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Hoedowns & Homicide
Part 3: ‘Potentially Another
Hank Williams’
By Peggy K. Newton
(Photos courtesy of the Willard Library Archives)
Curly Shelton may very well have been the first
heartthrob on local television in the Tri-State. To see
him on the early black-and-white TV sets, on UHF
(which did not always have clear reception), especially
when he was the only one in the shot, you’d think he was
a bigger man. He was short and skinny, but his dark good
looks and winning smile attracted a lot of female fans,
and he was as good a singer as anyone who made good in
Nashville. There was every reason to believe that he had
a bright future as a country singer. The talk was going
around that he was the next Hank Williams.
That may have been more wishful thinking rather
than substantive truth. Curly was a talented singer and
musician but he was not known for his songwriting,
if he did any songwriting at all. The few recordings he
made, released in the new 45-rpm format, were written
by others in the Doug Oldham/Dixie 6 contingent. In
some aspects, however, Curly’s life paralleled that of
Hank Williams.
Curly and Williams were contemporaries, Williams
being born only two years before Curly. Both lost their
fathers during boyhood to illness (Williams’ father was
hospitalized for more than eight years with a brain aneurysm)
or death. Both Curly and Williams were heavy
drinkers. And, tragically, both died much too young.
INSIDE
MJ Treasure Hunt Contest. .................................. 5
Attention, Readers. ........................................ 6
Hometown History ........................................ 8
Cooking Corner. ......................................... 12
Social Security Update. ................................... 12
My One & Only Mama. .................................... 14
We Are Survivors. ........................................ 16
Curly Shelton was born
William Arles Shelton in
Henderson, Kentucky on
November 1, 1925, to Arles
Elmo Shelton and Rilla (also
spelled Riller) A. Rednour,
both 18 when William was
born. The young family was
living with Rilla’s parents
when the 1930 census was
taken. Rilla’s father, William
Harrison Rednour, age 55,
for whom Curly was named,
was an independent truck
driver and supported his wife
Clisty Jane, 49, and daughters
who were still at home, Lois,
16, and Margaret, 9. Arles
was a laborer at the Heinz
Pickle Factory in Henderson.
Curly was listed as Arles, Jr.
on the census and likely went
by that name until he picked
up his preferred nickname,
Curly, somewhere along the
way.
When Curly was eleven
years old, an attack of appendicitis
sent his father to the
hospital. Arles Shelton never
recovered from the surgery
and died August 7, 1937. By 1940 Rilla was living
in Evansville with her new husband Gaylord Grant
Picturing Our Past ........................................ 17
Just for Laughs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Hometown History Contest. ............................... 18
Healthcare Workers. ....................................... 9
Brain Games. ....................................... 20 &21
Yesterdays Remembered . .................................. 22

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her sister Ina and Ina’s husband,
William Cox. Gaylord was a laborer
for the Works Progress
Administration county
roads project. Curly, who
would have been 14 on
the census date, was not
listed in that household,
nor was he listed at the
homes of his maternal and
paternal grandparents.
His draft registration,
dated November 1, 1943
— his 18th birthday —
listed his address as 315 Fagan Street,
Henderson, grandmother Clisty’s
address. By now a widow, she, and
not his own mother, was designated
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Standing only 5’5” tall,
he weighed 120 lbs.,
according to his draft
registration card. He
may have gained an
additional ten pounds
over the next ten years
or so but probably
wasn’t much taller.
The same source said
his eyes and hair were
brown, and he had a
scar on the right side of his nose.
He worked at the Schu Furniture
Company, located at 516 S. Main
He had learned to play guitar
and sang well enough to perform at
parties and barn dances in the pocket
area of Southern Indiana, Western
Kentucky, and Southern Illinois.
In the late 1940s he joined Les
Smithhart’s Super-X Cowboys band
where he met Doug Oldham and
Pendergraff and Pendergraph). By
1954 Oldham, whose day job was
operating a gas station at Oak Hill
Road and Weinbach, had formed his
own group, Doug Oldham and the
Dixie 6. (One newspaper account
reported that Curly and Rustyneck
had first met in school, but that
seems not to be the case since Curly
evidently left school, either in
Henderson or Evansville, after he
turned 16, and Rustyneck got as far
as his freshman year in high school,
ant thing is that Curly and Rustyneck
were part of Oldham’s new band
Street in Henderson.
Kenneth “Rustyneck” Pendergraft
(variously spelled Pendergrast,
in Missouri.)
Whatever the case, the import-
which, like Smithhart’s, leaned
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toward the more modern, upbeat
western swing that was popular in
the 1940s and 1950s. There may
have been a fiddle and occasionally
a banjo, but the electric steel guitar
was the guiding element in the band,
and it happened to be Oldham’s
instrument of choice.
Because they all had day jobs,
they limited their personal appearances
to cities and towns in the Tri-
State. Roy McCarty, who joined
the Dixie 6 around this time, ran
a seed company. Curly, beginning
around 1955, worked as a rivet heater
at Mesker Steel. The band met
for rehearsals twice a week on weeknights
and went out on weekends to
perform at clubs and dances around
the Tri-State, honing their public
personas and gaining confidence
with each successive gig.
More than anything else, television
gave them a larger audience,
beginning in the summer of 1955
when WEHT, then CBS-affiliate
Channel 50, began airing a live halfhour
show on weekday afternoons
called Hoosier Jamboree featuring
Doug Oldham and the Dixie 6.
The show quickly generated interest
as well as an increasing live
audience inside the small studio in
Henderson. The decision was made
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to stage a longer live show on Saturday nights at a larger
venue, the Agoga Tabernacle at 4th and Cherry streets
in Evansville. The tabernacle could hold 1,000 people
and most Saturday nights brought a full house. Tickets
cost $1 for adults and 50 cents for children. The Saturday
show was called Hillside Hoedown, presumably because
WEHT was (and is) located on top of a hill.
Beginning September 17, 1955, Hillside Hoedown
was live from 8 to 9:30, then telecast from 9:30 (following
Gunsmoke) to 11:30. Jim Stewart and Pete Dooley
alternated as emcees, introducing Doug Oldham and
Dixie 6, singer Junie Dee and Charles Bellamy and the
Dixie Liners. In the weeks that followed (with the schedule
slightly changed to 8 to 12 for the stage show and
broadcasting from 8:30 to 10:30), Joe and Lynn Penny,
the Foggy Mountain Girls (Virginia Baughn, Shirley
Ann Mayo and Mary Lou Meece), Lunella Prune, Rusty
Neck, Curly Shelton and Bob Berry received billing.
For special events — Halloween, for example —
children were admitted free and could dress up and
collect candy treats. Just before Christmas, the show
staged a telethon to collect money to provide winter
clothing for young boys. The performers stayed on the air
after the scheduled program to sing requests called in by
viewers contributing to what is known today as the Santa
Clothes Club (which now furnishes clothing for girls as
well) on WEHT.
So-called big-name stars never appeared as guests
on the program. They didn’t have to. The regular cast
became stars, as recognized to local residents as the network
stars were to the rest of the country. Viewers wrote
in to the local newspapers inquiring about the stars on
the program. It’s no surprise that Curly Shelton generated
the most attention (although Rusty Neck, in addition
to his versatile musicianship, was a well-loved comic). An
unidentified employee of WEHT would later tell police
and newspaper reporters that Curly Shelton brought
a different girl every week. Whether true or not, that
remark fed the rumors that Curly was quite the ladies’
man. It was a remark that didn’t sit well with two of the
girls in the cast; one of them insisted she was Curly’s one
and only true girlfriend, and the other girl backed her up.
It would not be the only instance of conflicting stories
involving Curly Shelton. MJ
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HOMETOWN HISTORY
Tri-State History July 1962 to September 1963
By Harold Morgan
(Dear readers – this article is
frightening to recall, perhaps some of
the worst times in American history,
not including our war and Depression
years, and then, President Kennedy
was murdered. This will be covered in
the next issue of this column.)
July 1962: The concept of a Civic
Center (city hall and courthouse in
one building) that would be built to
span across Main Street in Evansville
was introduced. Russia told the U.S.
to leave from Vietnam (the demand
did not work). President Kennedy
said that school children had
poor physical fitness. The Lincoln
Boyhood Memorial was dedicated in
Lincoln, Indiana.
The Evansville Grand Theater
was demolished to provide parking
spaces. An Evansville College dormitory
maid was raped and slain near
the Moore Hall dormitory.
August 1962: Bedford-Nugent
Sand and Gravel closed operations
on Riverside Drive in Evansville. The
national recall of the fetus-deforming
drug “Thalidomide” was nearly
complete.
Marilyn Monroe died in
Hollywood with an empty sleeping
pill bottle found on her nightstand.
The U.S. life expectancy
reached 70.2 years. The Evansville
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parade brought out 100,000 people to Main Street; it
was a great day. Construction of the second Evansville-
Henderson bridge began. Bucyrus-Erie built the world’s
largest coal shovel to be used near the Paradise, Kentucky
coal mines. Stunt pilot Kenneth Tyler was killed doing
acrobatics over the Henderson Airport.
September 1962: McGary Middle School opened
on South Joyce Avenue in Evansville. Harrison High
School opened. Johnny Carson began his 30-year run
with The Tonight Show on NBC. Eight-year-old Robert
Stone of East Walnut Street was injured by a fall and
then injured again when his ambulance was hit by a car
near St Mary’s Hospital. A B-58 bomber broke apart
and crashed over Jennings County Indiana; two bodies
were recovered and a search was necessary for the third
crewman. Ole Miss (University of Mississippi) admitted
its first African-American student, James Meredith.
East Germany was told that the U.S. would back Berlin
air rights with nuclear war if necessary. The Mississippi
National Guard was called into duty in Tennessee to
enforce civil rights.
October 1962: Bloody rioting hit Ole Miss with two
deaths and several injuries because of integration orders.
The U.S. resumed atomic testing in the Pacific Ocean.
Alcoa was adding a rolling mill and 1,000 jobs to its
Warrick Works. A Henderson warehouse fire destroyed
three firms and several thousand shotgun shells in the
Livingston Wholesale warehouse; no major injuries were
reported. An Allegheny Airlines airplane lost a door on
its landing approach into Bradley Field in Connecticut;
a stewardess was blown out of the open doorway to her
death.
President Kennedy ordered the blockade of Cuba
after Russian troops and nuclear missiles were discovered
on the island; most all news was about the Cuban
missile problem. Russia would remove missiles from
Cuba if America removed its missiles from Turkey.
Diamond Avenue was opened between St Joseph and
First Avenue. The McCurdy Hotel fountain was moved
to the Welborn Baptist Hospital lawn. Russia scrapped
its bases in Cuba.
November 1962: First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt died
in her NYC apartment. The Russian missiles were
removed from Cuba; Fidel Castro was furious. Castro
shipped out his (42) IL-28 bombers back to Russia.
America lifted its blockade of Cuba. (Harold Morgan
worked in the Paducah atomic plant; we were #7 on the
Russian atomic bomb “hit list”. We could hardly breathe
during the 3 worst days of atomic bomb horror.)
December 1962: VP Lyndon Johnson charged that
Russia made a billion-dollar blunder in Cuba and that
America moved 400,000 troops to Florida during the
crisis. Cuba released 1,113 prisoners to the Red Cross;
all came to the American President Kennedy promised
a “free” Cuba.
Parts of the New England states had 20-foot-deep
snow drifts, and thousands were stranded in Maine and
New Hampshire.
January 1963: Indiana authorized a 2% state sales
tax. The Evansville Courier installed a new printing press
that ran 52,000 papers per hour. Europe had its second
blizzard in one week. A Terre Haute packing house
explosion killed 16 and injured 55 people. The U.S.
and Russia declared to end the Cuban crisis. Economy
Food Center, three other groceries and four more north
side robberies were believed to be victims by the same
gangsters. The X-15 rocket airplane exceeded one mile
per second (3,716 MPH). Russia said that 120 nucle-
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ar missiles were aimed at the U.S. winter storms and
sub-zero temperatures closed most area schools; there
was a 17.6 below zero temperature in Evansville. (The air
was painfully dry to breath that morning.) Work began
to rebuild the Evansville riverfront; Riverside Drive traffic
was rerouted. The Fulton Square housing project in
Evansville opened with 120 units.
February 1963: The U.S. boycotted all ships that
moved any goods into Cuba. The Indiana Senate passed
a bill that required auto seat belts. The U.S. congress was
not happy about the lack of control regarding Cuba and
wanted a new Cuban blockade enacted. American GIs
were ordered to shoot first in Vietnam. The Mariner II
fly-by satellite signaled back to earth that Venus was a
hot, dead planet
March 1963: Russia was warned to keep out of the
Western Hemisphere. Three died, one injured in a highspeed
crash on Owensboro’s Frederica Street. 3,000
Russian soldiers were leaving Cuba. The Evansville area
had a wonderful heavy rainfall; the region had only had
1.9 inches in the previous six months. The Vanderburgh
Civic Center would be built on a 30-acre track at
Eighth and Main Streets. $125,000 was raised for a
“Civic Circle” by Evansville retail merchants. All prison
inmates were transferred away from the Alcatraz Prison
in San Francisco Bay.
April 1963: 12,000 Russian troops remained in
Cuba. The U.S. atomic submarine “Thresher” was missing
with 129 crewmen east of Boston; it was heard breaking-up
deep under the surface. Martin Luther King was
arrested in Birmingham. The Indiana cigarette tax was
four cents per pack. A three-block-long section of the
Coney Island boardwalk was destroyed by fire.
May 1963: Birmingham, Alabama was a racial
hotbed with police dogs, fire hoses and mass demonstrations.
America began postal zip codes. Astronaut
Gordon Cooper completed his 22nd earth orbit. 15
North Atlantic nations formed NATO. Pope John was
told he had three to four weeks to live. A grave national
crisis over race relations swept across America.
June 1963: U.S. Atomic submarine Thresher was
found and photographed at a depth of 8,500 feet. Pope
John died in Rome. Senate Republicans supported civil
rights legislation. Washington Square Shopping Center
opened in Evansville. Congress was irate over the murder
of Medgar Evers. Russia placed a woman, Valentina
Tereshkova, into earth orbit. Democrat Senator Strom
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An aerial view of the new Lawndale Shopping
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Thurman put legislative blocks on civil rights efforts.
July 1963: Pope Paul VI was crowned as the 262nd
Pontiff. Additional land was necessary for the Civic
Center. Four Posey County teenagers were killed in a
car-train accident at Caborn. A British Comet jetliner
crashed into the Arabian Sea killing 62 people.
August 1963: England, Russia and the U.S. signed a
partial test-ban treaty. President Kennedy’s newborn son
died 40 hours after delivery; the nation and his political
opponents were saddened. Violent racial protests took
place in Boston, Chicago, NYC and more US cities.
200,000 people marched on Washington DC for equal
rights. The Kremlin-White House telephone “hot-line”
was operational.
September 1963: President Kennedy told Vietnam
to regain popular support or lose the war. State troopers
raced to Mobile and Huntsville to quell breaks in school
segregation (with hopes to maintain segregation). White
students boycotted the Birmingham schools to halt integration.
Four African-American girls (11-14) were killed
by a bomb thrown into their Birmingham Church; this
angered even many integration opponents. President
Kennedy sent American military “top-brass” officers to
seek a Vietnam solution. The U.S. population reached
190 million. MJ

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By Glenn A. Deig, Certified Elder Law Attorney
by the National Elder Law Foundation
Legal services are deemed
“essential services”
When the Governor issued a list of essential services that
included legal services, my office was relieved. The number
of people who need legal assistance has actually increased
in many ways, especially in my area during this pandemic,
elder law. Statistics show as much as 80% of deaths in
China were over the age of 60. Many of my current/future
clients are not directly infected with the virus but may have
end-of-life cancer, or other issues such as heading into rehab
or a nursing home and need our legal help immediately.
My team has always prided ourselves on being a “high
tech but high touch” office; and this really has been helpful
to maintain our current level of service. Dropping off
documents in our large front office door slot and sharing
drafts of documents via email, texting to our PCs, and the
use of the cloud and remote logins to our server have been
invaluable. We continue to do “curbside” signings; in fact,
have done a few signings through a window at a house or
nursing home to maintain social distancing. Also, there
are laws being implemented in Indiana to allow remote
notarization & witnessing of legal documents. We have
conducted consultations with clients via phone consults
and by virtual meetings (Zoom, Skype, FaceTime, etc.) to
keep social distancing to keep the client and my employees
safe.
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screened before entering, including having their temperatures
taken and answering questions before being allowed
to enter. The office is continually sanitized.
Last month, the Maturity Journal article was regarding
“triggers” that cause people to think about their mortality
and estate planning. This pandemic is the largest trigger
that has occurred in my lifetime and the disruption of how
we conduct ourselves, today, and going forward. However,
besides considering a Will/Trust or what happens with my
estate after death, the main concern has been healthcare
decisions-who can make if I am not able to; or to implement
their wishes under different types of healthcare situations.
Obviously, the Indiana Healthcare Representative/HIPPA
Release/Living Will are standard documents that are mostly
controlled by Indiana statutes.
I have personally put together an extensive Healthcare
Letter of Instruction that gives specific guidance by a
client to their healthcare representative and physician/
medical providers that goes into great detail. For example,
wishes regarding medications and pain killers, thoughts on
experimental procedures/medications; religious preferences,
keeping primary doctor involved if possible; getting second
opinions before different medical events such as tests,
surgery, or placement in nursing home; which long-term
facility the client prefers; factors in selecting, how many
times want to be visited weekly if nursing home or rehab/
hospital; thoughts on costs of medical treatment and facilities,
etc.
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Social Security
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Andrew Saul, Commissioner
of Social Security, reminds the
public that Social Security and
Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
benefit payments will continue to be
paid on time during the COVID-19
pandemic. The agency also reminds
everyone to be aware of scammers
who try to take advantage of the pandemic
to trick people into providing
personal information or payment via
retail gift cards, wire transfers, internet
currency, or by mailing cash, to
maintain Social Security benefit payments
or receive economic impact
payments from the Department of
the Treasury.
“Social Security will pay monthly
benefits on time and these payments
will not be affected by the COVID-
19 pandemic,” Commissioner Saul
said. “I want our beneficiaries to be
aware that scammers may try to trick
you into thinking the pandemic is
stopping or somehow changing your
Social Security payments, but that is
not true. Don’t be fooled.
“I also want to provide an update
to people who receive benefits from
the Social Security Administration.
The Department of the Treasury
has announced that Social Security
beneficiaries who are not typically
required to file tax returns will not
need to file an abbreviated tax return
to receive an economic impact payment.
The IRS will use the information
on the Form SSA-1099 to
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Social Security Benefits Will be Paid On Time and
Other Updates Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Released by Charo Boyd Social Security Public Affairs Specialist
generate $1,200 economic impact
payments to Social Security beneficiaries
who did not file tax returns in
2018 or 2019.
Treasury, not Social Security,
will make automatic payments
to Social Security beneficiaries.
Beneficiaries will receive these payments
by direct deposit or by paper
check, just as they would normally
receive their Social Security benefits.
For updates from the IRS, visit www.
irs.gov/coronavirus.
Note for Supplemental Security
Income (SSI) Recipients:
We are working closely with
Treasury to address outstanding
questions about our SSI recipients in
an attempt to make the issuance of
economic impact payments as quick
and efficient as possible. We realize
people are concerned, and the IRS
will provide additional information
at www.irs.gov/coronavirus when
available. Please note that we will not
consider economic impact payments
as income for SSI recipients, and the
payments are excluded from resources
for 12 months.
We will continue to update
Social Security’s COVID-19 web
page at www.socialsecurity.gov/coronavirus/
as further details become
available. MJ
The
Cooking
Corner
By Jancey Smith
Grillin' in the Wind
Visit janceys.blogspot.com
To my way of thinking there are
two kinds of "grillers." There is the
all season die hard who will fire up
the grill or smoker any time of the
year. It could be 30 degrees and dark
at 4 p.m. and they would wave their
hands saying "Send me in, coach."
They just like the process and taste of
food cooked on the grill.
Others of us, me included, are
fair weather grillers. When it's warm,
sunny and pleasant to be outdoors,
it's fun to break out the smoker or
grill. That's me all the way. I can find
no reason to willingly be cold, food
or not.
However, this year spring has
just taken forever to get here, so a
few weeks ago, when it wasn't too
chilly out, I did a quick recon of
the outdoor cooking devices. After
scraping a winter's worth of charred
crud off the grates and giving them a
clean, I decided to go ahead and just
do some simple burgers to get back
into the swing of things. The weather
was cloudy and rain was expected
later in the evening, the key word
being later.
By the time the hubby got home
and I had pattied up the burgers,
the rain was holding off, barely, but
the winds weren't. He surveyed my
handywork and then raised his eyebrows
and asked if I was sure that
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burgers in high wind gusts. When I just smiled sweetly,
he knew the adventure was on. Of course, he was right
and we had some flames. Thankfully he's learned to control
those with years of practice. It was slightly defeating
when all that great aroma of grilled meat blew over to the
next three neighbors houses and not ours. One of them
followed their nose and came to visit.
That's when the winds really kicked into gale force
and porch items and cooking utensils started scooting
about. We had to steady the grill lid just to get them off.
Our little charcoal starter took a dive off the porch and
into the garden, so I had to chase that down. Then, just
as we banged through the front door, the rains came. The
phrase "in the nick of time" came to mind.
With the kick-off of summer so close at hand, a
hamburger variation seemed like a good thing to share.
One of the burger discoveries I've made over the winter
months was a Cola Burger. I know the English teachers
out there will raise their eyebrows to the sky, but this is
the moistest burger I've ever made, so I thought I'd pass
it on.
Grill burgers for about 3 minutes per side. Brush
with the dressing mix, then grill for 8 to 10 more minutes,
basting occasionally. Serves 6. MJ
Recipe of the Month
Cola Burgers
Ingredients:
1-1/2 lbs. ground beef
1 egg
2 T. Parmesan cheese, grated
1 tsp. garlic powder
1 tsp. onion powder
1/2 cup saltine crackers, crushed
2 T. McCormick's hamburger spice mix
1/2 cup soda (Coke), divided
6 T. French salad dressing, divided
Cooking Directions
Oil or use cooking spray on grill grates and preheat
to high heat. In a medium bowl, mix together the egg,
1/4 cup of cola, crushed crackers, 2 T. of French dressing,
and Parmesan cheese. Add the ground beef and
mix well. Form into 6 balls, and pat into ¾-inch patties.
Sprinkle with garlic and onion powders and hamburger
seasoning on both sides of patties. Pour the remaining
cola and French dressing into a small bowl and mix well.
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“My One and Only Mama,”
by Sharon Randall
Re-printed from The Tri-State Thumper, newsletter of Mended Hearts
Recently I heard a joke that seems fitting for Mother’s
Day. I would gladly cite the source, but I don’t recall
where I heard it, just as I often don’t recall where I left
the glasses that are sitting on my head. Here’s the joke:
During an exam to become a police officer, a young
recruit was asked how he would respond if, in the line
of duty, it became necessary for him to arrest his own
mother. The young man fell silent trying to imagine
something so utterly unimaginable. Finally, he nodded
and replied. “If I had to arrest my mother,” he said, “the
first thing I’d do is call for back-up.”
If you’re laughing, chances are you were blessed, as
I was, to be raised by a formidable woman. The New
Oxford American Dictionary on my laptop defines
“formidable” as: “Inspiring fear or respect through
being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable.”
The qualities in that definition fit my mother like an
iron glove. She was not large physically, but to me she
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was larger than life. She was also powerful, intense and
extremely capable, not to mention insufferably stubborn.
She surely inspired fear and respect. I personally never
dared to disrespect her, but my sister did. Once. She
promptly learned never to do it again. Having told you
that, I will tell you this. Years ago for Mother’s Day I
wrote a column about all the women in my life who had
been like a mother to me. I included my grandmothers,
my aunts, a few teachers and Sunday school teachers, my
mother-in-law and several mothers of my friends. I called
it “Mamas I Have Known and Loved.” My intentions
were good. I meant no disrespect to my mother and
didn’t expect it to be a problem. The column was syndicated,
but not in my hometown. I told myself there was
no way she’d ever read a word of it.
That was not the first time I underestimated her, or
made the mistake of doing something thinking I’d not
get caught. As fate would have it, someone was kind
enough to mail that column to one of the mamas I had
mentioned in it, who was kind enough to share it with
my mother, who was kind enough, barely, not to kill me.
Imagine my surprise when I phoned, totally unsuspecting,
to wish her happy Mother’s Day. Instead of “Hello,”
she said, “I read what you wrote and all I can say is you need
a few more mamas who aren’t me!” Then she slammed the
phone. As with other disappointments in life, she took
time to get over it. But she did. She always did.
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Forgiveness ranks high among all the skills needed
for being a mother. It might be number 1. We never
spoke of it again. Years later, at the end of her battle
with lung cancer, I spent three days at her bedside in
the hospital. I sang to her hymns we had sung in church
and songs she had sung with her sisters on the porch. I
read passages to her from the Bible and told her stories
that would have made her laugh, if not for the pain
meds that made her sleep. On the third day — the last
day of her life — when my sister insisted I had to leave
the hospital long enough to take a shower, I kissed
my mother goodbye and turned to go. But something
made me look back. She was sleeping peacefully. I went
over to her bedside, leaned down and whispered in her
ear. “Mama?” I said. “You’re my one and only mama.
The only one I’ll ever have or want.” Her eyes fluttered
open and she gave me a look as if I had said something
that made no sense, like peaches don’t have fuzz. It was
a look I’d often seen from her over the years but would
never see again this side of Forever. “That’s right,” she
said, pointing her finger at my nose, “I’m your one and
only mama. And don’t you forget it.”
I have never forgotten it. And I never will. MJ
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Bunnies were small rabbits, and rabbits
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We thought fast food was what
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nursing homes. We never heard of
FM radio, tape decks, electric typewriters,
artificial hearts, word processors,
yogurt, and guys wearing
earrings.
For us, time-sharing meant
togetherness, not computers or condos.
A chip meant a piece of wood.
Hardware meant hardware, and software
wasn’t even a word. In 1940,
“Made in Japan” meant junk. Pizzas
and McDonalds were unheard of.
We hit the scene when there were 5-
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things for 5 and 10 cents. The corner
drugstore sold ice cream cones for a
nickel or dime. For one nickel you
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rette smoking was
fashionable, grass
was mowed, coke
was a cold drink,
and pot was something
you cooked
in. Rock music was
a grandma’s lullaby,
and aids were helpers
in the principal’s
office.
We were certainly
not here
before the difference
between the
sexes was discovered. We made do
with what we had. And we were the
last generation that was so dumb to
think you needed a husband to have
a baby!!
No wonder we are so confused
and no wonder there is such a generation
gap today; but we survived!!!
WHAT BETTER REASON TO
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Maturity Journal
Picturing Our Past
by Pat Sides, Archivist at Willard Library
Hotel Lincoln
In the first half of the twentieth
century, the Hotel Lincoln
was one of Evansville’s busiest
hotels. Located at Fifth and
Main Streets, the Lincoln originally
opened in 1915 on NW
Fifth Street; a later expansion
added a section (seen here)
positioned between two smaller shops in the 400 block of Main Street.
(The tall building looming in the background at left is Old National
Bank.)
The Hotel Lincoln is perhaps most famous for the Blue Bar, which
operated in the building’s basement. With a seating capacity of 300, the
bar opened soon after Prohibition was repealed in 1933 and continued
to entertain guests for a while after the hotel closed in 1965.
For decades, jazz lovers flocked to the Blue Bar to hear such popular
musicians as Boots Randolph, who played his legendary “Yakety Sax”
there from 1957 to 1961. Two years after the Lincoln closed, it was
razed to make room for a new Old National Bank building. MJ
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It’s a Wonderful
World
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Ju st f o r La ug h s
Murphy’s Laws
• No good deed goes unpunished.
• Everything east of the San Andreas Fault will
eventually plunge into the Atlantic Ocean.
• You will remember that you forgot to take out
the trash when the garbage truck is two doors
away.
• Interchangeable Parts — Won’t.
• You will always find something in the last place
you look.
• If it jams — force it. If it breaks, it needed
replacing anyway.
• Any tool dropped while repairing a car will roll
underneath to the exact center.
• When a broken appliance is demonstrated for
the repairman, it will work perfectly.
• The chance of a piece of bread falling with the
buttered side down is directly proportional to the
cost of the carpet. MJ
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To All the Wonderful
Healthcare Workers
Thank You! Thank You!
Submitted by Jana Stewart, president Mended Hearts
"When this is over,
may we never again take for granted
a handshake with a stranger,
full shelves at the store,
conversations with neighbors,
a crowded theater,
Friday night out,
the taste of communion,
a routine checkup,
the school rush each morning,
coffee with a friend,
the stadium roaring, each deep breath!
A boring Thursday. Life itself.
When this ends, may we find that we
have become more like the
people we
wanted to be,
we were called to be,
we hoped to be and may we
stay that way —
better for each other because
of the worst."
-Laura Kelly Fanucci
To put things in perspective for
those of us feeling a bit stir crazy
already — Anne Frank and 7 other
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for 461 days, quietly trying to
remain undiscovered to stay
alive. We can all do our part
to keep everyone safe and
spend a few weeks at home.
I would rather miss my family
and friends for a few months than
never see them again! MJ
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Yesterdays Remembered
When we get to the month of
March each year, I usually have a
short inclination to begin to clean
house. But, staying inside on a pretty
day just doesn’t make sense when we
have been shut up all winter.
Recently I had traveled to Illinois
to get my daughter so that she could
join us on the trip to New Orleans.
When we returned from the trip,
we were experiencing a few days of
beautiful weather.
Many of you will remember that
last year Dixie, my neighbor, and I
had planted a great number of vegetable
plants in pots on the back of
our patio. But the owner of the complex
did not smile sweetly on our vast
project, since most of the pots were
simply large and small buckets of
various and sundry conditions. We
were very proud of our ‘garden’ as
we watched the cabbage, tomatoes,
peas, green peppers, lettuce, radishes,
onions, and many other items grow.
The only thing we hadn’t tried to
grow in pots were corn and green
beans. (The absence of that vegetable
is because I detest those little green
growths.) We nursed our growing
farm each morning and watered
them faithfully.
When Dixie and I took a group
on a bus trip with DarCor Travels,
we left our prized crops for several
days, and we left the chore of watering
our garden with my husband.
However, he failed to remember that
the crops needed water every day.
Unfortunately, when we returned
Spring…..Scream!
from our trip, most of the crops were
dead as doornails and our prized cabbage
was shriveled to an ugly mess.
By this time, it was time to pull
up the mess and toss the ugly pots
in the trash. We kept the nicest
pots of our stash and tossed the
rest. Then we began to shop for fall
plants, settling for a wide variety of
Chrysanthemums. They were a nice
change from the wilted cabbages,
and what a bright picture they presented
across the back of the patio.
One of the worst parts of
Chrysanthemums is the fact that
they only last until the first hard
frost. After that they seem to take
on the same wilted look as the other
plants. The leaves fall from the trees
and most of the shrubbery seems
to wilt too, leaving brown colorless
stubs. Even the colorful birds seem
to have taken flight for a warmer
climate. And because it is getting
colder, Dixie and I no longer can sit
in lawn chairs on the back patio and
enjoy the fruits of our labors.
Since winter in Indiana is not as
severe as the northern states, when
the sun beams brightly in March, we
head out back with our jackets on
and resume our habit of watching
the traffic go up and down the street.
This year, because Liz, my daughter,
was here we decided that she
could dig up the remnants of our
2019 efforts. She searched through
the patio box to find a tool to use to
dig up the roots of those old bushes.
She soon attacked them with
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a vengeance,
digging scraggly bushes by the roots,
and stuffing them in a bag to take
to the trash. All at once I heard her
SCREAM! “It’s alive,” she shouted.
I, of course, envisioned a rattlesnake,
but she announced that there
were baby mice in the planter box.
I checked her assessment and discovered
some newborn somethings.
The rabbits were not more than 6
hours old and were deposited in a
pile in the corner of the big box. (I
knew they were baby rabbits because
we had a family of rabbits the year
before that were nested behind the
patio box.)
Needless to say, the removal
of roots from that box came to a
screeching halt in order to provide
the mother bunny a bit of privacy
until they became big enough for her
to herd them across the street to her
home.
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our ‘brood’ every day. After the first day or so, their ears
were the size of my little pinky and about an inch long
and the babies were squirming on top of one another.
There were four of them. Since deciding their sex is not in
my realm of capability, we decided that they should have
names that were gender neutral.
On the return trip to take her back to Illinois, Liz
quizzed herself all along the way to find appropriate
names for her tiny animal babies! Sunny, Funny, Honey,
and Mummy became the monikers that she had decided
on.
Dixie and I returned her to Illinois and she questions
us every day about the well-being of the Bunny Family.
I can tell you that spring had made its face come alive
in Newburgh, and Liz’s scream had awakened most of the
neighbors in our block. Many of our friends have come by
to see the growing menagerie and expressed surprise and
delight. They are now big enough that the nesting material
their mother provided now rises and falls as the 4
little bunnies are now showing their own personalities by
squirming and gazing at the gawkers who remove their
cover. Soon, in the shade of the night, ‘mummy bunny'
will lead them home and a sprinkling of lettuce seeds will
replace their covering until next year. MJ
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Tours are a product of DarCor
Travels, your Local Tour Company
All trips have been cancelled until
June 1, 2020.
Please be safe and well.
We will
resume trips as soon as possible.
In three words
I can sum up
everything I’ve
learned about life: it goes on.
~ Robert Frost
May 2020 Page 23

Maturity Journal
Page 24 May 2020
Are you on a fixed income looking for quality, affordable housing?
Independence Square
A Retirement Housing Foundation Community
201 W. Delaware, Evansville, IN 47710-1792
independencesquare@rhf.org
Spacious 1 Bedroom Apartments Include:
Individual Heating & Air, Full Kitchen, Full
Bathroom with Safety Features, Emergency
Call System, Carpet, Smoke Detectors, and
Cable TV Available.
812-428-0362
Building Amenities Include:
Secure Entry Access System, Community Room for
Activities, Indoor Mail Boxes, Professional & Friendly
Staff, Ample Parking, Elevators, and On-Site Security
Cameras. NO Small Application Pets Welcomed! Fee.
SWIRCA Meal Site. Small Pets Welcomed!
Qualifying incomes cannot exceed
$21,500 $23,550 for for 1 1 person and $24,600 $26,900 for 22 people.
Section 504 Coordinator - Stuart Hartman Foundation Property Management, Inc.
911 N. Studebaker Road Long Beach, CA 90815-4900
Tele: 562-257-5100 Fax: 562-257-5200 TDD: 800-545-1833 Ext. 359