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Nashville Banner front page on May 31, 1956




May 31, 1956

May 31, 1956

Editor’s note: Main Street Nashville reprints some of the best front pages from the Nashville Banner, an afternoon newspaper that published from 1876 to 1998. The pages are courtesy of the Nashville Public Library, Nashville Banner Collection.

65 YEARS AGO IN THE

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Amid a couple of dramatic stories involving boats — a race riot aboard an excursion boat and accusations of a Columbia University instructor being thrown into a ship furnace — the front page of the May 31, 1956, Nashville Banner also featured a story about Gov. Frank Clement’s unannounced visit to the state penitentiary.

Accompanied by a cartoon showing the governor in a car passing by the warden, who was still rushing to get dressed, the story described Clement’s 4:30 a.m. visit to the prison. Clement ate breakfast with the guards and briefly inspected the prison before making other unannounced visits to two vocational schools.

Also on A1: An item in the “Assignment, Nashville” column saluted Betty Sue Goff, who graduated from Antioch High School that day with a perfect attendance record, having missed not one day in 12 years of school.

 

 

Out of curiosity, I did an online search and found the former Ms. Goff’s obituary. How did I know I had the right person? Because Betty Sue Goff Wheeler’s obit noted her perfect attendance record. While at Antioch High, she was a majorette and met and fell in love with the quarterback, to whom she was married for 52½ years. “The rest they say is history … living proof that dreams do come true,” the obituary reads. Wheeler died in Nashville on Feb. 9, 2020, at the age of 81.

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