As reported 49 years ago in the pages of The Columbia News, Thursday, May 5, 1960:
Harlem beats Evans
Harlem High School's baseball team, winner over Social Circle in the first Region-C playoff, downed Evans High in Harlem on Monday by a score of 3-2.
Harlem plays Evans Wednesday night at Jennings Stadium for the second in a two-out-of-three contest to determine the Region 6-C championship.
Three seek seat
Three candidates have announced for the congressional seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Paul Brown.
The three are John Pierce Blanchard, superintendent of Columbia County schools; Allen Pannell, clerk of Superior Court of McDuffie County; and Randolph H. Jones, an Augusta attorney.
Blanchard has been connected with Columbia County schools since 1941 and has been superintendent since 1948. Pannell is widely known in 10th District political circles, having served for many years as a public official in McDuffie County.
Jones was the first to announce, with a platform that includes preservation of segregation and a 25 percent cut in income taxes.
Little League barbecue set
A barbecue for the benefit of the Grovetown Little League will be held Friday, May 13, 1960, at the Grovetown Fire Department.
Prices will be $1.50 and 65 cents. Everyone is invited to come and bring their family. Tickets may be purchased at Ferguson's Service Station.
Harlem wins
The Harlem Dodgers defeated the Grovetown Yankees in their first game Monday afternoon on the Grovetown field. Both teams played well, and there was a great deal of interest shown by the parents of the Little Leaguers.
The final score was Harlem Yankees 21, Grovetown Dodgers 7.
Car hits mule
James Edgar Boyd, of Harlem, acquired damages estimated at $400 when his 1955 Ford hit a mule Friday, April 29, 1960. The accident occurred six miles east of Thomson.
Boyd, a textile worker, was traveling west on U.S. 78 at approximately 50 mph when his car hit the mule. The owner of the animal is unknown.
Boyd received lacerations on the left side of his face.
New road ahead
A mass meeting Friday in Appling gave enthusiastic approval to a State Highway Department proposal to widen and modernize another segment of the highway connecting Augusta with Clarks Hill Reservoir.
The project would begin where the new Washington Road superhighway ends several miles west of Augusta, and the stretch beyond the Evans School.
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