March 7, 1968
A total of 850 people signed up last week in a survey of possible factory workers in the Attala County area, according to IDC director Dan Kimbrough.
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Contracts have been awarded for construction of a new Attala County Library – which will also serve as headquarters for a four-county system – at a total cost of $185,195. It will include about 12,000 square feet of space and will be built of brick. Part of the building will be one story with a second story covering one section.
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Louis Lintereur has been named president of the Kosciusko-Attala United Givers Fund, for this year, succeeding Walter L. Ellis III.
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Mrs. Bryan Wade delivered $200 collected at a basketball game and cakewalk at McCool Friday night to G. E. Clippinger, president of the Attala County Heart Fund. Mrs. Wade headed the McCool fund committee. Other members were Mrs. Doty Eugene Bailey and Mrs. Ralph Carpenter.
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Foreman Harold Sides read the grand jury’s report shortly after the March term of circuit court opened Tuesday. In addition to Sides, grand jurors were Hubert W. Ellis, Robert W. Adams, Brice Nabors, Walter Perry, Robert C. Wallace, Charlie Hawkins, Ervie Peeler, Cecil Barrett, James Dodd, T.O. Armstrong, A.M. Roebuck, C.L. Jenkins, T.A. Harmon, Fred Milner and Frank M. Hughes.
March 11, 1993
Attala is the only board of supervisors in the seven-county North Central Planning and Development District that has resigned in the wake of a constitutional scare. The association earlier this year advised supervisors to quit public boards such as economic development authorities and regional waste authorities. Further, supervisors were advised that the legality of appointees to such boards was in question.
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Frank Simpson was awarded the Outstanding Citizen of Attala County award at the Kosciusko Lions Club’s annual banquet held at the Fair Exhibit building.
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Dr. Arthur A. Derrick Jr., 74, of Durant was killed as he drove his car into the path of a Kosciusko Police Department squad car on Highway 35 Saturday night.,
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Age of the facilities was cited as the main problem at Kosciusko Junior High School as members of the Long-Range Planning Committee made its fourth in a series of tours planned to look at the needs of the schools in the Kosciusko City School System.
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Merchants and Farmers Bank of Kosciusko has awarded the first scholarship from a newly established endowment at The University of Mississippi to Jennifer Cockroft of Carthage.
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The Attala County Department of Human Services will distribute butter, pork, kidney beans, north beans and raisins to all eligible recipients on March 24 at the Attala County Coliseum.
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John Wagner of the Kosciusko Lions Club has been named district governor for Lions Clubs in Mississippi.
