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Dec. 11, 1958

A truck-trailer collision with an Illinois Central freight train here at a crossing on North Natchez Street about 12:45 p.m. Saturday caused considerable damage to property but no one was injured. The freight train was moving west and the engineer said he sounded the whistle for the crossing. The truck and its driver cleared the tracks, but the diesel engine crashed into the rear of the long trailer. The impact threw the trailer 51 feet from the tracks to the Nowell Grocery Store, smashing the front porch and glass window, also side swiping a taxi cab owned by Moore Taxi Company that was parked at the store.

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Sammy Guyton of Kosciusko, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl E. Guyton, senior, as president will preside at the annual fall meeting of the Mississippi Intercollegiate Conference to be held at Blue Mountain College.

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Attention was focused this week on the new and expanded facilities of the Attala County Library in Kosciusko with a Christmas open house held at the building on Goodman Street. Assisting the library staff with receiving were the members of the Board of Trustees of Attala composed of Mrs. A. A. Long, Sallis; Mrs. B.B. Boyd, McCool; Mrs. Percy Allen, Kosciusko, Mrs. Ray Thomas, West, and Mrs. Earl Reynolds, Ethel. Others assisting were Margaret Gilliland and Mary Faye Braswell.

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On Wednesday evening Nov. 25, at the Sallis Methodist Church in a candlelight ceremony of beauty and dignity, Betty Bo Holmes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M.B. Holmes of Sallis, became the bride of James Donald Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Emmit Davis of Kosciusko.

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With the organization of a new HD Club in Kosciusko, the total number of clubs in Attala County now is 19. The new club is located in West Kosciusko and will serve that section of the town. Charter members are Mrs. Fred Barfield, Mrs. Calvin Bingham, Mrs. Joe Brown, Mrs. Leslie Falkner, Mrs. Lena Felder, Mrs. R.H. Murray, Mrs. John Pennick and Mrs. Shirley Pullen.

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Nearing completion in the Sallis community is one of the finest new Negro high schools of the South. The construction is in charge of Sullivant & Ramsey, Kosciusko contractors with W.I. Rosamond & Associates of Columbus as architects. Cost of the building, about 80 per cent complete, is estimated at $355,531. The new building will house about 300 Negro students, grades 1-12 and is a project of Attala County School district. Funds were allocated for it construction for the equalization of white and Negro school facilities in Attala by the Education Finance Commission of the state.



Dec. 15, 1983

Unless the United States Justice Department exercises its option to ask for more time, the agency apparently will rule on a redistricting plan for Attala County by the end of next week. The plan divides Attala into five districts, with all but beat four coming into Kosciusko. It gives beat four a black population advantage of over 60 percent and beat two a black majority of slightly over 50 percent. Judge Senter said he will set special election dates when a redistricting plan is finally approved.

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The Kosciusko-Attala Chamber of Commerce and Industrial Corporation welcomed four new doctors to Attala County at a reception in their honor at Kosciusko City Hall Monday afternoon. They are Dr. Joseph J. Joseph, Dr. John Wade, Dr. Cherilyn Wade and Dr. Edward Bryant.

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The Kosciusko Heritage Foundation has entered its third phase in inviting donations for the Museum and Information Center on the Natchez Trace Parkway. The project began with funding from businesses and industries in June of this year, followed last month with donations and pledges from area clubs and organizations, said W.C. Stewart the Foundation’s finance chairman. Cash and pledges have reached a total of $138,000 to date, Stewart said. The Foundation’s goal is $250,000.

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Michael Robert Myers, son of Dr. and Mrs. W.M. Myers of Kosciusko, will receive the master of divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth,. Texas on Friday. Myers will be among 305 graduates of the world’s largest seminary, to receive degrees from President Russell H. Dilday Jr.