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George's Tid Bits
by George Capron
The
following are excerpts from some of the calls that George received during
his radio show on WBRV-WLLG The Moose, as well as observations he made on
the air during the week of June 18th, 2007:
- MONDAY, JUNE 18: Best wishes for
a happy 47th anniversary to Fred and Elaine Kline of Boonville, from
Gary, Deb, and grandson Riley. Butch and Donna Smith of Lowville
celebrate their 41st anniversary, with love from sister Dorothy, Gary,
Angel, and Haley. Bertha Norton of Lowville counts up 80 candles on her
birthday cake, with best wishes from her friends and family. At 10 p.m.
this evening, 75 years ago, a leak in the Feeder Canal, near what is now
the swimming pool in Erwin Park, carved a crater 75 feet deep. It was
later determined that a water pipe was driven through the canal side
wall, starting the leak. In 1990 at 10:25 a.m., it became so dark
because of thick clouds, that the street lights in the village turned
on. The incoming storm brought 40 mph winds and .50” of rain. Former
Beatle Paul McCartney was born in Liverpool, England, 65 years ago
today.
- TUESDAY, JUNE 19: Charlotte
Fairgrounds in North Carolina was the location of the first NASCAR Grand
Nationals event in 1949. A crowd of 13,000 watched Jim Roper win the
race on the 3/4-mile dirt track. The Grand Nationals later became the
Winston Cup Series. America’s favorite lasagna loving cat, “Garfield,”
is 29 years old today. Baseball legend Lou Gehrig, who played in seven
World Series, was born in New York City in 1903. He died of a muscle
disease in New York on June 2, 1941.
- WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20: A sizable
rainfall was measured this morning when 1.74” was found in the rain
gauge at Merry Hill, the first good rain since June 8. Mark Ludwikowski
of Boonville, a Sgt. in the Marine Corps, serving in Iraq, reports the
high temperature today will hit 140 degrees and drop to a low of 90
degrees tonight. After a 47-year school bus driving career at Lowville
Academy, Richard P. Bush of Lowville retires today. It was estimated
that he has driven 832,000 miles, transporting 675,000 students to and
from school. Good job, Dick! In 1977, crude oil from Prudhoe Bay in
Alaska started its 800-mile journey to Valdez by way of the trans-Alaska
pipeline. The pipeline took three years to build at a cost of $8 billion
and was privately funded. Singer Anne Murray was born in Springhill,
Nova Scotia, Canada, 62 years ago. In 1975, Steven Spielberg’s
blockbuster movie, Jaws,” opened today, being nominated for an Academy
Award and won three Oscars. An original member of the “Beach Boys”
singing group, Brian Wilson, was born in Hawthorne, California, 65 years
ago.
- THURSDAY, JUNE 21:
Congratulations to Jim and Andrea Miller of Port Leyden on the birth
yesterday of a son, Liam Michael, from the Ventura and Domagala
families. Bob and Elma Freeman of the Spencer Road, Boonville, celebrate
their 55th anniversary today, with best wishes from Aunt Evelyn. Record
collectors may appreciate that Columbia Records introduced the 33 1/3
long playing record albums today in 1948 and are they still available in
limited supplies. It was five years ago this morning when the new
flagpole in the Little Village Park was erected, climaxing a successful
fund-raising effort. Johnny Cash released his very first single Sun
Record, “Hey Porter,” in 1955.
- FRIDAY, JUNE 22: This area was
under a severe thunderstorm warning last evening, but the unsettled
weather passed us by with a small amount of rain. My rain gauge in the
village collected .10” with Merry Hill measuring the most at .29”. The
maximum wind was only 21 mph at 5:01 p.m. Yesterday, on the first day of
summer, Denver International Airport in Colorado, at 1:26 p.m. set an
all-time high temperature of 99 degrees, breaking the old record of 98
degrees from 1922. In 2003, the largest hailstone ever measured was
produced from a super-cell thunderstorm over Aurora, Nebraska. It
measured 7 inches in diameter, with a circumference of 18.7”.
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