From 22 June 1964. Huge Fire on Main Street, Plane Crash in Airport Gardens, New Courthouse, Little League Baseball, Marriage Applicants, Hospital Admits & Discharges, Trial of Estill Holbrook, Death of Robert Couch, 8 Pages.

 From 22 June 1964. A fire on Main Street left 32 people homeless. Two apartment buildings were destroyed and a home badly damaged. The fire started in the apartment building formerly known as the Union Messenger building. The city was alerted to the blaze by a train whistle blown by an engineer working at the L&N yards. The buildings were already targeted for destruction as part of the city’s urban renewal project and were not rebuilt. An airplane crashed on the property of Gene Combs near the Grand Vue Drive-In at Airport Gardens. Bud Igo, the plane’s pilot, was unharmed, while passenger Virgil Foley escaped with a broken nose. With a final adjusted bid of $822,500, a contract to build a new courthouse was awarded to W.D. Johnson of Ashland. A preliminary hearing was rescheduled for Lester Holbrook of Leatherwood who was charged with the murder of Robert Couch, also of Leatherwood. With Buckhorn High School students moved into a new building, the old log high school building, built in 1916, was scheduled to be razed. Thieves broke into the Standard Oil bulk plant in Lothair. They stole $883 in checks and $686 in cash. 16-year-old Roy Davidson was convicted of stealing a car at Vicco and was sent to the state reformatory. Frank Crutcher of Viper died and was buried at the Jim Brashear Cemetery on Masons Creek.











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