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50 YEARS AGO

5 Plead Guilty, Head for Terms in Prison Five persons were sentenced Monday to terms in the state penitentiary.

In addition, 17 persons pleaded guilty to charges against them. They will be sentenced on March 27. Charges against 18 defendants were dismissed.

Among those sentenced by prison terms Monday by District Judge E. W. Patterson were Floyd Denley, 26, George Wright, 18 and Robert Waddle, 19, all of Columbus.

Board Names New Hospital Administrator

The Columbus Hospital board of directors announced this week the appointment of Layton Golemon of Columbus as administrator, succeeding Calvin W. Kinchen who resigned.

The appointment took effect Monday. Kinchen, who had served as administrator since 1967, will remain on the hospital staff as an anesthetist, a job he had been filling in addition to that as administrator.

City Now in Flood Program; Insurance Will Be Required in Flood Area The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced this week that Columbus has been accepted into the National Flood Insurance Program. The acceptance took effect on Wednesday.

This means that individual property owners are now eligible to buy flood insurance protection at federally subsidized rates, thereby offering more extensive coverage under the expanded program made possible by the 1973 Flood Disaster Protection act.

“We think the new, expanded National Flood Insurance Program offers the best way of protecting property owners from the ravages of floods, while easing the burden on the general public,” said J. Robert Hunter, acting federal insurance administrator.

100 YEARS AGO

Tom Kirby Mets Death at Palm Beach News reached here Tuesday morning of the death of T.J. Kirby Jr., which occured in Palm Beach, Fla, last Sunday. He was riding in an automobile truck when the vehicle turned a corner at too great a speed, overturning and crushing Mr. Kirby under its weight, fatally injuring him.

Further details of the tragedy had not been learned yesterday morning. Instructions have been wired to Palm Beach to have the body sent here for burial.

Tom Kirby was born in this city on April 26, 1885, the eldest child of Mr. And Mrs. T.J. Kirby Sr. He was reared in this city, attended the Columbus school and while yet a mere lad was employed in the drug store of Byars & Byars, located in the building now occupied by Fehrenkamp Bros. Store.

Fire Destroys Large Store at Eagle Lake A disastrous fire occurred in Eagle Lake this (Thursday) morning at about two o’clock. The Frazier Opera House was destroyed, including the business places of the Causey Market and Beckman’s restaurant which were located on the first floor of that building.

B.H. Daly’s store was badly damaged and his immense stock of goods ruined, according to reports reaching here this morning.

The Odd Fellows’ Hall, located above Daly’s, was totally destroyed.

Rock Island State Bank Closes Doors The Rock Island State Bank closed its doors last Thursday, the State Department of Banking ruiling that the securities held by it were insufficient to protect the depositors.

This bank was organized in 1908 and was one of the first State Banks in the county.

The bank has a capital of $15,000 owned principally by Rock Island and Weimar interests. The deposits amounted to approximately $50,000 and are protected by the State Depositors’ Guaranty Fund.

The failure is blamed on “cattle paper.”