70 YEARS AGO: 1944
Capt. James Jeter returns to his station in Arizona. • Ensign Everett Bourquard is here to visit his parents.
60 YEARS AGO: 1954
Malcolm Norwood conducts an art workshop for children. • Mr. and Mrs. George Page and children are visiting in Greenville.
50 YEARS AGO: 1964
Don Roth graduates from the University of Mississippi School of Law. • Sue Hicks is awarded the Betty Crocker Homemaker Award At Jett High School.
40 YEARS AGO: 1974
Mrs. Sarah Lee Smith dies at Mercy Hospital. • Dr. and Mrs. A.G. Franklin and their daughter, Jennifer, are guests of Mrs. and Mrs. Frank McLean.
30 YEARS AGO: 1984
Burl J. Faulkner, former postmaser, dies. • Lindi Nicole Smith is 1.
20 YEARS AGO: 1994
A Vicksburg man is killed and his brother is injured when their single-engine airplane clips tree tops at Vicksburg Municipal Airport.
10 YEARS AGO: 2004
The Old Crossroads Store at Fisher Ferry and Old Port Gibson roads is purchased by Dawn Lee. • Porters Chapel Academy’s boys basketball team reaches the conference finals.