FLASHBACKS

DECEMBER 8, 1941

Celebrating the rescinding of the OPM five- state power curtailment late Friday afternoon, brilliant neon signs, window display lighting and other non-essential illumination flashed on again over Philadelphia Friday night.

To establish a defense training center in Philadelphia, a coordinating council of all Neshoba County’s women’s clubs is now being organized, Mrs. Lucille Stennis, Home Demonstration Agent, disclosed to the Business and Professional Women’s Club at the Benwalt Thursday night. 

DECEMBER 9, 1951

The local Veterans of Foreign Wars Post has invited Santa Claus to visit Philadelphia Saturday afternoon, December 22 at 2:00 p.m. and parade around the court square. All members o the VFW are inviting all the children of the county to be present with Ole Santa.

The Neshoba County Teachers Association held their monthly meeting at the American Legion Hut Monday evening. C.E. Wilkerson, superintendent of East Neshoba School, president of the association, presided. 

DECEMBER 8, 1961

The annual Christmas parade scheduled for Monday afternoon at 4 p.m. was called off because of continuous rain. The parade will be held Friday afternoon, December 8th at 4 p.m. 

DECEMBER 10, 1971

The Mississippi Agricultural and Industrial board has gone on record as strongly favoring completion of the Edinburg dam and reservoir.

Neshoba County, one of three Mississippi counties designated as “areas of substantial unemployment” by the U.S. Labor Department, will receive $26,961 in federal funds, Governor John Bell Williams announced this week. 

DECEMBER 11, 1981

Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Tribal Chief Philip Martin in Jackson Friday concluded a $42.6 million financing arrangement for a new local industry, American Greetings Corp.

Members of the Mississippi Legislature from three area counties inspected the new 5.6-mile Linwood bypass of Highway 15 Wednesday morning. They were shown the new route by the Central District highway commissioner.      

DECEMBER 8, 1991

Mississippi’s absentee voting laws are inadequate, said a citizen task force with a proposal to clean them up during 1992 legislature.

A Neshoba County man was arrested Wednesday by FBI agents and officers of Choctaw Law and Order on a federal warrant charging him with sexual assault of a minor.

DECEMBER 8, 2001

In a move they say would bring his pay In line with others, aldermen have proposed a $13,500 raise for Mayor Rayburn Waddell. 

A new $170 million Choctaw Indian development has its first guests: 90,000 baby bluegill, dumped into the 285-acre lake that is being filled.        

DECEMBER 10, 2011

A second attempt to gain so called “resort status” in order to serve wine and liquor by the glass in restaurants was reaffirmed by the Philadelphia Mayor and Board of Alderman recently.

Ground will be broken next week on a new $19 million Neshoba County hospital, although actual construction bids aren’t expected to be let for months.