FLASHBACKS

April 6, 1945

Governor Thomas L. Bailey has designated by formal proclamation the week of April 9-15 as National Sunday School Week.

April 6, 1955

Two students at Philadelphia High have been selected for the Lion's All-State band this year. They are Kent Payne, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Payne, and Joe King, son of Mr. and Mrs. Maynard King.

According to a recent news release by Roman Kelly, clerk of the Mississippi House of Representatives, individual allocations of gasoline taxes to state cities, will mean a payment of $11,496 into the treasury of the City of Philadelphia.

April 7, 1965

Jimmy Hardy, girls basketball coach at Neshoba Central High here was named "Coach of the Year" in the Sam Dale Conference during the 1964-65 season.

A large audience gathered to watch the lifting and placing of the steeple and cross on the new sanctuary of the First Baptist Church.

April 10, 1975

The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians has been awarded a grant of $156,818 by the Office of Human Development of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Congressman G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery said.

Patricia Martin, reigning Princess of the Choctaw Nation, got a special welcome from Governor Bill Waller during a recent visit to the Capitol in Jackson with other members of her senior class from Choctaw Central High School.

April 10, 1985

William Yates, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Yates and a student at Philadelphia High School, was among the top 29 seventh grade mathematics students in Mississippi who participated in the Mississippi Council of Teachers of Mathematics Junior High State Math Contest in Jackson.

The Mississippi Economic Council has announced that Michael D. Brock has been selected as the Star Student at Leake Academy.

April 12, 1995 

Neshoba County's jobless rate remained below the state average during February, according to a report released this week by the Mississippi Employment Security Commission.

U.S. Senator Thad Cochran and Congressman G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery will participate in the MIssissippi Band of Choctaw Indians' 50th anniversary celebration of its constitution and by-laws and the 1945 re-establishment of tribal government.

April 13, 2005

A 2001 Neshoba Central graduate, Anthony Barfield, son of Velma and Billy Barfield, was recently accepted at the Juilliard School in New York and awarded a $20,000 scholarship which he said marks the culmination of a childhood dream.

The attorney for the Board of Supervisors saw his base salary increase to $40,400 when supervisors voted to increase their own pay in February.

April 8, 2015

The proposed Marty Stuart Center in Philadelphia was targeted to receive $500,000 as part of a $250 million state bond bill approved by the Legislature last week and expected to be signed by the governor.