The Star-Herald
KOSCIUSKO —
Jan. 24, 1963
Attala County’s veteran Circuit Clerk C.H. (Cliff) McWhorter, has announced that he will not be a candidate for the office in the coming election. At the end of this year McWhorter will have completed 28 years, the longest period of continuous service of any public official of record in Attala County.
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Announcement was made here today of a proposed plan for expansion in Attala County by the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company involving the expenditure of $2,560,000 in the next 30 months, affording the county one of the finest telephone services to be offered any county in Mississippi and the first of a particular type of service to be presented in Mississippi. Explaining that the plan included the $1,000,000 building now under construction in Kosciusko, with the installation of the newest in dial equipment at an added cost of $500,000, the company official said that the change over to the direct dialing system is slated for Sept. 15 of this year for Kosciusko.
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One of the longest prolonged cold waves for the past four years has gripped this Central Mississippi area, starting with an icy blast in December with a recording of four degrees, through January with two more frigid cold fronts. The severest temperature of the current cold wave came on Thursday morning, when the temperature in Kosciusko was reported at one above zero by Ed Reese, local weatherman.
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Special certificates of merit to 50 of its members of cooperators were awarded in Jackson Thursday afternoon by the Mississippi Cattlemen’ Association as a feature of its annual contest. Included in the group were Frank Buchanan, Attala County Agent with the extension service, and Louis Gregory, farm implement dealer in Kosciusko.
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Jan. 28, 1988
A six member delegation from southern Brazil was in Attala County this week to look for themselves at an area where they have been asked to create wood products assembly plants. It was the first time most of them had actually seen the land where they were being asked to create a joint operation with an American group.
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Gov. Ray Mabus walked from the ruins of one Liberty Chapel home to another Friday afternoon, shaking his head, “You just feel so helpless,” he said. The visit to the worst hit in last Tuesday’s tornado seemed to raise the spirits of the victims, which were already lifted by an outpouring of assistance from friends, neighbors and professional relief agencies.
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Alan Blaine, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Mac Blaine of McCool, has been employed as an area agronomist with the Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service. Blaine will be helping county agents and producers solve production problems and he will help acquaint them with new production technology.
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Weir High School head football coach Joe Lynn Gant has been selected as an assistant on the Mississippi staff for the Mississippi-Alabama Shrine All-Star Classic.
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Tracye Bland has been named STAR student for Kosciusko High School and she has chosen high school math teacher Richard Simpson to be STAR teacher.
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Wayne Shaw has been chosen to fill the seventh chair in the trombone section of the Mississippi Lions All-State Band this year. The band will compete in the international Lions parade in Denver, Colorado this summer.
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The Attala County Library has three new occupants that Ruth Rae Dinstel said are guaranteed to delight children of all ages. A parakeet, hamster and goldfish have been purchased and will soon be available for children to check out.
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Attala County had 6,920 people employed in December, down from the previous month but up considerably from the level in December 1986, according to figures released by Eugene Hill, manager of the Kosciusko Employment Security Commission office. That figure was down by 140 jobs from the November employment level of 7,060 and up 270 from the 6,650 people working in December a year ago
