Calhoun countians with appliances, yard and building waste, scrap metal and carpet may head to the landfill at 3625 Morrisville Road Saturday and dump their items for free from 7 a.m. until noon. The event, sponsored by the Calhoun County Commission, takes place four times a year. The next free...

April 17, 1949, in The Star: Jacksonville State Teachers College put its best foot forward April 15 to entertain about 1,700 high school seniors who came from far and near to be guests at the campus’s annual Spring Festival. The event has become so well known that high school seniors pass the word down from one class to another that it’s well worth attending. The college makes preparations weeks in advance to take care of boys and girls from small rural high schools and those in larger towns and cities, too. Food is served in great quantities, including sandwiches, salad, pickles, potato chips and cokes. This year’s seniors arrived around noon and after prompt registration were taken on tours of the campus. Also this date: Only four percent of Alabama farms had electricity when the Rural Electrification Association began its work in 1933. Today, better than 60 percent, totaling nearly 136,000 Alabama farms, have replaced the oil lamp with electric light.

April 16, 1949: The date fell on a Saturday during a 12-year period (1940-52) when The Star didn’t publish on that day of the week. April 16, 1999, in The Star: Evan Parnell got a hero’s welcome earlier this week when he arrive at school. During the previous weekend, the White Plains seventh-grader placed third in the Alabama Geography Bee at the University of North Alabama in Florence. His mother said Evan gets his love of geography from his father, Lee Parnell. “His father has this geography knowledge also,” she said. State geography bees were held through this nation on that Saturday, the second level of the National Geography Bee competition, which began in December. Not surprisingly, the whole enterprise is part of the National Geographic Society’s campaign to improve geography education in the U.S. Also this date: Anniston students will begin school next term on August 16, according to a school calendar the board of education approved last night for the 1999-2000 school year. Superintendent Jan Hurd said teachers overwhelmingly support an early start to the school year because they want more instructional time prior to the state’s spring testing program. By the adopted calendar, the landmark Class of ’00 will graduate May 23.

April 15, 1949, in The Star: Bill Revels, a young righthander who pitched for Carrollton of the Georgia-Alabama League last year, will try to add his name to the list of early-season heroes here in Anniston tonight when manager Charlie Baron’s Anniston Rams try for a double win over the Gadsden Chiefs starting at 8:15 p.m. The official opening of the 1949 Southeastern League season at Johnston Field will see the highly respected Rams battling for their triumph in the four-game series. It’s hoped that an enthusiastic number of Ram supporters will be able to claim the second opening-day attendance trophy in two years. Also this date: Officials of Anniston Memorial Hospital, together with those representing hospitals in Talladega, Gadsden and Sylacauga, met here yesterday for the purpose of organizing a hospital council for this district.

Carlos Martinez led Saks' boys to their first win of the season over Weaver on Friday. Martinez scored both goals for Saks in the 2-1 win at home.