Down memory lane for this week.
Read more: Down memory lane for 10-16-2025ONE YEAR AGO
2024–LeFlore County football teams had a good week as they went 6-1 in Week 6 football games going into the short week leading up to Thursday’s games over the fall break…Voters in LeFlore County who want absentee ballots mailed to them for the Nov. 5 general election, should apply now, according to County Election Board Secretary, Sharon Steele…Wolves host fifth-ranked Kingston Thursday… Howe Public Schools and the Howe Lions’ Air Rifle competition team played host to the first SAR (Student Air Rifle program) State Tournament…Pocola girls advance to Class 2A state championship girls… The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Michael John Jones, 41, of Talihina, was sentenced to 63 months in prison for one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine.
10 YEARS AGO
2015—School board salutes state academic championships for fast pitch softball and the cheer team at Monday’s meeting. Coaches were introduced along with players…Special city council meeting rescheduled. The meeting was to have an executive session on terminating interim public works director Tim DeWitt…Trail of Tears scheduled for Oct. 24…Poteau BallonFest is coming up…Brooke Nicholson is band homecoming queen, escorted by Benjamin Walker…Heavener Methodist Church to hold fall bazaar…Cameron First Baptist Church to hold its 125th anniversary…Poteau is undergoing revitalization…Heavener FCCLA members go to conference…City of Heavener is accepting applications for a new city manager after Larry Jones walked off the job…Heavener loses to Sequoyah-Tahlequah at state tournament.
20 YEARS AGO
2005—Hodgen School Board bond election is defeated…Three county fire departments receive aid…Monika Killion is band homecoming queen, escorted by Tyler Hall…Safe room construction at school hits a snag…Lions Club names queens and escorts…Wilburton downs Heavener, 17-0…Pat Shatsar named employee of the month at Jim E. Hamilton Correctional Center.
30 YEARS AGO
1995—Dog saves family from fire…Transfer station raises rates, reduces hours…Head start holds open house…CASC receives $150,000 gift…County Republicans hold banquet…Larry Brooks named employee of the month at Heavener Elementary…Eufaula runs past the Wolves, 36-20…Jim and Nancy Shore purchase Jim Mixon Insurance Agency.
40 YEARS AGO
1985—Bids sought for new track, football stadium renovation…OSU salutes former Heavener graduate Byron Bird…Junior Miss contestants to appear on television…Heavener Class of 1967 to meet…Big Creek Baptist Church sets new attendance record…Heavener stomps Warner, 31-7…Jump over to the Rock Diner for the best frog legs in town…Gary Hooper, owner of Heavener Sonic, joins Heavener Lions Club…Merle Kinney of Heavener named a representative at Carl Albert Junior College.
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50 YEARS AGO
1975—Congressman Carl Albert announces Heavener has been named a Bicentennial City…Cindy Huie selected Heavener band homecoming queen…Forest Ranger Bob LaVal said that the fire danger is high due to recent dry conditions…Kenneth Clubb has a 1974 Luv pickup truck for sale…Stanley Hardware is having a huge reduction sale…Skelton’s Dairy Crème and Café is open 24 hours per day…Don Knotts stars in “The Shakiest Gun in the West” this week at the Liberty Theater.
60 YEARS AGO
1965—Plans have been completed for a town meeting to discuss bringing in a new town doctor as Dr. Hogeboom is leaving and Dr. Fair is attempting to retire…28th annual Livestock and Poultry show is scheduled for next week…A senior class float depicting McHale’s Navy won first place in Heavener’s homecoming parade…Heavener Chamber of Commerce president Phil Freeman said there are 73 members in the organization…Ride the Southern Belle between New Orleans and Kansas City…Bill Skelton has a two-bedroom mobile home for sale…Rock Hudson and Leslie Caron star in “A Very Special Favor” at the Liberty Theater this week.
70 YEARS AGO
1955—Welton Kelly has resigned his position as Hodgen Postmaster…Heavener School will be out Thursday and Friday for the annual state teachers’ meeting…Local Chevrolet dealer Bill Hembree announces that sale and delivery of the new 1956 Chevrolets starts in Heavener on Oct. 31…Miss Martha Felder will be named homecoming queen at the football game with Hartshorne…Bee Davis of Hodgen has a 1949 Chevrolet half-ton for sale.
90 YEARS AGO
1935—The WPA announced that in order to put more people to work, it is reducing the amount of time for projects to be completed…A survey crew is almost finished with the planning for a road between Heavener and Waldron, Arkansas…The government has announced the CCC crew at Holson Valley will be closed…The editor believes J.M. “Alphabet” Brewer has lived here longer than any other resident. Brewer came to Heavener in 1879…Mrs. Hendrick has a good coal and wood stove for sale…The sidewalk in front of the Liberty Theater is being replaced to keep water from entering the building during heavy rains.
100 YEARS AGO
1925—A.M. Rosenbaum of Heavener was seriously injured while oiling the big steam shovel at Pine Mountain as he fell some 20 feet from the platform he was working on. He is recovering at a Fort Smith, Arkansas hospital…A.B. Scott of Zoe has been found guilty of complicity in the partial destruction of the home of J.T. Pope. Jeff Burnett, recently released from the prison at McAlester for committing the crime, testified Scott promised to pay him $350 to burn the home down. He only received $50 and on Scott’s refusal to pay the balance, Burnett gave information to the police, leading to the arrest of Scott…Campbell-Malone Drug Co., your Rexall Store in Heavener, has Jonteel hair nets for sale.
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