Looking Back

Fifty years ago today, October 28, 1966

Maddox

Lester Maddox was among his kind of folks in Americus Thursday night and cut loose in rare form at “the national liberal czars of politics of finance.”

West Point Dam

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is working on a pollution problem in connection with the West Point Dam, Col. William L. Barnes, Savannah District engineer, said Thursday. The water for some distance below the dam is threatened by a low oxygen content.

Business

Mike Thornton, director of the Russell County-Phenix City Chamber of Commerce, said Thursday that a Vanity Fair plant for which Phenix City was competing with two other cities will be built in Milton, Fla.

This story was originally published October 27, 2016 at 5:33 PM with the headline "Looking Back."