Sept. 21, 1934, in The Star: Sixty Chevrolet trucks were unloaded from special freight train cars at Fort McClellan this week, the largest number of vehicles delivered to the post since World War days. The trucks are to be issued as needed to various units of the Alabama National Guard. Also this date: A J.C. Penney advertisement aimed at boys urges them to join the store's "Sheep-lined Coat Club" by putting 50 cents down on a leatherette-and-sheepskin winter coat. "We'll hold your coat and when winter rolls around you'll have it paid for with small [50-cent] weekly payments that you'll hardly miss now!" states the ad. Total price of the coat: $2.98. Additionally: "The Anniston Star scored again Thursday for its readers, when the final edition carried two news scoops that did not appear in home editions of other newspapers delivered in the city," reads a bit of front-page chest-thumping about yesterday's content. The two stories concerned a man who unlawfully received the ransom money in the Lindbergh baby kidnap case and the American winner in an international yacht race.

Sept. 21, 1984, in The Star: The Anniston City Board of Education is accepting bids to buy the Woodstock School property along 10th Street, the proceeds to help finance construction of a middle school on Alabama 21. The property was recently appraised at $400,000, so the winning bid has to at least exceed that. In other education news, there's effort to revive a PTA or PTO group at Anniston High School, which hasn't had one since 1978 for lack of parent interest.

On September 21 in
1937 — The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, was first published.
1948 — Milton Berle made his debut as permanent host of The Texaco Star Theater on NBC.
1970 — Monday Night Football made its debut on ABC as the Browns defeated the New York Jets 31-21 in Cleveland.

Monday's birthdays: Actor Larry Hagman is 78. Author-comedian Fannie Flagg is 65. Author Stephen King is 62. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer is 62. Actor-comedian Bill Murray is 59. Actor David James Elliott is 49. Actress Nancy Travis is 48. Actor Rob Morrow is 47. Country singer Faith Hill is 42. Actor Luke Wilson is 38.