LOOKING BACK March 1, 1995
By Dixie Terry
In the March 1, 1995, edition of the local newspaper, was pictured students who had traveled to McDonald’s in a stretch limousine. The Parents Group had held a fundraiser for P.E. equipment and band uniforms with the top sellers in each class winning a trip to McD’s on Feb.22, where WSIL-TV was waiting with cameras loaded, to interview the students for the evening news. The winners were: Shawn Edwards, Billy Salb, Logan Harner, Daryl Obtande, Lacey Rogers, Jeff Triest, Nicole Harrison, Eddy Foster, and Derrick Pearl.
Pictured were: Jeff Howard Johnson, selected as a DAR Good Citizen for 1995 by the Daniel Chapman Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, He is the son of James and Pat Johnson.
Brandon Travelstead was pictured as first place winner in the Boy Scout Pinewood Derby with the prize-winning car built by he and his Grandpa Cato.
On Monday, at 5:30pm a train derailed on Power Plant Road, which created a tie-up of traffic all the way back to Topal’s.
Magna Bank of Goreville is offering APY of 3.35% on $25,000 or more.
Nine residents had the correct identity of the Mystery Photo of last week, who was Floyd Scheutz. The name of Lloyd Craig was drawn from those of Denny Newton, Herschel Craig, Diana Newton, Linda Stearns, Bea Wood, Bill Stearns, Carla Newton, and Daphene Sullivan.
Lloyd was the winner of two breakfast specials from the Longhorn at Pulley’s Mill.
Floyd Ray Schuetz was born in Cape Girardeau, Mo. on Oct. 9, 1949, to Homer and Helen Mildred White Schuetz.
His brothers are: Homer, Goreville. Dan, Florida. and Carl, deceased. His sisters are: Alberta, Crab Orchard and Millie, Oklahoma.
Floyd attended Goreville schools and graduated in1967.
He was married to Paula Maze in Goreville on Jan. 29, 1971. They have two children, Alisha and Raymond and two grands, Everett Lee, 3. and Maria Bastien, 1.
Floyd has driven trucks and traded horses most of his life, and is now employed at Olin Corporation and also drives for P and L Trucking.
He is a member of Busby Chapel Church.
Floyd’s hobby is horses.
On Feb. 21, the Goreville Cub Scout Pack 58 held their Blue and Gold Ceremony and celebrated the 85 years of Cub Scout history. Christopher Gage and Seibert Tregoning were awarded The Arrow of Light and will now become Boy Scouts in Troop 9.
A former Goreville resident, Marvin Wartenbe, 46. of Karnak, was killed on the Joppa/Grand Chain Road when the Shawnee Development bus he was driving ran off the road and plunged into the rain-swollen Post Creek Cut-Off Ditch.
And so it was, in Goreville and Lake of Egypt, on March 1, 1995.