Looking Back

Fifty years ago today, October 17, 1967

Public Safety

Columbus City Commission Monday expressed second thoughts about hiring a safety director as authorized in an old ordinance and as proposed by Commissioner Jesse Binns. Binns said, “I have reservations about it now that I didn’t have before. I still think the best system is to have a safety director, but if all these other people are against it, I don’t think it would behoove me to carry it forward.”

Benning Troops on Crowd Control?

The Pentagon today refused comment on a report that elements of the 197th Infantry Brigade stationed at Fort Benning would be sent to Washington to guard during an expected large-scale peace demonstration Saturday. “We strongly support peaceful and lawful dissent,” a Pentagon spokesman said, “but we intend to carry on our functions and we will take whatever steps are necessary to insure that we may do so.”

This story was originally published October 16, 2017 at 3:35 PM with the headline "Looking Back."