Bill Edwards
Assistant Metro Editor at The Anniston Star
Compiles local Anniston history items. Picks up & puts down heavy things.
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1 week ago |
annistonstar.com | Bill Edwards
June 18, 1950, in The Star: "Father of the Bride," Edward Streeter's best-selling story of the problems of marrying off a daughter, will come to the screen of Anniston's Calhoun Theater today [Sunday] and continue to play through Wednesday, in a captivating motion picture filled with all the poignant and heartwarming humor of the original novel. Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett star as the fretful parents and Elizabeth Taylor portrays the blushing bride.
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2 weeks ago |
annistonstar.com | Bill Edwards
June 14, 1950, in The Star: Echoes of young America's fight for freedom will sound in Anniston tomorrow when a full-scale replica of the Liberty Bell rings out to remind people of Calhoun County to buy U.S. Savings Bonds. The bell which will ring here is one of 52 constructed in a small town in France for use in the savings bond drive. The 2,000-pound bell, made of more than 80 percent copper, will be on display at the corner of 12th and Noble.
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2 weeks ago |
annistonstar.com | Bill Edwards
June 11, 1950, in The Star: Billowing smoke from burning crosses floated again through the air two nights ago (Friday) as the burners, moving closer into Anniston, staked their handiwork in front of houses on West 15th Street and West 19th Street. Crosses were burned at houses in Oxford earlier this past week, and another was reported on the Atlanta Highway Thursday night.
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3 weeks ago |
annistonstar.com | Bill Edwards
June 7, 1950, in The Star: A survey of thirty-four of the larger retail service stations in Anniston, conducted by the Independent Service Station Association, showed that 85 percent of them plan to lower the retail price of gasoline by 2-1/2 cents per gallon. A drop in the wholesale price of gasoline is making the adjustment possible. The new retail price is expected to be 27-1/2 cents for a gallon of regular and 29-1/2 cents for a gallon of ethyl.
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3 weeks ago |
annistonstar.com | Bill Edwards
June 4, 1950, in The Star: During a recent visit with Anniston Junior Chamber of Commerce president Martin Wakefield, an old Calhoun County dairyman talked about the history of milk delivery in Anniston. "Most people in town had their own cows in those days," Walter L.
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