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For Christian American readers of this blog:


I wish to incite all Christians to rise up and take back the United States of America with all of God's manifold blessings. We want the free allowance of the Bible and prayers allowed again in schools, halls of justice, and all governing bodies. We don't seek a theocracy until Jesus returns to earth because all men are weak and power corrupts the very best of them.
We want to be a kinder and gentler people without slavery or condescension to any.

The world seems to be in a time of discontent among the populace. Christians should not fear. God is Love, shown best through Jesus Christ. God is still in control. All Glory to our Creator and to our God!


A favorite quote from my good friend, Jack Plymale, which I appreciate:

"Wars are planned by old men,in council rooms apart. They plan for greater armament, they map the battle chart, but: where sightless eyes stare out, beyond life's vanished joys, I've noticed,somehow, all the dead and mamed are hardly more than boys(Grantland Rice per our mutual friend, Sarah Rapp)."

Thanks Jack!

I must admit that I do not check authenticity of my posts. If anyone can tell me of a non-biased arbitrator, I will attempt to do so more regularly. I know of no such arbitrator for the internet.











Monday, November 14, 2011

Clay Softball Excellence- Carol and Clay vice

The pictures show a few of the excellent Clay area softball girls with Carol and Clay Vice.  These are probably the best performance teams from the area in any sports activity. These pictures were in my "Excellence in Athletics in the Portsmouth Area" book.   I just ran across them in searching my books.




My latest book "Acquaintances with Integrity II"(2011) should be available shortly on Kindle-Amazon and I will be trying to get other books like Excellence on a little later. They come to you quickly for your e-readers and are much less expensive.





Back: Clay Vice, Kellie Vice, Kris Vice, Teresa Ruby, Carol Vice

Front: Mindy Winters, Beth McCullough





Carol coached the Clay High School softball team from 1978 to 1988. Clay was also her softball sidekick.  Their remarkable record was 262 wins and only 20 losses (93%). Highlights include:

3 State Championships

3 State semi-finalist teams

2 State Runner-up teams

and 8 regional championships

And their Clay Little League and Senior league teams were also excellent. The Clay Senior League All Stars advanced to the 1978 World Series in Baxter, Kansas and finished fourth in the tournament.

Beth McCullough summarized this information which I have paraphrased a little.


Carol was inducted into Ohio High School's Softball Hall of Fame A couple of years ago.

Please show a little love to these outstanding coaches, Carol and Clay, and to any of their Clay girls for bringing girls' softball fame to our area when you see them!


And they are both really nice people!  

SamKat aka Sam Kegley

Who the heck was Kilroy? Thanks Clay Vice!


I wish somebody would draw me their best Kilroy.

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For the WWII generation, this will bring back memories. For you younger folks, it's a bit of trivia that is a part of our history.



Anyone born in the teens, twenties, and mid-thirties, is familiar with Kilroy. We didn't know why, but we had lapel pins with his nose hanging over the label and the top of his face above his nose with his hands hanging over the label too. I believe it was orange colored. No one knew why he was so well known, but we all joined in!



WHO THE HECK WAS KILROY?



In 1946 the American Transit Association, through its radio program, "Speak to America ," sponsored a nationwide contest to find the REAL Kilroy, offering a prize of a real trolley car to the person who could prove himself to be the genuine article.

Almost 40 men stepped forward to make that claim, but only James Kilroy from Halifax, Massachusetts , had evidence of his identity.

Kilroy was a 46-year old shipyard worker during the war who worked as a checker at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy . His job was to go around and check on the number of rivets completed. Riveters were on piecework and got paid by the rivet.



Kilroy would count a block of rivets and put a check mark in semi-waxed lumber chalk, so the rivets wouldn't be counted twice. When Kilroy went off duty, the riveters would erase the mark. Later on, an off-shift inspector would come through and count the rivets a second time, resulting in double pay for the riveters.



One day Kilroy's boss called him into his office. The foreman was upset about all the wages being paid to riveters, and asked him to investigate. It was then he realized what had been going on.

The tight spaces he had to crawl in to check the rivets didn't lend themselves to lugging around a paint can and brush, so Kilroy decided to stick with the waxy chalk. He continued to put his checkmark on each job he inspected, but added KILROY WAS HERE in king-sized letters next to the check, and eventually added the sketch of the chap with the long nose peering over the fence and that became part of the Kilroy message. Once he did that, the riveters stopped trying to wipe away his marks.



Ordinarily the rivets and chalk marks would have been covered up with paint. With war on, however, ships were leaving the Quincy Yard so fast that there wasn't time to paint them. As a result, Kilroy's inspection "trademark" was seen by thousands of servicemen who boarded the troopships the yard produced. His message apparently rang a bell with the servicemen, because they picked it up and spread it all over Europe and the South Pacific. Before war's end, "Kilroy" had been here, there, and everywhere on the long hauls to Berlin and Tokyo.



To the troops outbound in those ships, however, he was a complete mystery; all they knew for sure was that some jerk named Kilroy had "been there first." As a joke, U.S. servicemen began placing the graffiti wherever they landed, claiming it was already there when they arrived.

Kilroy became the U.S. super-GI who had always "already been" wherever GIs went. It became a challenge to place the logo in the most unlikely places imaginable (it is said to be atop Mt. Everest , the Statue of Liberty, the underside of l'Arc De Triomphe, and even scrawled in the dust on the moon).

As the war went on, the legend grew. Underwater demolition teams routinely sneaked ashore on Japanese-held islands in the Pacific to map the terrain for coming invasions by U.S. troops (and thus, presumably, were the first GI's there). On one occasion, however, they reported seeing enemy troops painting over the Kilroy logo! In 1945, an outhouse was built for the exclusive use of Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill at the Potsdam conference. Its' first occupant was Stalin, who emerged and asked his aide (in Russian), "Who is Kilroy?"

To help prove his authenticity in 1946, James Kilroy brought along officials from the shipyard and some of the riveters. He won the trolley car, which he gave to his nine children as a Christmas gift and set it up as a playhouse in the Kilroy front yard in Halifax , Massachusetts .

So, now you know!

Lexiphiles ... Thanks Pat richards Whitehead!




Lexiphiles

WHOEVER PUT THIS TOGETHER IS VERY CLEVER:



To write with a broken pencil is pointless.



When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate.



A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.



When the smog lifts in Los Angeles , U.C.L.A.



The professor discovered that her theory of

earthquakes was on shaky ground.



The batteries were given out free of charge.



A dentist and a manicurist married.

They fought tooth and nail.



A will is a dead giveaway.



If you don't pay your exorcist you can get repossessed.



With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.



Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft

and I'll show you A-flat miner.



You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.



Local Area Network in Australia :

The LAN down under.



A boiled egg is hard to beat.



When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.



Police were called to a day care center where

a three-year-old was resisting a rest.



Did you hear about the fellow whose whole

left side was cut off? He's all right now.



If you take a laptop computer for a run

you could jog your memory.



A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.



In a democracy it's your vote that counts;

in feudalism, it's your Count that votes.



When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.



The guy who fell onto an upholstery

machine was fully recovered.



He had a photographic memory which

was never developed.



Those who get too big for their britches

will be exposed in the end.



When she saw her first strands of gray hair,

she thought she'd dye.



Acupuncture: a jab well done.



And my old standby is:

The guy that fell into the glass making

machine made a spectacle of himself.

Thanks for forty-six birthday greetings-

I am not great at using Facebook, but I was overwhelmed yesterday with birthday greetings from mostly Facebook friends.  Socially, the internet brings back good friends of Jeanie's and mine.  Thanks to all.  I am 79 now.

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