1953 in Fulton
from Fulton Daily Leader
by Eunice Mitchell

June

  Nine year old Carolyn Ann Ruddle and her grandmother 
were injured in the collison of a Greyhound bus and a 
cattle truck.

  Rev. Dan Overall succeded Rev. Carl Robbins as pastor 
of the First Methodist Church.

  Ray Fleming as named principal of Carr Institute, 
succeeding D. C. Wyatt, who resigned.

  Twenty-one girls were entered as candidates for Queen 
of the Fulton Lookouts.

  At a town hall meeting, Fulton citizens approved the 
erection of a building to house a box factory this area 
for a branch  plant.