A look back at this date in history
Oct. 10, 1933, in The Star: In a sworn statement printed as a public message, W. I. Greenleaf, owner of Profile Cotton Mills in Jacksonville, sets forth his views and assertions of fact concerning some of his workers’ ongoing strike. The plant, the sole industry in the town of 3,000, has been closed for that reason since Aug. 2. Greenleaf, proud of his company’s “responsibility and regard for its employees” and distressed by how events have turned — in his view, his plant was attacked by a union mob — writes, “More relief funds have gone into this city for the support of this ‘strike’ than throughout the entire previous years of the depression.” Greenleaf says he won’t resume business “until we can operate with a reasonable certainty of having a happy, contented, loyal group of workers none of whom will be subjected to insult, threat and intimidation at any time.”
Oct. 10, 1983, in The Star: An English Tudor-style four-bedroom home at 500 Knox Avenue in Anniston is listed for sale at $57,000. Also this date: A wire story on the resignation of President Reagan’s Secretary of the Interior, James Watt, recounts some of the statements that have gotten him into trouble during his time in the spotlight. Among them, from November 1981: “I never use the words Democrats and Republicans. It’s liberals and Americans.”
History on Oct. 10 in
1911 — Revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen launched their overthrow of China’s Manchu dynasty.
1967 — The Outer Space Treaty, which prohibits the placing of weapons of mass destruction on the moon or elsewhere in space, entered into force.
1973 — Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, accused of accepting bribes, pleaded no contest to one count of federal income tax evasion and resigned from office.
Friday's birthdays: Playwright Harold Pinter is 78. Former Illinois Sen. Adlai Stevenson III is 78. Actor Peter Coyote is 67. Entertainer Ben Vereen is 62. Rock singer-musician Cyril Neville is 60. Rock singer David Lee Roth is 54. Country singer Tanya Tucker is 50. Actress Julia Sweeney is 49. Actor Bradley Whitford is 49. Rock musician Mike Malinin (Goo Goo Dolls) is 41. Football quarterback Brett Favre is 39. Actor Mario Lopez is 35. Singer Mya is 29. Singer Cherie is 24. Actress Aimee Teegarden is 19.
