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10 YEARS AGO
MARCH 26, 2009
U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) will visit Evergreen
Saturday afternoon as part of the state’s “Year of Alabama History” campaign.
Sessions is scheduled to arrive at the Old Train Depot in
downtown Evergreen at 2 p.m. and will be on hand until 4 p.m. His visit will
coincide with a Conecuh County Historical Tour, organizer Sherry Johnston said.
Evergreen weather observer Harry Ellis reported .43 inches
of rain on March 16. He also reported a high of 78 degrees on March 19 and a
low of 43 on March 22.
Election lawsuit returns to court: The next chapter in the
ongoing lawsuit over Evergreen’s disputed mayoral election will unfold today
(Thursday) at the Conecuh County Government Center in Evergreen.
According to officials with the Conecuh County Circuit
Clerk’s Office, an evidentiary hearing in the case is scheduled to begin at 9
a.m. and will be held in Courtroom B.
Judge Edward McDermott, a retired Mobile judge who was
appointed to hear the case, filed an order on March 11 that called for
subpoenas to be issued to a number of individuals, including members of the
Conecuh County Board of Registrars, who were in office at the time of the
mayoral run-off election.
Sellers gets Class Act award: Sparta Academy sixth-grade
teacher Cecelia Sellers was presented with the WSFA Channel 12 News Class Act
Award Wednesday of last week at the Evergreen school.
36 YEARS AGO
MARCH 24, 1983
Local weather observer Earl Windham reported 1.21 inches of
rain on March 15; .41 on March 16 and .34 on March 17. He reported a high
temperature of 76 degrees on March 15 and a low of 29 on March 13.
McArthur Thompson is still missing, in spite of a massive
widespread search for him by the Evergreen Police Department, Conecuh Sheriff
Edwin Booker’s staff, the State Troopers and the Alabama Bureau of
Investigation. Thompson, a black male, approximately six feet tall, 175 pounds,
who drags one foot, was last seen about four weeks ago, according to his mother,
who reported him missing.
Sheriff Booker said that all law enforcement agencies,
including Conservation Department Enforcement Officers, were still working
around the clock trying to locate the missing man. The sheriff also said that
Larry Fluker, local NAACP leader, had offered the help of his organization and
had “spread the word” in communities over the county.
Mack was last seen by some of his associates on March 11,
1983. The strangest thing about the case of missing Mack is that he was
scheduled to appear in court as a prosecuting witness.
Trial of cases on the State Bar Criminal Docket, Conecuh
County, are scheduled for trial next week. Circuit Court will begin Monday
morning at 9 o’clock in the courtroom of the Conecuh County Courthouse with
Judge Robert E.L. Key presiding.
43 YEARS AGO
MARCH 25, 1976
Local weather reporter Earl Windham reported that Evergreen
received .34 of an inch of rain on March 21. He also reported a high of 81
degrees on March 20 and a low of 31 on March 17.
Three Conecuh County young women are among the 13
contestants in a preliminary Miss America pageant scheduled April 2 and 3 at
Patrick Henry Junior College in Monroeville.
Contestants from this area are Ernestine Garrett, 23,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Garrett of Evergreen; Patsy Watson, 18,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Watson of Repton; and Tammy Barlow, 18, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Barlow, Rt. 1, McKenzie.
George W. Saxton of Evergreen has qualified for the
Democratic nomination for the office of Constable, Beat 11, in the primary
election of May 4.
Bobby Stewart, well-known farmer and cattleman of the
Fairview community, qualified last Thursday as a candidate for the Democratic
nomination for Chairman of the Conecuh County Commission.
Wayne E. Johnston, County Treasurer and clerk to the County
Commission, has been appointed absentee voting officer for the county in the
primary elections this year by Circuit Judge Robert E.L. Key. The appointment
was made on Monday, being necessary because Circuit Clerk Leon A. Salter, who
would normally serve in that capacity, is a candidate for re-election.
52 YEARS AGO
MARCH 30, 1967
Wolfe Ambulance Service will begin offering ambulance
service to all of Conecuh County this Sat., April 1. Cope Funeral Home will end
this service Friday. Frank Wolfe of Monroeville, owner of the new service, is
already operating an ambulance service in Monroe County.
Warrant Officer One R.B. Griffin has started a 12-months
tour of duty with the U.S. Army in Vietnam. He is the son of Mrs. Bertha
Griffin of Rt. 1, Evergreen.
Service station operators were warned this week by
Evergreen Police Chief John Andrews not to sell gasoline or other combustible
fluids in glass containers. He pointed out that to do so is a violation of a
city ordinance.
Andrews said that each year about this time when
lawn-mowing is resumed there are violations of the ordinance reported. He said
that it is very dangerous for gasoline to be carried in glass containers and
enforcement of the law is necessary for public safety.
Marine Private First Class James C. Salter Jr., grandson
of Mrs. Emmie Tatum of Rt. 1, Evergreen, is in Da Nang, Vietnam serving as a
member of ‘A’ Battery, First Battalion, 13th Marine Regiment.
Lyeffion Principal Roy M. Davis crowns Ollie Mae Ward as
Miss Lyeffion at the annual pageant Saturday night, sponsored by the Lyeffion
FHA.
67 YEARS AGO
MARCH 27, 1952
Record Rainfall Here During Past Weekend: According to
officials at the local Airways Communication and Weather reporting station at
Evergreen Airport, the past weekend was the wettest since the opening of the
station Nov. 19, 1949. Weather records beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday afternoon
until 6 a.m. Monday morning show a total of 3.44 inches of rainfall for those
36 hours.
The station located at Middleton Field, Evergreen, is manned
24 hours daily by one or more of the following personnel: Walter L. Chambers,
Chief, William S. Andrews Jr., Wiley H. Sanders Jr., Sparkman Long, Jack L.
Broome.
With the Eighth Army in Korea – Cpl. Alton E. Cook,
Belleville St., Evergreen, Ala., is now serving on the island of Kojedo, 40
miles off the coast of southern Korea, with the 121st Transportation Truck Co.
After serving for the past 10 months in Japanese and Korean
waters, the landing ship tank USS 772 has arrived in San Diego, Calif. Serving
aboard her is William E. Henderson, seaman apprentice, USN of Evergreen, Ala.
George W. Estes, age 44, popular and well known teacher of
Vocational Agriculture at Lyeffion High School, died at a Greenville hospital
March 19, following an illness of many months. He was a devoted member of the
Church of Christ and a Mason.
Fort Riley, Kansas – Second Lt. William E. Dantzler, son of
Samuel A. Dantzler, McKenzie, Rt. 2, Ala., received his gold bars at
commissioning exercises for Army Officer Candidate Class 42 at Fort Riley,
March 22. Lt. Dantzler graduated from the Evergreen High School in 1948 and
entered the Army in October of that year.
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