Fifty years ago, Little League Baseball got underway at the new Vanity Fair Baseball Park on 8th Street.

Four members of the Rotary Club were planning to attend the district meeting in Dothan. They were John Garrard, Aubrey Wright, Bob McLeod and James McMullen.

The fourth annual art exhibit was held at the library with more than 100 entries.

After a long dry spell, the recent rainfall was thought to have helped bring the farmers an estimated $2 million of business to the local area.

This just goes to show how much difference it makes to crops with the right amount of water.

A&P grocery store had turkeys at a price of 29 cents a pound; a dozen oranges was only 25 cents; and a box of Bold Detergent was on sale for 34 cents for a regular size.

Fifteen moonshine stills were destroyed in Escambia County last year.

I don’t know if we still have a problem with moonshine anymore. You can buy whatever you need or want these days. I guess the main thing would be the thrill of doing something that is illegal, although I can’t see where that would be a lot of fun.

Masland Carpets had chosen the site of the new $4.5 million carpet mill.

Escambia Mills announced that vacations were from May 28 to June 12.

What this meant was the employees did not take vacations all during the year, but that they closed the mill for two weeks each year.

Everybody took those two weeks to have a vacation and everybody went at the same time.

There was an announcement that there was an urgent need for blood. The blood drive set a total of 165 pints of blood as its goal.

Charles J. Morris, a 16 year old, was killed when the vehicle he was riding in collided with a truck on Jack Springs Road and Old Pollard Road. Two other people were injured and sent to hospitals.

I noticed that televisions were listed for sale on almost every page of The Atmore Advance. The prices weren’t that great, but it was new, or fairly new, and they were now in color. We were all clamoring to get our hands on one so we could stay at home instead of visiting the neighbors to watch the Ed Sullivan Show.

That made me think. Years ago television had a rating program called the Neilson Report. Everything was rated and if the program was not well watched, it got the ax. I don’t know what the powers of television do now. Today, you can watch anything just about anytime you want to. I remember when you had to record one program while you watched another. Now I save up a season worth of a show that I like and then watch the whole thing at once. It is amazing what all can be done these days. Fifty years from now, I wonder if people will still watch television, or will they have figured out how to participate in a favorite show? Who knows, but think about it. You think about it, because I will be gone, as we say, to the happy hunting ground.