News Staff
Monday, October 31, 2022
Nov. 3, 1972 A second attempt to break into DA rash of drug store burglaries occurred over a recent 10-day period in the general area. Burglars broke into Voelkel’s West End Pharmacy in Columbus Tuesday night and got away with about $30 in cash from the register and a number of syringes. However, the narcotics were locked in a safe. The thieves pried open the north door facing the Youens Eye Clinic. In Smithville, vandals broke a window on the north side of Crow’s Pharmacy to gain entry sometime around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Only small items were taken. Two burglaries had taken place earlier in Fayette County: Dyer’s Pharmacy in La Grange and W.J. Neese Pharmacy in Carmine. Entrance at Neese’s was gained by prying loose the ends of two protective bars across a rear window and raising the window up with a sharp, heavy instrument. Taken were 500 Valium 500-mg. tranquilizer tablets. After forcing open a locked cabinet, burglars also got away with a quantity of Biphetamine, Dexamyl and Dexedrine capsules. In other old news, The First National Bank of La Grange moved its operations into a brand spanking new facility on the corner of N. Washington and W. Colorado Streets. The modernistic interior decorated in an off-brown color had a lobby running the full length of the building with management’s offices on the far side. Eight teller cages took up the rest of the space. A large modernistic tapestry made in Spain adorned the wall in back of the tellers. The interior of the bank’s former headquarters was undergoing extensive modernization to house the accounting department, directors and conference rooms, stationery department and lounge. The accounting department was located in the adjoining building, the former location of La Grange Utilities, which the bank also owned. The time and temperature clock mounted in front of the bank’s former bank headquarters was being remodeled and serviced before it could be installed on the corner of the new structure.