The Way We Were

50 YEARS AGO
Thursday, April 7, 1966
Pvt. Paul Johnson, 19, son of Jailer Lucien Johnson and Mrs. Johnson was wounded in action in Vietnam and was in a Tokyo hospital. There were no details in the letter to his family except that he had undergone surgery on his left arm and the injury occurred March 24.

Nancy Dean and Bobby Carmickle won excellent ratings in oratory and public speaking at the Speech Festival held in Richmond. They were students at Sand Spring School.

50 YEARS AGO
Thursday, March 31, 1966
Mrs. Clifford Stratton’s vacation trip really paid off last summer. Not only was the 18-day trip an enjoyable one, but she also received a check for $100 this week for an article that is to appear in a trade magazine this coming summer.
Mr. and Mrs. Stratton and their six children piled into their compact foreign car last summer and started of on a 2,700-mile journey that took them to North Carolina, Washington, D.C., Virginia Beach and Jacksonville, Ala.

50 YEARS AGO
Thursday, March 17, 1966
An essay, written by John Dudley Connelly III, brought him a first place win in the Anderson County Cub Scout contest; first in the Blue Grass Scout Council contest and first the in the state-wide contest.
The essay was entitled “My Responsibility to Traffic Safety.” He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Connelly.

Glen Baxter, Betty Caldwell, Edward Morris and Gilbert Wayne Thurman were enrolled at the Morehead State University for the spring term.

Obituaries

Editor’s note: On March 2, 1986, triplets were born to Troy and Benita Young of Anderson County, which could possibly have been a historic first.
On July 16, 1986, the Anderson County triplet birth was featured in The Anderson News after some sort of normalcy returned in the Youngs lives. With the recent publicity of the Young family on the “Family Feud,” and reaching their 30th birthdays, the following are some excerpts from that story.