50 Years Ago…

By Staff
Alabama State Fair to Open Next Monday
The 1956 Alabama State Fair will open next Monday for a week-long pageant of color, contests, fun and merriment for the 250,000 Alabamians expected to attend this year's panorama of progress in education, industry and agriculture.
With all display space packed tight, exhibitors are set to show the biggest array of exhibits in the annual Fair's bright history.
More than $40,000 in premiums will be paid to the various divisions including the South's greatest livestock show with the world's top entries in purebread beef and dairy cattle.
The Fair will open Monday.
Doctors Here Favor Proposal on Cancer
Word of a proposed cancer treatment center, to be opened in the Muscle Shoals district, has been received with enthusiasm by doctors here.
Dr. J.F. Stanley qualified his highly favorable response by saying its ultimate good would depend on whether or not enough funds could be raised to provide adequate equipment.
Construction on the new addition is to begin in 1957.
Effort for Industry Promised by Mayor
An all-out effort for industry and an expansion of Russellville's recreation program were called for this week by Mayor Hayes Malone following his re-election Monday by 203 votes over Dr. J.D. Burns.
The final vote was Malone, 1,283 and Burns, 1,080.
Entering his second term, Mayor Malone, now 49, has been in the automobile and filling station business since he was about 19.