Throwback Thursday: 1963

#ThrowbackThursday to Eat Beef promotion in the state of Alabama! Pictured L-R admiring the first “Eat Beef” automobile tags are John Trotman, Comer Sims, E.R. Howard, Selden Sheffield, Ed Wadsworth and Richard Beard. 

Throwback Thursday: 1962

#ThrowbackThursday to June 1962 when Alabama cattlemen made a trip to Washington D.C. to protest the Farm Bill which would place feed grains under government control. Picture L-R are E.H. Wilson, Montgomery; Richard Arrington, Ramer; Gene Garrett, Uriah; John Kilgore, Jasper; W.J. Lee, Jr., Town Creek and Ed Wadsworth, Prattville. A few other cattlemen made the trip but were not pictured- John Armstrong, Selma; Harold Johnson, Notasulga; Cecil Whatley, Opelika; E.R. Howard, Toney and Done Smith of Prattville. The cattlemen were joined in Washington by thirty other farm leaders who opposed the bill.

Throwback Thursday: October Beef Month 1972

Now this is a #ThrowbackThursday you don’t wanna miss! Who remembers the 1972 October Beef Month Girl, Hopie Wadsworth? Daughter of 1960 ACA President and longtime Treasurer Ed Wadsworth, Hopie models a white trigger cloth mini dress featuring the cuts of beef during a promotional campaign.

Today, Hopie’s nephews Crawford Jones and Chip Cleveland are active cattle producers in Autauga County. Crawford is even an ACA Regional Vice President.#OctBeefMonth

Throwback Thursday: 1964

#ThrowbackThursday to 1964 and the first-ever October Beef Month Proclamation signing. Pictured is Gov. George Wallace (seated) with 1^st Vice President Richard Beard, ACA President Selden Sheffield, Executive Vice President Ham Wilson, 2^nd Vice President Bubba Trotman and Treasurer Ed Wadsworth.