Jan. 19, 1809

Edgar Allan Poe is born

1862

Yankees defeat Rebels at the Battle of Logan’s Crossroads

Jan. 20, 1981

Iran hostage crisis ends

1961

John F. Kennedy inaugurated

Jan. 21, 1977

Pres. Carter pardons

draft dodgers

2009

Toyota officially passes GM as planet’s biggest car maker

Jan. 22, 1973

Roe vs. Wade

1981

Final portrait of John and Yoko is on the cover of Rolling Stone

Jan. 23, 1957

Toy company Wham-O

produces first Frisbees

1849

First woman M.D.

Jan 24, 1908

Boy Scouts movement begins

1848

Gold discovered at

Sutter’s Creek

Jan. 25, 1924

First Winter Olmpics begin in Chamonix, France

1905

World’s largest diamond found

1980

Paul McCartney is released from a Tokyo jail and deported from Japan

Ronald Reagan, former Western movie actor and host of television’s popular “Death Valley Days” is sworn in as the 40th president of the United States.

More than any president since Lyndon Johnson, Reagan’s public image was closely tied to the American West, although he was raised in the Midwestern state of Illinois. In the 1930s, Reagan moved to California, where he became a moderately successful Hollywood actor.

His politics reflected a hard-line conservative and during his eight years as president, he moved American politics from liberal Democrats towards conservative Republicans. Reagan continued to celebrate the mythic independence of the western pioneer as a parallel to modern conservatism.

After a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease, Reagan died June 5, 2004.

Clinton County Headlines: January 19, 1950 – Volume 1, #12 Dam at Celina will not flood Burkesville

The comprehensive plan for development of the Cumberland River Basin as approved by Congress, calls for a dam on the Cumberland River near Celina, Tennessee. which will use the flow of the stream as regulated by the Wolf Creek Reservoir, according to Col. A. W. Pence, District Engineer of the U S Army Corps of Engineers.

In a letter to the Cumberland County News, Pence stated “…I would like to restate previous assurance that there is not now, nor has there ever been, any Corps of Engineers plan for a dam which would result in the flooding of Burkesville.”

Rumors here and in Burkesville for the past few weeks have placed the water level at 27 feet in the Burkesville courthouse when and if the dam at Celina is constructed.

The Celina dam is planned to create a flat pool approximately 550 elevation, which, at contemplated discharges from the Wolf Creek Reservoir after completion, should result in a normal maximum water level at Burkesville of approximate elevation of 558. Such a level is within the banks of the Cumberland River and is approximately 21 feet below the level reached by the 1926-1927 flood. The new Burkesville bridge will have a clearance of approximately 40 feet above the expected high water level of elevation 558.

Clinton County receives $1,879.23 Polio Aid in 2 years

The 17 counties in the 9th Congressional District, through the March of Dimes, received $36,800.29 to aid in their fight against polio in 1949. Clinton County received $873.45 in 1949 and $1005.78 in 1950. The district suffered 123 cases of the disease, five of those in Clinton County.