By: Stan Jordan
We finished using a story from Wikipedia about the big Pentagon in Washington D.C. it is considered the biggest office building in the world. Now we are going to do a story on the remodeling of the White House in Washington in the late 1940’s and 50’s when Harry S. Truman was president.
Now please turn your attention to the above picture inside the White House in D.C. This is going on in the capital, right down to the wires. You can see that remodeling the entire building is a major undertaking.
Harry Truman was president, but he had to live in a place called The Blair House up the street, but I don’t think that was too big of a deal as Harry would go for a walk each morning anyhow and sometimes would take a number of people with him.
Harry Truman was a common man. He wasn’t a lawyer, in fact he didn’t go to college. He was a captain in the artillery in WWI. After he came home, he was in the mens clothing business and then he dabbled in politics and was elected vice president for Franklin D. Roosevelt. He didn’t want to be president, but he done a fine job when he was called.
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On Our Wild Life
By: Stan Jordan
I got a message the other day from Debbie Hayden over on the Gar Creek Road in the Woodburn area. She had seen a snowy owl the last four days within a quarter mile of her house.
I am very glad to hear from her or anyone in that area. There must be a snowy owl nest in that area. Usually that is about where they are reported to be.
This morning, the 17th of January, Van Hanenkratt, the United Parcel driver, was telling me that over on the dam on the Auglaize River, there was 12 eagles of all ages eating fish at the base of the dam. That is the largest group that has ever been reported to me. I also talked with Greg Goode who works for Cooper Farms and he also knows about that group of eagles.
I have never read this, but I think that the eagles are more family-oriented than some writers tell us. I think they leave the nest still in good relations with the parents that last for at least a couple of years, now that’s my own thinking.
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Old Number 9
Teacher: Maria, go to the map and find North America.
Maria: Here it is
Teacher: Correct. Now class, who discovered America?
Class: Maria
Teacher: Glenn, how do you spell ‘crocodile’?
Glenn: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L
Teacher: No, that’s wrong.
Glenn: Maybe it is wrong, but you asked me how I spell it.
Teacher: Donald, what is the chemical formula for water?
Donald: H I J K L M N O
Teacher: What are you talking about?
Donald: Yesterday you said it’s H to O
Teacher: Clyde, your composition on “My Dog” is exactly the same as your brother’s. Did you copy his?
Clyde: No sir, it’s the same dog.
Teacher: Harold, what do you call a person who keeps on talking when people are no longer interested?
Harold: A teacher
Q: When was beef the highest?
A: When the cow jumped over the moon.
Q: What do you call a cow that just had a baby?
A: De-calf-inated
Q: What is a cow’s favorite lunch meat?
A: Bull-ogna
Q: What do you call sleeping bull?
A: Bull-dozer
Q: What do you call a worthless bull?
A: A bum steer
Q: Where do cows go for lunch?
A: The calf – eteria
Q: What does a cow wear to a football game?
A: A jersey
Q: What is a stock holder?
A: A corral for cattle
This corner
By: Stan Jordan
As I sit here at my desk and look out this famous window at the corner of old US 24 and Antwerp’s North Main St, my memory goes all the way back to 1930. This corner is just full of memories.
I can remember back in 1930 this corner, where the West Bend News sits, was a big clothing store, owned and operated by Tom Foster. He sold out and the building was torn down and a number of businesses have been on the corner over the years. It was a gasoline station and barber shop a couple of times, that is back in the 1930’s before WWII.
There was a small restaurant up along North Main Street called Sunny Corner, operated by Mrs. Eddie Gordon.
Then right after WWII Carl and Wilber Langham had the whole corner as a Chrysler–Plymouth dealership. After Carl’s death, Wilber and Tony were in business here. Then a little while later the west end of the building was once a bakery, a sweet shop, a kids rec room, and home for one of the fire trucks. About this same time the east end of the building was a flower shop out by North Main Street.
About in the late 1960’s the building was sold and demolished and Standard Oil had a gasoline station here, operated by Mr. Tresslar, then Gale Jordan, then Mike Altic and later it was torn down as a gas station and has been a used car lot a couple of times.
The West Bend News had their first issue in the building in August of 2005.
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