlawed all future ceilings on meat, poultry, eggs and food.

• Fred Covin and family move from Daingerfield to Pittsburg, where Mr. Covin is chosen superintendent of schools.

85 YEARS AGO

• A beer election is ordered for Camp County.

• Sen. Morris Sheppard speaks at Pittsburg.

105 YEARS AGO

• Dr. C.M. Rosser of Dallas speaks at Pittsburg on prohibition.

110 YEARS AGO

• Pittsburg is discussing creameries.

• It was estimated that $300,000 of local money was invested out of town.

115 YEARS AGO

• Rosa Bass goes to Chautauqua, N. Y., to spend the summer.