Looking Back

Fifty years ago today, November 20, 1967

War Reporter

Charles Black, who has made four reporting trips to Vietnam for The Ledger-Enquirer Newspapers, will be guest speaker Tuesday at the Kiwanis Club of Columbus. Black, who has been commended by Brig. Gen. S.L.A. Marshall for his coverage of the war, will speak a the meeting which begins at 12:45 p.m. at the Ralston Hotel.

Military Housing

The Columbus Housing Authority Board of Commissioners today indicated it will make no change in its contract to sublet units of Baker Village to the Jordan Co. to be sublet as furnished apartments to military families. In doing so the board rejected a complaint from Columbus builders and apartment owners that “private enterprise is being squeezed out.”

Civil War Records

The director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History Thursday said that the state’s Civil War records are the most complete in the nation and have been valued at $500,000. In an address at the winter meeting of the Chattahoochee Valley Historical Society, Milo Howard said Alabama, Georgia and Virginia are the only states which attempted to acquire all information about each regiment in the war.

This story was originally published November 19, 2017 at 5:30 PM with the headline "Looking Back."