Looking Back

Fifty years ago today, December 2, 1967

Your Opinion

Ledger readers emphatically said this week that Georgia House Speaker George L. Smith should not be provided with a color television set for his office and a $35,000 airplane.

A whopping 95 percent said “no” on this question. There were no “undecideds.”

Market Robbery

“Don’t push an alarm or you’ll never see Christmas again,” one of two gunmen told a Columbus supermarket manager Friday night. Columbus police were searching today for two armed bandits who held up a Colonial Stores supermarket on Woodruff Road shortly after closing time.

New PC ‘Cleanup’

A building that once housed one of the county’s more notorious dens of illicit activities has now been tamed down for a Girl Scout hut.

Cliff’s Fish Camp on Crawford Road once brought in at least $100,000 a year for its owner Cliff Entrekin, who fled after his arrest in 1954 and was never brought to trial.

This story was originally published December 1, 2017 at 10:00 AM with the headline "Looking Back."