March 3, 1961—Alabama’s unemployment rate is now 8.2 percent. The national rate is 6.6 percent.

March 4, 1961—Auburn beat Alabama 80-69 in basketball tonight in Montgomery, where the game is always played. This was the concluding match of the season for both teams, neither having a stellar year.

March 4, 1961—The Priceville Bulldogs beat Roanoke 58-47 in the state basketball finals in Tuscaloosa tonight, taking the state A hoops title. Monte Sharpe and Charles Maples were named to the all-tournament team.

March 4, 1961—The ASC office here in Hartselle was open today. The purpose was to allow farmers who don’t plan to use all of their cotton acreage allotments to cede them to other planters who would like more.

March 5, 1961—Tom Guyton, Jr., is a member of the Sewanee Glee Club this spring. This is his main extra-curricular activity.

March 6, 1961—The Hartselle Jaycees are heading up this city’s participation in the ongoing Civil War centennial. They have good-naturedly “jailed” men without beards who did not have a shaving license and several ladies who were wearing contemporary rather than period dresses. All money raised will be donated to upgrading Hartselle Recreation Park. No one is compelled to participate in any of the activities. It is all in fun and for a good cause.

March 7, 1961—A Tennessee Valley State Vocational Technical School bus collided one-half mile south of Hartselle this morning with a 1959 Olds driven by a Cullman resident. The latter was taken to Hartselle Hospital but a spokesman said she had no broken bones.

March 7, 1961—Bryan C. Goode, chief of the Bureau of County Aid of the State Highway Department, spoke at tonight’s meeting of the Hartselle Kiwanis Club. He said that the state will help this county in the construction of approximately 45 miles of roads. Since the farm-to-market road program began during the first Folsom administration, Morgan County has completed well over 100 miles of roads.

March 8, 1961—Former Hartselle Mayor S. M. Nelson passed away at his home tonight. Funeral services will be Saturday at the First Methodist Church. Hartselle survivors, in addition to the widow, include two daughters, Mrs. Coy Stephenson and Mrs. H. E. Orr; and one son, Owen Nelson. Pallbearers will be Luther Roberts, Carl Pattillo, Cecil E. Johnson, Buford Bentley, Charley Oden, and Franklin Stewart. Honorary pallbearers will include E. A. Oden, L. N. Whitman, Rev. O. C. Morton, Rev. Roy Hewlett, and John T. Cooper.

March 9, 1961—Alabama Secretary of State Bettye Frink is expecting her third child. Mr. Frink is the owner of a Birmingham radio station.

March 9, 1961—Law enforcement officers in Morgan County were honored at a dinner tonight at Gladys’ Restaurant here in Hartselle. Approximately, 35 officials were in attendance, including Hartselle Mayor Grady J. Long and local policemen.

March 9, 1961—Hartselle-based county farm agent Charles Rutledge says fire ants are increasingly apparent in this area. Rutledge’s office will eradicate them if farmers will contact him. In no event should the ant hills be disturbed because this will only cause the ants to scatter.

March 9, 1961—Gov. John Patterson says Alabama’s current unemployment level is the highest it’s been in 20 years. About 15,000 Alabamians are without jobs.