Look Back ... to the potential for new I-20 lanes, 1998
Nov. 19—Nov. 19, 1948, in The Star: Anniston automobile dealer Herbert C. Morgan was elected president of the Anniston Junior Chamber of Commerce at a meeting of the organization here last night. Mr. Morgan will succeed Logan Taylor, retiring Jaycee president. Billy Bates and Clinton Pope were named first and second vice presidents to serve with Mr. Morgan. Serving on the Jaycees' board of directors will be the following business and professional men: Leon Bradley, Richard Emerson, Fred Merrill, Clark Pope, Sam Stewart, E. L. Turner Jr., Martin Wakefield, L. Chandler Watson Jr., Ed Pearce, G. B. Daniell, Peck Leslie and Pondy Morgan.
Nov. 19, 1998, in The Star: A certain number of drivers in southern Calhoun County use I-20 for commuting between the Coldwater and Golden Springs exits, making desirable the construction of six lanes in both directions for a nine-mile stretch of the heavily trafficked interstate. Already faced with the need to tear up the current pavement and replace narrow bridges, the Alabama Department of Transportation might just go ahead and build the new lanes at the same time — it could even furnish an excuse to install an interchange at I-20 and Silver Run Road. Also this date: Formerly a major-city newspaper editor and now a journalism professor in Maryland, Gene Roberts was the featured speaker last night at the 12th annual dinner for writers of the best "Speak Out" letters to The Star. Fifty-three letter-writers, Mr. Roberts, and Anniston Star company officials dined at the Caldwell Building in downtown Anniston. Roberts, 66, spoke on the dangers of "chain ownership" in the newspaper business, in which a distant corporate office doesn't have a complete understanding of what makes a community tick and therefore what kind of news coverage the community needs.
