LOOKING BACK: December 15

Published: Sunday, December 14, 2014 at 11:00 p.m. Last Modified: Sunday, December 14, 2014 at 11:11 p.m.

The reigning Tuscaloosa County Maid of Cotton, Barbara Britt, was named the top Corolla beauty at the University of Alabama. Britt was a Holt High School graduate.

Tuscaloosa city police in force asked the City Commission for a 40-hour work week. Police were then working a basic 44-hour week.

The Holt Lock and Dam was more than 90 percent complete.

Alabama football coach Paul W. Bear Bryant accepted the Nashville Banners annual Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year award for his team the best bunch of kids Ive ever coached.

Deaths this week included Mary Emily Maxwell, office manager of Perrys Pride Inc. for

25 years and a member of an old Tuscaloosa County family. Also, Anna Springer, 83, and her daughter, Mary Springer, died in a house fire in Elrod. Their home was one of the oldest in the Elrod community. Mrs. Springers late husband, Milton Springer, had served as a community leader and a justice of the peace at Elrod for many years.

M.T. Ormond was elected president of the Tuscaloosa County Bar Association.

W. Tandy Barrett was elected president of the Tuscaloosa Chamber of Commerce to succeed Jack Warner, president of Gulf States Paper Corp., who had served two terms.

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LOOKING BACK: December 15