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75 YEARS AGO MAY 13, 1949 Mrs. E.E.

Sky watchers have had a couple of unique experiences in the last few months. One was the partial solar eclipse and then this past weekend, the aurora borealis.

When the weather starts to get sweaty and humid around mid-May, everyone in my family begins to crave one thing … ice cream. A mere trip to the grocery store, however, will not satisfy the craving. We all want homemade ice cream. There is just something about sitting a spell in the shade with a bowlful of home-churned vanilla ice cream on a sweltering summer day. The texture is so much creamier; the flavor is so much richer than the ice cream you buy at the supermarket.

75 YEARS AGO MAY 6, 1949 Miss Stella White was selected as the most outstanding Mount Andrew Home Demonstration Club woman of 1948 at the meeting held on Thursday, April 21. Miss White, Mrs.

How do you say goodbye to another creature who has kept you company and helped you weather storms for almost the past decade? How do you say goodbye to a pet? Whenever we lose an animal who has been with us for many years and whom we love very dearly, saying, “Well, she was our pet” barely seems to describe the way we feel about it. How are you supposed to feel when the creature who's greeted you every morning for the past eight years is suddenly gone? Now, don't get me wrong. I know all about what happens on a farm in the country. Animals die. That is how we get wonderful things like beef and bacon. And even the bond I share with my dogs and cats I never compare to my relationship with my spouse or my daughter.

People often want things to happen spontaneously but there are concerns as to why our county commissioners are not moving forward with the remediation work on the third floor of the courthouse in Clayton.

75 YEARS AGO APRIL 15,1949 Lucille Martin of Clayton has been selected as one of the girls as Student Adviser of Huntingdon College for then 1949-50 term announced by Mrs. Marylee Collins, dean of students.

The Senate passes stripped down gaming bill; the real fight starts now The House and Senate must try to come together and hammer out a compromise gambling bill. After a marathon day, which remarkably saw a senator briefly filibuster his own bill, the Alabama Senate on Thursday evening passed a gambling bill, but it was immediately clear that the bill it passed could undergo significant changes and that the Legislature might ultimately pass nothing.