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| Lurleen Wallace |
20 YEARS AGO
NOV. 7, 1996
Kevin Johnson, co-owner of Johnson Jewelers, presents a
lad’s diamond ring to Bunny Bayles, who won the ring in an Oct. 24 drawing for
Johnson’s 50th anniversary celebration. Later, Debbie Thorsteinson
won a 20-piece set of china. Johnson said he and his brother Kenneth Johnson
Jr. planned the event to “show our appreciation to our customers and welcome
new customers as Johnson Jewelers begins its next 50 years.”
Excel trips up FC Whippets: Friday’s revival of the rivalry
between Excel and Frisco City high schools lived up to its billing as one of
the top matches to be held in south Alabama last week. About 2,500 people
attended the showdown at Whippet Field in Frisco City.
Excel took advantage of four turnovers, including a blocked
punt, to defeat Frisco City, 13-7, in the Battle of Big Escambia Creek.
(Top Excel players in that game included Nic Beasley, Chris
Champion, Lee Fore, Rob Hill, Trevor Ledkins, Kevin Luker, Bryson Martin,
Derrick Millender, Tyrone Preyear, Nic Robinson and Travis Smith. Top FCHS
players in that game included Cedric Brown, Jimbo Cave, Randy Coleman, Walter
Lambert, Marcus Lee, Quamie Richardson, Johnny Sirmon, Ken Sirmon and Seneca
Watts. Al Bowen was Excel’s head coach, and Rodney Dollar was FCHS’s head
coach.)
J.F. Shields High School principal Larry Woolfolk places the
crown on senior high queen Colette Pettway, escorted by Byron Murphy, Friday
during a ceremony held prior to the game between Shields and Autaugaville. In
addition, Shete McCants was named junior high queen and Cherri Lett was named
Miss J.F. Shields.
35 YEARS AGO
NOV. 5, 1981
TV cables extending to south: A Monroeville cable television
company is already stringing its lines in Frisco City, Excel and Sugar Hill,
and that may block a second cable firm from constructing a system in the area.
Dave Pardonner, president of Essex Communication Corp. in
Greenwich, Conn., the firm which recently bought CATV of Monroeville, said
Tuesday that his company is already putting its “strand” up in the three areas,
but he does not know the projected “turn on” date.
Pardonner said that the three communities would be offered
the same services Monroeville already has, and that there may be some additions
to the programming by the middle of 1982.
The Monroe Academy Volunteers held on to their fourth place
3A private school ranking Friday night with a sound 34-3 thrashing of South
Choctaw in Toxey, Ala.
Paul Bennett was the Vols leading rusher and his 188 yards
on 19 carries was enough to give him the SouthWind Offensive Player of the Week
Award. Sophomore Anthony Wilson received his coaches’ lineman of the week
recognition for his outstanding job of filling in for the injured guard Tripp
Hendrix.
(Other top Monroe players in that game included Boyd
Bradley, Tim Carter, Todd Cruitt, Eugene Garrett, Joey Langham, Pat McKenzie,
Chuck Owens, Mike Owens and Don Smith. Rob Kelly was Monroe’s head coach.)
50 YEARS AGO
NOV. 3, 1966
Gov. George C. Wallace, campaigning for his wife, Lurleen,
for the governor’s office on the Democratic ticket in next Tuesday’s election,
made a stop in Monroeville Wednesday morning where he made a talk at the
courthouse.
Special Edition Date Postponed: The job is bigger than we
figured – we need more time.
Consequently, the publication date for the Journal’s
Centennial Edition, originally announced as Nov. 24, has been postponed until
Thurs., Dec. 13.
Approximately 6,000 copies of the Centennial Edition will be
printed.
Union High Tops Camden School: The Union High Eagles rolled
over the Bulldogs of Camden Academy by a score of 29-0 Thursday afternoon in
Camden.
Union High scored one touchdown in the second quarter when
Camden attempted a pass, but had it blocked by a Union High lineman and caught
in the air by John Dean, left tackle, who raced 65 yards for the touchdown.
(Other top Union players in that game included Jessie Askew,
Alvin Dailey, Charles “Boot” Davis, William McPherson, O’Neal Parker, William Smith,
James Thames and George Thomas.)
One Person Injured In Hearse Wreck: One Monroe County man
was slightly injured early Monday morning near Oak Hill when the Johnson
Funeral Home hearse in which he was riding ran off the road and turned over.
Lauris Skipper of Excel, a passenger, received a broken
collarbone and lacerations while Seth Watkins of Monroeville, received bruises.
Julius Johnson of Monroeville said Mr. Watkins apparently
ran off the road due to the fog. The accident occurred 7.6 miles north of Oak
Hill.
65 YEARS AGO
NOV. 1, 1951
Monroe Schools Have Million Dollar Budget For First Time:
During 1950-51, financial functioning of Monroe County schools was over the
million dollar mark for the first time in their history.
This fact was revealed in an annual report of educational
funds released this week by H.G. Greer, County Superintendent of Education, for
the Monroe Board of Education.
He said the $948,606.03 available for actual school
operation plus the school lunchroom fund and expenditures for the veterans
training programs reached the grand total of $1,040,540.73.
A game team of Bulldogs from Uriah’s J.U. Blacksher High
racked up their first victory of the present grid season in completely
outclassing the Lyeffion High eleven by a 33-0 score last Thursday night.
Starring for the Bulldogs was quarterback Bob Grissette,
whose pass was responsible for one TD while he also carried the ball for
another score. He, too, converted for all three extra points.
(Other standout Blacksher players in that game included
Lotan Griggers, Clyde Hines, O’Neil Smith and Mason Woods.)
Pvt. James L. Nettles of Beatrice recently arrived in Korea
and has been assigned duties as a crew member of one of the “General Patton”
tanks of Co. B, 73rd Heavy Tank Battalion.
As a member of the 73rd, Pvt. Nettles is serving
with a unit which has participated in some of the most epic phases of the
Korean fighting.
80 YEARS AGO
NOV. 5, 1936
A jury last Friday morning found Orin Lambert guilty of the
murder of Earl Dean and on the same day he was sentenced by Circuit Judge F.W.
Hare to life in the penitentiary.
The state charged that Earl Dean met his death by strychnine
poisoning administered by Lambert.
Three Mobilians, former postmaster R.S. Cartledge; Dr. S.F.
Hayle and Mrs. Ed K. Cogburn, identified Orin Lambert as the man who on March 9
took out $15,000 worth of Woodman Insurance on the life of Dean and naming
himself, Lambert, as beneficiary.
The Lambert case called forth more interest than any on the
criminal week docket of the fall term of circuit court and for two days,
beginning Wednesday morning, the case was heard before a packed court room.
Beatrice Wins Game From Escambia Team: The Beatrice football
champs of last year piled up another win on their home field Friday afternoon
by defeating the McCullough high school team by a margin of 14 to 0.
Beatrice and Excel will meet on Friday afternoon of this
week in Beatrice in a hard struggle to begin the playoff for the 1936 county
championship.
William Cato, 22-year-old Quilan, Mo. youth, was convicted
in the fall term of the Monroe County Circuit Court on Friday morning on a
second-degree arson charge in connection with the burning of the Sunnyside
School house.
Esker Wasden, well known farmer of the Sunnyside neighborhood,
whom Cato charged “hired” him and Jim Cranford, young Foley boy, to burn the
building, will be tried at the next term of circuit court. It was alleged that
Wasden had the school burned because the meeting held in the building by the
“Holy Rollers” was annoying him.
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