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Today's Topics:
1. Libert y Valance character (Chuck)
2. Jean Carson (Erin Johnston)
3. Re:Coco Beach ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
4. Fleet guys (Janine Johnson)
5. Sleep pants and hosta (S. Burgess)
6. Reminder - Mayberry PJs at Weaver's ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
7. Nickels/PJ's (Anita Carpenter)
8. Re: Contents of WBMUTBB Digest, Vol 4, Issue 102
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
9. Barney's hosta and rock (Dawn)
10. Quiet Sam in "The Gin Game" (Brent Seguine)
11. Mayberry Tribute in Cocoa (K. Darden)
12. Gas bonanza shakes dust from Western towns (Trying AGAIN)
(Jim Hady)
13. Drat, I hate feeling stupid. (Martha)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 10:21:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Libert y Valance character
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>In addition to the ones mentioned, one character
looked a lot like Howard Morris as one of Valance's
sidekicks. And when Rance Stoddard shot Liberty
Valance, someone went to get the doctor and the voice
from this character telling the doc "It's Liberty
Valance and he's been hurt bad" sounds just like the
same voice given to Ernest T Bass. Can't prove it was
him, but I have my suspicions! Any help on this?<<<
I believe you're talking about Strother Martin, who
also played the prison guard in "Cool Hand Luke".
I never thought about it before but now that you
mention it he does resemble Howard Morris in looks and
voice!
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:28:24 -0500
From: "Erin Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Jean Carson
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HI
If some of you new members do not know about going to
Hellodoll.com. That is the website of our own Jean carson..
who signs autographed photos for folks ( yes you do have to pay for them)
I recieved my an a sweet note from MS. Carson herself!
Does anyone know if other TAGS cast members do this?
Mayberry's midwest mocha momma,
Erin
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:30:04 EDT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re:Coco Beach
To: [email protected]
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We also just returned from Coco Beach, (nice change from Ohio) It was a fun
trip. Weather was just great, and old coco was really a nice quaint little
town. The park was just beautiful and I thought the crowd was good for a first
time event. As usual our Mayberry Deputy and Allan kept the show going and put
on a good show with the help of all the other look alikes. The VW Boys show
was well received and I think enjoyed by all, they do put on a real
entertaining show. Got to see our Howard Sprague, Jeff Branch, take part in
the show and
play the base guitar. It was really good to see Jeff get out there and shine.
(Howard is usually so quite, except when playing the bongos. ) A good
time was had by all and I think they are considering a show for next year in
June, with hopefully some of the shows stars. So congratulations to Al
Gandolfi,
the hard work paid off. We enjoyed it.
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:47:22 -0400
From: "Janine Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fleet guys
To: "WBMUTBB Newsletter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Regarding the Fleet bandleaders: the first one (I think) who appeared was later
seen as the Bingo caller in one of my all-time favorite films, "Murphy's
Romance" and he looked the same as back in Mayberry!
Aunt Bee of Orlando
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:58:29 -0400
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (S. Burgess)
Subject: Sleep pants and hosta
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Yes, it is getting a little irritating hearing about you all getting the
Mayberry sleep pants when my Wal-Wart has nary a one. In fact they don't
have a big selection of other types. When I asked about the Mayberry
sleep pants I was told that they don't know what they will get or when.
But I know Ben is working like the dickens over at Weavers trying to get
some for us so I will be patient. I bet that Barney Fife hosta would be
as hard to find too. Where I live now I don't have any shade trees or I
would be out looking for that too. Mary Grace in Georgia
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:02:14 -0400
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Reminder - Mayberry PJs at Weaver's
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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There are still posts about shopping at "Sprawl-Mart" for sleep pants - don't
forget that Weaver's will be carrying both designs, so be patient and support
TAGSRWC. If Opie can go a week waiting for $50, then we can wait for Weaver's.
Jeff
Raleigh, NC
>PJs & More Coming to Weaver's
>
>For everyone who's frantically searching for the Mayberry pjs/sleep
>pants at W*l-M**t (Mr. Weaver just can't bring himself to spell out the
>name!), be frantic no more. Our own online Weaver's Dept. Store will
>soon have these britches and in more than one design.
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:10:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Anita Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Nickels/PJ's
To: [email protected]
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I had a Mayberry Moment recently when I tricked my daughter's fiancee Jason
with one of the new nickels. We were sitting across from each other in a
restaurant Sunday and I asked Jason if he or Dana had seen one of the new
nickels that have a buffalo on them. Jason said that he hadn't seen one so I
handed one to him and asked him which way the buffalo was facing on his nickel?
He told me, then I held up another nickel and said that mine was pointing the
opposite way....he said "Wow that's really weird" I had winked at Dana but
Jason sat there for about a minute before he realized I was "funnin" him.
Jason hasn't watched as much TAGS as Dana has so he wasn't "in" on the joke at
first. He was a good sport about it.
I am still looking for the TAGS pj's and I am in hopes that I will find them
here in Cincinnati. I was wondering if anyone else from around this area has
found them?? I can't wait to get some of them to go with my favorite blue
"Mayberry in the Midest" shirt. Jennifer, maybe I can wear that outfit and
surprise our pizza delivery man?
......she "buttered" him up and he "egged" her on...........
Anita Carpenter
One of Cincinnati's Biggest TAGS Fans!!!
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:32:28 -0400
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Contents of WBMUTBB Digest, Vol 4, Issue 102
To: <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Teresa:
Still no new info on Don Knotts Festival. But you can keep checking back at
www.tourmorgantown.com and go under the "calendar of events" heading or call
304-292-5081 to find out more.
George
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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:09:02 -0400
From: "Teresa Elkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Don Knotts Festival
To: <[email protected]>
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Hello Fellow Mayberrians! I was wondering if anyone had any more info on the
Don Knotts festival in Morgantown Aug 12-14. My husband and I want to go to
it. I think it would be a lot of fun. Are there any more details about who
will attend other than Don Knotts and what will be the activities for the
weekend.
Thanks a million to everyone for all of the Mayberry moments, thoughts and
ideas!! I just love reading the digest every day.
Teresa Elkins
"That's not where I'm from, I'm from Greensboro"
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 18:09:14 -0500
From: Dawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Barney's hosta and rock
To: <[email protected]>
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I wonder if that's his daddy's rock, next to the hosta, in the lower right
corner.
Dawn in Kansas City
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>
> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 14:41:03 -0500
> From: "Joshua " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Barney Fife Hosta
> To: <[email protected]>
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>
> Did any of you know that their is a Hosta plant named after our very own
> Barney.
>
> Check out a picture of it on this website!
> http://www.hostalibrary.org/b/b.html
>
> Joshua
>
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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 14:17:15 -0400
From: Brent Seguine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Quiet Sam in "The Gin Game"
To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
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TAGS' Quiet Sam, William Schallert, will star on stage in "The Gin Game,"
Sept. 22 - Oct. 16, 2005 at the Bickford Theatre in Morris Township, New
Jersey. Show times and tickets TBA.
The Bickford Theatre... at
The Morris Museum
6 Normandy Heights Road
Morris Township, NJ
(973) 971-3706
http://www.morrismuseum.org/
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Message: 11
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 00:24:40 -0500
From: K. Darden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mayberry Tribute in Cocoa
To: [email protected]
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My review and photos of the Mayberry Tribute in Cocoa are up at
http://www.christianactivities.com/mayberry/
I enjoyed it thoroughly - kudos to Al!
Due to the hundreds of emails I received while out of town, my email
account ran out of storage space. Anything sent to me after April 8 did
not arrive. If anyone tried to email me or send me photos from the
event, please try again! If anyone got any news clippings or reviews, I
would love to read them!
Flora
http://www.christianactivities.com/mayberry/
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Message: 12
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:27:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jim Hady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Gas bonanza shakes dust from Western towns (Trying AGAIN)
To: [email protected]
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I tried to send this to the digest yesterday from yahoonews, but it
didn't work....so, here's the article in it's entirety. I copied it
from YahooNews and as best I can determine it was written by Todd
Wilkinson for The Christian Science Monitor. This posting is because
there is a Mayberry reference in it.
Jim
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The sudden inlux of oil-patch "roughnecks" is transforming many small
towns in the Rockies.
By Todd Wilkinson, Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
PINEDALE, WYO. - Landscape painter Alfred Jacob Miller set up his
easel on the shore of Fremont Lake 168 years ago and rendered one of
the most famous romantic portraits ever made of the wild American
West. Today, in the small ranching and tourist community that grew up
around the venerated lake, motel rooms in Pinedale are sold out, but
not from traditional tourists exploring the haunting Wind River
range.
The influx stems from an unprecedented invasion of oil-patch
"roughnecks" creating a round-the-clock beehive of drilling rig
crews, pipe layers, roadbuilders, and truck fleets.
Indeed, tiny Pinedale represents ground zero in one of the biggest
natural-gas booms in the postwar era. Driven by high energy prices
and looser government regulations, it is transforming many of the
small towns here along the rumpled spine of the Rockies - creating
thousands of lucrative jobs, pouring money into local treasuries,
and, as always happens with sudden growth, producing new problems
ranging from traffic to drug use.
"The US national energy policy is being played out on an epic scale
in our backyard," says Ward Wise, the city manager whose folksy
municipal attire is a pair of jeans, denim jacket, hiking boots, and
a leather cowboy hat. "All of a sudden, our little rural town has
come face to face with the hurricane force of the global energy
market."
In many ways, the continuous drilling of new wells outside Pinedale
is just one example of an energy boom being played out across the
American West. Oil and gas prices at record highs (until adjusted for
inflation) and the opening of more public lands to development have
brought small wildcatters out of retirement and attracted the usual
assortment of Big Oil interests.
In just the past year alone, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has
approved 5,700 new drilling permits in Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah,
Colorado, and Montana - an increase of about 62 percent over the
previous year.
But perhaps nowhere is the bonanza more evident, and the financial
and social impacts more deeply felt, than here in Pinedale
(population 1,400) the Sublette Countyseat. It currently has the
second-lowest unemployment rate in the country and is a major reason
why Wyoming is enjoying a massive budget surplus.
As billions of dollars worth of gas is being extracted annually,
output is expected to grow exponentially. At the current going rate
of $5.75 per thousand cubic feet of gas, the spoils are the
equivalent of oil companies planning to exploit a large untapped
reserve of crude and counting on profitability at $30 a barrel yet to
yield $90 a barrel.
Already, some 3,000 wells reach deep into the Jonah Gas Field and
Pinedale Anticline - yielding a billion cubic feet of gas a day - but
three times that many wells are projected as part of a bonanza that
geologists believe could last 40 years. The only thing that could
cause a downturn, experts say, is a dramatic fall in gas prices.
Reasons to stay in Pinedale
"For the first time ever in Pinedale, good-paying jobs are available
year round," says Janet Montgomery, the county assessor who has
tracked the tsunami of tax revenue pouring in, most of it going to
the local school district. She says it's not uncommon for gas field
workers to earn $60,000 or more a year.
Montgomery is also happy that young families have a reason to stay. A
recent report found that Wyoming was third from last among the 50
states in its ability to keep residents aged 15 to 44 from leaving.
"People used to have to work like the devil during the warm months to
be able to survive over the winter," Mrs. Montgomery adds. "But now
all kinds of businesses are able to stay open."
Last year, $115 million was collected by Sublette County in taxes.
Seventy-five percent of it went to schools but other town
improvements include a new courthouse, a senior citizens' center, a
library in Big Piney, an an indoor hockey rink, and an Olympic-sized
swimming pool.
According to Montgomery, the best way to quantify the richness of the
gas is by real estate. Ten years ago, Sublette County had a total
property asset evaluation of $262 million, but she predicts the total
in 2005 will be over $2.5 billion, led by 10 energy companies that
account for roughly 95 percent of the value in the form of gas
reserves and equipment.
"I would say that most people in Sublette County don't have any idea
how much money is being made," says Mark Eatinger, who designs
commercial and residential developments.
Still, if you talk to any local residents in Pinedale, Big Piney, or
Daniel, even boosters admit their communities reeling from the
prospect of unstoppable change overtaking these Cowboy State versions
of Mayberry. The same concerns are being expressed in the Powder
River Valley of Wyoming and in neighboring states like Montana,
Colorado, and New Mexico, where parallel booms are under way.
The juggernaut in Sublette County, however, bears little resemblance
to the stereotypical wildcatter frenzies of west Texas that made
millionaires out of cowboy investors who flaunted ten-gallon hats and
drove around in new Cadillacs and Mercedes.
Most of the gas here is coming from federal lands administered by the
Bureau of Land Management and leased to large multi-national
companies, such as EnCana, ExxonMobile, BP America and Shell, with
faraway corporate offices.
Threats to small-town life
Not long ago, Mr. Wise, who traveled the world in his younger days
and also worked as a brokerage specialist in Denver, returned to his
hometown, desiring to give his family a taste of a simpler life.
He admits that for tourists passing through town, it might be hard to
recognize any overt signs of a boomtown. But if you head south of
Pinedale at night, you see the landscape, once dark, is lit up with a
constellation of wellhead lights.
Instead of being clear, sunsets glow red from haze. Even a local
astronomer has complained of air pollution obscuring nighttime
observation of the stars.
The green light for gas development was actually granted by the
Clinton administration. In 1999, an environmental impact statement
completed by the BLM concluded that drilling would have negligible
socioeconomic impacts. But with a dramatic upturn in gas prices, and
an energy-focused Bush administration, the rush by companies to
rapidly maximize production has overwhelmed local residents.
Handling the boom
It has spurred calls from community leaders like Mr. Wise, a
third-generation Pinedalean, to slow down the pace so that planners
can catch their breath.
"The BLM should have helped us to better prepare," Wise says. "It's
mind-boggling that the people who have permitted the gas drilling
drilling claimed there would be no significant impacts. And now
they're getting ready to turn it up another notch."
BLM officials, in the agency's defense, have said they are only
empowered to weigh and try to mitigate impacts on the tracts they
oversee, even though their activities have spillover effects. They
have no authority or expertise to tell communities how to handle a
boom.
Draft findings of a socio- economic task force report being delivered
to the BLM and provided to the Monitor indicate that:
Wyoming counties with population surges because of energy
development are reporting an increase in domestic violence and drug
use.
Since 1997, traffic has increased sixfold on scenic US Highway 189.
Fire department calls have tripled in three years and ambulance
calls rose 50 percent.
Skyrocketing property values and lack of affordable housing are
making it extremely difficult to retain sheriff's deputies and public
school teachers.
Recreational tourists, who have been important to the economy,
often can't find hotel rooms because they're all taken by gas field
workers.
Planners estimate that 1,000 new homes will be built (this in a
county of only 6,400 inhabitants) in the coming years, marring the
beauty of the Upper Green River Valley and fragmenting wildlife
habitat.
"I'm not opposed to energy development, but it needs to be managed in
a smart, common - sense way," Wise says. "So far, that hasn't
happened and the problems it is causing are huge."
"Some people feel very strongly about trying to protect the
intangible elements that shape a high quality of life in Sublette
County and others are passionately invested in doing everything they
can to promote the economy," says Carmel Kail, an archaeologist and
the chairwoman of the socioeconomic task force.
Ms. Kail says that although citizen discussion has been emotional and
heated, people are reflecting on what kind of community they want to
have in ways they never did before.
Painted across a weathered brick building in downtown Pinedale is a
mural depicting a line of cattle. The artwork is a fixture of local
identity.
Yet despite the enormous energy profits being pulled out of the
ground, the scene itself is falling into disrepair.
Seeing irony in that, Randy Carpenter a community planner with the
Sonoran Institute says that Sublette County holds the potential to
redefine what boomtime prosperity means while escaping the legacy of
previous boom and busts Wyoming has suffered over the past century.
"With all the wealth that's being generated here, Pinedale in 40
years should be the coolest, most desirable small town to live in the
West," Carpenter says. "The only question is whether the opportunity
will be seized or if it gets frittered away, leaving Sublette County
more impoverished than it was when this all began."
Jim Hady
East Tennessee
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Message: 13
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 07:17:25 -0700
From: "Martha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Drat, I hate feeling stupid.
To: "Andy Griffith bulletin board" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Didn't even notice "Archie" until Jeff's post. And I went to see it. Talk
about seeing what you expect to see!
Martha, the dumb and dumbfounded
Huntsville, AL
PS Maybe it's a really bad photo of Archie, Betty, Reggie and Veronica.
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