Bill Edwards
Assistant Metro Editor at The Anniston Star
Compiles local Anniston history items. Picks up & puts down heavy things.
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3 days 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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1 week ago |
annistonstar.com | Bill Edwards
May 31, 1950, in The Star: Fourteen outstanding girls of Calhoun County in 4-H clubs at county schools have been nominated for the title of "Dairy Queen" in connection with June Dairy Month celebrations. The winner is to be chosen June 12 during festivities at Memorial Stadium in Anniston. The specifications for the Dairy Queen nominations are that the girl live on a farm, be active in 4-H work, like milk as a beverage, be 14 years of age and have a pleasing personality.
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1 week ago |
annistonstar.com | Bill Edwards
May 28, 1950, in The Star: The gates closed last night on qualifiers for the special Anniston city Democratic primary, but not before two unheralded candidates slipped in under the wire shortly before 6 o'clock. The latecomers, C. A. Perley and George P. Martin, will join J. C. Sawyer, E. C. Lloyd, R. C. Cantor and the incumbent, E. D. Banks, in another race for chairman of the city commission. The special election was called by the City Democratic Executive Committee to select a successor to the late W. S.
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2 weeks ago |
annistonstar.com | Bill Edwards
May 24, 1950, in The Star: The one-teacher school, last remnant of the "pioneer days" of education, will soon vanish from Calhoun County. By the end of the next school term, the county school board will mark the end of a program of consolidation started more than six years ago. Consider: In the spring of 1944 there were 26 one-teacher schools in Calhoun County, but during the school year just completed, 1949-50, there were only five.
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3 weeks ago |
annistonstar.com | Bill Edwards
May 17, 1950, in The Star: Construction was to wrap up today on an extension of Saks School, but students won't be using its six classrooms, its lunchroom or the combination auditorium-gymnasium until this fall. That's because school lets out for the summer in two days. Construction on the extension at the south end of the present building began in October 1949. Also on this date: The nation's top comic strip - Detective Dick Tracy - begins in this edition of The Star.
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