During the week of March 27, 1963, pages of The Luverne Journal featured headlines of local fund drives, student news and new classes offered for adults. 

4-H marks beginning of fund drive

The Alabama 4-H Club Foundation began a state-wide campaign to raise funds to provide educational materials and district/statewide events for students in 4-H clubs. 

The Crenshaw County campaign, headed by chairman Julian Maddox, aimed to benefit over 1,000 children with funds raised by 4-H members, parents and others interested. 

Alabama 4-H Foundation representatives said that the funds raised would be used to provide materials to help 4-H members learn and develop skills, build and maintain 4-H camps, promote notable young 4-H members with junior awards and scholarships and fund district and statewide events.

Civil Defence Corp Plans Adult Classes

In cooperation with the State Department of Education, the Crenshaw County Board of Education organized an Adult Civil Defense Education program. With this program, any teacher with a certified teacher’s certificate could take a 15-hour training course. 

After completing the course, the teacher received a certificate, making them eligible to teach classes in Adult Civic Defense Education. 

Teachers would then be paid $5 per hour for each class they taught, which would be around $50 today according to the CPI Inflation Calculator.

Competitive FFA Trials Yield Winners

Crenshaw FFA competition winners represented the county in the FFA district finals in Brundidge with some going to the State Finals later in the year. 

There were seven competitions to choose from within the competitive FFA trials: public speaking, quartet, string band, tractor driving, land judging, dairy judging and livestock judging.

In Tractor Driving, William (Lucky) Moody of Goshen placed first place in the initial competition at Luverne High School. Moody did not place at the district finals. 

In Land Judging, the Brantley Chapter received first place in the county contest and won second place during the district finals; they were then eligible for the state competition in Auburn, Alabama that summer. 

Jaycees to take up survey sheets Friday

The Luverne Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees) continued their Community Attitude Survey from the previous week, picking up completed surveys. 

“We trust everyone has taken the time to fill out these forms, and will have them ready for the workers when they call for them,” said Jaycee president James Morgan. “We will need as many completed forms as possible to get a fairly accurate cross-section of attitudes and opinions.” 

The purpose of the survey was to attempt to find and draft recommendations for needed action based on the results.