1965: 50 years ago

Including the toll road, Indiana had 505 miles of interstate highways completed and opened to traffic at the end of the 1964, or about 45 percent of the state’s designated 1,115 miles of the interstate system.

An Outstanding Salesman Award is being presented to Larry Seiter by FFA Advisor Robert Meyerholtz. Larry won the award by selling the most subscriptions to the South Eastern Indiana Farmer in the Brookville FFA subscription contest.

Hoosier beef cattle feeders, producers and purebred breeders have formed a new organization – the Indiana Cattlemen’s Assoc.

Harry Armstrong of Springville was elected president, Berl Buis of Marion was elected vice president and Dr. L.L. Wilson, Purdue University extension animal scientist, its secretary-treasurer.

1975: 40 years ago

Purdue’s largest winter short courses enrollment, since 1950, are up for this year with 185 men and women ranging from 18-61 years of age and representing six states.

Jacobi Hybrids corn, with prices starting at $26 and top price of $39. No corn sold under 85 percent germination, most corn above 90 percent – contact Charles J. Jacobi, McCordsville, Ind.

Real estate for sale: 168 acres, 65 acres tillable, 25 acres woodlands, balance good pastureland; attractive modern bungalow, barn, cattle shed and milk house; 1.5 miles of road frontage; ranch buildings reached by private drive, $400 per acre, Connersville area – Tri-County Real Estate, Cambridge City.

1990: 25 years ago

Purdue Ag Alumni Articles of Distinction were presented to four men during the annual fish fry. Horace (Ace) Tyler, ag administration; Edwin T. Mertz, professor emeritus in biochemistry; Russell W. Hardin, retired veterinarian from Boone County; and Mauri Williamson, retiring executive secretary of the ag alumni association.

Used equipment for sale: IH 3388, 2+2, 1979, 3,300 hours, with duals, $19,700; IH 5288, 1982, 1,950 hours, hub style duals, $31,500; IH 56 6- to 30-inch with liquid fertilizer, $1,050; JD 7000 6-30, plate, no till, herb., ins., $5,500 – Hull Bros., Fort Recovery, Ohio.

Sheep for sale: 10 registered Suffolk coming yearling ewes, $165 each; also, 10 registered, mostly 2-year-old, Suffolk ewes, bred to registered Suffolk ram, $200 each. Selling whole flock; Jim Laycock, Roann, Ind.

2005: 10 years ago

Michigan hunter gets bovine tuberculosis from deer after having direct contact with the carcass. The hunter in question took a deer in Alcona County and while dressing the deer, the hunter cut his hand.

Some Ottawa County blueberry farmers have banded together to sue the Ottawa County Road Commission over what they claim is millions of dollars in lost crops because of road salt used on the county roads.

The Indiana National Guard was deployed in several areas throughout the southern part of the state to stack sandbags against rising floodwaters because of recent heavy rainfall.