Look Back ... to good attendance at airshow, 1995

Sept. 19, 1945, in The Star: The first fall meeting of the Woodstock PTA was held yesterday at the school, with Mrs. W. D. DeBardelaben, president for the 1945-46 term, leading the group. It was revealed in the meeting that Mr. and Mrs. Robert Purser had contributed a flag pole to the school, that Anniston Cordage Company gave a sash cord, the Exchange Club contributed a swing and the City Commission has plans to pave a driveway at the back of the school.

Also this date: The “baby boom” was not the invention of a statistician’s imagination — it was predicted in the popular press. “Nation Expects Bumper Crop Of Babies Again This Year” was the headline at the bottom of Page 1 of The Star today.