From the files of June 27, 1963
NEW PROSPECT NEWS
By BOBBY JACKSON
Mrs. Ila Casey and family of Garden City visited recently with her parents, Rev. and Mrs. H. R. Edwards.
Artist Aaron is sick and in the Cullman Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Laron Shelton of Birmingham visited over the week end with Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Shelton.
Mr. and Mrs. V. A. Cone and family visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Anderton of Bremen.
Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Chafen and family of Birmingham visited recently with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Murphree and Mrs. Bertha Chafen.
Mr. and Mrs. Frankie Dollar and family of Birmingham were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Edwards over the week end.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hall and family of Blount Springs visited Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Campbell.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Fell and family of Gardendale visited over the week end with Mr. and Mrs. William Higginbotham.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Doss and family and Mrs. May Doss of Birmingham visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Campbell.
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Burns of Cullman visited Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Sapp.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Dean visited Coy Dean in the Veterans’ Hospital in Birmingham.
Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Shelton visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Cone.
A/1c and Mrs. Harold Dean and children of Gunter Air Force Base, Montgomery, were guests Friday night with Mr. and Mrs. Odis Jackson and Bobby.
HANCEVILLE NEWS
KATHLEEN MALLORY CIRCLE MEET
The Kathleen Mallory Circle met in the home of Mrs. Eva Dean on Monday, June 17, for its regular meeting.
The meeting was called to order by the circle chairman, Mrs. S. L. Perry, who also read the scripture. Mrs. Ruth Warren led the opening prayer and introduced the speaker for the afternoon. Alina Ratliff reviewed two chapters of the mission book, “World Awareness,” after which she led the closing prayer.
During fellowship refreshments were served to ten members, Clara Barnett, Lois Dunlap, Ruth Warren, Beulah Linton, Lora Perry, Ruby Bland, Atha Butler, Hazel Chappell, Millie Sims and four visitors, Mrs. Jessie Moore, Mrs. Nelson Bullard, Mrs. Rena Duke and Miss Ratliff, and the hostess.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Entrekin, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Ray Entrekin and Mrs. Bobo of Birmingham spent Sunday with Mrs. J. B. Sticher.
Mrs. Lou Petrasek of Birmingham and D. F. Trucks of Pinson spent Wednesday with the C. V. McElroy family.
Mr. and Mrs. Loren Miller and Allison and Mrs. Gertrude Veal of Decatur spent Saturday with Mrs. John Gibbs and Miss Beulah Hamrick.
Terry Edwards has returned home after visiting in Waynesville, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Nesmith of Vinemont spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Obie Mayfield.
Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Quick of Hueytown were the Tuesday night guests of Mrs. E. M. Quick.
Mrs. Julia Yongue has been ill in the Cullman Hospital.
Mrs. Hobert Thornton has returned home after visiting relatives in Birmingham.
Mrs. Harold Phillips has returned after spending two weeks with her husband in Flint, Mich.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Duren and Cindy have returned to Detroit after spending a week with Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Duren.
W. M. Gantt remains ill in the Cullman Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Duren Whitaker announce the birth of a daughter on June 22 whom they have named Marlow.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Freeman of Tuscaloosa were the week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Clapp. Mrs. Clapp returned with them. She is attending school at the University of Alabama. Kitty will spend a week.
Mr. and Mrs. Hester Lancaster spent a few days last week in Huntsville with Mr. and Mrs. Orman Lancaster.
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Wakefield and children of Columbia have been the guests of her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Geo. T. Rowe.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Trimble and Betty spent Saturday in Birmingham.
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Price and sons of Birmingham were the Sunday guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Jones.
Mrs. Darrel Trammel who has been with her husband stationed at Amarillo Air Force Base is spending some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kirby Edwards. She will later join her husband at Turner Air Force Base in Georgia.
Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Formby were Mr. and Mrs. John V. Tillman and Mrs. Henry T. Wesley of Simcoe and Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Watts and Gary of Cullman. Lt. Watts has returned after two weeks at Fort McClellan.
Mr. and Mrs. Percy Taylor, Willis Taylor of Macon, Ga., and Collie Taylor and Mrs. Gladys Taylor of Oneida, N. Y., were the Saturday guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. V. McElroy.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Quattlebaum attended the Winn family reunion last week end at Little Mountain State Park. Ninety-three members of the family were present on Saturday.
Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Putman were Mr. and Mrs. Carter Putman of Birmingham and Earcy Aldridge and daughter, Mrs. Peggy Gilland of Gadsden.
Mrs. J. B. Sticher spent several days last week with Mrs. Mary Carr and daughters in Blount County and Mrs. Dovie Lloyd in Oneonta.
Miss Ray Folds and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Davenport spent the week end at their cottage on the Mulberry River near Garden City.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Whitley, Ronnie and Cherry of Houston, Texas, are the guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Moore.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Quick and Beth and Mrs. Roy Dodson of Decatur were the Friday evening dinner guests of Mrs. E. M. Quick.
Mrs. Obie Mayfield is spending this week visiting relatives in Birmingham.
Mrs. Carl Boatright, Sr., and Hazel Carstensen spent Tuesday in Birmingham.
Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Culpepper and children of Birmingham are visiting Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Barnett.
Mr. and Mrs. Wally Green of Jacksonville Beach, Fla., are spending two weeks with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Clapp and Mrs. Wallace Green, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnny McGraw and children of Lansing, Mich., have been guests of Mr. and Mrs. Hester Lancaster and Mrs. W. C. Lancaster.
WEST ELEMENTARY PARK
West Elementary Park was really jumping last week with various events. The youths in the park enjoyed free ice cream on Wednesday, June 21. The first 50 received the ice cream.
In the field events last Tuesday in the one-half mile run winners were: boys, first, Jughead Johnson; second, Reuben Tolbert; third, Rickie Swafford. Boys, 50-yard dash, first, Michael Tolbert; second, Randy Henry; third, Butch Johnson.
Winners in the girls’ one-half mile run were: first, Janice Swafford; second, Marjorie Swafford.
In the coloring contest Janice Swafford took first place and her sister Marjorie Swafford, took second place, and Betty Faye Henry took third place.
A brand new camera will be given away Friday, June 28, at 10 a.m. In order to win the camera you must come by the park and register and be present at the drawing Friday.
Vinemont ZIP Code
ZIP Code, the Post Office Department’s revolutionary new system of improved mail dispatch and delivery, goes into effect nationally on July 1st.
The five digit ZIP Code for Vinemont, Alabama is 35179, according to Postmaster Harry Tillery.
Everyone getting mail through this office should use the digits.
Cullmanites Now Call 11,000 Toll Free
Each time you lift the receiver of your telephone you command millions of dollars worth of electronic equipment, according to W. H. Sticher, local manager for Southern Bell Telephone Company.
Every main telephone which Southern Bell operates in Alabama represents an investment of nearly $660, and the cost of equipment needed to connect you with all the other phones in the country and the world is tremendous.
“We have about $311,000,000 invested in giving good telephone service. In the future, to provide all the communications needs of our state, this investment will likely continue to grow,” Sticher said.
Why does it cost Southern Bell so much to provide you with telephone service? Part of the expense is readily seen in the complex, highly sophisticated electronic equipment of the telephone business. Here, too, is another reason:
To enable you to talk, separate wires have to be run to your house to connect you with other individual lines. Each call is made-to-order, so to speak, and the service requires individual installation of equipment.
It would appear that the more customers the telephone company has, the lower the costs. This, though, is not so. Unlike some other services, we cannot “plug in” additional telephone lines in the main cable. It takes a separate line for each telephone user.
In 1955 Cullman subscribers could call less than 5,000 telephones toll free and today they can call more than 11,000. However, rates have not changed during this period.
