42 YEARS AGO
MARCH 28, 1974
Local weather observer Earl
Windham reported 0.1 inches of rain on March 4, 0.2 inches on March 12, 1.2
inches on March 18 and 0.8 inches on March 21. He reported a high of 82 degrees
on March 20 and lows of 38 degrees on March 17 and March 22.
Evergreen Police Chief James
“Pappy” Ellis will turn the reins over to Russell Phillips when he retires
Sunday. The popular chief is retiring after a career that saw him rise from
“meter maid” to head of the police department. He will be honored Friday at a
prayer breakfast.
It will be Chief Russell
Phillips come Monday. The retired State Trooper Sergeant and former police
chief at McIntosh will succeed Chief James Ellis who is retiring March 31.
Phillips has been on duty with the Evergreen Police Department since March 1 to
get familiar with the city and department personnel.
Phillip Harold Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Harold, Evergreen, an eighth-grade student, was winner of
the spelling bee held at Marshall Middle School. Phillip, whose mother is the
former Laurice Adams, will compete in the state finals in Birmingham on May 4
in a contest sponsored by The Birmingham Post-Herald.
Officer James R. Taylor of
the Evergreen Police Dept. is attending the ninth session of the Southwest
Alabama Regional Law Enforcement Training Academy at Faulkner State Community
College in Bay Minette.
57 YEARS AGO
MARCH 26, 1959
Youngsters to show fine cattle April 20: Plans are proceeding for the annual Conecuh County Fat Calf Show to be held April 20. Assistant County Agent John Horne, J.H. Witherington and W.S. Coker are organizing a committee to stage the 13th annual show.
The committee will take the place of the Evergreen Junior Chamber of Commerce as sponsors of the show. The local Jaycees founded the show in 1947 and had sponsored it each year since, but the group disbanded last fall.
County youngsters are feeding out some 40 beef calves to enter in the show. Horne states that a number of these will grade prime and that the top calves may be the best in the history of the show.
The show will have no financial troubles as county residents have already provided funds for it through their gifts to the United Fund of Conecuh County.
The show usually draws a large crowd and the auction sale following it is one of the best of the year. County cattlemen usually sell a number of fed animals at this sale.
The Conecuh County Fat Calf Show is considered the best county show in the state and rate favorably with the district shows. The show will again be held at the Conecuh Cooperative Stockyards and will be followed by the sale.
Firm Records Song By Local Composer: The Star-Crest Recording Company of Hollywood, Calif. announces that it is considering for recording and national album release a song written by a local composer.
The composer is Miss Lucile Ross of 114 Belleville St. Her song is “Separation: Two Friends Part.”
George Ashcraft will serve as president of the Evergreen High School Parent-Teacher Association during the 1959-1960 school year. He and other officers were elected at the regular meeting of the PTA Tuesday night.
Elected to serve with Ashcraft were: Mrs. Ruby Moses, vice-president; Percy Brantley, treasurer; and Mrs. W.J. Millsap, secretary.
72 YEARS AGO
MARCH 30, 1944
Dr. H.H. Kendrick, former citizen of Evergreen, died
suddenly at his home in Montgomery Saturday evening about 7 p.m. His death was
said to have been caused from heart ailment. He had worked all day at his
office and was taken ill shortly after arriving home, the end coming soon after
he was stricken.
Dr. Kendrick practiced his profession of dentistry here
for a number of years before going to Montgomery more than 20 years ago. Prior
to his residence here, he lived in Greenville for a time.
Aviation Cadet Harry L. Johnston, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Martin L. Johnston of Owassa, Ala., has completed approximately one-third of
his Pilot Training and will soon report to an Air Corps Basic Flying School in
Newport, Ark. for the intermediate phase of his flying training.
Before entering the Air Corps, Cadet Johnston attended
Evergreen High School; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Ala.; and the 55th
College Training Detachment, Gettysburg, Pa. Cadet Johnston was accepted as
aviation cadet at Montgomery, Ala., in March 1943.
Ensign R.G. Kendall Jr. will leave Friday for Hollywood,
Fla., where he goes for training.
PIX THEATRE – A Martin-Ray Theatre – Evergreen, Alabama:
Sunday, April 9th – “Son of Dracula” – Robert Paige, Evelyn Ankers,
Lon Chaney.
87 YEARS AGO
MARCH 28, 1929
BERRY SEASON OPENS AS 1ST
CRATES ARRIVED: Movement of Conecuh County strawberries by express started with
a rush this week with the advent of warm weather and its continuation will
likely mean that cars will begin moving sometime next week.
The first full crates came in
to both Evergreen and Castleberry Monday. Steve Howard brought and shipped to
Birmingham, Evergreen’s first crate while at Castleberry, R.B. Findley started
the season off with four crates which were brought by G.T. Young and also
shipped to Birmingham.
LOCAL TROOP RETURNS FROM
FLOOD DUTIES: Concluding a 10-day stay in the Brewton-Flomaton flood zone,
members of Evergreen’s national guard company, Troop C, 55th Machine
Gun squadron, returned home late Monday to receive the praises of the
commander, Capt. W.D. Lewis, for duty well performed.
The company left Evergreen
Saturday, arrived in Brewton Saturday afternoon where headquarters was
maintained until Tuesday, then moved on to Flomaton where they remained until
Monday.
During the stay in the area,
the major tasks of the troop were feeding 3,334 people, guard and patrol duty
to prevent pilfering and looting, establishing contact with the outside world,
dispatching emergency cases for the Red Cross and doing needful buying.
The northbound and southbound
crews which are clearing and grading for the Evergreen-Castleberry highway will
meet in about 30 days, according to estimate Tuesday by W.L. Flaughter,
resident engineer of the state highway department.
102 YEARS AGO
MARCH 26, 1914
A northern gentleman, who
is spending some time in Evergreen, says he saw the first shot fired on Fort
Sumter.
1,482,254 bales of cotton
were ginned in Alabama from the 1913 crop, 19,295 bales were ginned in Conecuh
County, which was 1,376 more bales than was ginned in the county from the 1912
crop.
C.F. Archer has recently
added a picture framing department to his photo gallery, where he will be
permanently located. Archer does viewing, copying and enlarging. If you have an
old, faded tintype, bring it. He will make it new.
Commencement exercises of
Effie school, Tues. evening, March 31. Everybody cordially invited. Admission
25 cents and 15 cents.
S.L. Witherington of China
was in the city Wednesday.
John Deming, who has been
attending school at Marion for the past three months, returned home Thursday on
a short vacation.
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