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17 YEARS AGO
SEPT. 12, 1996
“The 16th Annual Conecuh Heritage Festival, sponsored by The Conecuh Heritage Festival Committee and the Evergreen-Conecuh Chamber of Commerce will be held Sat., Oct. 19, in downtown Evergreen from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.”
“The Castleberry Town Council held their regular meeting for the month of September Monday night at 7 p.m. All members of the council were present with Mayor Bill Seales. The prayer was given by Councilman Alton Henderson.
“Mrs. Marilyn Sawyer with Tri-County Medical Center came before the council to discuss the lease agreement on the new medical clinic in Castleberry. She proposed that they pay $300 a month and that the lease be for at least a five-year term. Mrs. Sawyer also stated that they need more funds to help complete the renovation of the building.
“The council voted to approve the lease for $300 a month for a 10-year period. The council also approved a motion to name the clinic the ‘Bill Seales Medical Clinic.’
“Another motion was passed to place the $300 in an account to pay for the upkeep of the medical clinic building.”
32 YEARS AGO
SEPT. 10, 1981
“September is here, but brought little rain in the first week with Earl Windham reporting only traces on four days: .03, Sept. 2; .04, Sept. 3; .13, Sept. 5; and .04, Sept. 6.”
Windham reported high temperatures of 92 degrees on Sept. 3, Sept. 5 and Sept. 6. He reported a low of 67 on Sept. 1.
“This is one of the largest rattlesnakes The Courant has ever pictured. Edgar McCreary, Rt. D, Evergreen killed the rattler near Brooklyn recently. The snake had 13 rattles and a button. To give you some idea of the snake’s size, Edgar is six-feet, one-inch tall.”
“Tech. Sgt. Allen D. Salter, son of Helen M. Salter of Rt. 2, Evergreen, has arrived for duty at Kwang Ju Air Base, South Korea.
“Salter, a ground radio communications technician with the 4th Combat Communications Squadron, was previously assigned at Robbins Air Force Base, Ga.”
“County residents will not be allowed to dump garbage and trash at the County Sanitary Landfill except during hours when authorized operating personnel are on duty after Sept. 18, it is announced today by the Conecuh County Commission.”
“Clark O. Wells, a native of Green Street community, will appear on the Ernest Tubb Record Shop Jamboree at midnight this Sat., Sept. 12. Clarke is the son of Mrs. Jettie Wells and the late Foster Wells and the brother of Mae, Mildred, Gwen, Harold, Greeley, Roger and Wayne. He was raised in Evergreen and Lyeffion where he attended school and now lives in Chicago. The Ernest Tubb Show can be heard on WSM 650 AM. Clark is excited and thrilled for a chance to appear on this famous show.”
47 YEARS AGO
SEPT. 8, 1966
“TRAINOR ON ESSEX: Aug. 29 – Aircrew Survival Equipment First Class James J. Trainor III, USN, husband of the former Miss Lydia P. Hall of Rt. 3, Repton, Ala., is aboard the Essex as a member of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Five.
“The Essex, which is homeported at Quonset Point U.S. Naval Air Station, R.I., is currently engaged in Anti-Submarine Warfare in the Caribbean Sea.”
“William D. Melton, Evergreen attorney, has been named to the Legislation Committee of the Young Lawyers Section of the Alabama Bar Association.”
“Rigby McNeil Jr., 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rigby McNeil, P.O. Box 52, Repton, Ala., was commissioned an Army second lieutenant on graduation from the Engineer Officer Candidate School at Fort Belvoir, Va., Aug. 19.
“He was graduated from Repton High School in 1960 and attended Troy State College, where he received a B.S. degree in 1964.”
“State Senator Roland Cooper of the 19th Senatorial District (Conecuh, Clarke, Monroe and Wilcox) was questioned Tuesday concerning the special session of the legislature and how legislation passed would affect Conecuh County.”
62 YEARS AGO
SEPT. 13, 1951
“The schools of Evergreen will open with appropriate exercises Friday morning. W.P. McMillan, principal, announces that the Evergreen City School will open with a program in the auditorium at 8:30 Friday morning. An enrollment of around 300 is expected.
“Evergreen High School will also hold its opening Friday morning. Principal Jack Finklea expects a record enrollment of nearly 500.”
“With the completion on Sept. 7 of Joe F. Walters Contracting Company’s contract for the surfacing of the Belleville to Castleberry road, there was added 10 more miles of all weather roads to this county’s Farm to Market System.
“Road mileage in Conecuh County totals 805 miles, 165 miles of which are paved. There are 124 miles of state and 681 miles of county roads.”
“LECTURE: H.L. Blount will lecture on the subject, ‘Evolution and the Bible,’ Sun., Sept. 16 at 401 Magnolia Ave. Everyone welcome.”
“George Hendricks Jr., student at Auburn, spent his vacation at home.”
“Cpl. Temple Millsap was appointed a supervisor last week, the only noncommissioned officer ever appointed to this place at Keesler Air Force Base.”
“Pfc. Harold Crawford, the son of Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Crawford of Evergreen, who was stationed in Ft. Jackson, S.C. with the 31st Infantry Division has been shipped to Korea.”
77 YEARS AGO
SEPT. 10, 1936
“Willie J. Simpson, age about 30 years, was instantly killed at 10 o’clock Saturday morning when for some reason or other he stuck his head under the automatic press at the gin of the Evergreen Manufacturing Co. The press caught his head and literally crushed it, causing instant death. Witnesses state that he never moved after he was struck.
“According to reports, just before the fatal accident occurred a fire had broken out at the gin caused by a match which had been left in the cotton being ginned. However, the blaze had been extinguished before the accident. It is thought that Simpson was looking into the press to see if all the fire was out. He had climbed up the walls of the press and turned back a screen door which is there to protect employees of the gin from the press head. Some fellow workers warned him of the danger and it is said that he jumped clear of it the first time it came down but the next time it caught him.”
“All arrangements have been completed in preparation for the opening of the schools of the county on Tuesday of next week, according to an announcement given The Courant by Supt.-elect H.D. Weathers, who will become superintendent Sept. 14, succeeding Prof. M.A. Hanks, who will assume duties as principal of the Evergreen High School next Monday.”
“Richard Brassell, eldest son of Mrs. Carnella Brassell of this city, was awarded the scholarship made possible by the late Maj. W.O. Parmer, native of Butler County, but who was a resident of Nashville at the time of his death.”
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