The sign in the window at Johnny’s Standard at 25th Street and Central Avenue said “Gone Fishing Due to Phase 4,” and was one of many such signs around Columbus as service stations protested governmental price controls in 1973.
From The Republic archives
Sept. 27
2013
The first runners and walkers planning to participate in the inaugural Mill Race Marathon lined up at The Commons to register and receive their information packets, T-shirts and parking passes.
1998
The $1.4 million renovation of Hauser Junior-Senior High School was about 60 percent complete.
1973
At least 41 service stations in the Columbus area and Bartholomew County closed for three days in protest of the federal government’s Phase 4 price controls.
