FReeper Canteen ~ Saturday Night Jukebox ~ 16 October 2004

Hey MoJo and Ma,

I received a very thoughtful gift in the mail. That was very considerate of you and I appreciate it very much.

Thank you!

On This Day In History

Birthdates which occurred on October 16:
0042BC Tiberius Claudius Nero Roman emperor (14-37)
1758 Noah Webster lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary)
1816 William Preston Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1887
1825 Thomas Turpin Crittenden Brig Genl (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1851 James Ten Eyck champion rower/coach (Ten Eyck Trophy namesake)
1851 William Preston "Wild Bill" Longley a Psychopathic gunfighter is born in Texas
1854 Oscar Wilde [Fingal O'Flahertie Wills], Dublin, (Pic of Dorian Gray)
1863 Sir Austen Chamberlain British Foreign Secretary (Nobel 1925)
1886 David Ben-Gurion Plonsk Poland, 1st PM of Israel (1948-53, 55)
1888 Eugene O'Neill NYC, dramatist (Desire Under the Elms-Nobel 1936)
1890 Paul Strand NYC, photographer (Native Land-1942)
1898 Arthur H Dean lawyer/advisor to FDR
1898 William O Douglas Maine, US supreme court justice (1939-75)
1905 Rex Bell Chicago, cowboy (Cowboys & Injuns)
1908 Enver Hoxha post-war leader of Albania (1944-85)
1913 Alice Pearce NYC, comedienne/actress (Gladys Kravitz-Bewitched)
1921 Linda Darnell Dallas, Tx, actress (Unfaithfully Yours, 2nd Chance)
1921 Michael Conrad Washington Hgts NY, actor (Delvecchio, Hill St Blues)
1925 Angela Lansbury London England, actress (Mrs. Iselin-The Manchurian Candidate,Jessica-Murder She Wrote)
1927 Gunter Grass Germany, novelist/poet (The Tin Drum)
1927 Lee Montague London England, actor (Uncle Sasha-Holocaust)
1931 Charles W Colson presidential adviser, Watergate figure
1937 Tony Anthony Clarksburg WV, actor (Treasure of 4 Crowns)
1940 Dave DeBusschere Detroit, NBA foward (NY Knick)/last ABA commissioner
1941 Tim McCarver baseball catcher (NY Mets)/sportscaster (ABC, CBS)
1944 Johnny Washbrook Toronto, actor (Ken-My Friend Flicka)
1946 Suzanne Somers San Bruno Calif, actress (3's Company, Step by Step)
1947 Bob Weir guitarist (Grateful Dead-Uncle John's Band)
1958 Tim Robbins actor/Moral Midget (Bull Durham, Cadillac Man)
1959 Gary Kemp rocker (Spandau Ballet-True)
1962 Manute Bol NBA center (Golden State Warriors)
1969 Wendy Wilson singer (Wilson-Philips-Hold On)
1978 Abel Talamantez Texas, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)

Deaths which occurred on October 16:
1323 Amadeus V the Great, count of Flanders/Savoy, dies at 74
1555 Hugh Latimer, royal chaplain of Anna Boleyn, burned at stake at 80
1793 Marie Antoinette queen of France, beheaded in France
1849 George Washington Williams Penns, 1st major black historian
1946 Arthur Seyss-Inquart Austrian chancellor (1930s), dies at 54
1946 Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hitler's Foreign Minister, hanged
1946 Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel, hanged
1946 Alfred G Jodl, Col-Gen/German staff chief, hanged
1946 Hans Frank, Governor-General of occupied Poland, hanged
1946 Wilhelm Frick, Hitler's Minister of the Interior, hanged
1946 Julius Streicher, rabid anti-semite editor of Der Sturmer, hanged
1946 Fritz Saukel, overseer of slave labor during the war, hanged
1946 Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi philosopher and war criminal, hanged
1946 Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian Nazi and major SS leader, hanged
1951 Liaquat Ali Khan PM of Pakistan, assassinated by Said Akbar
1972 Leo G Carroll actor (Topper, Man From Uncle), dies at 80
1972 A light plane carrying House Democratic leader Hale Boggs of Louisiana and three other men was reported missing in Alaska. The plane was never found.
1978 Dan Dailey actor (Gov Drinkwater-Governor & JJ), dies at 63
1981 Moshe Dayan Israel's general, dies at 66
1981 William Holden, actor (Network, The Wild Bunch), dies at 63
1987 Dana Suesse songwriter (You Ought to be in Pictures), dies at 75
1989 Cornel Wilde actor, dies
1990 Art Blakey jazz drummer (Jazz Messengers), dies of cancer at 71
1991 Tennessee Ernie Ford, country singer (16 Tons), dies at 72

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1965 BELL JAMES F.---CUMBERLAND MD.
[02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 98]
1965 HUTTON JAMES L.---WASHINGTON DC.
[02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1967 APPELHANS RICHARD D.---DODSON MT.
[NEG SAR CONTACT]
1967 CLARKE GEORGE W.---HAMPTON VA.
[NEG SAR CONTACT]
1969 BOOTH LAWRENCE R.---STONEY CREEK VA.
1969 RATTIN DENNIS M.---BRADLEY IL.
1970 MARTIN JOHN B. II---UPPER MONTCLAIR NJ.

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

On this day...
1311 Council of Vienne (15th ecumenical council) opens
1492 Columbus' fleet anchors at "Fernandina" (Long Island, Bahamas)
1701 Yale University was founded.
1775 Portland, Maine burned by British
1781 Washington takes Yorktown
1813 Battle at Leipzig (Napoleon vs Prussia, Austria & Russia)
1829 Tremont Hotel, 1st US modern hotel opens (Boston)
1841 Queens University in Kingston is chartered
1846 Dentist William T Morton demonstrated the effectiveness of ether
1848 1st US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania
1859 John Brown leads 20 in raid on federal arsenal, Harper's Ferry, Va
1861 Confederacy starts selling postage stamps
1863 Grant is given command of Union forces in West
1867 Alaska adopts the Gregorian calendar, crosses intl date line
1869 Hotel in Boston becomes the 1st to have indoor plumbing
1876 Race riot at Cainhoy SC (5 whites & 1 black killed)
1909 Pirates beat Tigers 4 games to 3 in 6th World Series
1912 Boston beats NY Giants, 4 games to 3 with a tie in 9th World Series
1916 Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic (46 Amboy St, Brooklyn)
1921 Jim Conzelman takes over as coach of Rock Island Independents from Frank Coughlin-only mid-game coaching change in NFL history
1923 Disney Co founded
1925 Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution
1926 Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200
1931 Trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd chops first
1940 Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named 1st black general in regular army
1940 Lottery for 1st US WW II draftees held; #158 drawn 1st
1940 Warsaw Ghetto established
1941 Germany advances within 60 miles (96 K) of Moscow
1942 Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta India
1942 Natl Boxing Assn freezes titles of those serving in armed services
1943 Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens city's new subway system
1945 UN's Food & Agriculture Organization comes into existence
1946 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials
1956 William J Brennan Jr becomes a Supreme Court Justice
1957 Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visit Williamsburg Virginia
1962 Byron R White becomes a Supreme Court Justice
1962 Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba
1962 Yanks (20th championship) beat SF Giants 4 games to 3 in 59th World Series (NY Yankees appear in 12 & win 9 of last 14 World Series)
1964 Brezhnev & Kosygin replace Krushchev as head of Russia

1964 "Gilligan's Island" TV pilot 1st shown on TV (CBS)

1964 China becomes world's 5th nuclear power
1968 Milwaukee Bucks play their 1st game losing 89-84 to Chic Bulls
1968 Jim Dorey sets Toronto Maple Leaf penalty records (48 mins on 9 penalties in a game & 44 minutes on 7 penalties in a period)
1969 100-1 shot NY Mets beat Orioles 5-3 & win 66th World Series in 5
1969 Soyuz 6 returns to Earth
1970 Anwar Sadat "elected" president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser
1971 Amphitheater in McLaren Park is dedicated in SF
1973 Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize
1973 Maynard Jackson elected mayor of Atlanta
1976 Soyuz 23 returns to Earth
1976 Toronto Maple Leaf Lanny McDonald scores a hat trick in 2 min 54 sec

1978 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II

1982 Mt Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return
1982 Shultz warns US will withdraw from UN if they vote to exclude Israel
1983 Balt Orioles beat Phila Phillies, 4 games to 3 in 80th World Series
1984 Desmond Tutu, black Anglican Bishop, wins the Nobel Peace Prize
1985 Challenger vehicle moves to the launch pad for STS 61A mission
1985 Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip
1986 Armand Hammer returns to US with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb
1987 175-kph winds cause blackout in London, much of southern England
1987 Jessica McClure rescued 58 hrs after falling 22' into a well shaft
1988 Orel Hirsheiser, 1st to pitch shutout in playoff & world series (World Series #85)
1990 US forces reach 200,000 in the Persian Gulf
1991 George Jo Hennard, 35, kills 23 & himself & wounds 20 in Texas
1991 US Supreme Court begins to hear Joseph Doherty case
1995 Over 800,000 black men gathered in Washington, D.C., for the "Million Man March" led by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
2000 Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan and his son were killed in a plane crash south of St. Louis while en route to a rally for Carnahan's U.S. Senate campaign.

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Jamaica : National Heroes Day
World : World Food Day
National Pet Peeve Week (Day 5)
National School Lunch Week (Day 5)
Maintence Personnel Day
National Dessert Month
Vegetarian Awareness Month

Religious Observances
Christ : Hedwig & Margaret Mary Alacoqu e, virgin
RC : Commemoration of St Gerard Majella, patron of mothers
RC : Memorial of St Hedwig, widow, patron of Silesia (opt)
Ang : Commemoration of Hugh Latimer & Nicholas Ridley, bishops
Ang : Comm of Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury
RC : Memorial of St Margaret Mary Alacoque (opt)
RC : Commemoration of St Gerard Majella, monk, patron of mothers
Jewish : Succoth-feast

Religious History
1311 The Council of Vienne was convened, called by Clement V. During its three sessions, the council suppressed the Knights Templars (the principal military-religious order of the Middle Ages).
1649 The American colony of Maine passed legislation granting religious freedom to all its citizens, on condition that those of contrary religious persuasions behave acceptably.
1752 Birth of Johann G. Eichhorn, German Old Testament scholar. Eichhorn was a pioneer in "higher criticism," which evaluated Scripture through literary analysis and historical evidence, rather than by the unquestioned authority of systematized religious tradition.
1789 In Philadelphia, as the second general convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church closed, a church constitution had been adopted. Canons of the new denomination were ratified and a revised version of the "Book of Common Prayer" was authorized.
1812 Death of Henry Martyn, Anglican missionary to Persia. During his short life of 31 years, he translated the New Testament into Hindustani, later into Arabic and Persian. He died at sea, while returning to England.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

Thought for the day :
"He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another`s mishap."

Gender Dictionary...
Taste (tayst) v.
female: Something you do frequently to whatever you're cooking, to make sure it's good.

male: Something you must do to anything you think has gone bad, prior to tossing it out.

Signs Your Cat is Planning to Kill You!...
You wake up to find a bird's head in your bed.

The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...
Spectroscope:
A disgusting-looking instrument used by medical specialists to probe and examine the spectrum.

Things you would like to say at work, but won't...
It's a thankless job, but I've got a lot of Karma to burn off.

I have Tivo and I searched the guide for it...what market are you in? You could call your local Sinclair station and ask!

Ah!! I am so glad there's another person in this world who knows the joys of scuppernongs! :o)

Lookin' back, I reckon I oughtta just feel blessed that I escaped those days as unscathed as I did

I can megaditto that. Some of the things I did! Sheesh!! I was one lucky person!

RIP Eric Miner. A true American hero.

HEY YOU!! LONG TIME NO SEE!

Good to see you Minor - even though you had to use the alias to get here! LOL!!! I am so proud of you with the Sea Cadet thing - I can't tell you how cool I think that is!!!

BELL, JAMES FRANKLIN

Name: James Franklin Bell
Rank/Branch: United States Navy/O4
Unit: RVAH 1
Date of Birth: 29 April 1931
Home City of Record: Cumberland MD
Date of Loss: 16 October 1965
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 211700 North 1074200 East
Status (in 1973): Returnee
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: RA5C
Missions: 35
Other Personnel in Incident: Capt. James Hutton, returnee
Refno: 0166

Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews.

REMARKS: 730212 RELEASED BY DRV

SOURCE: WE CAME HOME  copyright 1977
Captain and Mrs. Frederic A Wyatt (USNR Ret), Barbara Powers Wyatt, Editor
P.O.W. Publications, 10250 Moorpark St., Toluca Lake, CA 91602
Text is reproduced as found in the original publication (including date and
spelling errors).

JAMES F. BELL JR .
Commander - United States Navy, pilot
Shot Down: October 16, 1965
Released: February 12, 1973

I was born in Akron, Ohio in 1931 where my father was employed by Goodyear.
During subsequent years we lived in several towns in New York State back to
Akron for a spell and then to Cumberland Maryland where I graduated from high
school in 1948. My parents still reside in Cumberland. My father retired from
Goodyear in 1966 with over 10 years of service in that fine company.
         
After two years of "prepping" at the University of Utah I entered the United
States Naval Academy from where I graduated in 1954. I went immediately to
flight training and won my wings of gold in November 1955. My next four years
were spent in two F-4D Skyray squadrons in San Diego California  and in 1959
it was back to school again at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey
California. Three  years later I emerged with an MS in Aeronautical
Engineering and proceeded to Sanford Florida with orders to VAH-1 flying the
A3J-1 Vigilante.
         
I found myself still in the same squadron three years later. The squadron was
now designated RVAH-1 flying a reconnaissance version of the Vigilante
designated the RA5C aboard the USS Independence  in the Gulf of Tonkin. On 16
October 1965 my luck ran out and I fell victim to AAA fire on a low level
reconnaissance mission north of Haiphong. I made it to the sea before ejecting
but after 30 minutes in the water my crewman Lt. Cmdr. Duffy Hutton and I were
picked up by local fishermen in sampans. I was tied to the mast of the sampan
and as I recalled the movie I had watched in the wardroom the night before was
"Two Years Before the Mast" with Dana Andrews I broke into a laugh. It was my
last laugh for a long, long time.
         
During the subsequent 89 months of detention in North Vietnam I never  doubted
for a minute that the day would come when I would return to the land of the
free. Nor did I ever lose faith in myself  and my abilities to withstand the
physical and mental rigors of prison life. Now that the ordeal is over and I
am reunited with my family and my three fine children and I look back at the
long association with so many outstanding fighting men and the wonderful
homecoming afforded me by me countrymen I can only say "Thank God I am an
American."

November 1996
James Bell retired from the United States Navy as a Captain. He and his wife
Dora reside in Virginia.

SALUTE!

Photograph, Medal of Honor and Flags

BARTER, GURDON H.
Rank and organization: Landsman, U.S. Navy.
Born: 1843, Williamsburgh, N.Y.
Accredited to: New York.
G.O. No.: 59, 22 June 1865.
Citation: On board the U.S.S. Minnesota in action during the assault on Fort Fisher, 15 January 1865.
Landing on the beach with the assaulting party from his ship, L/man Barter advanced to the top of the sandhill and partly through the breach in the palisades despite enemy fire which killed and wounded many officers and men. When more than two-thirds of the men became seized with panic and retreated on the run, he remained with the party until dark, when it came safely away, bringing its wounded, its arms, and its colors.

BARTON, THOMAS
Rank and organization: Seaman, U.S. Navy.
Born: 1831, Cleveland, Ohio.
Accredited to: Ohio.
G.O. No.: 11, 3 April 1863.
Citation: On board the U.S.S. Hunchback in the attack on Franklin, Va., 3 October 1862.
When an ignited shell, with cartridge attached, fell out of the howitzer upon the deck, S/man Barton promptly seized a pail of water and threw it upon the missile, thereby preventing it from exploding.

BASS, DAVID L.
Rank and organization: Seaman, U.S. Navy.
Born: 1843, Ireland.
Accredited to: New York.
G.O. No.: 59, 22 June 1865.
Citation: On board the U.S.S. Minnesota in action during the assault on Fort Fisher, 15 January 1865.
Landing on the beach with the assaulting party from his ship, S/man Bass advanced to the top of the sand hill and partly through the breach in the palisades despite enemy fire which killed and wounded many officers and men. When more than two-thirds of the men became seized with panic and retreated on the run, he remained with the party until dark, when it came safely away, bringing its wounded, its arms, and its colors.

If there be any glory in war, let it rest on the shoulders of men like these" -- Audie Murphy
Thank you to all the military heroes, past and present, who have given me my freedoms. You are my heroes and I pray for God's blessings on you today.
You will not be forgotten.

* indicates the Medal of Honor was awarded posthumously

Graphics and information from the Medal of Honor website.

Good morning Troops!

Canteen Crew Woo HOO!!!

~Baby likes to Rock~

Colonel Flagg, when you're ready...
~Anita Baker~Sweet~
Sooner or later it's gonna get to this sooo, party up gang!

Good morning, Canteen DJ's ! Good morning, Canteen Crew! Good morning, EVERYBODY!

GOOD

MORNING

TROOPS!

Me for PREZ! VOTE !!!

Today's FEEBLE

YOKE :

One day, Radix & Old Sarge went deer hunting in the woods.

They sit in the woods for hours, when suddenly this humongous buck comes into view.

With a nice clean shot, Old Sarge bangs the buck. They drag it back to camp by the butt, but the antlers keep getting stuck.

Another hunter says, "You guys should drag it by the antlers. It won't get stuck."

They do, and Radix yells, "Hey, he was right. He is not getting stuck."

Old Sarge replies, "Yeah, but we're getting farther away from camp."

Good morning, OH SILLY ONE!

Chicagoland Weather

October 16, 2004
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