SEVEN YEARS AGO
DEC. 15, 2011
Evergreen weather observer Betty
Ellis reported 0.17 inches of rain on Dec. 5, 0.64 inches on Dec. 6 and 0.05
inches on Dec. 11. She also reported a high of 72 on Dec. 5 and a low of 28 on Dec.
7.
Booker named Teacher of the
Year: The Conecuh County Board of Education honored the county’s teacher of the
year as well as the teachers of the year at local schools during a meeting
earlier this week at Lyeffion.
During a school board meeting
Monday at Lyeffion Junior High School, school board chairman David Cook
announced that Thurgood Marshall Middle School teacher Marion Booker has been
selected as this year’s Conecuh County Teacher of the Year.
The other finalists, who were
teachers of the year at their respective schools, included Karen Andrews,
Repton Junior High School; Lisa Asberry, Conecuh County Junior High School;
Jennifer Hancock, Evergreen Elementary School; Lisa Hatch, Hillcrest High
School; and Voncile Riley, Lyeffion Junior High School.
Two killed in train accident:
Two local men were killed after the truck they were riding in collided with a
train Monday morning in downtown Evergreen.
Willie James McCreary, 85,
and Freddie Lee McCreary, 54, were fatally injured when the 1988 Chevrolet
truck they were riding in collided with a train at the intersection of
Belleville Street and the L&N Railroad tracks, the accident report said.
The accident took place at 8:35 a.m., the report said.
32 YEARS AGO
DEC. 18, 1986
Robert Lee (Bob) Salter, 66,
died Sun., Dec. 14, at his home in Houston, Texas. A native of Evergreen and
graduate of Evergreen High School, he followed heavy construction work most of
his life. He retired as general manager of Construction Equipment International
three months ago.
Mr. Salter was a member of a
prominent, pioneer family. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II. He was a
member of Greening Lodge No. 53, F.&A.M. of Evergreen and a Scottish Rite
Shriner, Hadi Temple, Houston.
Masonic rites were held from
Rideout Chapel, Birmingham, on Tuesday with burial in Elmwood Cemetery in
Birmingham.
Conecuh School System is
about to launch into a tremendous new building project. This undertaking will
be for the purpose of constructing a new central high school for the county’s
students.
Last Thursday night, Dec. 4,
1986, the school board awarded the contract to the firm of Barganier-McKee
& Sims for architectural services. The firm was selected after a school
board committee searched through some 50 architectural submittals and finally
invited three firms in for interviews and presentations. The other two firms
were Narrows, Brown, Parsons & Associates and Carl Herbert Lancester,
Architect.
The new structure will offer
educational and athletic facilities for 800 students, grades 9-12. Square
footage is estimated at 65,000-square feet. Cost of the project, complete with
furnishings, will probably run between $3.5 and $4 million.
56 YEARS AGO
DEC. 20, 1962
Dillard Accepts Position
Here: Aubrey Dillard, a recent graduate of Auburn University, has accepted a
position here with Conecuh Drug Co. as a pharmacist, owner J.S. Dunn announces.
A native of Loachapoka,
Dillard was graduated from the Auburn School of Pharmacy this year. At Auburn,
he was president of Rho Chi, professional honorary society. He is a veteran of
four years service in the U.S. Air Force.
Dillard is married to the
former Faye Perry of Roanoke and they have one son, Mike, age seven. They are
living at 501 Shipp St. and belong to the Methodist Church.
City Council Fails To Reach
Quorum: Unable to get a quorum, the Evergreen City Council did not hold its
regular meeting Tuesday night. Deaths in the families of two councilmen and the
absence from town of another left only Mayor Zell Murphy and two councilmen,
one short of enough for a legal meeting.
The council will probably
meet some time later this week as there could not be another meeting until over
in January due to the Christmas and New Year holidays.
Lee Roy Ward, 69, of
Evergreen and formerly of Dozier, died at a local hospital Dec. 16. Mr. Ward
had lived here for several years and formerly worked as a pharmacist at a local
drug store.
Judge Lloyd Hart has returned
from St. Louis, Missouri, where he has been with Mrs. Hart who underwent two
eye operations. She is doing nicely and is expected home Dec. 21.
82 YEARS AGO
DEC. 17, 1936
Congressman Lister J. Hill
delivered the principal address at dedicatory exercises last Friday when the
new Evergreen Post Office building was formally dedicated to “the service and
progress of the town and county.”
Described as the result of
many months of laborious effort, on the part of the district’s representative
in congress, in addition to concerted activity on the part of civil leaders,
Mr. Hill was elaborate in his praise of the beauty of the new structure.
A number of visiting
dignitaries were present for the exercises, including Hon. John A. Brennan of
New York, Director of the Parcel Post Division, United States Post Office
Department.
THREE KILLED IN HEAD-ON
COLLISION AT CASTLEBERRY: Three trainmen were killed and a fourth injured in a
head-on collision between L&N passenger trains numbers 2 and 3 at
Castleberry Thursday morning. The crash occurred shortly after 5 a.m.
The dead: Philip Grizzard,
engineer, train No. 3; Leo Gorey, engineer, train No. 2; Fireman Barnes, train
No. 3.
The injured man was the
fireman on train No. 2, whose name was unavailable as The Courant went to
press.
No passengers were injured,
other than being shaken up considerably, according to best information
obtainable from the wreck scene.
Cause of the wreck has not
been definitely fixed, although train No. 3 failed to take the siding at
Castleberry, under an order issued at wreck, according to reports.
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