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Town Is in a Dither Over IT;<br />

Just a Prank for 'Mighty Joe<br />

A sympathetic newspaper editor with a<br />

sense of humor and a dearth of good local<br />

news went along with Bill McSpedden,<br />

manager of the Palace Theatre, Greenville,<br />

Ky., on a gag which had everyone in<br />

town and in several nearby communities<br />

wondering about a behemoth monster<br />

which apparently was terrorizing the staid<br />

citizens of the area.<br />

The newspaper picked up McSpedden's<br />

first cue with a story of "IT," a tremendously<br />

proportioned mythical beast, which<br />

allegedly made its appearance after dark, -<br />

and was as Ukely to turn up at a revival<br />

meeting, or school, or at a civic meeting—<br />

and was always seen with a partially consume

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