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Editorial August 23, 2007
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Now what, alcohol-wise?
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      Thomasville citizens bucked history last week and for the first time ever approved the legalized sale of alcohol. They have consistently voted against legalized sales in county referendums but on Aug. 14 agreed by a 58 percent margin in a municipal referendum to allow legalized sales within the c...
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A community banker
Editor's Notes Jim Cox
      John Becton loaned me the first money I ever borrowed from a bank. That was back in the early 1970s - 35 or more years ago. I was about 16 or 17 years old and had a passion for old cars.
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Another way to skin a cat?
Inside the Statehouse
Steve Flowers
      In 1971 George Wallace was at the height of his political power. Including his wife's election in 1966, Wallace had been elected Governor of Alabama three straight times. Much like today several of the general fund agencies were in dire financial straits.
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Pictures From The Past
      This was a gathering of the Elijah P. Chapman family at the home north of Grove Hill, in the late 1800s or early 1900s. Chapman and his wife, Eliza Jane Pogue Chapman, are at the far left. Others include their daughter, Eva Chapman Cunningham and her husband, Joseph W.
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Town meetings provide input on many issues
Congress Reports
Jo Bonner
      Last week, several members of my staff and I began our most recent series of 20 town hall meetings throughout the First District, bringing our total over the past four and a half years to 170 meetings.
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From Our Files
      123 years ago "Perdue Hill, where the district congressional convention is to meet, is a thrifty, hospitable village, two miles east of Claiborne Landing on the Alabama River, in the good old historic county of Monroe.
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Moonshine kills
Gone South
Hardy Jackson
      It was, one viewer remarked, "a scene right out of 'Deliverance.' " Atlanta TV stations seemed inclined to treat it that way.
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Lost in Mayberry
Guest Columnist
      Though Thomasville is where I spent my childhood and teenage years, Fulton, Alabama is the place I would consider home.
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