Look Back ... to plans for an Armistice Day parade, 1948

Nov. 10—Nov. 10, 1948, in The Star: Several additional local organizations are planning to enter floats in the gigantic Armistice Day parade in Anniston tomorrow. Woodmen of the World, the Women's Civic Club and the Anniston Lions Club are among the latest of those groups. The parade, which is scheduled to begin forming at 8th and Quintard at 2:30 p.m., will proceed to Zinn Park by way of Noble Street for a memorial service. U.S. Sen. Lister Hill will be the principal speaker at the service. Also this date: A dispute of several weeks' standing between Mayor E. D. Banks and a former city employee, a carpenter, developed into a spirited argument this morning. It resulted in the arrest of the ex-employee shortly before noon today on a peace warrant which alleged he had threatened the mayor's life. It's thought that the argument originated several weeks ago when Mayor Banks fired the man and closed up the city carpenter shop.

Nov. 10, 1998, in The Star: Goodyear's Gadsden plant will lay off another 340 workers in January, according to a company spokesman, citing the need to further reduce production of its tires. The new cut follows on the heels of a 449-job reduction in September and October. Some workers speculated yesterday that the company is planning to close the massive plant, but Goodyear and other observers dismissed that claim. Also this date: Alabama's land preservation program Forever Wild has purchased 394 acres in northeast Alabama that will close a 2.2-mile gap in the Pinhoti Trail and allow Alabama to connect to the famed Appalachian Trail.