Looking Back… 50 years

Published 1:57 am Monday, November 28, 2005

By Staff
December 1, 1955
About 1,500 Escambia County Baptists are expected here next Monday night for &#8220Mobilization Night” program at W.S. Neal School.
An estimated 3,500 voters will go to the polls in Escambia County next Tuesday to vote on 30 proposed amendments to the Alabama Constitution.
Escambia County farmers produced a record cotton crop of 18, 032 bales, according to figures from the Bureau of the Census.
A Brewton student at Huntingdon, Hermine Melton, will direct &#8220For the Time Being” a modern Christmas play to be presented in the college chapel Sunday.
Coach Harry T. (Buddy) Taylor, football coach of W.S. Neal was presented with the Alaflora Football Conference trophy.