Take a look back at news and photos that occurred 25, 50, and 100 years ago on June 17th.
25 years Ago:
Friday, June 17, 1994
Chambersburg – Members of the Chambersburg Trojan softball team – from left – Christy Caldwell, Amy Baughman, Melissa Caldwell, Holly Stover, Emily Goetz,
May Hegedus, Chris Bricker, and Jessica Baughman — tell the world they are
No 1, after there 11 -2 victory over Titusville Thursday, in the Class AAA State championship game.
50 Years Ago:
Tuesday, June 17, 1969
“Former Area Man Killed In Vietnam”
Blue Ridge Summit – A former Franklin County resident, CWO Dale L. Johnson, 24, has been killed in Vietnam. Government officials say. Johnson was a victim in a rocket attack, June 8 at a base camp in Vietnam. He was completing his second tour of duty in Vietnam.
Johnson was a 1964 graduate of Waynesboro High School. He enlisted in 1965.
His body will be returned to his parents in Benton Harbor, Michigan. It will be taken from there to Front Royal, Virginia Funeral Home, and will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
In addition to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Urbin L. Johnson, he is survived by two brothers, Terry and William.
Johnson was a member of the Waynesboro High School football team.
100 years Ago:
Thursday, June 17, 1919
“Lights on All Vehicles at Night, New Law; State a Road Builder”
Chambersburg — New laws having bearing on farmers and allied interests were created by a big batch of bills from the Pennsylvania Senate and House, by Gov. Sproul on Saturday. The Governor at this sitting cleared up 43 bills that had run the gauntlet of the state body and his legal advisors, thus getting affairs in shape for the revenue conferences this week and demands of the final work of the legislative session.
The one affecting farmers and towns and the interior, that is intended mainly to increase the safety of night travel for all concerned — that providing that lights must be displayed on all vehicles moving on roads at night except wheelbarrows, hay wagons, and farm machinery.
When automobilists desired that every vehicle save hay wagons and farm machinery should carry lights at night, there seemed to be that this was a hardship on the rural divers of the wagon for the benefit of the rich man with a car. Experience finally developed the fact that it was the countryman who needed protection and not the motorist, and as nearly every farmer now owns a motor car, all are satisfied.
Under the provision, every vehicle except those mentioned must display lights “clearly visible for a distance of at least 20 feet from both the vehicle front and rear of such vehicles.”
There is also a provision that no vehicle overtaking or meeting a street car that has stopped to take on or discharge passengers shall pass on the side where the door is opened or until the car has started or the passenger has reached the curb. Slow moving and heavy-laden vehicles are required to keep near the curb; a driver overtaken by a vehicle traveling at a greater speed must turn to the right, while no vehicle can obstruct traffic or stand in the center of the roadway.
Law officers may arrest on view violators of the act, who are made liable to a fine of two to five dollars or go to jail for five days.
