This Week in Citizen-Times History (June 24, 2025)

The June 22, 1972 edition of The Citizen-Times saw the announcement that a new publication, or survey, released for industrialists looking to consider Scottsville as a plant site.

The 25-page document detailed basic facts about industrial sites, the population, employment, wages, income, labor supply, education, transportation, power and fuel, local government, health, community livability, agriculture, natural resources, climate and history, according to Damon W. Harrison, the Kentucky Commissioner of Commerce at the time.

“We should all keep in mind that a growing Kentucky is a must if we are to count on having a growing Scottsville,” Harrison said in an interview. “Kentucky’s job and income growth of the past decade has made possible great improvements in the quality of education, better roads, improved health, and livability. The outlook for the future is even better; however, we must continue and improve our aggressive development programs and maintain a favorable climate for production.”

Additionally, it was announced that a rural secondary road program was announced for Allen County by then-Governor Wendell H. Ford and then-Highway Commissioner Charles Pryor, Jr.

The program had selected 101.1 miles of rural road for maintenance, while authorizing blacktop resurfacing of Ky. 1421, the Kentucky 100-Tennessee State Line Road, and several more roads.

The program had anticipated that the total revenue for the coming fiscal year would be $34,960,000.

The Citizen-Times, consolidated of The Citizen (1908) and Allen County Times (1890) on Oct. 10, 1918, has proudly served Scottsville and Allen County for 135 years.