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NINE YEARS AGO
JAN. 29, 2009
Weather reporter Harry Ellis
reported .05 inches of rain on Jan. 24. He also reported a high of 72 degrees
on Jan. 23 and lows of 19 degrees on Jan. 20 and Jan. 21.
Brief filed in election
lawsuit: Another chapter in the ongoing lawsuit over Evergreen’s disputed
mayoral election unfolded this week as attorneys for Pete Wolff III filed a
legal brief in support of their side of the case.
At the end of an evidentiary
hearing on Dec. 23 in Evergreen, Judge Edward McDermott, a retired Mobile judge
who was appointed to hear the case, gave Wolff’s attorney, James H. Anderson of
Montgomery, a timeline to file his position on a number of legal points in the
case. Wolff ran for mayor against incumbent Larry Fluker only to lose by two
votes in the Oct. 7 runoff election.
Fluker’s attorney, Edward
Still of Birmingham, will have a given number of days to respond to Anderson’s
brief, which was filed with the Conecuh County Circuit Court on Tuesday of last
week. Anderson will then have until Feb. 9 to file any reply he might have to
Still’s response.
Anderson’s brief, a six-page
document, makes the argument that the outcome of past lawsuits and state law
support Wolff’s side of the case.
Mary Mims named EMC’s 2008
Employee of the Year: Mary Mims of Evergreen received the 2008 Billy G.
McKenzie Employee of the Year award during a ceremony last Thursday afternoon
at the hospital in Evergreen.
24 YEARS AGO
JAN. 27, 1994
Members of the Evergreen City
Council and Conecuh County Probate Judge Rogene Booker are pictured with newly
appointed Evergreen Police Chief Thomas Booker moments after he was
administered the oath of office by the probate judge Tues., Jan. 18. Pictured
are council members Larry Fluker, Jerry Caylor, Elizabeth Stevens, James King,
Phyllis Brock, Chief Booker, Mayor Lomax Cassady and Judge Booker.
Weather reporter Harry Ellis
reported 1.11 inches of rain on Jan. 17 and a trace of rain on Jan. 23. He also
reported a high of 60 on Jan. 17 and lows of 16 on Jan. 18 and Jan. 19.
Committee Picks City
Ambulance; Commissioners Approve Decision: The Conecuh County Commission has
approved the recommendation of the Conecuh County Emergency Medical Services,
Inc., and chosen City Ambulance, Inc. as the contract holder for Conecuh
County. The vote was taken during a special meeting of the commission last
week.
The Conecuh County
Commission and election officers in Conecuh County met Monday afternoon to
discuss possible solutions to potential problems brought about by the new House
of Representative and State Senate division lines which split the county. The
problem at hand is that the court-approved lines do not follow the current
district and voting precinct lines in the county.
39 YEARS AGO
JAN. 25, 1979
Weather reporter Earl Windham
reported 1.87 inches of rain on Jan. 20 and .01 inches on Jan. 21. He reported
a high of 70 on Jan. 18 and a low of 19 on Jan. 15.
John Coburn, 71, of
Evergreen died Sat., Jan. 20, in a local hospital after a long illness. A
lifetime resident of Conecuh County, Mr. Coburn was a member of a pioneer
family and was widely and favorably known.
Mr. Coburn, a retired
contractor, was much loved and will be deeply missed by his family and many
friends. An excellent builder, he was associated with the group which built the
houses in the first subdivision in Evergreen. He was also the contractor for
many other lovely homes, churches and other buildings in Evergreen and this
area.
Commander Joe Patten
receives his new collar devices from Master Chief Joe Everheart after being
advanced to that rank by Commander Stu Langdon, commander of Air Wing Five.
Patten was promoted during ceremonies aboard the aircraft carrier USS Midway on
which he is serving as the Air Wing Maintenance Officer. CDR Patten entered the
Navy shortly after graduating from Evergreen High School in 1954. He resides,
when not at sea, with his wife, Miyoka, and daughter, Elena, in Yokosuka,
Japan. Their other daughter, Lorena, lives in Phoenix, Az. Joe is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. E.E. Patten of Evergreen.
Nina and Lewie Wilson’s home
was totally destroyed by fire on Dec. 10.
54 YEARS AGO
JAN. 30, 1964
Flxible Southern takes over
Southern Coach Saturday: Flxible Southern Company will begin operations here
Saturday. Culmination of the transaction in which the Flxible Co. of
Loudonville, Ohio purchased the assets of Southern Coach & Body Co. is
being completed in Cleveland, Ohio.
Flxible Southern Co., a
subsidiary of the Flxible Company, takes over as of Feb. 1 in a historic moment
for Evergreen and Conecuh County.
O.B. Tuggle, vice president
of Flxible Southern Co., in a letter to employees is offering employment to all
present employees of Southern Coach & Body co. Tuggle lived here for a
number of years when he was president of Southern Coach Manufacturing Co. He
has been with Flxible since leaving here.
Bill Griffin, ship’s
serviceman third class, USN, son of Mrs. Laura Griffin of Evergreen, Ala.,
visited Palma de Mallorca in the Mediterranean on Jan. 16 aboard the attack
aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La.
Crewmembers toured the
2,000-year-old city of Palma on the island known as the ‘Pearl of the
Mediterranean.’ The crew is scheduled to visit several more ports of call
throughout the Mediterranean as the carrier operates with the Sixth Fleet.
Pink Ladies Will Organize
Tuesday Night: A woman’s auxiliary for the Conecuh County Hospital is to be
organized in a meeting Tuesday night, Feb. 4, at seven o’clock in the Civic
Room of the Conecuh County Courthouse.
69 YEARS AGO
JAN. 27, 1949
Mayor Fountain Dies At
Monroeville: MONROEVILLE, Ala., Jan. 25 – Funeral services were held here today
for Mayor Fred A. Fountain, 58, of Monroeville.
The mayor died at his home
yesterday of a heart attack. He had been ill since Saturday.
Fountain was elected mayor
last September without opposition in his first bid for public office.
Miss Mary Cunningham,
Evergreen Postmaster, revealed early this week that the Evergreen Post Office
Building is to be painted both inside and out in the very near future. The
Evergreen Post Office was one of the few in the state to be approved for this
work.
Escaped Russian Minster To
Speak Here Sunday: Rev. Robert Tarzier, Field Secretary of the Russian Bible
Society, Washington, D.C., will speak at the regular morning hour of the
Evergreen Baptist Church Sun., Jan. 30. Rev. Tarzier escaped from the Soviet
secret police a little over four years ago. At that time, he was pastor of one
of the largest Baptist churches – the well known church in Riga, Latavia.
Rev. Tarzier is a reformed
Communist. Under the influence of atheist teachers at the outbreak of the first
World War, he lost sight of God and became a hardened infidel communist. But,
shortly after the outbreak of the Revolution, the cruelty and suffering brought
by the communists plus the fact that the communist government sentenced and
executed his father, a poor evangelical preacher, turned him back to God. Since
that time, he has become a zealous evangelist.
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