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Entertaining Evansville
Part 1. Why Entertainment
Fascinates; But I Digress
By Peggy K. Newton
INSIDE
MJ Treasure Hunt. ....................................5
Picturing Our Past ....................................7
Hometown History ...................................8
Everyone Knew the Spider. ............................12
Social Security Update. ...............................13
Hometown History Contest. ..........................14
Mis-Adventures of Bob Hollis ..........................14
Hoosiers of Note. ...................................16
Co-starring in the show with Ricky was fifteenyear-old
Dodie Stevens, who had a hit record, "Pink
Shoe-Laces." Also in the program: The Browns (a
young Jim Ed Brown with his two sisters; they'd
had hits with "The Three Bells" and "The Old
Lamplighter"); and a young comedian who played
guitar, Jerry Van Dyke. Louis Armstrong's show
would close out the season.
In a world of global pandemic, systemic racism and
seemingly endless warfare, there’s little wonder that people
seek refuge: spiritual refuge in their church or religion;
physical asylum in a country or setting offering a
better chance of survival or perhaps better opportunities
to dig themselves out of poverty; and refuge of another
sort, from day-to-day living, boredom, sadness or fatigue
from a constant barrage of bad news. We seek emotional
and spiritual uplift and, perhaps, something educational
through a sort of beauty that permeates the five senses.
For the ears, it is the beauty of a symphony, hip-hop, a
folksong; for the eyes, the beauty of people, animals in
nature, or an elegantly decorated home; through memory
inspired by the senses of sight and hearing, the recall
of the smell and taste of a long-ago Sunday dinner or the
wisp of a touch on the cheek of the first cool breeze of
fall.
People seek to be entertained, and its varieties are
limitless. Entertainment is a silent prayer in a church
sanctuary, companionship of friends at a Bingo game, or
watching a movie on TV or device of choice.
As the song goes, “the world is a stage, the stage is a
world of entertainment” (Arthur Schwartz and Howard
Dietz, “That’s Entertainment”).
A fine line exists between entertainment and education.
Most people never connect the two, consciously.
Some will argue that they’re really very much alike.
Marshall McLuhan said, “Anyone who tries to make
a distinction between education and entertainment
doesn’t know the first thing about either.”
Herbert Marcuse appears to agree: “Entertainment
and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be
the most effective mode of learning.”
Rules of Being Human ................................17
Just for Laughs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Cooking Corner. ....................................20
Brain Games. ................................... 22&23
Yesterdays Remembered ..............................24
Things Mom Didn't Tell Me ............................26
Coupons. ..........................................27

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Success comes in “can”s
When young children are
engaged in a cartoon on TV or a
video game, they are being entertained
because that’s what they
sought when they turned on the TV
or the game box. But make no mistake:
they’re learning, too. And that
learning doesn’t stop just because the
viewer grows older.
Martin Kippenberger noted,
“Entertainment is in art like color
in pictures.” Entertainment may not
necessarily be universal but it most
certainly enhances a product or experience.
Entertainment has always fascinated
me, from the time I was a small
child. This fascination was formed by
television. I never knew a life before
television. My sister did; she is eight
years older. I was six months old
when my parents bought their first
TV set. Somewhere there’s a photo
of my sister hugging the brand new
Emerson in the house where we lived
on Franklin Street. I may have felt
the same way but just wasn’t able to
hug much of anything other than my
bottle.
Through TV I learned about
movies. I don’t remember seeing
my first movie (even The Late
Show or Early Show, which we saw
on Channel 14, came later in the
1950s). Undoubtedly it was when
my parents packed my sister and me
into the back seat of the ’49 Ford and
took us to the Family Drive-In off of
Hwy 41 South, just inside the levee.
Being that I saw my first professional
play when I was in my twenties and
before that in the productions in elementary
and high schools, how is it
that I actually wrote and performed
in (acting would be too big of a
stretch) my own plays in my garage
and at school before I saw “the real
deal”?
The answer is Lucy. From Lucy
Ricardo I learned that anyone could
write and “put on” a play. It may not
be a good one, but that’s beside the
point. I simply learned that it could
be done. (This was the episode in
which Ricky sings, “I am the good
Prince Lancelot/I love to sing and
dance a lot.”)
Music, another aspect of entertainment,
also came from TV.
Everything I can remember about
music in the 1950s came from tele-
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weekly show with his own family made him seem closer
to us. We saw him in his “real” life. We really believed
he had a pal named Wally and they all hung out at the
Malt Shop where even Ozzie Nelson (the dad, for you
young whippersnappers out there) occasionally strolled
when he ran out of nothing to do at home — since he
vision. What little I learned about pop music came from was not very nice to the hippie rock ‘n’ rollers who
Your Hit Parade on Saturday nights until my parents descended on Nashville and took over the studios (the
discovered Hillside Hoedown locally. From that point nerve!) and recorded some songs that weren’t quite rock
on, their preferred variety shows had to be country-oriented.
and weren’t quite country, sort of country rock. The very
Country was not as “mainstream” as it is now. idea! People like Emery and Roy Acuff were not open to
When the Hoedown went off the air, Tennessee Ernie opening up country music to the younguns who didn’t
Ford and, for a while, Red Foley (Pat Boone’s fatherin-law)
grow up listening to Hank, Hank and Hank (Williams,
were my parents’ country music refuge until the Snow and Thompson). And so two cats named Gram
syndicated shows from Nashville a few years later starred Parsons and Roger McGuinn (they were in a group
Porter Waggoner, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, and the called The Byrds) wrote a song called “Drugstore Truck-
Wilborn Brothers.
Driving Man” and really let Ralph have it! The first
The pickings were so slim in the early 1960s that my two lines go, “He’s a drugstore truck-driving man, He’s
mom watched Andy Williams. I’ve nothing against him. the head of the Ku Klux Klan.” I don’t know if Ralph
I actually liked “Moon River,” but maybe it was just the belonged to that horrible group; I hope not, for my parents’
song. And there was Dean Martin. (Who couldn’t like
sake. They watched his talk show every night, 1½
Dino?) My dad preferred his singing over Sinatra. My hours Monday through Friday. Anyone who appeared as
mom liked him, too. It didn’t hurt (in my parents’ view) a guest on Ralph’s show was all right merely because they
that Dean Martin sang country songs. And then came were on Ralph’s show.
Hee Haw and later The Nashville Network. Once TNN All except George H.W. Bush, who was on the
came on the air in the early '80s, the dial (back when TVs show several times (or it seemed; I wouldn’t know since
had knobs and dials) rarely changed. There was a nightly
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(probably best-known to people outside of Nashville can still hear in the sausage commercials even though
as a husband to Skeeter Davis, whose song “End of he’s been dead 20 years, was a one-hit wonder in the
the World” topped the rock ‘n’ roll charts in the early early 1960s with his recording of “Big Bad John,” which
1960s; I remember seeing her on American Bandstand, a was more recitation than music. Dean was largely out
show my sister watched every afternoon after school, just of the music business by the ’80s, concentrating on his
before I watched Mickey Mouse Club).
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In his heyday as Nashville’s top disc jockey, Emery as Ralph’s show was called, he made a point of dropping
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nor a secret about Ozzie’s lack of a
profession. He was retired! The first
episode of The Adventures of Ozzie
and Harriet on radio (according to
Ozzie’s autobiography) was about
Ozzie and Harriet (she was a singer
in his band) coming home after
being out on the road. And they
never went back out. The luxury of
wearing a sweater all the time and
walking to the Malt Shop were just
too much to resist.
According to a biography about
Rick Nelson written years later,
Ozzie did have something else to
do — he meddled in Ricky’s career.
Rick, the older version of Ricky,
liked country music and preferred
it over Ozzie’s song choices, which
were mostly reboots of old Big Band
classics rearranged for rock ‘n’ roll. (I
just now realized why Ozzie retired
— Big Band music was out of style.)
My point is that the process of
entertainment, along with its many
facets, continue to fascinate me now
that I’ve been able to appreciate
entertainment in its proper settings:
plays on the stage, music in concerts,
movies in theaters, and television
in High Definition. Something
else I learned along the way, and
TV had nothing to do with it:
Evansville has a rich entertainment
history, going back to the pre-Co-
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upstream. By the time you read this,
I will have launched Entertaining
EvansvilleTM (www.entertainevansville.net),
a website dedicated to
the history of entertainment in our
fair city. It is a huge undertaking for
me because there is so much to cover,
mostly from the last 200 years, and I
will barely be started when the site
launches. My goal is to entertain as
well as inform.
We will cover the venues: theaters,
parks, stadium, coliseum,
amphitheater; the people: stars as
well as the entrepreneurs and even
the people who ran the movie projectors.
Music in all its forms will be
covered as well. I won’t forget circuses;
they were among the earliest of
the travelling entertainment troupes
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still more wilderness than city.
We leave you with one more
quote from an entertainer whose
wisdom was underappreciated when
he was still with us.
“People who see life as anything
more than pure entertainment are
missing the point.”—George Carlin.
We see entertainment because
we enjoy it. Carlin tells us we should
treat life as we treat entertainment
and enjoy it — because that’s absolutely
the one thing we have that
truly belongs to us, for the time that
we have it.
(Next: Amusements on the
Frontier.) MJ
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Picturing Our Past
by Pat Sides, Archivist at Willard Library
Evansville Centennial Celebration
In May of 1947, Evansville enthusiastically
observed the centennial
of its city charter. The local
Chamber of Commerce planned
a series of varied events to involve
the entire community, such as
concerts and balls at the Coliseum;
an industrial exhibition at the
Armory; air shows at the municipal
airport; history displays at the
Evansville Public Museum; a “hillbilly” concert and fireworks at Bosse
Field; banquets at the Hotel McCurdy; and neighborhood block parties.
But no celebration would be complete without a parade down
Main Street. The one pictured here featured numerous floats commemorating
civic milestones in the city’s long history. This float highlighted
the opening of the Evansville-Henderson bridge in 1932. MJ
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AUTHORS NOTE: This is a difficult
chapter to enjoy as there is much
disaster, much sorrow and then
there is the local helicopter accident
where local children and adults
watched “Santa Claus” and his pilot
friend fall to their death in a local
helicopter crash at North Park. Still,
history is history; sometimes good
and sometimes bad.
January 1967: Open dumping
in the First Avenue dump was ended;
it became a sanitary landfill
(as it previously was called). Auto
makers pleaded for a delay for the
safer cars mandate. Jack Ruby died
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acted alone in killing Lee Harvey
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Kennedy. Tri-State National
Guardsmen would enter active
duty within six months. Medical
schools were sought for Lake and
Vanderburgh Counties in an Indiana
senate bill.
Evansville had 10 armed robberies
within 14 days. The Green
Bay Packers beat the Kansas City
Chiefs 35 to 10 in the first Super
Bowl. A fire in the Apollo 1 space
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White and Chaffee. (A spark from
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in Arlington Cemetery.
February 1967: Two NASA men
died in a space capsule simulator
after another oxygen fire just like
the Apollo 1 fire; NASA halted the
use of pure oxygen in space experiment
use. (Smoke killed the astronauts,
not fire.) A hand grenade
killed two boys and a young soldier
near Fort Campbell after one boy
pulled out the detonation pin.
The U.S. would draft 25,000 reservists
unable or unwilling to participate
in army reserve activities.
The 40-inch oil pipeline was completed
from the Gulf of Mexico to
Marion County Illinois; it was the
largest pipeline in America. Highway
41 was titled Indiana’s Deadliest
Highway. Albert DeSalvo, the
Boston Strangler, gave himself up
after a tip to the police from his
brother. Evansville lost its hope for
a medical school.
March 1967: Jimmy Hoffa began
an eight-year prison term for
fraud, jury tampering and conspiracy.
Evansville North High School
won the Indiana boys basketball
championship. Smith & Butterfield
and two other stores burned
on Main Street at Third Street; 150
firemen responded.
April 1967: The railroad engine,
caboose and car were delivered to
the Evansville Museum by moving
down Riverside Drive foot after
foot on portable rail tracks; the trip
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to the Evansville Museum 1967
took two days. The engine and cars moved backwards
so as to fit properly into their present arrangement
in their museum setting. The killer of eight Chicago
nursing students, Richard Speck, was identified at trial
by the single surviving nurse who had hid under a
bed. (Speck was found guilty.)
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the surface of the moon. American war planes began
to drop bombs on Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam.
A record crowd of 14,000 people came to hear
the Air Force band, a record for Roberts Stadium and
the band.
May 1967: A car with two people that was being
chased by Princeton police crashed into another car
head-on; the three-people involved were all killed. An
Evansville airport employee was electrocuted while
changing runway lights. The death toll of U.S. military
men and women in Vietnam reached 10,000. The
Indianapolis 500 race was rained out for first time in
41 years.
June 1967: ISU-Evansville received $1.75 million
for buildings. Evansville Day School built its school
on Green River Road at (the future) Lynch Road extension.
I-64 was under full construction. The Israeli
army soundly defeated Egypt’s tanks, leaving 200
tanks destroyed. Israelis claimed an overwhelming
victory over Egypt and Syria. The “Four Day War”
was ended; Israel now held Jerusalem. Red China exploded
its first H-bomb. An all-white jury convicted
seven men in the murder of three civil rights workers
in Meriden, Mississippi.
July 1967: The first African-American U.S. astronaut,
Maj. Robert Lawrence, was appointed. Israel
annexed the Gaza Strip. Documentation showed that
Russian errors caused the Four Day War and they
were unable to stop it. School bus transportation became
an unsolvable problem in the Evansville integration
transfer plan. 23 were killed, 1,100 injured in
a Newark riot. Race violence erupted in Birmingham,
Youngstown, Wadesboro and Newark; 27 were killed
in Detroit and two were dead in Harlem.
The new Evansville Central High School on First
Avenue would cost $4.4 million. The Indiana National
Guard was called out in South Bend as new riots
began across the U.S. 71 sailors were killed and 112
were missing from a U.S. aircraft carrier Forrestal
explosion that was caused by an exploding airplane
being launched off Vietnam.
August 1967: 525,000 U.S. troops were now posted
in Vietnam. American prestige was damaged around
the world by numerous racial riots. Mead Johnson
and Bristol-Meyers made a $240 million merger. The
U.S. Army M-16 combat rifle was causing lethal problems
in Vietnam. It had to be modified or replaced.

Some argue that merely the wrong bullet powder had
been used in the early bullets.
September 1967: An image of the first building
for the ISU-Evansville campus was published in the
Courier. Evansville Mayor McDonald had a midnight
meeting in the City Courtroom with 100 Evansville
African-American leaders. A $1.2 million grant for
demolition of the Villa Sites was received. (Villa Sites
were south of Riverside Drive near Lodge Avenue.)
Evansville’s integration of its fire department was described
as slow.
October 1967: The Vanderburgh Auditorium and
Convention Center was opened. Traffic control in
Evansville’s North Park area was a growing concern.
Citizen protests over the Vietnam War were held
across America. Russia placed instruments by a soft
landing on the surface of Venus and radioed conditions
back to Earth.
6,000 82nd Division Airborne paratroopers flew in
to protect Washington D.C. from damage by war protestors;
they repelled 50,000 Pentagon demonstrators.
Catholic priests poured blood on draft board files in
Baltimore.
November 1967: US Surveyor-6 spacecraft soft landed
on the moon. 122,000 people visited the Evansville
Museum in its first 12 months. American journalists
“Freedom of Information” committee charged that
the Johnson administration had been deliberately
misleading the public with war news. An antiwar mob
of thousands confronted hundreds of NYC policemen
who were protecting the Secretary of State in the area
around the New York Hilton Hotel.
The Evansville City Council ordered the landfill on
Waterworks Road to be closed. 62 TWA Airlines jet
passengers were killed in a crash while landing at the
Cincinnati airport. Indiana University won a share
of the Big 10 football championship and would go to
the Rose Bowl for the first time in history. Deaconess
Hospital was adding a new $6.2 million wing with 201
beds.
December 1967: 27 people were injured when a
San Francisco cable car broke loose and plummeted
down the steep Hyde Street hill into an auto that burst
into flames. The first U.S. black astronaut, Maj. Robert
Lawrence (mentioned earlier this article), was killed
in his F-104 during a training flight.
The helicopter pilot and a “stand-in” Santa Claus
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were killed when their helicopter struck power lines
and crashed onto the North Park shopping center
before a crowd of 1,000 horrified spectators. (Author
Harold Morgan, his spouse and two children watched
the Santa Claus disaster while approaching the landing
site and parking their car. The helicopter and
blades were entangled in the high-power lines, and
everything seemed to be spinning around high above
the parking lot. The Santa, William Bretz, and pilot,
William Door, were both killed; there were no other
injuries.)
Meadow Park branch library opened on First Avenue
near North Park. The 2nd and 3rd Brigades of
the 101st Airborne Division were airlifted 9,800 miles
from their base at Fort Campbell to Vietnam; the
10,000 men joined their 1st Brigade comrades of the
101st Division.
The Point Pleasant Bridge over the Ohio River
collapsed killing five with 21 missing. War conflicts
along the Cambodian border were developing rapidly.
60 Evansville fans of IU boarded their chartered
airplane and left for the Rose Bowl game at Pasadena
California, and 400 were expected to attend from
Evansville. Evansville College became the University
of Evansville. MJ
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If you were one of many who
strolled into Franklin Lanes during
bowling’s heyday of the '60s '70s and
'80s, you may recall the top keglers
in the Tri--State going toe-to toe
in the local scratch leagues in the
evenings.
It would not take long for fans
to gather behind the lanes when a
tall, pencil thin, long-armed bowler
displayed his perfect form. That man
was Jim Vaughn, also known in the
local bowling world as “Spider”. Jim
passed away recently and will be
remembered by teammates and foes
as the top bowler in Evansville for
decades.
In reminiscing about Jim, you
need to remember that at that time,
bowling was covered on radio. The
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Everyone Knew the Spider
by Mark Senzell
“play-by-play" announcer would
move up and down the Franklin
Lanes concourse to cover the best
match, which often involved Jim
Vaughn.
A west-sider, Jim graduated
from Reitz, was involved with the
West Side Nut Club and honed
his legendary bowling skills from an
early age at Franklin.
As a competitor facing a Jim
Vaughn-led team, you felt you had
a chance to beat him if Spider started
with 3, 4 or 5 strikes in a row.
That may seem strange, but bowlers
are a different breed and the saying
around the lanes goes “If a guy starts
fast, he won’t last long” But that
wasn’t true with Vaughn,.
During Jim’s prime, teams
dressed sharply in full uniform, with
color-coordinated slacks and bowling
shirts. Guys like Fred Schroeder
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Mort Bennett, Irv Senzell, Franklin
Lanes proprietor Russ Neathery,
Gene Bunge, Oscar Bohn, and John
Carmack, among others, were also
among the local icons at the time.
Honors to Jim came in droves
during his career as he won multiple
Bowler of the Year honors.
The Evansville Bowling Hall of Fame
came calling as Jim continued to fill
his personal trophy case.
Mr. Vaughn’s sportsmanship
and skill set made his teammates and
opponents better, and he would generously
share tips — when asked —
with others. Bowling was extensively
covered in the media. The Press All-
Star Scratch League was featured
weekly with standings, high games
and stories about league play.
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Teams sponsored by local businesses
like Terminix, Thin Twin
Potato Chips, Double Cola and
Good Time Refreshments featured
top-notch keglers like Reitz (and
Lilly King’s) swim coach Dave
Baumeyer, Keith Hammonds, Bernie
Carlisle, Mike Huff, Boonville's
Dick Hullett, banker George Forgy,
Ron Clem and retired EVSC guys
Danny Hartz and Tim Jones, among
many others.
In Jim Vaughn's era of success,
there were seasons when only a single
bowler carried a 200+ average
and the man with the most was –
you guessed it – Jimmy. In 1977,
Jim finished the 105-game season
averaging 203, followed by Franklin
Lanes current proprietor Dave King
and Larry Richardson at 197. Spare
shooting and ball speed were the
skills that the top players of this era
practiced and executed.
If you were fortunate enough to
cross lanes with Spider, as a rival or
a teammate, you considered yourself
in rare air. His long-time teammates
like Walt Hatcher, Ron Fulton, Jerry
Fuchs and Tommy VanBritson,
knew they had the top guy in the
leadoff spot!
Evansville has been blessed with
many great bowlers over the years,
and there are still some top-notch
keglers at our area’s bowling centers.
But there are very few on the short
list of the greatest bowlers ever, and
without question, Jim Vaughn is one
of them! MJ
Social Security Update
How to Reach Social Security During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Released by Charo Boyd, Social Security Public Affairs Specialist
During the current coronavirus pandemic, we continue
to provide help to you and other people in your
communities. While our offices are not providing service
to walk-in visitors due to COVID-19, we remain ready
and able to help you by phone with most Social Security
business. You can speak with a representative by calling
your local Social Security office or our National 800
Number. You can find local office phone numbers online
by using our Social Security Office Locator at www.ssa.
gov/locator.
We offer many secure and convenient online services
at www.ssa.gov/onlineservices, where you can:
• Apply for Retirement, Disability, and Medicare
benefits;
• Check the status of an application or appeal;
• Request a replacement Social Security card (in
most areas);
• Print a benefit verification letter; and
• Much more.
Although you can do most of your business with
us online, we know that service channel isn’t right for
everyone. You can still count on us by phone. If you have
a critical situation and we cannot help you by phone or
online, we may be able to schedule an appointment for
you.
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you in person. Call us now and get the help you need.
We also understand that getting medical and other
documentation can be difficult due to the pandemic, so
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During the early years of WWII, there was a community
of people who lived under the Franklin Street
Bridge. The only homes they had were shacks made from
driftwood that was found floating in the Pigeon Creek
after flooding and high water.
At the age of 8, I spent a lot of time in this area with
my uncle, Bob Johnson, who was frequently called the
“Mayor of Pigeon Creek” by Evansville police and then
Mayor Frank McDonald. I would help my uncle gather
driftwood and he would build shacks and charge rent to
other people. This was an exciting time for an 8-year-old
boy.
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Bob Johnson was a stately looking gentleman with
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be seen walking down Franklin Street with his walking
stick. Many people from that area knew that he usually
had a few dollars in his pocket, and some even tried to
rob him. Unfortunately, some were shot by Bob’s “horse
pistol”, as he called it. Bob Johnson was arrested a total
of 5 times for allegedly shooting people. The shootings
often involved collecting rent from one of his driftwood
shanties in an area called Shanty Town. One indictment
was even a charge of second-degree murder. Bob was later
found innocent by a Circuit-Court jury. His actions did
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This iconic home was built on
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In the mid-1980s, native son Matt
Williams wrote a sitcom, along
with the actress who would eventually
star in the show. It centered
around a blue-collar couple with
their children and extended family
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of examples for a young boy, by
today’s standards, he did provide lifelong
memories and stories of exciting
times on Pigeon Creek. MJ
finally catch up with him, however.
In March of 1957, Bob Johnson, the
Mayor of Pigeon Creek, was sentenced
to 1-10 years in the Indiana
State Prison for his conviction of
assault and battery with intent to
kill. Bob was 81 years old.
My Uncle Bob died not long
after going to prison. While he may
not have been the most wholesome
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on the side of the majority, it
is time to pause and reflect.
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Hoosiers of Note: Joyce DeWitt
by Barbara Brown Meyer
JOYCE DEWITT
was born the second of
four daughters to her
parents in Speedway,
Indiana in 1949. She is
of Italian descent on her
mother's side.
While she was
attending high school,
she competed in many
speech debates, which she excelled at. After earning a
Bachelor’s Degree in Theater from Ball State University,
she promptly moved out to California and earned a
Master's Degree from the University of California.
This actress is best known for her role on the television
series Three's Company, co-starring John Ritter
and Suzanne Sommers. The show had a great run from
1979-1984, although there here had been persistent
rumors that "there was no love lost" between DeWitt
and Sommers through the years. By all accounts, a good
deal of friction on the set was because Sommers' husband,
trying to act as her agent, felt that her salary should
be much higher than that of her co-stars. Actually, he
was quoted as saying that his wife deserved to be paid as
much as major men stars like Larry Hagman, Alan Alda
and Carroll O'Conner.
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agreed to be a guest
on The Suzanne
Sommers Show, and
their reunion was
very emotional as
they each took the
time to apologize
on the air for things
said and done back
then.
As soon as that
show ended, Joyce
appeared in an episode
of Finder of
Lost Loves, after
which she suddenly
decided to quit
acting for several years. In 1991 she resumed her acting
career. In 1995 she was in a television comedy film called
Spring Fling. She also made cameo appearances in the
Cybil television series and in Living Single, Nick at Nite,
and Call of the Wild.
In 2003 she produced Behind the Cameras, an unauthorized
story about little-known facts about Three's
Company.
As of 2011, DeWitt was starring in the play "Miss
Abagail's Guide To Dating" in New York City. She
also hosted The International Awards Ceremony at the
White House for the Presidential End Hunger Awards
and later co-hosted with actor Jeff Bridges, The World
Food Day Gala which was held at The Kennedy Center.
According to her biography profile, she became very
involved in charity work for homeless people. She went
so far as to appear on Capitol Hill at one time to speak
to members of The House and Senate on Hunger & The
Homeless.
This delightful little gal from the State of Indiana
also did guest appearances in such shows as Barretta,
Most Wanted, With This Ring, The Ropers, Super Train,
The Love Boat, The Bernstein Bears, Living Single, and
Hope Island. Not bad for a delightful little girl from
Indiana. MJ

1. You will receive a body. You
may like it or hate it, but it will be
yours for the entire period this time
around.
2. You will learn lessons. You
are enrolled in a full-time informal
school called Life. Each day in this
school you will have the opportunity
to learn lessons. You may like the
lessons or think them irrelevant and
stupid.
3. There are no mistakes,
only lessons. Growth is a process
of trial and error experimentation.
The “failed” experiments are as
much a part of the process as the
experiment that ultimately works.
4. A lesson is repeated until
learned. A lesson will be presented to
you in various forms until you have
learned it; you can then move on to
the next lesson.
5. Learning lessons does not
end. There is no part of life that does
not contain lessons. If you are alive,
there are lessons to be learned.
6. “There” is not better than
“here”. When your “there” has
become a “here,” you will simply
obtain another “there” that will
again look better than “here.”
7. What you make of life is up
to you. You have all the tools and
resources you need. What you do
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with them is up to you. The choice is
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8. Your answers lie inside you.
The answers to Life’s questions lie
inside you. All you need to do is look,
listen and trust.
9. You will forget all this.
10. You can remember it whenever
you want.
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For Mensa
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Here are the winners of the
Washington Post's Mensa
Invitational, which once again asked
readers to take any word from the dictionary,
alter it by adding, subtracting,
or changing one letter, and supplying
a new definition.
The 2006 winners were:
Cashtration (n.): The act of buying
(or building) a house, which renders
the subject financially impotent for an
indefinite period of time.
Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a
tax refund, which lasts until you realize
that it was your money to start
with.
Reintarnation: Coming back to life
as a hillbilly.
Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding
stupid people that stops bright
ideas from penetrating. The bozone
layer, unfortunately, shows little sign
of breaking down in the near future.
Sarchasm: The gulf between the
author of sarcastic wit and the person
who doesn't get it.
Decafalon: (n.): The grueling event
of getting through the day consuming
only things that are good for you.
Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid
ideas to seem smarter when they
come at you rapidly.
Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn
after finding half a worm in the fruit
you're eating.
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When I first became an attorney in
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the distribution of a person’s probate
assets upon their passing. Today, assets
can be distributed at death in other
non-probate ways.
As to real estate, there are several
ways non-probate transfers can occur.
Many clients establish revocable living
trusts and/or irrevocable trusts in
which they deed real estate into these
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Another common method for transfer
of Indiana real estate is a Transfer on
Death Deed. This is a document that is
recorded like a normal deed; but transfers,
if owned at death, the real estate
to the named beneficiaries or backup
beneficiaries if any are pre-deceased
according to the terms of the Transfer
on Death Deed. Real estate can be
owned jointly with rights of survivorship
that passes automatically to the
surviving owner (s) upon death as well.
Also, many times a family member will
transfer by deed a “remainder interest”
in real estate to their heirs and retain
a “life estate”. The life estate interest
allows them to retain their full use and
possession of the real estate while they
are alive. Upon death, the life estate
holder’s interest is extinguished and
the remainder interest owners now
own the real estate outright.
As to financial accounts, they can
be jointly owned such as joint checking
or a savings account. Typically,
they will transfer automatically to the
surviving joint owner on that account.
Likewise, a person can also put a POD/
TOD (Payable/Transfer on Death)
designation on any financial accounts
which is form and by contract controls
who receives these funds at death of
the account owner. The POD/TOD
designation only transfers upon death,
and the person would not have access
to this account merely because the
person is listed as a beneficiary on
this account. This is similar to the
beneficiary forms used on life insurance
policies, annuities, and retirement
accounts to name beneficiaries.
Any assets solely (not jointly held) in
the name of the decedent and that
do not have beneficiaries listed will
be probate assets and the distribution
will be controlled by the Last Will and
Testament of the decedent; if no Will
is executed; then Indiana law has a distribution
statute on how a decedent’s
estate is distributed in the absence of
a Will.
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The
Cooking
Corner
By Jancey Smith
Spaghetti Sandwich!?
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Our Navy girl came home on
leave recently. She wanted to go to
the fair and be home for the 4th
of July. These are important dates
in our county, especially if you're
young, so I burned some vacation
days and got the house and pantry
ready for the onslaught. I warned
the hubby, "You know they'll all be
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coming." He nodded and knew that
he was enjoying "the quiet before
the storm," of grandkids running
around like little Tasmanian devils
with family and friends nearby. And
it was definitely an occasion when I
(we) would be cooking.
Before the girl had made plane
reservations, I got a message that
said, "Can we make this when I'm
home?" It showed a recipe and picture
of a loaf of bread stuffed with
spaghetti. I was intrigued, but the
hubby, not so much. The youngest
son was all for it because he's the
creator of the spaghetti sandwich.
(The hubby was amazed at this one,
me, not so much. This boy will put
anything between two slices of bread
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— almost.) Of course, I told her that
braided spaghetti bread would be
fine and put the ingredients on my
shopping list.
We picked her up at the airport
one sunny afternoon and asked if
she'd like to go eat somewhere . . . but
no, she wanted to go home . . . by way
of Taco Tierra. She said, "I've had 4
hours on a plane to think about this,
and I know just what I want. There
are taco spots on every corner in San
Diego, but none of them are like
“Taco T", as we call it, so I was not
surprised at all.
A few days later we made that
spaghetti bread. (The hubby was not
a fan.) It's best to thaw the dough
and make the sauce a day ahead so
you can just assemble and bake. I
must say it was interesting. It wasn't
hard to roll out the bread, spoon
on cooked spaghetti and layer on
sauce. However, the humidity that
day was just plain stupid, so the
cheese chunks stuck to my knife
and fingers, but, after all, it was the
Midwest during summer. The dough
braided over the spaghetti easily. But
here is where I deviated from the
recipe. I didn't want to mess with an
egg wash, so I melted garlic butter
to spread over the top. It was tasty,
I must say, but the bottom was just
a tad soggy. Since I always make a
thick pasta sauce, I had to figure the
butter soaked into the bottom of the
bread. Maybe I should follow directions??
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Recipe of the Month
Braided Spaghetti Bread
Ingredients:
1 loaf frozen bread, thawed to room temperature
6 ounces spaghetti, cooked
1 cup thick spaghetti sauce (or more if desired)
8 ounces mozzarella cheese, cut into cubes
1 egg white, beaten
Parmesan cheese
Directions:
Spray counter lightly with non-stick cooking spray.
Roll loaf into a 12x16-inch rectangle. Cover with plastic
wrap and let rest 10-15 minutes.
Cook spaghetti according to package instructions.
Drain and let cool slightly. Remove wrap from dough.
Place spaghetti lengthwise in a 4-inch strip down
center of dough. Top with sauce and cheese cubes. Make
cuts 1 1/2-inches apart on long sides of dough to within
1/2-inch of filling.
Begin braid by folding top and bottom strips toward
filling. Then braid strips left over right, right over left.
Finish by pulling last strip over and tucking under braid.
Lift braid with both hands and place on a large, sprayed
baking sheet. Brush with egg white and sprinkle with
parmesan cheese and parsley. Bake at 350°F 30-35 minutes
or until golden brown. Cool slightly and slice to
serve. MJ
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The thirty words can be divided into six groups of five related
words. (Ex: planets, baseball teams, U.S. states)After you
have found the thirty words, the unused letters, when read
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Double Trouble
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The pairs of letters below will fit into the squares of
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American Legends
Who represented Tennessee in the
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and from 1833 to 1835?
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D. Davy Crockett
Baseball
What letter is used to represent a
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A. B B. S C. K D. O
Entertainers
What ventriloquist had puppets
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and Charlie Horse?
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What musical place "could be
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C. Barcelona D. 4th & Vine
Comedy Classics
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C. Laugh-In D. Hee Haw
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Maturity Journal
Yesterdays Remembered
What Do I Do During a Pandemic!?
I am sure you all know that we
are enduring possibly the worst period
of our lifetime. I am old, and I
can’t remember ever being holed up
in my own living room for months
at a time. I really don’t have any
place I want to go, but I hate being
told that I can’t go anywhere; that
bothers me. All of our bus trips have
been cancelled, so I obviously had to
come up with some sort of a plan to
pass the time.
My first plan was to drag out the
old Singer and make some masks.
The fabric store gave me a free yard
of ugly fabric. But free is good, so I
didn’t complain. Since my daughter
and Dixie joined me in wearing the
masks, we appeared to be the Three
Musketeers, only with ugly masks.
Dixie lost hers and I’m not sure that
she didn’t throw the hideous thing
away. Since you couldn’t buy an inch
of elastic to use for the straps, I
found some old panties in the rag
bag and carefully removed the elastic
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from the waist
line and used
it make the straps for the masks. No
one asked where I got the elastic, and
naturally I didn’t tell them.
In the olden days of my young
married life, I would work on things
for my sons. I would knit stocking
caps for winter, and when the neighbor
boys found out where they got
them, I began knitting caps for many
of the boys that hung out with my
sons. But since the weather here has
been in the 90-degree range, knitting
caps didn’t seem to make sense.
I soon began making slip covers
for my furniture. At that time in my
life I had never had a new sofa, but
I could certainly make a cover for
any old piece of junk that I had and
pretend it was a new sofa.
I never made quilts — I once
told my mother that it didn’t make
sense to cut up fabric in little pieces
just to sew them together again. But,
I learned how to quilt flowered fabric
and make bedspreads.
I began looking around for more
chores. Liz and I emptied the entire
cabinets and repositioned everything.
We used our stimulus check
to double buy everything and then
struggled to find a place to put 4
boxes of cereal or 2 boxes of pancake
mix or, worse yet, 50 pounds of meat
from Dewig’s.
Fortunately for us, the peaches
ripened and I did some canning.
Corn soon followed. I purchased
6 dozen ears of corn at the market
and cut the kernels from the cob to
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put in the freezer. I shared that bounty with Dixie and
soon our freezers were bulging. I bought a new freezer
in May, however the store advised me that it would not
be available until August. (It seems the pandemic hit
the factory, causing it to shut down temporarily.) That
monstrosity was delivered July 24, giving me room to
begin placing more food in storage. I also discovered the
delightful product called peach salsa and I became an ace
at making that stuff. Yum, Yum!
Then came the tomatoes. With all the rain, the
tomatoes are going nuts. Liz and I have canned 30 pints,
made salsa, and have eaten as many as we can.
When I mention Liz, I need to tell you that this
girl had never canned anything in her life, and what a
surprise it was for her to help me put the lids on a hot
pint of tomatoes and then the ring. She was so surprised
when the jars began to “ping” indicating that they were
sealed. Then, of course, she had to find a place to store
the jars! Thank God for bedspreads that will hide the
stash of canned goods stored under the bed.
I couldn’t mention canning without talking about
cucumbers. A friend of mine gave me a recipe for freezer
pickles. I couldn’t imagine. But believe me, they are
delightful. I had originally had about 36 small jars of
those, but I have given several of them away. You cannot
imagine how they were accepted. They are delicious!
Well, after all the kitchen slavery, I needed to find
something else to do, so I decided to find another chore.
How about writing my story for Maturity Journal. So,
I wrote the September story that you are reading. But, I
still had time on my hands. So…..I wrote the October
story.
Then the November story.
Then the December one.
And I have an unfinished novel on another program
on this machine, and maybe I will work on it next. In the
interim, I continued to look for something to occupy my
time. I just wish I could think of more to do that doesn’t
require hard or hot work. But, I worry that winter will be
worse than the virus and I still will need to be occupied.
We have even explored the fad of‘painting rocks.
If you haven’t seen the evidence of this latest craze, I
will try to explain. I first discovered this beautiful rock
with a precious little bird painted on it outside a hotel
in West Virginia as we traveled to Washington D.C. In
Charleston I watched teenagers search through a park
for something. When I asked a few questions, I discovered
that this was their new trend. I also talked with a
fellow traveler on our bus and he explained that he lives
by a park in Illinois and he watches the same kind of
‘searchers’ from his porch swing at home. So, I felt that
it couldn’t be too hard to do if I followed the instructions.
Well, we went to Ollie’s (an interesting store) and
purchased three kits of “how to paint rocks” and stored
them away. That was 3 months ago. Lately a neighbor
had a visitor from South Dakota who stated that she
and her neighbor were going to do crafts. I asked if they
wanted to paint rocks, and I received the quizzical look
that you might expect – but when I produced the kits,
they were delighted. I wish them luck since we never got
around to exploring the opportunity as I had envisioned.
Well, it appears that we are going to be quarantined
again until perhaps “My Blue Moon turns to Gold”
as the old song said. I will continue to search for more
things to do. And, I trust that those of you who like to
read, will continue to browse through my list and send
me an order for one or more of them. I really need the
$$$$ to buy more rocks!
One of these days, these trying times may be one of
my “YESTERDAYS REMEMBERED”. MJ
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• stuff a miniature marshmallow in the
bottom of a sugar cone to prevent ice
cream drips.
• use a meat baster to “squeeze” your
pancake batter onto the hot griddle
and you’ll get perfectly shaped pancakes
every time.
• to keep potatoes from budding, place
Maturity Journal
Things Mom Didn’t Tell Me
Submitted by Irene Cullen, MJ reader
an apple in the bag with the potatoes.
• to prevent eggshells from cracking,
add a pinch of salt to the water before
hard-boiling.
• run your hands under cold water
before pressing Rice Krispies treats in
the pan and the marshmallow won’t
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• to get the most juice out of fresh lemons,
bring them to room temperature
and roll them under your palm against
the kitchen counter before squeezing.
• to easily remove burnt-on food from
your skillet, simply add a drop or two
of dish soap and enough water to cover
the bottom of the pan. Then bring to a
boil on the stovetop.
• spray your Tupperware with nonstick
cooking spray before pouring in
tomato-based sauces and there won’t
be any stains.
• when a cake recipe calls for flouring
the baking pan, use a bit of the dry cake
mix instead and there won’t be any
white mess on the outside of the cake.
• if you accidentally over-salt a dish
while it’s still cooking, drop in a peeled
potato and it will absorb the excess salt
for an instant “fix me up”.
• wrap celery in aluminum foil when
putting in the refrigerator and it will
keep for weeks.
• place a slice of apple in hardened
brown sugar to soften it.
• when boiling corn on the cob, add
a pinch of sugar to help bring out the
corn’s natural sweetness.
• to determine whether an egg is fresh,
immerse it in a pan of cool salted
water. If it sinks, it is fresh, but if it rises
to the surface, throw it away.
• Cure for headaches: Rub a half-lime
on your forehead and the throbbing
will go away.
• don’t throw out all leftover wine.
Freeze into ice cubes for future use in
casseroles and sauces.
• potatoes will take food stains off your
fingers. Just slice and rub a raw potato
on the stains and rinse with water.
• to get rid of an itch from mosquito
bites, try applying soap on the area and
you will find instant relief.
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