Looking Back

Fifty years ago today, June 8, 1966

Governor’s Race

State Sen. Jimmy Carter today decided to junk his race for Congress and run, instead, for governor and immediately ran into pressure from backers of gubernatorial candidate Ellis Arnall to reconsider.

Fort Benning

A multi-million dollar expansion of Officer Candidate School facilities at Fort Benning was announced today. The Army last week announced that it was tripling the output of new officers from the Fort Benning OCS from 2,600 to some 7,000.

Thompson Qualifies

Albert W. Thompson, Muscogee County’s first Negro legislator in the present century, has qualified for re-election to the Georgia House of Representatives.

This story was originally published June 7, 2016 at 2:33 PM with the headline "Looking Back."