Stories from Thursday, June 7, 2001

For most parents the thought of a child being injured is their worst nightmare. To have a child injured in a fire would be a devastating, but then you have to add to that the stares of strangers, and the questions. That is why there is Hoosier Burn Camp. The camp is free to children ages 7-17 who have suffered a burn injury that required hospitalization. The camp is held for one week at Camp Tecumseh, north of Lafayette...

CLAY CITY ---- Jerry "Joe" Jackson, 54, of Clay City passed away at 6:40 a.m. on Wednesday at June 6, 2001. Born Sept. 18, 1946 in Clay County, he was the son of Roy and Ernestine (Dierdorf) Jackson. He retired from Peabody Coal Mine in 2001. He was also a farmer and owned and operated a welding shop and lawn mower sales and repair business in Clay City. He was a member of the Union Chapel Nazarene Church, the United Mine Workers, and he graduated from Clay City High School in 1965...

Although South Spencer may enter the Class 2A Southridge Regional Saturday with a sub .500 record at 13-17, the poorest among the four teams, the Rebels probably have played the toughest schedule. There losses have come to Castle, Boonville, Evansville Memorial, Owensboro (Ky.) Apollo, Forest Park, Evansville Reitz, McClain County (Ky.), Southridge, Princeton, Daviess County (Ky.), North Posey, Evansville North, Pike Central, Jasper, Gibson Southern, Mt. Vernon and Evansville Harrison...

Linton-Stockton's Nate Austin had already planned to attend Indiana University, prepared to put his baseball career behind him. Austin was ready to become just another student, one that plans to study biology or pre-med with an eye toward becoming an research scientist...

Neither Linton-Stockton baseball coach Bart Berns or South Spencer head coach Brian Kuester, whose teams will meet at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the second game at the Southridge Regional, want to look ahead to facing the winner of the Eastern (Pekin) (24-6) and Batesville (20-9), the two teams that will meet in the first game of the Southridge Regional Saturday...

MIDLAND ---- A Greene County family has had a dream realized with the completion of their home in Midland. In honor of that, the USDA Rural Development presented Rodney and Jane Durham with a tree to plant in their yard. This is National Homeownership Week and the USDA combined the celebration of the week and the Durham's home...

BLOOMFIELD ---- The Bloomfield Town Council received some good news Wednesday night at its monthly meeting. The Bloomfield Jaycees donated its former building located across the street from the town pool to the town. Rick Vandeventer, past president of Jaycees, officially donated the old Jaycees building to the town of Bloomfield. Other Jaycees present for the key presentation were David Grounds, Jeff Helms, Don Baker and Jeff Emery...

The annual Linton-Stockton High School baseball awards banquet was a little different this year. There were trophies and eats as usual, but the team spent some time watching a movie. It wasn't just any movie. The Miners watched the baseball movie "A League of Their Own."...

You who are reading this article would not have the freedom to do so if it had not been for an event that happened 57 years ago Wednesday on June 6,1944. That date has gone down as one of the most important dates in the history of the free world. On that date, 176,000 troops stormed the beaches along the province of Normandy, France, to establish beachheads, so they could begin the bloody march to Germany...

Robert S. Birdsall, 79, of Linton, passed away at 5:33 p.m., Wednesday, June 6, 2001 at Greene County General Hospital in Linton. He was born Nov. 24, 1921 in Evansville, and was the son of James C. and Jenny C. (Meyers) Birdsall. He was a welder with Barber Greene Co. in Aurora, Ill. He reorganized the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Jollette, was a member of the Jerusalem Lodge F&AM in Aurora, and was a veteran of the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II...