Down memory lane for this week.
ONE YEAR AGO
2024– Hall of Fame football coach, Greg Werner, resigned his position as head coach at Poteau Monday, only four days prior to the Pirates opening the season Friday at Booneville, Arkansas. Werner coached Poteau in two different stints, guiding the Pirates to the state championship in 2019, after finishing second earlier in the decade to Anadarko…Carl Albert State College has announced an increase in student enrollment for the 2024 academic year, marking a milestone for the college. CASC’s enrollment is up 18 percent in concurrent students for high school juniors and seniors… While Heavener failed to get a hit in Tuesday’s loss to undefeated Eufaula, that wasn’t a problem Wednesday as the Lady Wolves’ District 3A-8 doubleheader at Okmulgee Wednesday, which had been postponed earlier in the season. Heavener rallied in the final inning to win the first game, 16-8, before completing the sweep with a 23-13 victory in the second game.
10 YEARS AGO
2015—Heavener City Council meeting gets heated after the Council took back proposed raises to Police Chief Ty Armstrong, City Clerk Amy Davis and Public Works Director, Jason Davis. Council members asked City Manager Larry Jones why the raises were issued now instead of July…Choctaw Labor Day Festival starts Sept. 3…New artificial turf is down at Costner Stadium in Poteau…HHS Class of 1965 to hold reunion…Heavener cheer camp planned…Dow and Carolyn Dozier celebrate 60th wedding anniversary….Heavener football team set to scrimmage Panama this week after scrimmaging Poteau last week…Heavener softball team wins seventh straight.
20 YEARS AGO
2005—City officials hear complains on hiring, firing…Poteau clinic doctors holding out on signing new contracts…Heavener Drama Club plans trio to New York City…Police investigate break-ins at Downtown Liquor, Heavener Methodist Church…Lady Wolves finish third at Panama Tournament…Carroll and Shirley Smallwood to celebrate 40th anniversary.
30 YEARS AGO
1995—Heavener School enrollment tops 1,000 students…Free medical clinic to open in Heavener…Sen. Don Nickles to visit Heavener…EPA hearing for Heavener postponed…Heavener School Board to hold special meeting to hire teachers…Ed and Marilyn Cranfield to celebrate 30th wedding anniversary…Emma Terry named youth minister at Heavener First United Methodist Church…New KP’s Quick Mart store under construction…Heavener Lions Club names committees…Heavener to hold first scrimmage against Poteau.
40 YEARS AGO
1985—Heavener School enrollment is 757 students…Joe Edward Baker is a DOC graduate…Spiro Mound gets grant…Three prisoners escape from Ouachita Correctional Center…Bandy family holds reunion…Heavener’s Kellye Dawn Cacy and Phillip Randall Tate receive degrees from the University of Oklahoma.
50 YEARS AGO
1975—Telephone operators are again having to handle most of the long distance service in our area due to equipment failures…An 18-year-old Paris, Texas man was shot and killed by Wilburton police officers after a high speed chase…Grading is under way on a road between Heavener and Howe…Zoe receives 3.72 inches of rain Monday, increasing the monthly total to 5.57 inches…Heavener Police Department issues five citations in month…Robert Mitchell has a 1961 Dodge truck for sale…Lillie Tolbert is cooking fresh homemade biscuits and gravy every morning at the Burger Hut.
60 YEARS AGO
1965—Five burglars who entered several Heavener businesses have been taken to McAlester to serve five year sentences…Daily Oklahoman editor, R.G. Miller, is in Heavener preparing for the fall foliage trip…Mike Addison has been elected senior class president…Over 100 people attended the 100th birthday party for Mrs. M.A. Williams, who was born near Ringgold, Georgia on Aug. 31, 1865…Jim Ross has a 1955 Ford truck for sale…Charleton Heston and Richard Harris star in “Major Dundee” at the Liberty Theater this week.
70 YEARS AGO
1955—Heavener is once again dry after the closing of the Wynona Tavern. It was closed due to complaints of excessive drinking, loud noise and the gathering of large crowds…Three men have been arrested with extracting fish from the Poteau River by using a telephone generator…Four men arrested with theft of nine brass axle bearings from the KCS railroad…Some 2,500 people attended the Heavener Roundup Club’s rodeo in the new arena…Charlie Wilson has a slightly beat-up piano for sale for $75…Heavener Auto Sales has a 1949 Ford Coupe for sale for $40.
90 YEARS AGO
1935—a Howe youth was badly insured Sunday morning while attempting to board a southbound freight train near Howe. One foot was cut off and the other so mangled that is had to be amputated. There is little hope that he survives…Paving of streets are underway in Heavener. Cost is $75,000…A new road from Conser to Hodgen has been approved.
100 YEARS AGO
1925—Heavener Blues baseball team continues sending players up to the major leagues…E.C. Addison opens third Five and Dime store in Sallisaw…Heavener Public School will open for the 1925-1926 school year Monday…Fowler Brothers in Heavener is closing.
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