A look back
By By Dr. Bill Stewart
Aug. 7, 1958-Prof. W. A. Whetstone began a well-deserved week’s vacation today. The highly regarded vocational agriculture teacher at MCTS will take one day to attend an electrical workshop at A &M College.
Aug. 7, 1958-The Morgan County Foxhunters Association began a series of field trials this morning at the Cold Springs clubhouse. They will continue through Saturday morning. H. L. Burleson is secretary of the group.
Aug. 7, 1958-Influential Enquirer columnist Dorothy Puckett urges that Hartselle put up street markers. She finds it inexcusable that many communities much smaller than Hartselle have every street nicely marked whereas we don’t.
Aug. 7, 1958-MCHS Coach J. P. Cain and two of his athletes, Billy Don Alrdridge and James Ledbetter, will take part in today’s Alabama high school north-south all-state football and basketball games. Dr. David Chandler is also in Tuscaloosa today. He is attending a course dealing with the prevention and management of athletic injuries.
Aug. 7, 1958-Work began this morning on the construction of a fine new home for the E. D. Ray family on Barkley Street.
Aug. 7, 1958-MCHS’s eight cheerleaders have spent a couple of days this week on the UA campus attending the annual cheerleader clinic. Betty McClain is the head cheerleader. Other squad members are Pat Hogan, Brenda Frazier, Ann Maddox, Carolyn Hartselle, Patsy Walker, Diana Ward, and Donni Blankenship.
Aug. 8, 1958-Ila Jo Bishop (Mrs. J. E.) received her BS degree in religious education from Howard College tonight.
Aug. 9, 1958-Area travelers who want to make their journeys by air will have increasing options in the near future. The CAB is granting the opportunity to provide more daily flights to communities with large military installations (e.g., Huntsville). The main air provider for Huntsville will be Southern Airways.
Aug. 9, 1958-Ruth Gayle Cost entered the School of Nursing at University Hospital in Birmingham this week.
Aug. 10, 1958-Dr. J. Clifton Draper, superintendent of the Jasper district of the North Alabama Methodist conference, has been named rural minister of the year. Dr. Draper was formerly pastor of First Methodist here.
Aug. 11, 1958-Mrs. Dick Stoner gave the program at the Methodist Madonna Circle meeting tonight. Her topic was the history of church music.
Aug. 11, 1958-J. E. Burns will serve as master of the Hartselle Masonic lodge for the new year. H. J. Norris is the senior warden and Billo Wiley is the senior deacon.
Aug. 12, 1958-Charles B. Stidham is the new minister of the Hartselle Church of Christ.
Aug. 12, 1958-W. C. Sims currently has under construction on Pattillo Street a five-room house with bath. He expects to have spent $5,000 on the project by the time it is finished.
Aug. 13, 1958-Governor-elect John Patterson, Mrs. Patterson, and his closest advisers were in Hartselle today, lunching at the home of his county campaign manager, Grady Long.
Aug. 13, 1958-Virginia Ann Fitzgerald and Sylvia Adcock, who attended summer classes at Florence State, are now back home to spend the remainder of the time until school starts back with relatives.
Aug. 13, 1958-In foreign news, an ousted Iraqi official charges that the “creation of the synthetic state of Israel by the Western Powers” is the sole cause of Middle East troubles.
