Look Back ... to top typers tapping away in Oxford, 1949
May 24—May 24, 1949, in The Star: Three Calhoun County High School students have been announced as winners in the 1949 National Commercial Contest for their record in typing, school Principal H. T. Stanford announced. They were second-year typists Bobby Dean Saxon, a senior, and Billie Wayne Hawkins, a junior, and as the first-year certificate winner, Callie Williams, a junior. To compete in the contest, students were given typing tests which were timed, checked and witnessed. Typing speed had to average more than 40 words per minute. This is the first year Calhoun County High School has entered the contest.
May 24, 1999, in The Star: A special purchase of bulletproof vests has made 15 of the lifesaving suits of armor available to Calhoun County Sheriff's Office deputies on a mass basis for the first time ever. "Some of our people already had vests they owned personally, and some we've manage to scrounge up," said Sheriff Larry Amerson. The Fraternal Order of Police, which provided the vests to the deputies at no charge, acquired them through a discount that cost the FOP about $5,000.
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