Looking Back

Fifty years ago today, April 21, 1966

Courthouse

An eight-story Columbus-Muscogee County courthouse, costing perhaps as much as $7 million with landscaped setting and furnishings, is tentatively planned by architects for the project. Preliminary ideas include a landscaped mall, fountains and an elevated terrace, architects told a bond study committee.

Plastic Heart

Famed surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey today inserted an artificial heart into a human being for the first time in a last-resort effort to save his life.

Business

Andrew B. Speed has been elected a vice-president of Georgia Power Co. and will head the Columbus division.

This story was originally published April 20, 2016 at 12:15 PM with the headline "Looking Back."