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.

Throwback Thursday: 1977

This week’s #ThrowbackThursday goes back to 1977 in Montgomery at the Southeast Alabama Cattle Marketing Association Sale where attendees paid their 10 cents per head for promoting beef! This sale is still happens annually and its producers continue to support the state checkoff.

From L-R are Harold Johnson, Notasulga; Inez B. Graham, Sylacauga; Henry B. Gray, Eufala; Grady Brown, Roba; Ham Wilson, ACA Executive Vice President as he accepts the check from George Walker, Opelika; Bill Lipscomb, representing @Autauga Farming Company; Oscar Jones, Prattville; Lawrence Alley, Midway and Jimmy Greene, Roba.

Bill Lipscomb is now a leader of this group of producers which will host its annual sale on August 5, 2015 at 7 p.m. and the Will Howard Smith Agricultural Center in Autaugaville, AL. 

Throwback Thursday: 1950-1960

This week’s #ThrowBackThursday took place in 1953 when Alabama was still one of the few states to have conducted a comprehensive beef promotion program. Governor Gordon Persons attached the first promotional “Eat More Beef” bumper sticker to his official Cadillac. With him are 1953 President of the ACA Sen. Preston Clayton, left, and Executive Secretary of the ACA Ham Wilson, right.

Another notable event of 1953 was the creation of the Alabama CowBelles Association. On February 6, 1953, after Mack Maples (outgoing president of the ACA) and Ham Wilson attended the American National Cattlemen’s Association convention where they learned about the recent organization of the American National CowBelles, the CowBelles Association found a home in Alabama with Mrs. Mack Maples serving as the first president. The Alabama CowBelles Association is now known as the Alabama Cattlewomen’s Association. Pictured are some of the earliest photographed CowBelle officers from 1960, Viola Molette, Louise Wilson, Ora Lee Park, Mrs. Flynn Morris and Mrs. J.L. Adams. 

(Information and pictures taken from It’s Great to be Number One! By Dan W. Hollis and the ACA Library)