From the J&C Archives, June 23, 2014

Tiffany Benazet, center, gets some help from Nick Santangelo as they wait for a bite on her line at the fourth annual Children's Fishing Tournament at Columbian Park. Photo taken June 23, 1994.

Unusually heavy rains this year and a defective drainage tile have combined to isolate teh Ron Lambirth home near Dayton. High water flooded an 80-acre field across Newcastle Road from the Lambirth house and spilled over recently, flooding their driveway. Photo taken June 24, 1974.

TOP: Brett Gillock, left, 8, and brother Blake, 4, can smile these days. BOTTOM: The boys, feeling effects of cancer treatment, were pictured in the Journal & Courier on June 3, 1993.

Ray Higgens, a "fixture" at the Fowler Hotel since he went to work there as a room clerk about 40 years ago, talks with a visitor about the heyday of the once-gay gathering spot for students, townspeople and travelers. Much of the lobby area will be converted into an enclosed courtyard dotted with unbrella-type tables and greenery. Skylights and false ceilings are to be removed from over the lobby to create the open-air patio area. Photo taken June 25, 1974.

About 2,000 4-H Club members from Indiana's 92 counties attending the annual 4-H Roundup at Purdue University this week pose for this gian message on the football field in Ross-Ade Stadium. Two club members passed out from standingin the heat for more than an hour while the extension staff arranged for the photo. The photograph was shot from atop the press box. Photo taken June 25, 1984.

Nine-year-old Fred Koning is dwarfed as he poses beneath a giant sombrero. Koning said he spotted the huge hat while browsing through a flea market at the East Drive-In with his grandfather. "It only cast me a dollar," Koning gushed. He was on his way home to show the hat to his mother. "I sure hope she likes it." Photo taken June 25, 1984.

Lafayette motocross biker Frank Adams, 19, tests his skills against a steep hill beneath the U.S. 52 overpass at North Ninth Street, near the Monon Shops. Adams and friend Ryan Gochenour were riding an area used so frequently by local bikers that a dirt track has been gouged out of the heave underbrush by heavy use. Photo taken June 25, 1984.

Readmore the Cat greets Jeremy Smelser, 4, at Columbian Park. Readmore is part of a treveling library that offers children and adults free books from a bookmobile, which is funded by state and federal money. Marilyn Lomax, who plays Readmore, said that 209 people, mostly children, came through the bookmobile in the fist half hour. Photo taken June 25, 1984.

Sam Noonan, 5, left, greets his friend, Steve Wien, 6, by saying "How" before the Box Parade. Photo taken June 25, 1994.

Glen Ward works on a computer problem before the start of the HAMM Radio Field Day Exercise sponsored locally by the Tippecanoe Amateur Radio Association. The national event checks emergency preparedness as operators from across the U.S. and Canada make contact with each other. Points are awarded based on the number of contacts made. Photo taken June 25, 1994.

Gazazi Peire-Sizua tries to play a hammer dulcimer at the Indiana Fiddlers' Gathering held at the Tippecanoe Battlefield park while her mother, Aurkene Sizua hangs on. Photo taken June 25, 1994.

Freestyle jamming and dancing breaks out. From left: Francis Geels, Gene Estep, James Obermyer, dancing, Richard Smith, John Falk and Donald Bannon. Photo taken June 25, 1994.

Loretta Rudas, of West Lafayette, is one cut away from becoming an Indianapolis Colts cheerleader. Photo taken June 26, 1984.

Emergency personnel take a shooting victim to a waiting ambulance. The man later died at Home Hospital. Photo taken June 26, 1984.

West Lafayette police Sgt. Dennis Mitchell, right hels David Freeman, 9, try on his police hat during a talk to disabled children about traffic safety at West Lafayette High School. Mitchell talked to about 30 children in the West Lafayette summer recreation program. Photo taken June 26, 1984.

Jay Miller breaks away from Corey Edwards, 12, during a two-on-two basketball game at the Oakland Elementary School courts. Photo taken June 26, 1994.

Kendall Smith, left, John Percifield and Robert Kennedy are the owners of Indiana Design Consortium on Main Street. On the wall behind them are recent examples of their advertising and design work. Photo taken June 26, 1994.

Dresses go all lengths these days as shown by Mary Ellen Kerber, left, and Kathryn Patton, right. They were two of the Tippecanoe County Homemakers entered in the dresses at the Homemakers Fashion show in the Farm Credit Building. Mrs. Kerber is a Classy Lassy while Mrs. Patton competed in the Groovy Grandmas division. Photo taken June 27, 1974.

Robert Harlan ordered a grass bag for his riding mower some time ago, but for some reason, he never got it. And when the grass on a vacant field grew more than 8 feet high, well, something had to be done. A friend payed Harlan to cut the one-acre lot on Sixth Street last week. It too Harlan, and here, his daughter, Tami, 9, eight hours and four seperate cuts to get the grass to a manageable length. To pick up the clippings, Harlan rigged this contraption, a riding lawnower pulling a push mower with a bag attachment. Harlan said the invention worked very well, thank you. Photo taken June 27, 1984.

Although Marlin Perkins, director emeritus of the St. Louis Zoo, and this boa constrictor had only met briefly before a news conference in the Purdue University board of trustees office, it was like old friends meeting. The boa, however, appeared bored by the proceedings and proceeded to investigate the silver microphone on the table. Perkins assured those at the news conference that boas are not dangerous unless threatened. Photo taken June 27, 1984.

Babe Wisely sees a wooden putter that resembes a driver as she putts on the first green of the Elks golf course. The 81-year-old Wisely was participating in the 36th annual Old Ladies Golf Association (OLGA) tournament, an outing she has never missed. 137-golfers participated in the event, held at a different Indiana golf courses every year. Photo taken June 27, 1984.

Michael Nelson, left, and John Vought race to the wire in the 400-meter dash of the Hershey's National Track & Field competition at Lafayette Jeff. Photo taken June 27, 1994.

New employees LaRonika Thomas, left, and Anne Boyd practice making coffee at the Java Roaster, 130 N. Third St. in downtown Lafayette. Photo taken June 27, 1994.

This Monticello service station was almost leveled by the April 3 tornado but it is open for business with the remaining pumps and can even provide open air repair and maintenance work where the bays once stood. Photo taken June 28, 1974.

Helium-filled balloons are released at the Lafayette YWCA as the expansion fund drives reaches 33.8% of its goal. Photo taken June 28, 1984.

Randy Snider of West Point drills a hole in a headstone in Burton Cemetery at U.S. 52 and Klondike Road as part of a ccemetary restoration project. Mary Reed, owner of West Point's Thompson-Reed Monument Co., said her company has been restoring about 90 tombstones, some dating back to the 1840s, over the past two weeks. Snider drills holes in each base and headstone. The two are then connected by a short steel rod. Photo taken June 28, 1984.

FIremen wash down a corner of Deets Liquiors after the building caught fire and plastic foam on the outside melted. Photo taken June 28, 1984.

Josh Bussert, left, watches as Gale Payne, who is donating his time, helps in the renovating effort under way for the arrival of two Haitian girls the Busserts are adopting. Photo taken June 28, 1994.

Dale Price requested a 10-year anniversary raise five days before the Monon strike. He's still waiting. Photo taken June 28, 1994.

Jenny Downham, left, anxiously waits her teammate, while Donny Huey hands off the baton to Adam Huntzman. Photo taken June 27, 1994.

Lindsey Downham competes in the standing long jump. Photo taken June 27, 1994.