From the files of Oct. 3, 1946
Cold Springs News
Mrs. Murphree, from Prospect, visited her daughter, Mrs. Odie Stricklin Saturday night. Also Mr. and Mrs. Evan Stricklin visited them Sunday.
Mary Jo Williams spent the week-end with her parents.
A surprise birthday party was given for John Rollo Saturday night at the home of Mrs. Odis Ponder. Gifts were presented and refreshments were enjoyed by all.
Miss Bessie Mae Young spent the week-end with Mrs. Charles Smith.
Mr. and Mrs. Grady Phillips spent Sunday night with Mrs. Laudie Vandiver.
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Ponder visited Odis Ponder last week. Sibyl and Eston Bates spent last weekend with John and Kathleen Rollo.
Mr. and Mrs. Eldridge Graves visited Mrs. Stella Waldrep during the week-end.
Merman Florence and family and Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Garrett visited George Florence, Sunday.
John Hopkins and Mr. and Mrs. Homer Parker attended the singing at Bethsadia, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Stricklin spent Friday in Birmingham.
Bertis Barber visited Mrs. Stricklin one evening last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Carliss Clemons visited Mr. and Mrs. Charley Calvert Saturday night.
Rock Springs News
Mr. and Mrs. Erby Denney are moving over on Blountsville highway in their new store. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Martin of Brooksville are taking over the S. R. Smiths store, where Mr. Denney was living.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Craft and son Emmitt and Glendon Nelson were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Neal and during the afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Hershel Nelson of Alabama City, Mr. and Mrs. Engel Smith and children, Mr. and Mrs. Levi McCutcheon and family of Garden City called to see them.
Mr. and Mrs. A. I. Fountain (Christine Elrod) are proud parents of a daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. Gus Woods and children of Pleasant View called on Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Meade, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Smith visited their parents Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Young Saturday night and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Smith of Brooksville spent the week-end with Hoyt Neal and family.
Mrs. Wanda Smith and Sandra spent part of last week visiting Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Latham at Bangor.
Be sure to remember our annual all day singing second Sunday in October.
Cedar Creek News
Mrs. Bertha Holmes has been ill this week.
Ed Henry was in Hartselle Friday. He is going to Etheridge, Alabama and he will be accompanied by Brother Morgan and Brother Marlow. Bro. Morgan lives near Hanceville and Brother Marlow is from Macedonia.
The taxi drivers of Hartselle were entertained with a big barbecue at Bethel Springs, Thursday night, September 26th.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Woods were business visitors in Decatur Friday.
Mrs. Woodrow Holmes spent the day with her mother, Mrs. K. A. Hill of Decatur last Friday.
Mrs. F. S. Holmes is improving slowly. She has been ill with a cold.
Luther Holmes has been ill with the toothache the past week.
Mrs. Bertha Holmes has been sick also but is doing some better.
Flat Rock News
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Mauldin, and Mrs. J. M. Mauldin, Sr., went to Birmingham, Saturday.
Eloise Skinner of Cullman, spent the weekend with her parents here.
Mr. and Mrs. Loren Mauldin visited Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Mauldin one afternoon last week.
Arthur Waldrep, S2-c is home on furlough. He has “visited” several foreign countries since he was home last.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawton Waldrep, Mr. and Mrs. Millard Waldrep, and John Mauldin and Alta Hyatt visited the Wiley Mauldins, Saturday night.
Mrs. Lewis Waldrep is improving nicely, after an operation.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wilson were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hallmark, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Mauldin of Haleyville and little son, Earl, Jr., visited relatives here, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Verbon Murphree were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Whit Skinner, Sunday.
A party was given at Violet Murphree’s Friday night.
Now is a good time to do some culling of the dairy herd, especially if feed is scarce. C. E. Teague, API extension dairyman, says that one well-fed cow will produce more milk than two or three only “half fed.”
Cullman County High F. F. A. News
BY OTTO EVERS
The enrollment in vocational agriculture in the Cullman County High School is the largest in the history of school. Eighty-three boys are enrolled this year in vocational agriculture with 94 active F. F. A. members.
The officers for the F. F. A. Chapter this year are: President, James Johnson; Vice-president, Melvin Smith; Secretary, Buford Lowery; Treasurer, Owen Knight; Reporter, Otto Evers; Sentinal, Frank Hancock.
The following boys attended the State F. F. A. Convention on August 26 and 27 in Auburn, and received the State Farmers degree, James Walter Johnson, Melvin Smith, and Otto Evers.
Mack Hood a member of the 2nd. year class won a trip to Kansas City to the National F. F. A. Convention for showing the Reserved Champion Shorthorn Steer in Birmingham in May. Mack will leave Montgomery October 19 for Kansas City, Missouri and will be gone a week.
Seventeen boys have bought beef calves and have started feeding them for the beef calves shows next spring. Many of the boys are getting registered O. I. C. gilt, and several are planning to add some registered Guernsey cattle to their farming programs.
Jerry Bradford brought home the award from the Decatur Dairy show last Thursday. Among the awards were $65.00 in cash, a silver trophy, and a registered Guernsey heifer, in addition to a fleet of blue ribbons. He was showing his six head of fine Guernsey, they were 4-H Club cattle. Jerry is a first year F. F. A. member.
The community canning plant which is under the supervision of the vocational agriculture and Home Economics department has closed another successful canning season. For the second year the Cullman plant has lead the state in numbers of cans put up for home use. The number of cans for this year is 38,116 which is about a 10,000 increase over last year.
Mr. Clayton O’Mary and Mr. Jerry Roden, Jr., have returned to Auburn after spending three weeks in our Agriculture department doing their apprentice teaching. They are both seniors and will receive their degrees in Agriculture Education in December.
Mr. Hodges one of our best supporters has been happy recently since his Guernsey heifer won 1st. and 2nd. place in Cullman and Decatur shows. Mr. Hodges is always easy to get along with, but he is especially good natured as long as those Guernseys win.
Local Author Wins Honor
By special recommendation, by critics, Mrs. Lorena (Berry) Brown, of Vinemont, has become an honorary member of the “National Poetry Group.” Members are: amateur, semi-professional, and professional poets, lyricists, prose-writers, book authors and literary figures of all types.
Mrs. Brown’s work published in “My Favorite Poems,” and “Of America We Sing,” in 1944-45, won her this honor.
To and Fro
By EAGLE EYE
It’s a son for the Guy Bennetts! He arrived at the Cullman Hospital on Monday morning, Sept. 30 and has been named Hugh Douglass by his fond parents. Mrs. Bennett is the former Viola Peinhardt.
A humorous note was sounded by Carter Manasco in his Wednesday speech when reporting on the provisions of the Murray, Wagner, Dingle bill he remarked that this “liberal” measure would provide “wonderful” medical care for everybody from before birth to death. However, it stopped there, since its authors were mostly unbelievers in the here-after.
Dr. Carl J. Rehling, state toxicologist visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Rehling, here the first of the week and his mother returned to Auburn with him on Wednesday for a visit.
Now a student at Kansas State College in Manhattan, Kansas where General Eisenhower’s brother is president, is Claude Henry Moore, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Moore of Hanceville. After graduating at C. H. S. Claude entered API at Auburn where he majored in poultry. He is now working on his PhD degree in the field of poultry.
The last call for young men who are interested in the educational benefits under the G. I. Bill of Rights is being made this week. The present benefits are only available for those who enlist before Oct. 5.
The current issue of the Alabama Future Farmer has a special thank you article for fourteen FFA boys from various parts of Alabama who “saved the day” for API and the boys attending the 17th Annual Convention of FFA on the Auburn campus. When there was no one to serve the meals these 14, four of them from Cullman County, volunteered. The local boys getting the “Thanks” were James Walter Johnson, Mervin Smith and Otto Evers, Jr. of the C. C. H. S. Chapter and Lester Veal of the Fairview Chapter.
A record crowd was on hand Friday night to see the C. C. H. S. Bearcats defeat the Arab Knights in a 13-0 football game. Between 4,500 and 4,600 people attended the game according to the check of tickets this week.
As a parting gesture to their pastor, Rev. George Brown, members of the Vinemont Baptist Church met at the pastorium last Thursday evening for a farewell party to Rev. Brown and his family who are moving to Good Hope where he will serve as minister. Mrs. Jasper Wilhite furnished music on her accordion during the evening; C. H. Cobb presented a gift to the pastor from the congregation and Rev. Brown in turn presented a beautiful picture to the church as a farewell gift.
Their 53rd wedding anniversary was observed last week by Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Garrison of the Pleasant View community. On the occasion the Pleasant View Home Demonstration Club presented them with a basket of fruit.
Joining others over the nation Mayor J. A. Dunlap has proclaimed the week of Oct. 6-12 as Employ Physically Handicapped Week and is urging all employers, civic clubs, etc. to assist all physically handicapped persons to find self-respecting jobs.
Cullman led the state again this year in the number of cans of food canned at the community cannery. 38,116 cans were conserved at the local plant by the people of this county. This was an increase of 10,000 over the 1945 number and more than any other cannery in Alabama.
Cullman County Singing Convention To Be Sunday
The Cullman County Singing Convention will be held at the high school auditorium in Cullman on Sunday, October 6 beginning at ten o’clock in the morning.
Among the outstanding guests expected are Adger M. Pace of Lawrenceburg, Tenn., W. O. Cooper of Little Rock, Ark., O. A. Parris of Jasper and Dwight Brock of Chattanooga, Tenn., as well as the faculty of the Cullman Music school W. Lee Higgins of Dalton, Ga., Miss Billie Reynolds of Little Rock, Ark., and Mrs. Florence Farrington of Morganton, N. C.
An added feature of the Sunday program will be the Home Land Harmony Quartet of Atlanta, Ga., which will attend the convention as well as present a concert at the local auditorium on the preceding night.
Seventeen Enlist Here For Service In Army
Seventeen men enlisted in the Army at the U. S. Recruiting Station, Court House, here, during the past week as announced by S-Sgt. James W. Coovert.
Archie L. White, son of Mrs. Pearl White, Rt. 4, Cullman, enlisted in the Army Air Forces for 3 years. Archie had previously served over 3 years in the Navy, being discharged as a Gunners Mate 2-c. Hoyt E. Perdue, Trade; Maurice N. Creel, Hanceville; Jimmy McNabb, Cullman; Charles Linley, Cullman; Charles B. Chapman Jr., Hanceville and Milton Smith, Jr., Cullman, also joined the Air Force for 3 years.
Mancel G. Whatley, Hanceville; Earl J. Chaffin, Cullman; Marvin D. Harbison, Cullman and Forrest A. Florence, Bremen, enlisted for 3 years in the Army Ground Force.
Simeon J. Calvert, Cullman; Johnny W. Greer, Hanceville; Jr. H. Sullins, Hanceville; John W. York, Cullman; James B. Rowell, Vinemont and Maxwell D. Brown, Vinemont, entered the Regular Army, unassigned, for 18 months.
