Look Back ... to triplets born at Anniston Memorial, 1949

April 26, 1949, in The Star: Opened less than five years ago, Anniston Memorial Hospital has now played host to the birth of triplets. The young’uns were born during the lunch hour today to Mrs. H. L. Green of Jacksonville, while her 42-year-old husband waited outside. Miss Frances Hammett, superintendent of nurses at Anniston Memorial, reports that the mother and three infants are “doing fine.” As fate would have it, the couple just a month ago moved into a new four-room house to get ready for the single child they were expecting. The two bonus kids were apparently a surprise. No names were made available to Anniston Star writer Elise Ayers, but she did learn that the two boys weighed a little over six pounds each at birth and the girl weighed a little more than five pounds. The couple already have two grown children, ages 18 and 20, so maybe some free babysitting will be available! The article doesn’t make clear what resources the family has, but it does mention that Mr. Green is a student at the Veterans Trade School in Jacksonville. Also this date: The Anniston Pilot Club will install officers for 1949-50 during a ceremony this evening. The slate includes Mrs. Roy Britt, president; Miss Nellie Gauntt, first vice president; Miss Elizabeth Wheeler, second vice president; and Mrs. Robert Stone, corresponding secretary.

April 26, 1999, in The Star: In 1994 Carolyn Minerich arrived in Jacksonville with her family and decided to start her own business from scratch. Now she runs a small factory in a rural part of Jacksonville. Her company, Carmin Industries, uses powerful jets of water to cut patterns into heavy, dense materials such as glass and steel. Two large machines on Minerich’s factory floor constantly emit thunderous blasts of water, pressured at 55,000 pounds per square inch. Bits of powdered minerals mixed into the water give it a “cutting” edge. “I like to amaze at least one person a day with the wonderful things we can do with water,” Minerich said. Carmin Industries employs around 10 people to do its amazing and unusual work. Hers is the only company in northern Alabama to use the water-jet technology.