Looking Back

Fifty years ago today, December 2, 1966

Family Planning

“Wanted — Every Baby Should Be,” reads the poster in the Muscogee County Health Department’s family planning clinic. The states, armed with federal funds allocated for this specific purpose, are inaugurating, or in some cases expanding, family planning programs.

War Mail

The Department of Defense has reminded persons who plan to send Christmas gifts to servicemen in Viet Nam that the mailing deadline for fourth-class mail has passed and the deadline for air mailed gifts to reach Viet Nam before Christmas is Dec. 10.

No Comment

State Sen. Jimmy Carter said Thursday that he will have no comment on reports that he may run if a special election is called to settle the dead-locked governor’s race in Georgia.

This story was originally published December 1, 2016 at 10:00 AM with the headline "Looking Back."