Thank God for Lagniappe again

To the editor:

I love reading Lagniappe and while I don’t read it cover to cover or screen to screen, I do read it. 

When I was in high school at Alba during the late ’60s I used to help my cousin Matt who worked for the Bayou Trawler, that area’s weekly paper, and Mr. Earle Rankin. He had a linotype and a typesetter as well as a layout room just down the street from Red’s Drug Store in the Bayou. 

He had Julian Lee Rayford as a columnist, and ran articles concerning mainly those in South Mobile County. The paper was put to bed in the Bayou and printed in Bay Minette. We drove over in the van and picked up printed papers for distribution on Thursday after we had attached the mailing labels and delivered them to area post offices. Never was paid much, but it was one of those jobs that was fun to do, so pay didn’t matter. 

The Trawler did not survive as the PR started its own weekly insert on Thursday, but it wasn’t the same as ours. I hope that Lagniappe survives and I have my subscription to them to give support to something that is local. I would love to see more stories from South Mobile County, but I understand your limitations. I do believe what you and your team does is a vital link to Mobilians all over the county and am glad to continue that support.

Freddy Wheeler
Mobile