18 YEARS AGO
JULY 23, 1998
Local weather observer Harry
Ellis reported .95 inches of rain on July 13, 1.15 inches on July 14 and .50
inches on July 16. He also reported a high of 94 degrees on July 19 and lows of
71 on July 13, July 18 and July 19.
LaFrancis Davis was recently
hired as the new band director at Hillcrest High School. A reception welcoming
him to Evergreen will be held Thurs., July 23, at 7 p.m. in the cafetorium at
the school.
Landstar Systems, Inc. agrees
to sell Poole to Schneider National: If all goes well, Landstar Poole will be
under new ownership by late August, after agreeing to sell out to Schneider
National, Inc.
Landstar Poole is a wholly
owned subsidiary by its parent company Landstar Systems, Inc. The announcement
was made Thurs., July 16.
Poole has its headquarters in
Evergreen and is the third acquisition made by Schneider National in the last
several months. Prior acquisitions were Highway Carrier Corporation of Des
Moines, Iowa and Builders Transport of Camden, South Carolina.
(Purchase price for the
Poole-Schneider National deal was $42 million.)
Clint Casey exhibited the
1998 Grand Champion market hog at his year’s County Market Hog Show held June
13, 1998. This year’s judge was Mr. Derek Bryan, County Agent, Crenshaw County.
33 YEARS AGO
JULY 28, 1983
Incident at City Hall: Ill feelings between Mayor Lee
Smith and City Councilman Lomax Cassady that have long simmered came to a boil
Wednesday morning of last week. After a verbal exchange, the two men swapped
blows in the council meeting room at City Hall.
The mayor received treatment including stitches on the
head and lips at the emergency room of Evergreen Hospital. The councilman also
had a “fat lip.”
Both men said that they regretted the incident and were
embarrassed by their participation in it.
Kenneth Lavon Ausby takes the oath of office as a
policeman with the Evergreen Police Department. The oath is administered by
Conecuh County Judge of Probate Frank T. Salter. Taking part are acting Chief
of Police James Powell and City Councilman John E. Smith.
Douglas Edward Griffin, 25, of Rt. 1, Box 106, Evergreen,
has been charged with capital murder in the shooting death of Patrick Frank
Dale, 27, also of Evergreen, whose decomposed body was found near Camden last
week.
Griffin, who was arrested July 22 in Evergreen, is being
held in the Dallas County Jail, but will be tried in Wilcox County.
Dale was shot twice in the upper body with a shotgun on
July 16, and his body was found in a wooded area just of Alabama 89 in Wilcox
County, according to Wilcox County Sheriff Prince Arnold. His 1977 Chrysler was
later found in Tuscaloosa.
48 YEARS AGO
JULY 25, 1968
The schedule for Conecuh
County schools for the 1968-69 school year has been approved by the Conecuh
County Board of Education, according to Harvey G. Pate, superintendent of
education.
The opening of the Fall Term
has been set for Fri., Aug. 30, with a half-day session scheduled. Prior to
that, teachers will meet in their respective schools on Aug. 28 and 29.
Varner leaving for Vietnam:
Spc. 4 Randle Varner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy A. Varner, leaves tomorrow for
Fort Lewis, Washington and will go one from there to Vietnam. He has spent a
30-day leave here with his parents after being assigned from Hunter AFB,
Georgia to overseas duty.
A 57-year-old pedestrian Mrs.
Bessie Lampley of Repton was killed in one of three accidents on Conecuh County
roads during the past week. The accident occurred on July 21 at 3 p.m., 0.2
miles south of Repton on Alabama 41. Edward L. Maness of Greenfield, Tenn. was
the driver of a 1963 Buick sedan (involved in the accident.) Trooper Cottingham
investigated.
Fort Benning, Ga. – Private
Sterling W. Lett, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Lett Jr., Route 2, Evergreen,
has been awarded a plaque for scoring highest in his basic combat training
battalion on the physical combat proficiency test.
Pvt. Lett is a 1967 graduate
of Marshall High School. He has been assigned to Ft. Sill, Okla. for advanced
training.
Pvt. Lett, Co. E, 2nd
Brigade, U.S. Training Center, Infantry, earned the award by scoring the
maximum 500 points on the test. His perfect score admitted him to the Training
Center’s exclusive “500 Club.”
63 YEARS AGO
JULY 23, 1953
Council Votes To Install
Traffic Light At Rural-West Front Intersection: At its regular meeting Tuesday,
the Evergreen City Council decided to take action in spite of State Highway
Department opposition and install a traffic light at the intersection of Rural
and West Front Streets at the foot of the overhead bridge. The city had asked
for permission from the State Highway Department as this intersection is on
Highway 31 but had not been given it.
The action followed another
“close miss” at the intersection Tuesday noon when a car speeding through the
intersection bashed a local car which was backing out into the street from a
parking place on Rural Street.
Prominent Physician Passes At
Home July 15: The town and county were saddened last Wednesday, July 15, by the
death of Dr. John Waller Hagood, which occurred at his home on Bruner Avenue,
at seven o’clock in the morning.
Dr. Hagood was born at
Braggs, Ala. in Lowndes County in 1875, son of Thomas Smallwood Hagood and
Cynthia Demoval Hagood. He received his medical education at the University of
Alabama, when it was located in Mobile, Ala. He practiced medicine in Lowndes
County until he came to Evergreen in 1904.
Prior to coming to Evergreen,
he took graduate work at the University of Chicago. In 1948, he was awarded a
Certificate of Distinction for 50 years in the practice of medicine. He served
for five years as Worshipful Master of the Masonic Lodge.
78 YEARS AGO
JULY 28, 1938
Andrew R. Pierce, 52, well
known and respected citizen of Repton, died suddenly about eight o’clock Friday
morning from what was generally supposed to have been a heart attack. Mr.
Pierce was engaged in running some land lines near the place of Ike Bradley,
farmer living four miles from Evergreen on the Montgomery highway when he died.
A young man who was helping him was the only one present and according to his
statement he fell over and died without saying a word.
Deceased was born near Old
Salem in Monroe County. He moved to Lenox in this county when a boy and lived
there until he married. Since his marriage, he had lived in Repton. He engaged
in farming, timbering and surveying. He did quite a bit of timber cruising and
estimating. He was known throughout this county and adjoining counties and had
many friends who are saddened at his passing
Conecuh County’s population
has been estimated at 26,105 as of July 1 by the Bureau of Vital Statistics of
the State Department of Health.
Boy Scout Bulletin: Monday
night was one of the biggest nights the local troop has enjoyed in a long
while. Before the regular business meeting, the boys played games and had a
watermelon cutting that everybody enjoyed to the utmost. A short business
meeting was attended to in quick order.
The efficiency contest saw an
upheaval in the standings as the Golden Eagle patrol passed the Beaver with a
cool 136 points. The Silver Fox patrol remained in the third slot while the
Pioneers kept the cellar clean.
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