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Some Stuff I Wrote (2001) H. Morris Williams

season. Is a copy of that movie still around somewhere?

Back in the 1940s and 50s, Lake City had a second newspaper called the Columbia Gazette,
published by Joe Tom Hill. Does anybody out there know what happened to all those old Gazettes,

the files, and photographs when that newspaper closed?
The Phoenix Suns’ A. C. Green is an all-star NBA basketball player who used to play for the

World Champion Los Angeles Lakers. One of his junior school basketball coaches on the west coast
was former Lake Citian Gerald McCray (CHS, 1950).

HERE AND THERE. .. Scott Adams, who was released by the Minnesota Vikings after
starting ten games last season, is now negotiating for a position with the New Orleans Saints and the

San Francisco Forty Niners. . . Dr. Ron Foreman has been appointed by the Governor of Florida
to the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, Division of Medical Quality Assurance.
Diane Porter, former local teacher and president of the Classroom Teachers Association, is now

teaching in Tallahassee. . . Fred Rozelle (CHS Captain, 1943) met three historic sports figures

when he was just a teenager. His high school coach was Ed Williamson who later became Florida
State University’s first head football coach. Then when Fred went into the Navy after high school,
he met Bob Feller, who was destined to become the Cleveland Indians’ Hall of Fame pitcher, and

Paul Brown who would later found the NFL Cleveland Browns.
WINNERS AND ALSO RANS_________When Fred P. Cone of Lake City ran for governor in

1936, he defeated 13 candidates to win the Democratic primary election. He then garnered 80
percent of the votes in the general election to become Governor. In 1940, Governor Cone ran for

the U. S. Senate and ran fourth in a six-man race.
Lake City’s Finley Moore ran twice for U. S. Senate, in 1938 and 1944. Claude Pepper won
both those elections.

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