Fifty Years Ago Today, January 4, 1966

Bama Is Top Team For Second Year

The University of Alabama, which scored a lop-sided victory over Nebraska in the Orange Bowl game last week, was named the national collegiate football champion for the second straight year in the final Associated Press poll.

Speed Radar

Gov. Carl Sanders said today he will offer no objections to a legislative move to restore use of radar and other speed timing devices to local law enforcement agencies if provisions are made that the practice can be regulated.

A 1962 law was aimed at curbing speed traps in small Georgia communities.

Man of the Year

Gen. William C, Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, was named 1965's Man of the Year Monday by the editors of Time magazine.

This story was originally published January 4, 2016 at 12:00 AM with the headline "Fifty Years Ago Today, January 4, 1966 ."