The winner of the Elks Club Honda ST 90 motorcycle giveaway in August 1974 was Don Klaiber, an employee of Dayton Malleable Iron Company. From left are Hollis Rose, exalted ruler of Ironton B.P.O.E. No. 177, Klaiber, Jerry Lee Smith, the manager of Harmon Motor Sales’s motorcycle department, which donated the motorcycle. (Ironton Tribune | File Photo | John Pruitt)

In August 1974, lieutenant governor hopeful Richard Celeste, a Democrat from Cuyahoga County, visited Lawrence County. From left are Lawrence County Democrat Party chairman David McCown, Celeste, and chairman of the Democrat Executive Committee Craig Allen. Celeste became the lieutenant governor in 1975 under Gov. Jim Rhodes. He was governor of Ohio from 1983-1991. (The Ironton Tribune | File Photo)

Junior bass fishing derby winners were left, Mike Brammer, in the 10–15-year-old class and right, Tony Delawder, in the up to nine-year-old class, in August 1974. The derby was sponsored by members of the Ohio Valley Bassmasters Club. (Ironton Tribune | File Photo)

Miss Bonnie Salyers, 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Salyers, was the first runner up in the “Miss Southern Ohio” Beauty Pageant held at the Southern Ohio Raceway in Portsmouth in August 1974. She was awarded a trophy and $50. (The Ironton Tribune | File Photo)

McGinnis Dry Dock operations at South Point and its superintendent, Ernie Thompson, were honored by AMVETS of Ohio in August 1978 when state AMVETS executive director Paul C. Welch presented the company and Thompson a plaque recognizing the firm as Ohio’s number one company in veteran employment records. From left are Bill Sheridan, manager of Ohio Bureau of Employment Services, Ironton office, James L. Smith, the local Disabled Veteran Outreach Worker, Thompson and Welch. (The Ironton Tribune | File Photo)

An open house was held for the new Lawrence County Jail in August 1974. It was built at a cost of $650,000, with 80 percent coming from federal funds and 20 percent from local funds. The new jail, the most modern jail in southern Ohio could house 54 inmates and was located on the same spot as the previous jail which was built in 1887. (Ironton Tribune | File Photo | Bob Chaffins)

Over 700 people attended an outing in August 1974 at Camden Park for USS Chemicals Plant employees and their families. Among them were Don Kemper and the Ray Sloan family. (Ironton Tribune | File Photo)

An unusual birth occurred at the Charles Crowe Farm on Crow Ridge near Kitts Hill in August 1974 when a 13-month-old heifer bore a healthy calf, which was estimated to weight 35 pounds at birth. The fact that the heifer, which has become a cow at an early age, carried the calf through the normal nine months of pregnancy, makes the conception period at four months. Crowe didn’t plan to have the heifer breed at such a young age, but a bull invaded the pasture and had other ideas. (Ironton Tribune | File Photo | John Pruitt)

Tammy Lynn Goody is shown with a photo of President Richard Nixon that she received from the White House in August 1974. The five-year-old expressed a desire to take a picture of the president when he was on television, so her paternal grandmother, Mrs. Ethel Woods, wrote to the White House with Tammy’s request and got a prompt response. Nixon resigned later that month due to the Watergate scandal. (Ironton Tribune | File Photo)

New officers of the Lawrence County Homemakers were installed in August 1974. From left are Mrs. Roscoe Holmes, international chairman; Mrs. Ted DeWitz, vice president; Mrs. Gerald Moyer, county extension agent, home economics; and Mrs. Milton Harless, president. (Ironton Tribune | File Photo | Bob Chaffins)

Clyde Rourke, of 318 Oak St., Ironton, displays Chinese white radishes which grew bigger than turnips that he grew in his garden in August 1974. The largest was 17 inches round and 10 inches long. The seeds were supposed to be planted in late summer or early fall, but Rourke planted them in mid-May to see how they would grow in the summer and soon came to the conclusion they didn’t want to stop growing. (Ironton Tribune | File Photo)