1975

18 May 1975, Sun The Paducah Sun (Paducah, Kentucky) Newspapers.com

 

I don't know why I feel compelled to put myself through this.

Oh, Kentucky

Here's your new (Distinguished Rural) Kentuckian of the Year.

Here's your new Paxton Media Group president and CEO.

No more Saturday Herald-Leaders.

Bad jobs news from Cadiz. Better from Hopkinsville.

"This Is What The Trade War Looks Like In Bourbon Country." Steve Matthews from Bloomberg's Federal Reserve/economy reporter checks in.

Coal no longer qualifies in Henderson's "least-cost portfolio" for energy. Ryan Van Velzer from Louisville's WFPL brings back the story from down river.

"For those of you who have expressed concerns and a genuine curiosity, I would like to unveil the truth as it pertains to me about the Kentucky Fried Sisters (KFS), Capital Pride Kentucky and the queer community as a whole." The founding abbess of the Kentucky Fried Sisters speaks his piece in Frankfort's State Journal.

"A belief in the possible." Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and Hawaiian Islands eyes footprint in Kentucky, reports Nina Shapiro of The Seattle Times from across the country.

"Doctors are under tremendous pressure to prescribe, and patients wear you down." Robert Smith with Kaiser Health News--via Valiant News--goes deep and dark into drugs in and around Clay County.

The Courier-Journal is promoting a 24-page special section planned for its Thanksgiving edition that it indicates will show how the tentacles of a crazy Mexican drug gang have reached throughout the United States and specifically Lexington's famous Calumet Farm.

Martin County's water crisis appears headed to a turning point this week.

Turning to sports, I've been doing a lot of deep thinking about these #ohkys and what I should be doing with them, and I think I need to always include one of these turning-to-sports items. Anyway, here's a link back to GoHeath on No. 2,296, and WKU is 4-0.

Christmas parades: Sharpsburg, Nov. 9; Owensboro, Nov. 23; Lebanon and Louisville, Nov. 29; Pikeville, Nov. 30; Boyce, Dawson Springs and Murray, Dec. 1; Bardstown, Dec. 5; Fredonia, Harrodsburg, Hopkinsville, Monticello and Pineville, Dec. 6; Berea, Bowling Green, Cadiz, Calvert City, Columbia, Danville, Frankfort, Glasgow, Henderson, Lawrenceburg, Lexington, Madisonville, Owingsville, Paducah, Scottsville, Shelbyville, Trenton, Versailles and Whitley City, Dec. 7; Georgetown, Dec. 8; Cave City, Dec. 10; Burnside, Elkton and Williamsburg, Dec. 14, and Tollesboro, Dec. 15.

Oh, Kentucky

Good jobs news from Bowling Green, Erlanger and Lexington.

"If part of your community is doing well and the other part not doing so good then the community can only fail. But if both sides of the community flourish, then the community will rise together and we all win because the sky is the limit."

"Their new group, Co-Heirs with Christ Missions, is different from some churches they attended in Africa. Too often, Frimpong remembered, leaders preached that joining the church would change their lives immediately – that their belief would guarantee prosperity. This tactic brought people to churches, but it only exacerbated the poverty rate, as people started to believe that they didn’t need to look for work."

UK's Kentucky Kernel has a new advisor (second consecutive one from WKU), and the Todd County Standard is on the market.

Sweet Paducah Sun story about a South Carolina man returning to where he and his late wife married in 1955--with helpful bonus material on the history of PJC/PCC/WKTC/WKCTC.

Terrific Bill Estep report in the Lexington Herald-Leader on the impact of drugs on the labor market in eastern Kentucky.

A Hardinsburg barber stars in an Amazon movie that came out yesterday, and it sounds hair-raising!

With the U.S. Senior Open rolling, the USGA took a road trip to Franklin to visit with the defending champ.

Corbin's getting a mural, on Roy Kidd Avenue.

Congratulations, Owensboro Red Devils!

Owensboro vs. Bowling Green Region 3 vs. Region 4 #BattleForTheNatcher Let's get this trending tonight!
— 3rd Region Problems (@3rdRegionProbz) March 22, 2015

@mcompton428 @thatjoebrunk camaro's and mullet's will be bumper to bumper coming out of Owensboro this morning
— Brad Hogan (@hoganbrad) March 22, 2015

Loaded up and heading to Rupp!  Seems like we just got off this bus a little while ago! and they're wearing Purple? pic.twitter.com/nw7bbeNasD
— BGHS Band (@BGPurpleBand) March 22, 2015

Coach Bryant is keeping the coaches relaxed this morning by playing some tunes on the piano! #FILD pic.twitter.com/mT43cpTxE7
— OHS Sports (@OHSsports) March 22, 2015

About to head back to Rupp Arena for one more game....don't think I'm exaggerating when I say it is the biggest game in BGHS history
— Micheal Compton (@mcompton428) March 22, 2015

Getting Hype! Almost game time! @zachgross_9 @WCTaytumN pic.twitter.com/3IKv9YO9ux
— OHS Student Council (@council_ohs) March 22, 2015

BGHS State Titles: Football, Soccer, Golf, Cross Country, Swimming, Baseball. If we add basketball 2day? Few HS in KY can compare
— The Purple Spirit (@BGHSPurplesNews) March 22, 2015

Early Purples student section #BGWhat #BattleForTheNatcher pic.twitter.com/mn19XYG1oK
— Joe Brunk (@thatjoebrunk) March 22, 2015

Go Red Devils! “@jenna_hunt98: The Harrison Twins wished the Red Devils good luck today! Now let's go get this W! pic.twitter.com/DXxEYSOlpZ”
— Kelsey Starks (@WHAS11Kelsey) March 22, 2015

This is the first all-Western Kentucky final since Edmonson County beat Christian County in 1976.
— Jason Frakes (@kyhighs) March 22, 2015

#purplenation laptop hooked to big screen for @khsaa championship game Go Purples!!! pic.twitter.com/o8y80JHJYs
— Beverly.Pitts (@pittsmama2) March 22, 2015

2015 Whitaker Bank/KHSAA Boys' Sweet Sixteen® championship game is underway. Bowling Green vs Owensboro #khsbkb pic.twitter.com/mF7wSTKHHF
— Joe Angolia (@jangoliakhsaa) March 22, 2015

Owensboro's Justin Miller three-point play pushes lead to 13-3 over Bowling Green w/3:42 left 1st Q. Miller has 7 pts. Aric Holman 5 rebs.
— Mike Fields (@MikeFieldsNotes) March 22, 2015

Kentucky assistant Slice Rohrssen is at the KY Sweet 16 championship. I believe it's UK's first look at 2016 PF Aric Holman.
— Evan Daniels (@EvanDaniels) March 22, 2015

Purples trail at the half 23-27...Still anybody's game!  Join us for the halftime show on http://t.co/D14M95yNuH!
— Purples Nation (@PurplesNation) March 22, 2015

Owensboro student section ready for the 2nd half to start! pic.twitter.com/6E2Z68GTLo
— Aaron Hancock (@aaronhancock14) March 22, 2015

overheard in BG huddle, "Nobody respects you, so let's go get it."
— Micheal Compton (@mcompton428) March 22, 2015

Owensboro up 47-30 w/2:10 left 3rd Q. Aric Holman has double-double (12 pts, 10 rebs). Justin Miller has 11 pts 9 rebs.
— Mike Fields (@MikeFieldsNotes) March 22, 2015

Not a good quarter for the Purples, they trail 33-49...
— Purples Nation (@PurplesNation) March 22, 2015

Rod Drake telling Devils in huddle: "It's right here, it's right here waiting on us." OHS has to keep heat on now.
— Mark Mathis (@markmathisMI) March 22, 2015

Owensboro held Hopkinsville (79ppg) to 2nd lowest point total of season and is on verge of holding BG to lowest. Defense wins championships.
— Chris Jung (@ChrisJungKNE) March 22, 2015

May not matter, but Aric Holman and Justin Miler both playing with four fouls right now.
— Jason Frakes (@kyhighs) March 22, 2015

Despite the officials best efforts, it appears Owensboro is gonna win this thing #3rdRegion #GoDevils
— Blake Hawley (@IAmBlakeHawley) March 22, 2015

The 2 big man have been a factor for Owensboro, but Dylan Sanford's 21 points has been a big reason Red Devils in control too
— Micheal Compton (@mcompton428) March 22, 2015

Get ready for the fire truck ride down Frederica Street Devils. Rod Drake with both fists in the air to the OHS cheering section.
— Mark Mathis (@markmathisMI) March 22, 2015

 

Love the Owensboro Red Devils!!!! #OHS #classof82 pic.twitter.com/7sZOpo6k73
— Lorie Hayden (@HaydenLorie) March 22, 2015

2015 Whitaker Bank/KHSAA Boys' Sweet 16® Championship - Owensboro 74, Bowling Green 58 - FINAL #khsbkb pic.twitter.com/Z7GnR8ETFN
— KHSAA Main (@KHSAA) March 22, 2015

#Owensboro MVP Justin Miller  hugged a teammate after winning state title. Full story http://t.co/2YmfxApF4l pic.twitter.com/kJm10d90CZ
— Herald-Leader Sports (@KentuckySports) March 22, 2015

Owensboro head coach Rod Drake played on the 1980 Devils championship team & coached today's title!!! pic.twitter.com/wWlawsVcHk
— Aaron Hancock (@aaronhancock14) March 22, 2015

Congratulations to the Owensboro Red Devils, 2015 KHSAA Boys State Champions! @BluegrassBball @The_Homers pic.twitter.com/w5iXk9sW6Q
— The Hawk's Hangout (@PCHawksHangout) March 22, 2015

Owensboro Red Devils--2015 KHSAA Boys' Basketball State Champs!! pic.twitter.com/NEQVMtRabQ
— Aaron Hancock (@aaronhancock14) March 22, 2015

What an honor to follow and cheer on an outstanding basketball team. Congrats on a great season! @DGSherrill00003 pic.twitter.com/wUAwn5pu7A
— BGHS Cheer (@BGHS_Cheer) March 22, 2015

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Owensboro now one of 7 programs with at least 4 Boys Sweet 16 titles, joining Henry Clay/Lafayette (6) & Ashland/Manual/Male/St. X (4 each).
— Jason Frakes (@kyhighs) March 22, 2015

Just spoke with Gaddis. STATE CHAMPIONS will arrive at OHS approx. 6:45 central. Please welcome them home with a crowd. Meet in N. Gym lot.
— OHS Student Council (@council_ohs) March 22, 2015

Loaded up & feel better after McDonalds! Rest well my roadwarriors - you will have spent 24hrs on a bus these 4 days! pic.twitter.com/ehA4OfDpJb
— BGHS Band (@BGPurpleBand) March 22, 2015

Here are the 98 one-and-only-one-per-year Kentucky high-school boys' basketball champions:

1918 Lexington (Henry Clay)
1919 Lexington (Henry Clay)
1920 Lexington (Henry Clay)
1921 Louisville duPont Manual
1922 Lexington
1923 Louisville duPont Manual
1924 Lexington
1925 Louisville duPont Manual
1926 Louisville Saint Xavier
1927 Millersburg Military Institute
1928 Ashland (Blazer)
1929 West Paducah Heath!
1930 Corinth
1931 Louisville duPont Manual
1932 Hazard
1933 Ashland (Blazer)
1934 Ashland (Blazer)
1935 Louisville Saint Xavier
1936 Corbin
1937 Midway
1938 Sharpe
1939 Brooksville
1940 Hazel Green
1941 Inez
1942 Lexington Lafayette
1943 Hindman
1944 Harlan
1945 Louisville Male
1946 Breckinridge Training
1947 Maysville
1948 Brewers
1949 Owensboro
1950 Lexington Lafayette
1951 Clark County
1952 Cuba
1953 Lexington Lafayette
1954 Inez
1955 Hazard
1956 Carr Creek
1957 Lexington Lafayette
1958 Louisville Saint Xavier
1959 Calvert City North Marshall
1960 Louisville Flaget
1961 Ashland (Blazer)
1962 Louisville Saint Xavier
1963 Louisville Seneca
1964 Louisville Seneca
1965 Breckinridge County
1966 Shelby County
1967 Earlington
1968 Glasgow
1969 Louisville Central
1970 Louisville Male
1971 Louisville Male
1972 Owensboro
1973 Louisville Shawnee
1974 Louisville Central
1975 Louisville Male
1976 Edmonson County
1977 Louisville Ballard
1978 Shelby County
1979 Lexington Lafayette
1980 Owensboro
1981 Independence Simon Kenton
1982 Laurel County
1983 Lexington Henry Clay
1984 Logan County
1985 Hopkinsville
1986 Pulaski County
1987 Clay County
1988 Louisville Ballard
1989 Louisville Pleasure Ridge Park
1990 Louisville Fairdale
1991 Louisville Fairdale
1992 Hopkinsville University Heights
1993 Marion County
1994 Louisville Fairdale 59
1995 Breckinridge County
1996 Paintsville
1997 Middletown Eastern
1998 Scott County
1999 Louisville Ballard
2000 Elizabethtown
2001 Lexington Lafayette
2002 Lexington Catholic 83
2003 Mason County
2004 Bowling Green Warren Central
2005 London South Laurel
2006 Jeffersontown
2007 Scott County
2008 Mason County
2009 Covington Holmes
2010 Pikeville Shelby Valley
2011 Christian County
2012 Louisville Trinity
2013 Richmond Madison Central
2014 Covington Catholic
2015 Owensboro

Oh, Kentucky (1969)

Still 1969ing in Ohio County ...

  
And the regional-champion Eagles made the front page of the March 20 Ohio County Times!

 Not above the banner, but still ...

Of course, the new barbershop made P1, too. (Real me had my hair cut here one time along about 1998!) (Also, I love walnut paneling.)

So, I know ... let's make this movie about this little high school and its basketball team in Kentucky in 1969, and let's put all in all of this sign-of-the-times, touchstone stuff like ... hmmm? ... oh, I know, one of the former students who has been drafted could write a letter home, cheering on the basketball team ... and there could be all kinds of cultural-warfare stuff like fights going on in town about sex education in the schools ... maybe some warmed-over integration stuff ... oh, and, hey, I've got it! ... the kids at the school could write back to the soldier with a--get this!--50-FOOT LETTER THANKING HIM FOR HIS SERVICE ... that'll be gr- ... well ... nyah, too hackneyed ... none of that stuff would've really been going on all at the same time ...

Let's get back to the basketball team (and some big snakes in Central Grove) ...

Eat up, boys!

I love the movie Paper Lion. Love it! 5 stars, highly recommended.

Oh, Kentucky (1969)

The 1969 desk takes a road trip from Hoptown to Hartford.

"Your Picture Newspaper" put the following picture of the 11th District basketball champs on Page 1 of the March 13, 1969, edition. The Eagles ripped the Fordsville Trojans, 145-59, and then turned back the (1965-state-champion) Breckinridge County Tigers, 75-59, to win the district tournament.

"Ohio County played Drakesboro last night in the opening game of the regional tournament at Owensboro," added the Page 15 story. "Results of the game were not known at press time."

Says Wikipedia: "Ohio County is famous for its coal mines, which in the 1970s produced much of the nation's coal."

In 1969, though, basketball appeared to be a big deal. Here's a brief about some sort of rec-league game that ended 107-106!

I love newspaper activities like these.

 

Listing the hospital's visiting hours right there with the admissions is a brilliant stroke of community building.

Clean sweep for ol' OCHS ...

Oh, Kentucky

A Clarkson boy and his big pig rocked the state fair.

A Hardinsburg hopes to remake "homemaker" marketing.

I'm not going to get this done nearly early enough to include any Joe B and Denny Show snippets in the comments, but almost-83-year-old Joe B is on the air again this morning going on and on about how much he loves Kentucky. Today he's talking about how beautiful the U.S. highway routes are out of Lexington (he's right), about the great-looking pleasure horses that people parade around various county fairs around the state (new to me and interesting) and about how excited he is about the UK-WKU football game Thursday. He's on for two hours almost every day, and he's pretty much like this all of the time.

The ColumbiaMagazine.com community is having a blast remembering various old local restaurants. Grilled honey buns really are fantastic.

Depp does Hunter S. Thompson, again.

Hooray for fan buses!

"Helping Neighbors" around Ashland.

Watch out for opossums.

Oh, Kentucky

Here are some of the words and phrases that could be use in one of the all-time-great Heath Post entries: Dwane Casey, Morganfield, Larry Johnson, Dwight Anderson's dad, "Living in the City," NBA, Japan, Leonard Hamilton, Joe B. Hall's helicopter, Clem Haskins, Washington Bullets, Wes Unseld, Butch Beard, University of Louisville, "The Joe B. & Denny Show," University of Southern California, Adolph Rupp, Union County, $1,000, Chris Mills, team doctor, private plane, recruiting, Dallas Mavericks, Miami Heat, Jamal Mashburn, Kevin Grevey, Toronto Raptors, Dayton and WKRP in Cincinnati. It would be a fantastic, fantastic post.

Draft day!

RIP, Billy Howell, funeral-home director by day, race-car driver by night.

Publiclibrary.org is headed back downtown.

No racing at Churchill Downs today.

Golf's economic value to Kentucky.

Hooray for marching bands!

Oh, Kentucky

To reasonably predict a winner, I think what you would need to do is take a look at how Wes Unseld teams fared against Kareem Abdul-Jabaar teams from 1970-77 or so. It would also be interesting to know who would coach the Kentucky team. I'm assuming it would be Denny Crum on the U of L side, but would it be Adolph Rupp, Rick Pitino or (HPKBKo10) John Calipari coaching UK?

Here's a good conversation starter about the relevancy of the church per community for an Epiphany dinner party Thursday evening.

Improving jobs news from most of the state.

Oh, Kentucky

Plans for Northern Kentucky's first mosque have roused some opposition.

One of 17 Kentucky municipalities to benefit in the latest round of government assistance, Trigg County hopes to finally close its books, finally, on the Jan. 26, 2009, ice storm.

The state is helping foot the bill for three Kentucky companies to improve energy efficiency.