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UT inducting 1970 boys' basketball team into school's hall of fame
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United Township announced its 2013 Hall of Fame class, which will be inducted during halftime of Friday's Western Big 6 Conference boys' basketball game against Alleman at the Panther Den. Joining the UT Hall of Fame is the school's 1970 boys' basketball team. The Panthers finished that season as the single-class state runner-up, dropping a 71-52 contest to LaGrange Lyons in the state final. That season produced the school's first sectional title and the first 30-win season by an Illinois Quad-Cities Metro team. UT topped Pittsfield, 75-54, in the Macomb Super-Sectional at Western Hall behind Bob Hunter's team-high 22 points. Making its first state appearance at the Assembly Hall in Champaign, UT outlasted LaSalle-Peru, 68-66, in the state quarterfinal. Hunter and Malcolm Samuels each had 14 points in the game. The Panthers then earned a 77-59 win over Peoria Spalding in the state semifinals as Hunter tallied 17 points. Craig Davis' 16 points paced the Panthers in their title loss. Also in UT's starting five was Tommy Haliburton and Daryl Griffin. Haliburton and Samuels were on the all-tournament team. The Panthers, coached by Cliff Talley, finished the season with a 30-3 record. The second-place finish still remains the highest in school history. Also to be inducted are a pair not related to sports -- Ann Schotka Schneider ('78 grad), whose long careeras a government employee of the state of Illinois hasled to her current position as the Secretary for the Illinois Department of Transportation, and Darrell Bush ('79 grad),a world renowned illustrator. 
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Today is Tuesday, May 21, the 141st day of 2013. There are 224 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: On Monday the 11th inst. on Center Ridge in Mercer County,some citizens got out their cannon to celebrate the taking of Richmond. The gun wasoverloaded and burst. No one was injured, but one 30-pound piece went though thesecond story of a house.
1888 -- 125 years ago: The old folks concert at the Harper Theater last night to benefit St.Luke's Cottage Hospital, attracted a large audience.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Unless depredation by vandals in Rock Island parks is halted,special policemen will be assigned to night duty to protect the flowers and other property.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Station WHBF has received a special citation from Washington forits participation in Air Mail Week, which was observed this week throughout the nation.
1963 -- 50 years ago: A 10-year high in employment in the Quad-City area was reachedat the end of the last quarter, according to an industrial employment barometer releasedtoday.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Pee Wee teams will be able to play baseball and softball as usualon Diamond Three at Dorrance Park this summer, but after that, the ball field is doomed.County crews have put the diamond back in shape after heavy trucks marred the playingfield earlier this spring. Illinois Department of Transportation crews drove onto it to makeborings for the relocation of the junction of Illinois 84 and the Port Byron-Hillsdale road.
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