Here are the top headlines from June 5 editions of The Telegraph over the years:
Taxpayers in The Telegraph area were told they could expect their 2005 property tax rates to be lower than the year before, thanks to higher assessed valuations of Madison County homes. For Alton, an owner of a $150,000 home would pay $3,783.75 in taxes, while the owner of a $150,000 home in Wood River would pay $4,762.05.
A family of skydivers thrilled the crowd at the Jerseyville Aviation Open House/Fly-In. Three members of the Raymond family — Pat Raymond, his son Paul, and his daughter Tammy — jumped from their family airplane, piloted by Pat Raymond's son James, when it was about 5,000 feet above the ground. All three parachutists landed safely.
The Edwardsville High School baseball team was ready to put its 62-game winning streak on the line as it sought a second straight Class AA state championship. With a 37-0 record in 1991, the Tigers were set to open the state tournament at Springfield's Lanphier Park against Loves Park Harlem, which had a 25-2 record. Edwardsville entered the state tourney ranked No. 1 in the country by both USA Today and Collegiate Baseball Magazine. The Tigers finished as the state runner-up with a 39-1 record under head coach Tom Pile, and South Holland Thornwood won the 1991 IHSA Class AA Baseball state championship. South Holland Thornwood beat Edwardsville 10-3 in the championship game.Â
Lendall Park, a 15-year-old Godfrey boy, was killed, and a woman was seriously injured in a traffic collision on Alton's Beltline. A 22-year-old Godfrey woman was driving the car when it jumped the center median and was hit broadside by an oncoming car, killing Park. The driver of the car carrying Park was in serious condition in the intensive care unit at St. Joseph's Hospital.
J.J. Wuellner & Son Co. was ordered to pay the Alton School District $22,500, and the district was ordered to pay a bill for $100,571.02 to the contracting firm for work in place and materials on the site. An arbitration board issued the rulings in the Olin School dispute, which had halted work on the building. The arbiters ruled the payments should absolve all parties of liabilities they had incurred to that date, that the contractor should be allowed another six months to complete work on the building, and that the school district should accept the work already in place.
A joy-riding complaint against two girls — the first ever brought in Alton — was dropped in police court. After an Alton man reported his automobile had been stolen, police stopped the car as it was being driven into town on East Broadway. The two girls inside claimed they had just borrowed the vehicle, and its owner declined to press a larceny complaint. The girls were charged with disorderly conduct and given “moderate†fines.
