Oh, Kentucky

Good jobs news from Campbellsville and Chavies.

Hiring in Clinton (for a full-time secretary for the Hickman County schools guidance counselor).

The Price Is Right and, this October, live from Rupp.

Greetings from Paducah (maybe Stanley Kubrick visited the Paducah City Hall, designed by Edward Durell Stone and completed in 1964, before figuring out 2001: A Space Odyssey):

Happy 80th to "a Covington hot spot."

Fifty years of hospitality in Liberty.

The African American Coalition of Hopkins County is, at last.

About 16 percent of all Kentuckians are said to be deaf or hard of hearing.

Christmas parades: Murray, Dec. 1, and Henderson and Scottsville, Dec. 7.

Oh, Kentucky

#Raptors coach Dwane Casey was attending an all-Black school in racially segregated small town in Kentucky when MLK was assassinated. #MLKDay pic.twitter.com/MsFo15aKKw

— Gianina (@giaplusnina) January 15, 2018

23rd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Walk - Cadiz https://t.co/j0bSSAKjeH

— WKDZ Radio (@WKDZ) January 15, 2018

Today in my hometown, Owensboro, Kentucky @visitowensboro the @sozochildren choir was part of a MLK celebration worship service. This awesome choir was rehearsing prior to the service. It includes our Sheriff, Mayor, my 9th grade science teacher etc #thistownrocks #obky pic.twitter.com/tDJpgehPcM

— Jon Brennan (@jonbrennan_com) January 15, 2018

Lexington, UK celebrate MLK Day with downtown march and program: https://t.co/y5z4AefHVu pic.twitter.com/1x3JCNT2N4

— Kentucky Kernel (@KyKernel) January 15, 2018

Kentucky's most recently formed public library is in McLean County, created six years ago, and now it's among the first three in the state to participate in Library Economic Advantage Forum collaboration, reports Rhonda Miller with WKU Public Radio.

Channel 6, hacking off the rest of the Mississippi River counties.

Oh, Kentucky

Rest in peace, Mahin Ashki, who left Iran to attend the University of Louisville in 1976; married a friend to stay in the United States; divorced, remarried a naturalized U.S. citizen from Iran and had two girls; at some point moved to Lexington and then moved to California for better chances of avoiding deportation because she said she feared torture back in her native country, and was struck by a semi truck and killed Tuesday. She was 58.

ICYMI, here's the aerial view of where our new stadium will be situated along Alumni Dr. pic.twitter.com/qb2KvSehsO

— Kentucky Baseball (@UKBaseball) November 4, 2016

Bardstown has a giant mess on its hands.

Oldham has joined Woodford as the Kentucky counties with the lowest unemployment rate; Magoffin still has lowest all to itself, but (!) ...

GOOD JOBS NEWS FROM SALYERSVILLE!

And Georgetown.

Kentucky is in bad need of commercial vehicle enforcement officers.

It looks like Mike Fields is having a blast in his work at the KHSAA, and I hope he is. Here's a fun feature on the former football coach at Washington County High (and one of Fields's classmates at Bardstown Saint Joseph). As Go Heath previously reported, the #khsfb playoffs are underway.

I love coffee cake! Kentucky for sale:

Pancake breakfast all-day Election Day at Midway Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) ("Donations Accepted!!")

Christmas parades: Owensboro, Nov. 19; Bardstown, Dec. 1 (or maybe Dec. 2); Richmond, Dec. 2; Berea, Glasgow and Madisonville, Dec. 3; Boyce and Owenton, Dec. 4, and Cave City, Elkton, Hopkinsville and Pikeville, Dec. 10.

Oh, Kentucky

We follow in the footsteps of many named and unnamed women who have steadily and faithfully spread the good news of Jesus Christ, and they have significantly impacted our church, our community, and the American culture.

Our founding mission was to provide young women with access to education at a time when education was mainly available to men. We have fulfilled that mission for 169 years and this decision will ensure that we continue to do so.

*If he/she says no at proposal, another winner will be drawn.

How great does that KET logo look on the @LexingtonLegend field? We are loving education day here! pic.twitter.com/6MV7A7Xjnu

— EducationKET (@EducationKET) May 25, 2016

The Berea chapter of Parents of Murdered Children is now meeting monthly at Glades Christian Church.

Bomb threats against Lexington's Wal-Marts are under investigation.

Louisville and Quebec are seeking to take their trading relationship to the next level.

The "Appalachian Homestead Act" sounds like a heck of a good idea to me. 

Per Mental Floss, Kentucky is the least-expensive U.S. state in which to live.

OK, this edition of the new "Kentucky for sale" feature has everything! Hoptown! Wall-to-wall carpeting, air conditioning, a pool, TV and a restaurant! Coffee and cake! Evansville! U.S. 41! Everything!

Oh, Kentucky

OK, look, Mr. Toy already knows about the Electric Prunes. And he doesn't want to hear your memories about the show at "Paduka" Tilghman. And he doesn't want to hear your wild theories about who might've been there just because they were at some other show or whatever ...

Here's what Mr. Toy wants to know.

In McCracken County, Williams goes wet, and Hendron stays dry.

Good jobs news from Bowling Green and Hopkinsville.

School funding is down, and black Louisville poverty is up.

Lessons? Learned.

Christmas parades: Hazard and Owensboro, Nov. 21; Ashland, Nov. 24; Russell Springs and Williamstown, Nov. 28; Lexington, Dec. 1; Louisa, Dec. 3; Central City, Harlan, Maysville, Shepherdsville, Smiths Grove and Walton, Dec. 4; Arlington, Bowling Green, Clinton, Frankfort, Grayson, Hopkinsville, Lawrenceburg, Leitchfield, Madisonville, Middlesboro, Morgantown, Munfordville, Murray, Paducah, Somerset and Winchester, Dec. 5; Hickman, Dec. 8, and Benton, Elizabethtown, Elkton, La Center, Nicholasville and Princeton, Dec. 12.

Great Moments: Jonny Quest

This could of course be a TV show review, but the fact is Jonny Quest was more than just a TV show.  It had a big influence on cartoons and culture.  And like a great moment it was here and gone in a flash.

Jonny Quest ran on prime time ABC for one season in 1964-1965.  The show had solid ratings and got solid critical support, but was cancelled none the less.  The only reason I can reasonably find is cost, but when you start to read about it I think the show was simply more than anyone who was involved in it could handle for more than a one season run.  As it is we are left with 26 brilliant episodes and a show that had a major impact on media and pop culture in the U.S. 

American Football Update, 1964: Let's Go to the Hall of Fame

The 1964 Pro Football Hall of Fame Game will pit the Baltimore Colts and Pittsburgh Steelers on Sept. 6. This will be the third Hall of Fame Game and second since the museum opened in Canton, Ohio, on Sept. 7, 1963. Chris Schenkel of Bippus, Ind., (who would later sleep through the terrorist attacks at the 1972 Summer Games in Munich, Germany) took us on a tour last season shortly after its opening ...

Did you see that Selectoslide around 9 minutes of that clip? Man, I might have to get me one of those things.

Previous reports:

-- 'Professional Football in Mid-America'

Football Update, 1964: 'Professional Football in Mid-America'

It's only Independence Day. But the A's are so bad and Kansas City's "zest and enthusiasm" for the second-year Chiefs is so great, that the locals are already thinking about the upcoming professional-football season.

Baseball Update, 1964

I am rooting for Pittsburgh.

Oh, Kentucky

Christmas in Appalachia, 1964:

Christmas in Laurel County, 2013.

In November, unemployment was highest in Leslie and lowest in Woodford among Kentucky's 120 counties.

"Let’s drop the pity for Appalachia once and for all."

The Benham Schoolhouse Inn is totally on my hope-to-visit list for 2014.

Good jobs news from Campbellsville and Hebron.

Beef boom.

A visit with Allen County's Old Order Mennonites.

New weapon in the war on drugs.

WKU has reportedly purchased from the ACT people the names of 83,000 test takers nationally, and the school is recruiting about half of them.

Christmas-parade reports: Bowling Green and Elkton.

Oh, Kentucky

The first Ebonite/KHSAA Bowling State Championships is underway today in Louisville. The corporate sponsor is more Main Street than Wall Street--to be precise, Ebonite is West Seventh Street.

Christian County is looking for its next Ebonite, Tangy Roots ... whatever ... take your best shot.

"In the United States, the verb to 'kick a{**}' - like the adjective, 'kick-a{**}' - is widely considered appropriate for general conversation. Nowhere is this better demonstrated than in Kentucky ..."

State of the Commonwealth (#SOTC).

Deregulating land-line service is back up for conversation in the General Assembly.

Lexington is getting a new Kroger, to replace Disco Kroger.

UPS is growing in Louisville.

Paradise lost.

UPIKE's long-time women's basketball coach plans to step down and mull potential challenges.

The ninth-annual Kentucky State Park Race Series is afoot.

The coaching parents who lost their 12-year-old son five years ago will be signing their book at the Marion Baptist Church this weekend.

Rest in peace, Mr. Silvey, who co-captained the 1964 Russellville High football Panthers, which lost to Elkhorn City in the Class A state championship.

U.S. Open Wrap-Up: Round 1

Thanks so much to Eric, who did a great job covering the first round of the National Open from the Olympic Club in San Francisco.

This club has featured an odd collection of U.S. Opens. The first Open held here was in 1955. Ben Hogan finished with 287, and was widely believed to have won his fifth National Open. But Jack Fleck, a municipal-course pro from Iowa, played the last four holes in two under par to force a playoff. Fleck then beat Hogan 69-72 in the playoff. Hogan never won another major tournament.

The second Open here was in 1966. This time Arnold Palmer had a seven-shot lead with only nine holes left. Amazingly, Palmer blew the entire lead with bogeys on 10, 13, 15, 16, and 17, and just barely parred 18 to force a playoff with Billy Casper. In the playoff, Palmer had a two-shot lead at the turn. But he collapsed on the back nine, and lost 69-73 to Casper. Palmer never won another major tournament.

The third Open here was in 1987. This turned into a battle between Scott Simpson (who won 7 tournaments in his PGA career) and Tom Watson (who won 39). Watson had a one-shot lead with nine holes to go. But Simpson overtook him down the stretch to win by one shot. Watson never won another major tournament.

The fourth Open here was in 1998. After three holes on Sunday, Payne Stewart led Lee Janzen by seven shots. But he blew the entire lead and eventually lost to Janzen by one shot. Remarkably, Stewart came right back and won the 1999 U.S. Open. However, he died in a tragic accident a few months later.

So now, as we approach the fifth Open at Olympic, I'm a little nervous about what will happen to Tiger Woods. On the other hand, it may help that Woods is a native Californian, that he played his college golf at Stanford, and that he's already won two National Opens in California. Certainly he looked like his old self today. But it should be a great tournament. The leaderboard after the first round is filled with big names -- although I've never heard of the leader. Michael Thompson, is a virtual unknown who currently ranks 90th in the Fed Ex Cup. He did reach the final of the 2007 U.S. Amateur, which was played at Olympic, and that probably helped him today. We will see if it helps him tomorrow.

Before we do the leaderboard, here is how the World's Top Ten golfers are doing. You can write off Donald, McIlroy, Bubba, and Dustin Johnson, but the others have a good chance:

1. L. Donald (ENG): +9

2. R. McIlroy (NIR): +7

3. L. Westwood (ENG): +3

4. T. Woods: -1

5. B. Watson: +8

6. M. Kuchar: Even

7. J. Rose (ENG): -1

8. H. Mahan: +2

9. J. Dufner: +2

10. D. Johnson: +5

And here are your leaders after Round 1:

1. M. Thompson: -4 (66)

T2. G. McDowell (NIR): -1 (69)

T2. N. Watney: -1 (69)

T2. J. Rose (ENG): -1 (69)

T2. T. Woods: -1 (69)

T2. D. Toms: -1 (69)

T7. J. Furyk: Even (70)

T7. M. Kuchar: Even (70)

T7. I. Poulter (ENG): Even (70)

T7. Mr. Beau Hossler (a): Even (70)

T7. J. Bohn: Even (70)

T7. J.B. Park (KOR): Even (70)

T7. R. Karlsson (SWE): Even (70)

T7. A. Presnell (AUS): Even (70)

Note: Mr. Beau Hossler is a 17-year-old high school student from Orange County, California. He actually qualified for last year's Open at Congressional Country Club, but he missed the cut.

MLB Update (1974 edition, special 1964 rewind remix!)

"The year 1963 was notable in many respects. (Team owner Charles) Finley introduced colorful new uniforms, but more importantly, it was the beginning of the end for the A's in Kansas City. In its last hour, the outgoing city council approved a new four-year contract with Finley. The new city council voided it, saying the contract had been improperly approved. While Finley and the council battled through the expiration date of the old contract, he was preparing for a move to Oakland. Because Oakland lacked a baseball stadium at the time, Finley asked San Francisco Giants owner Horace Stoneham to temporarily share Candlestick Park. The request was turned down haughtily, and would have been rejected, in any case, by the American League owners, who were becoming impatient with Finley's wrangling with the Kansas City fathers. Finley was threatening to play in a cow pasture rather than in Municipal Stadium under a lease unacceptable to him. The crowning blow came on January 6, 1964, when Finley, in a maneuver he still regrets, signed a two-year contract to play in Louisville at the Kentucky State Fairgrounds. He had overlooked one detail. He forgot to tell the American League first.

"The announcement sent a wave of shock and surprise through the other owners. By telegram, League President Joe Cronin enjoined Finley from moving, and Finley countered by blasting Cronin for not keeping the telegram confidential. The league voted 9-1 to forbid the move. Finley was given a deadline of February 1, 1964, to negotiate a new lease with Kansas City and there was speculation that the penalty for noncompliance would be his banishment from baseball. Finley threatened an antitrust suit against his fellow owners and hired powerhouse Louis Nizer as his attorney. Finley began to realize he was painting himself into a corner, that if he fought with the men who would eventually decide his team's destiny, he would never get what he wanted. He signed a four-year lease on Municipal Stadium on February 27, and was given permission by the league to investigate Dallas and Oakland.

"The other owners, smarting over his threats to sue the establishment he'd recently been allowed to join, would make sure he stayed in Kansas City for the full four years. For the same reason, they would oppose his suggestions for improving the sport. At this point, if Finley had advocated round baseballs, his fellow owners would have tried square ones. Finley had threatened the very foundations of the sport. He would pay. But if the lords of baseball thought all would now be quiet on the Finley front, they were wrong. They hadn't seen anything yet." Bergman, Ron Mustache Gang (New York: Dell, 1973) 26-27.



I started reading this paperback, which I had owned for years, last week and was thrilled to discover that there was at least a threat of their being the Louisville A's. That would've been great!

I've also learned that Finley was a native of Ensley, Ala., and lived in La Porte, Ind.

Meanwhile, here were the 1974 standings through games of July 14:

LA 61-29 CIN 8.5gb HOUS 12.5
ATL 13.5 SF 21 SD 22.5

ST. L 44-43 PHIL 44-43 MONT 2.5gb
PITT 6 CHI 6 NY 6.5

BALT 47-39 CLEV 0.5gb BOS 0.5
MIL 3 NY 3.5 DET 3.5

OAK 48-39 KC 4.5gb CHI 5.5
TEX 6.5 MINN 8 CAL 15.5

As we approach the All-Star break, the news is that the Reds are playing better (but aren't gaining ground on the fantastic Dodgers); that nobody seems to want to win the National League East (and tough break for the Cardinals that Lou Brock is on the cover of this week's Sports Illustrated); that the Indians took advantage of Carlton Fisk's injury and Gaylord Perry's 15-start win streak to briefly take the American League East lead (before starting a slide just in time for Ron Fimrite's promoted article in the upcoming SI), and that the Angels lost their first 10 games after hiring two-time-A's-championship manager Dick Williams.

Also, in early July, the Padres inched ahead of the Giants for fifth place in the National League West. It was the latest in a season they had been out of the division cellar since the team's launch in 1969.