FLASHBACKS

April 28, 1944

J. W. Lewis, president of the Neshoba County Farm Bureau, has announced that Ransom E. Aldrich, president of the Mississippi Farm Bureau, will deliver an address in the courthouse in Philadelphia, Monday, May 1 at 2 p.m. Important matters concerning farm prices will be discussed.

More than 6,000 expectant mothers who are wives of servicemen and infants under one year have been provided medical and hospital care to date, said Dr. Virginia Howard, director of the Maternal and Child Health Division of the Mississippi State Board of Health, naming April 14 as the first anniversary of the Mississippi program.

April 29, 1954

Armed Forces Day will be observed nation-wide during the week of May 9-15. Philadelphia will observe the day on May 15 when the Philadelphia Armory will hold open house during the day.

Charles D. Williams, son of Mr. and Mrs. Amzi Williams who is attending Texas A&M College is one of fifty nine students who have been named as a distinguished military student.

April 30, 1964

A "Slimette Club", with 25 ladies has been organized in Philadelphia, with Mrs. Albert Latting as president and Mrs. Charles Thompson as secretary-treasurer. Club members are put through a series of exercises designed to take off any excess weight, said Coach Posey.

U.S. Representative Arthur Winstead, Fourth District of Mississippi, has officially announced his candidacy for re-election to Congress. He will be seeking his 12th term as Congressman from this state. 

April 26, 1974

Neshoba County was designated a federal disaster area by President Nixon last Thursday as a result of the recent extensive flooding.

April 24, 1984

Reservations are still being taken for the special bus trip to the Philadelphia-Neshoba County Day at the 1984 World's Fair in New Orleans.

Philadelphia City Schools announce today that the free or reduced price lunch program is being expanded to include those not previously qualified.

April 27, 1994  

Junior Auxiliary chapter formed here. Officers: Jenny Lynn Wilkerson, Leslie Fulton, Lisa Posey, Jo Fulton, Clarice Smith, Dayna Morgan, and Laura Thrash.

April 26, 2004

Sgt. Joshua Shane Ladd telephoned his mother last Thursday as he always did just about every week, this time to thank her especially for the chocolate chip cookies she'd shipped to Iraq the week before. On Saturday, Ladd, 20, of the 367th Maintenance Co. based out of Philadelphia, was killed near Mosul, Iraq when hostile forces ambushed his convoy and a rocket-propelled grenade struck his vehicle. 

April 30, 2014

Branden Wooten helped Neshoba ambulance personnel and a volunteer firefighter carry a man on a stretcher 1/2 mile over trees and debris to get to an ambulance. Wooten had found the man lying atop shingles and other debris from his destroyed home.

A large tornado jumped Mississippi Highway 25 south of Louisville on April 28, causing damage before hitting the city of Louisville.