A look back – Aug. 25
August 25, 1961 – Hartselle musician Bobby Cain recently put on a musical program for patients at the Flint TB sanatorium.
August 25, 1961 – Mrs. Raymon (Margie) Baker and Mrs. John (Dot) Guier hosted a fashion show and dinner at The Club in Birmingham. Other Hartselle ladies involved with this event were Mrs. Lloyd (Carolyn) Logan and Miss Ora Russell.
August 25, 1961 – Governor John Patterson and the Legislature have been unable to agree on a congressional redistricting plan. All Congressmen probably will run at large next year as a part of the “9-8 plan.”
August 25,1961 – Hartselle driver Tommy Norwood’s new 1961 Ford was involved in an auto accident in Decatur when another vehicle owned by a Nashville motorist rear-ended him.
August 26, 1961 – Hartselle-based farm agent Charles Rutledge is predicting that the Morgan County cotton crop will be down this year due to incompletely controllable boll weevils and other pests.
August 26, 1961 – The MCHS football season will open on September 7 with Falkville here. The following three Fridays the Tigers will be playing Athens, Decatur, and Deshler on those schools’ home fields. They will return on October 6 to play Hanceville and then hit the road again with games against Arab and Russellville. The last two home games are against Moulton and Cullman. The season ends with an away game against Rogersville.
August 26, 1961 – A man maliciously fired shots through a door at the Indian Hills Golf Club on Burleson Mountain late tonight. His identity is known and sheriff’s deputies are currently looking for him.
August 26, 1961 – Hartselle police made eight arrests during the week that ended today. All were alcohol-related.
August 27, 1961 – The annual reunion of the Drake family was held at the Cold Springs 4H clubhouse today.
August 27, 1961 – Sam Houston, associate Enquirer editor for the past four years, left today for Aberdeen, Miss., to assume the position of managing editor of that city’s weekly, the Examiner. Houston is being succeeded at the Enquirer by Clifton Knight, 27, a January Capstone journalism graduate. Clifton is a native of Lineville and the father of one daughter.
August 28, 1961 – Two boys stole a car in Hartselle late this afternoon and then drove to Iron Man Road where they wrecked the vehicle that is owned by Leeman Gibson.
August 28, 1961 – King’s Laundry & Cleaners, located across from Piggly Wiggly, will for a limited time clean two suits or dresses for one dollar and wash and iron six shirts for the same amount of money.
August 29,1961 – A daughter has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Evans, 140 Bethel Road, at Hartselle Hospital. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Peck, 406 N. Stewart Street, at Bank Street Hospital in Decatur.
August 29, 1961 – The largest still ever constructed in Alabama was located and destroyed by ABC agents in Tuscaloosa County tonight. It was capable of producing 500 gallons of liquor a day.
August 29, 1961 – A two-day preschool workshop for Morgan County teachers began today at MCHS. A similar institute is also in progress at MCTS. Fred Culbreath is the current president of the Morgan County Teachers Association.
August 30, 1961 – Northern representatives in Congress are accusing Southern areas like Alabama, including Morgan County, of “pirating” industrial plants from their part of the country by the use of tax-exempt bonds and other incentives.
August 31, 1961 – The Wallace Bros. Circus opened this afternoon on land adjacent to the Holiday Inn north of Hartselle.
August 31, 1961 – The Morgan County Exchange annual meeting was held tonight at J.C. Pettey Gym on the MCHS campus.
