Dale County AlArchives Photo place.....Dr. A.D. Matthews Stadium Dedication September 5 1957
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40 Years Ago, Sept. 5, 1957....Reprinted Sept. 3, 1997
Dr.A.D. Matthews Stadium Dedication Sunday 2:30 p.m.
 $135,000 Athletic Arena Seats 6,000

  The formal dedication services for the Dr. A. D. Matthews Stadium will be 
Sunday afternoon, September 8, at 2:30, with the ceremony being held in the new 
stadium, adjacent to the Ozark Senior High School.
  The Dr. A. D. Matthews Stadium, so named in honor of the local physician, Dr. 
A. D. Matthews, who has spent his entire life here in Dale County, and who 
continues to serve in many capacities the people with whom he resides, has been
completed recently at a total cost of-some $135,000.00, including the land. It 
has been designed to seat 6,000 people, and will be complete with rest rooms, 
press boxes, ticket offices, and a standard football field and track layout.   
The entire stadium project already has been fenced and concrete sidewalks have
been provided from the main gate to the seating areas on either side of the 
football field. Lights are being stalled this week, atop creosote pine poles 
100 feet high.
  The program for the dedication services announced by the Stadium Board of the 
City of Ozark. is as follows: 2:30, musical interlude- Ozark High School Band; 
3:00 National Anthem - Dixie - Ozark High School Band. Flag Raising ceremony by 
Color Bearers and Color Guard of Post No. 82, American Legion, followed by the 
invocation by the Rev. Marcus H. Smith, Pastor, Westview Heights Methodist 
Church, Ozark.
  The address of welcome and dedicatory preamble will be given by Mayor James 
Douglas Brown, of the City of Ozark, and who will also introduce Dr. A. D. 
Matthews and members of his family.
  Other detailed subjects, and the speakers, have been announced as 
follows: "Dr. Matthews and Dale County", Charles 0. Stokes, Dale County 
attorney; "Dr. Matthews and The City of Ariton," Paul Hutto, Past Mayor, City 
of Ariton; "Dr. Matthews And The City of Ozark," Wilmer Parker, Jr., Cashier, 
Bank of Ozark; "Dr. Matthews and Education," Creel Richardson, Principal, 
Ariton High School; "Dr. Matthews and The Church," Rev. L. Don Miley, Pastor, 
Ozark Baptist Church; "Dr. Matthews and The Medical Profession," Dr. Robert L. 
McLaughlin, President, Dale County Medical Society; "Dr. Matthews In Bronze," 
Henry B. Steagall, II, Representative State Legislature from Dale County, and 
the "Dedicatory Address: 'Dr. Matthews, The Man, Son, Husband, Father and 
Soldier' ", Rev. William J. Snellgrove, Pastor, Chalkhead Baptist Church, 
followed by the beneidiction rendered by the Rev. Charles B. Liddell, Pastor. 
First Methodist Church in Ozark. Master of ceremonies for the ceremonies was 
announced as James H. Kelley.
  The Stadium Board of the City of Ozark issued a cordial invitation to 
everyone from everywhere to attend the dedication ceremonies Sunday afternoon, 
and a large crowd has been anticipated. The board, selected several months ago
by Mayor James Douglas Brown and the City Council, is composed of: Tom A. Goff, 
chairman; C. Garner Smith, H. C. Jordan, B. B. Sheppard and "Sam J. Carroll,Jr.


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