Looking Back

Fifty years ago today, December 12, 1967

Merger Unit

Columbus City Commission has approved and forwarded to the legislative delegation its version of a proposed constitutional amendment that would provide for a charter commission to draft a new consolidated government for Columbus and Muscogee County. The city’s final draft, approved unanimously, calls for city and countywide votes on ratification of the charter commission’s work.

Loan Reform

A special House committee headed by Rep. Milton Jones of Columbus today recommended legislation to end alleged abusive insurance practices in Georgia’s small loan industry. The panel voted to ask the General Assembly to outlaw sale of “level term” insurance by the loan companies to cover their loans. Reducing term coverage, committee members said, is sufficient and less costly to the borrower.

Pacelli

Bishop Gerard L. Frey of the Catholic Diocese of Savannah Monday afternoon in a called news conference squelched rumors that Pacelli High School would not operate next year. The Catholic high school, with 139 students, was, according to rumors, to be closed down next year. The high school is fully accredited and 43 per cent of its faculty have master’s degrees, the bishop said.

This story was originally published December 11, 2017 at 3:18 PM with the headline "Looking Back."