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13 YEARS AGO
JAN. 4, 2007
Friends and business
acquaintances of Gerald Borden stopped by South Alabama Gas last Thursday
afternoon to bid Borden good wishes on his retirement as the general manager of
the company. Borden will remain with SAG on a consulting basis for the next
year to help new manager, Mark Burgess, assume his new duties.
Tears and laughter filled the
conference room at Schneider National Trucking Dec. 14 as former employees and
current employees said goodbye to each other as the company officially closed
the Evergreen terminal. Among those present for the reception was Walter Poole,
who started Poole Truck Line, which later became Schneider National.
Total rainfall for the month
of December was 4.33 inches. Total rainfall for 2006 was 43.27 inches.
The City of Evergreen more
than doubled their base sewer rates and almost doubled their base water rates
Tuesday night. The Evergreen City Council voted unanimously to raise the base
sewer rate in the city from $5 per month to $12 per month and the base water
charge from $7.50 for the first 3,000 gallons to $13.80. The overall base rate
increase to city customers will be $13.30 per month.
U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby
(R-Ala.) will join the residents of Conecuh County for a county visit on Fri.,
Jan. 5, 2007 at 2 p.m. The county visit, which is open to the public, will take
place at the Evergreen Public Library, located at 201 Park St. in Evergreen.
28 YEARS AGO
JAN. 2, 1992
Emergency crews move quickly
to extract an injured man from the wreckage of a vehicle struck by a freight
train in downtown Evergreen last Friday. The injured man, George Jacob, was
flown by Lifeflight to a Montgomery hospital where he was listed in critical
condition suffering from head and internal injuries.
Weatherman Harry Ellis
reports .19 of an inch of rain on Dec. 23, .67 on Dec. 27 and .37 on Dec. 28.
Murder suspect now in jail;
Second still in USA hospital: One man accused of the murder of a retired
elementary school teacher in Conecuh County has been placed in the Conecuh
County Jail, while a second man remains in a Mobile hospital.
According to officers, Wayne
Travis was transferred to the county detention facility last week after being
released from University of South Alabama Medical Center in Mobile. Travis and
Steven Wayne Hall had been in the hospital since Dec. 15, after both were
injured in a shoot out with area law enforcement authorities in Monroe County.
Travis was under heavy guard
as he was taken out of a deputy’s vehicle and placed on an elevator in the rear
of the Conecuh County Courthouse. Travis was aided by crutches, still suffering
from the effects of a shotgun blast to the knee.
Travis was booked for Mrs.
Clarene Haskew’s murder and placed in a cell. Earlier, bond had been denied by
District Judge Sue Bell Cobb.”
43 YEARS AGO
JAN. 6, 1977
The year just ended was a “dry” one when compared with
1975. According to Earl Windham, total rainfall for 1976 was “only” 56.29
inches. That’s just a little over half as much as the approximately 111 inches
recorded in 1975.
The 1976 total was close to the normal rainfall for this
area, but considerably less than has been recorded each year for the past
several years.
Windham reports .08 of an inch of rain on Dec. 30 and .80
on Jan. 2.
The Evergreen City Council’s first meeting of 1977,
Tuesday night, was a lengthy one, but no action was taken.
City Clerk Miller T. Sellers said that the meeting lasted
about four hours and was consumed by discussion among the councilmen of a
number of matters, but no official action was taken. Some of the matters
discussed are expected to be brought up at future meetings.
Legal advertising begins this week on a local bill that
would permit The Union Bank of Repton to establish a branch office in
Evergreen. State law requires that a local bill be advertised four weeks before
it is introduced in the state legislature.
Proposal of the branch bank was brought up late last
year. At that time, it received the endorsement of the Evergreen City Council,
but drew strong opposition from the officers, directors and stockholders of The
Conecuh County Bank.
58 YEARS AGO
JAN. 4, 1962
One man has been arrested in
Mobile and is under a $1,500 bond in connection with the Christmas night
shooting of a Bowman Truck on Highway 31 at the old “S” curve north of
Evergreen.
Bowman has reported a series
of shootings into the company trucks throughout the Southeast in recent months.
The company is reported to have been involved in a labor-management dispute.
Governor Patterson and
Highway Director Engelhardt have entered into a contract with Conecuh County
for the construction of grading and drainage of 4.692 miles of road from
Castleberry northwest to a point on the road connecting the
Castleberry-Evergreen highway with the Lenox-Belleville road.
Murrice G. Miniard, airman,
USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Noble O. Miniard of Repton spent the Christmas holiday
at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, while serving aboard the attack aircraft carrier USS
Coral Sea.
A total of 400 Alabama
registrants will be summoned to the induction station here during January to
fill Alabama’s Selective Service quota, according to State Director Walter M.
Thompson Jr.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday at 2 p.m. for John C. Holman, 77, who died Sunday.
Mr. Holman was widely known
and highly respected throughout this area. The father of a large family, Mr.
Holman instilled in his children from infancy love of God and country and six
of his children served their country during World War II.
73 YEARS AGO
JAN. 2, 1947
Dr. R.L. Yeargan, formerly of Harriman, Tenn., will open
offices in the Newton Building, between Morgan’s and Davis Shoe Store about
Feb. 1. The building, a part of the store formerly occupied by Morgan, is now
being done over to fit it to his needs and should be completed in time for
opening about Feb. 1. He will engage in general practice.
Isaac (Pap) Thompson, storekeeper up near the stand pipe,
lost his leg in a freak explosion about 11 o’clock Monday night. Thompson had
living quarters in the rear of the store building and it is thought he had gone
into his room to go to bed at the time the accident occurred. He was using a
heater which had an old water jacket in it, but which was not connected to the
water system. The heater exploded and a fragment of it entirely severed
Thompson’s leg. It is reported that only a few days ago, he had a plumber plug
the connection to the water jacket. The explosion was a heavy one which shook
other homes in that vicinity.
The fire department was called out to extinguish the
blaze which was started in the building by the explosion. Thompson was carried
to Century Hospital as soon as possible and reports from there Tuesday
indicated he was recovering.
Effective Jan. 1, W.L. Lisenby assumed the duties as
manager of Elmore’s, succeeding C.J. Boothe. Mr. Boothe left Tuesday for
Russellville, Ala. to become manager of the Elmore store there. Mr. Lisenby
comes here from Amory, Miss.
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