This Week in Citizen-Times History (February 7, 1974)
The February 7, 1974 edition of The Citizen-Times celebrated Diane Murphy’s choosing as the “Basketball Sweetheart” at Allen County High School on the previous Friday, during a 66-62 game against Caverna.
Murphy at the time was a varsity cheerleader, and is the daughter of Chloe Murphy, who lived on West Locust Street at the time, with the previous year’s Sweetheart winner, Debbie Hurt, crowning Murphy.
Along with being a cheerleader, Murphy was a member of Future Teachers of America, Student Council and Pep Club, and was chosen amongst 12 other candidates.
It was also reported that the city council voted to proceed with an expansion of the sewage collection system in the city, along with the water project, with concern over a potential 30 percent increase in water and sewer bills being discussed, ultimately voting to go ahead with the plans.
The then-new sewer collection system was planned to “delete” certain streets where there are few homes, with then-Mayor Harry P. Read explaining that the areas that would not get the sewer lines was “strictly as a matter of economics.”
Additionally, then-Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz proclaimed on Friday in Washington that a marketing quota of 608 million pounds for the 1974 crop of burley tobacco, with a carryover from 1973 raising it to 700 million pounds.
It was reported that a house fire broke out at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Eddie White on Franklin Road, with the blaze leveling the four-room frame.
The cause of the fire was not known, and by the time firemen arrived on the scene, the house was already destroyed, with White telling them that he awoke to find the ceiling of the house in flames, with all of their belongings being destroyed, with no insurance on furniture or clothing.
Luckily, Mrs. White and the couple’s two children were not at the house at the time.
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 136 years.
