• Mr.and Mrs.  Elmer Dean Vickery of Garland announce the birth of a daughter, Deana Diane
• Girl Scouts learn skills at Camp Dixie
• Cub Scouts from den 6 visit Greenville Advocate
• Girl Scout Troop No. 83 and Troop No. 42 held investiture service at Mount Zion AME Methodist Church Georgiana Alabama
• 4-H leaders attend District Forestry Short course at Little River State Park
• Ernie Dean named Most Valuable Player- Dixie Youth
• First graders honor retiring Ft. Dale teacher, Mrs. Hugh Thompson 
• Greenvillians in Vichy France- students enjoy 3 week stay
• Fort Dale Academy received Alabama Private School Association accreditation
• Greenville Academy graduates 15 seniors in first graduating class
• Rusty Dubberly becomes first product of Greenville private school to receive athletic scholarship when he signed with Wake Forest University last week
• Gafford Named valedictorian of the first graduating class at Greenville Academy
• Nancy Champion awarded TSU scholarship
• Jerry Demings Received Ed Reid trade school scholarship
• Greenville Academy Tornadoes blasted 65 to 31 by Lowndes Academy
• Rally brings Tigers win over Luverne 54 to 50
• Georgiana Rides Early Lead to 65-55 win over Greenville Tigers
• Dewberry hurls Tigers over Goshen
• Greenville High School track team to participate in state meet at Selma
• Greenville High School track team posts wins
• Vinson named senior adviser High School JROTC Greenville High School
• Enrollment boost predicted at LBW Junior College
• Airman John E. Little completes U.S. Air Force Basic Training
• Navy Seaman Floyd L. Henson at sea aboard the attack aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy
• James D Tate completes tour with Peace Corps
• Colonel Eugene Cook promotes 4 cadets
• The Wallace Decision-How will Governor George Wallace be involved with the presidential election?
• Johnny Cash performs at Garrett Coliseum tickets starting at $3
• David Lee’s holds January Clearance Sale-penny-a-pair nylon hose
• Reid’s Grocery 59 cents 5-pound bag of Florida oranges
• Woody Allen’s “Bananas” plays at The Ritz 
• All Day Specials Thursday, Feb. 3 at Big “R” Drive-In (see picture of add)
• James Bond’s “Live and Let Die” to play at The Ritz
• Mr. and Mrs. Rouse Smith celebrate golden wedding anniversary

• Pride of Greenville Garden Club meets at the home of Mrs. Lewis Haygood Jr.
• Georgiana native Janie Shores will enter Supreme Court race
• Test water well drilled on city-owned property west of I-65 North of Highway 10
• DAR claims month of February for American History
• Vaccinations for smallpox no longer necessary according to Alabama Department of Public Health
• State HWY Department makes temp. 4 way stop at the HWY 31/HWY 10 intersection
• Sandy Hill Poultry Farms- local industry worth crowing about
• Alabama to have first Republican primary in history
• Big beef supplies expected in 72’
• Johnson jewelry hit by thieves over weekend
•  Lowery, Powell, Wasden win races, Sellers in run off with Black, District 4
• John M. Gruenewald elected VP of Cumberland School of law of Samford University Student association
• Vote Wendell Powell for Commissioner District 1 Butler County
• New state law sets strictly enforced standards for captive wildlife
• New procedure-For the first-time voters must declare their party in Tuesday’s primary 
• Proclamation signed by mayor Ethridge proclaiming Armed Forces Week in the Camellia City
• Price of rabies inoculation increases to $3
• Federal land bank reduces interest to 7% 
• Elton Johnson is candidate for mayor of City 
• Beeland Seeks reelection place No. 1 
• Mail collected in two boxes, new process of distribution 
• Bart Rainey is candidate for reelection City Council
• Eureka Lodge will install new officers
• Monthly singing at Friendship Holiness Church
• Central Community to hold third annual July Fourth picnic
• National electrical to expand- need 25 men immediately 
• All volunteer Butler County Rescue Squad being honored during this month
• New Waterworks & Sewer board instrumentation Laboratory being constructed inside Beeland Park
• Rescue Squad searches Woods for aircraft
• Paving on Highway 10 and Commerce Street completed
• Butler County’s oldest citizen, Irene Stanley, turns 102
• Pine beetles taking toll in this county
• Peanut boiling and singing- free to public Beeland Park
• Agriculture is biggest industry in nation
• Etheredge elected mayor
• Butler County hardest hit by Beatles
• Carnival robbed suspect jailed within two hours
• Butler County largest tobacco growing county in Alabama
• New tobacco barn under construction industry community
• Empty pesticide cannot safe
• Waterworks wins third award at state meeting 
• Pigeon Creek Community Club meeting to held
• Dairymen urge voters’ approval of amendment to permit state dairy farmers to vote amongst themselves

From the Society Section

• Mrs.W.H. Lowery returned from Rome, GA where she was the holiday guest of the Rev. and MRs. Robert A. Beeland III and children. 
• Misses Kappy Eyster and Lila Pryor, of Decatur, were weekend guests of Miss Jennie Plummer and attended the Galloway-Stabler wedding
• We don’t know if it was a Christmas present or not but we didn’t see it until this week but Curtis Williamson is driving a different car a red Nova Chevrolet
• Mrs.Nettie Beverly spent the weekend with her sister Mrs. Willie Braden
• Judge and Mrs. Arthur Gamble and Miss Jeanie Gamble spent the new year’s weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Peacock in St Petersburg, Florida
• The red bloom tree at Mrs. Phillips erroneously named to a Red Wood has been correctly identified by Mrs.Oakley McFerrin as a early-blooming red Japanese cherry tree. There’s another cherry tree blooming at the Howard Haygoods and this week some early extra early blooms have been spotted  
• There were quite a few disappointed people glued to the tube watching bowl games and we hope they enjoyed their black eyed peas and hog jowl more than the ballgames