YES, YOUR HUSBAND NEEDS A PICK UP
Yes, your husband needs a pick up truck, for a number of reasons, not just because Sam Jackson got one, but because he needs one.
He needs one of the bigger variety like an 8ft X 4ft bed in case he has to haul some plywood or a mattress or something big like that.
The wife can use the family car and wear her good clothes in it, old dad can drive the pick up and park in the back row.
Now, I’m figuring on a used vehicle, a new truck would be nice, but we can’t even afford a used one.
Some of the new variety of trucks are beautiful and take a second chair to nobody, but the cost is outlandish. You can even get the same extras on a truck that you can get on an automobile.
He doesn’t need a new one, just something to haul stuff in, take the kids to little league or to gymnastics or to the neighborhood cook out! A pickup is a good vehicle to move a grill.
Yes, a man needs a pick up truck. A place to call his own and he is the total boss there. The uses for a good pick up is endless.
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BASEBALL AND I
By: Stan Jordan
You are right, I am not a sports writer, but I have been around baseball and softball all my life. A couple of my lady readers have asked if I follow the Cleveland Indians; Yes I do in the American League and I’m a fan of the Big Red Machine in the National League and I’m a big booster of the Ohio State Buckeyes.
At home I have Direct TV and I have four sport outlets for Fox Ohio and I don’t miss much. For instance, I slept through the Indian’s game Sunday, but I caught it at 7:00 a.m. over on Fox Ohio. Yes, it is not cheap, but I don’t miss much sports.
The Indians are playing a little better than 500 baseball, but they will have to do better. They have the best pitcher in baseball with Corey Cluger and this Lindor, the short stop, is the best all around ball player in the American League.
It’s the bull pen that is questionable. First, the Indians will have to win their division, they are the leaders and they should win that, but winning the pennant in that American League will be a contest from the first of September on. There are some good teams in the American League.
The Indians are playing good ball, but the bull pen will have to do better, at the present they are showing a little improvement.
It is a long time yet till October, anything can happen.
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Wildlife in the Tri-State area
By: Stan Jordan
When I talk about the tri-state area, I mean at least these four counties in Ohio, all the way west to I69 and from Michigan south to the Saint Mary’s River watershed. That covers a lot of area and I guess basically it is the Maumee watershed and all of that water ends up in Lake Erie and then to the Atlantic Ocean via the St. Lawrence River.
All of the small towns have active conservation clubs and gun clubs and other forms of people that want to keep our fine supply of wildlife up in top shape by conservation and restocking.
On any given day a person can take his wife and family and take a drive in the country and see eagles, owls, wild turkeys, coyotes, fox, beaver, mink…the list goes on and the bird life and squirrels are even more so. And now the DNR admits we have cougars and bob cats in the area.
I am glad to report that here in Antwerp there is a pretty good marina to put a vessel in or take it out.
The people west of Antwerp can put in a raft, boat, canoe, kayak or a rubber floatable piece and drift all the way to the marina at our Veterans Memorial Park.
I had a nice talk the other day with Dan Bowers and he said the ACDC is thinking about making some more parking space at the marina. That is seriously needed.
We are very lucky to have this many miles of water way for recreation and I would like to see it used more and fishing for the big gar, carps and catfish.
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JAILOR BRIDGE
By: Stan Jordan
The above picture is of the Jailor Bridge which spans the Zuber cut off about 4 miles east of Antwerp on the Canal Road or Rd176. The bridge had been replaced and it was a different bridge that fell back in 1983 but it shows how deep that ditch was.
This cut off took care of any water from the 6 mile reservoir. The water in the first place came from the southwest in the two drainage ditches. Well the north and south branch of Six Mile Creek. The reservoir was a big affair, probably 4 thousand acres of water to operate the canal boats in the Wabash and Erie Canal. That was just inside Crane Twp and it took the water to the Maumee River.
Peter Jailor, the owner, was born in New Jersey in 1814. His parents were mostly French. He came to Carryall Twp in 1817, he was a farmer and carpenter.
The bridge over the Zuber cut off tumbled in back in January or 1983 and here is a story from one of the local papers at the time.
BRIDGE COLLAPSE KILLS 5
PAULDING, Ohio — Four cars plunged one-by-one off a collapsed stone bridge and into the dry creek bed 10 feet below, killing five people and injuring four others, state police said today.
‘The bridge collapsed and the cars drove into it, apparently on top of each other,’ a trooper at the Van Wert patrol post said. ‘The cars apparently didn’t see that the bridge and the road were partially caved in.’
Authorities today were trying to determine the cause of the collapse at about 9 p.m. Sunday that crumpled both lanes of the 30-foot bridge 3 miles east of Antwerp and about 50 miles southwest of Toledo.
There were reports that the 8-year-old stone and asphalt structure had settled considerably since it was built, but a police dispatcher said no danger signs had been posted at the bridge.
‘We didn’t know it was dangerous until it caved in,’ she said.
The dead were identified as Samuel E. Smith, 75, Paulding; Glendale Glass, 56, and Rosemary Glass, 52, both of Antwerp; Louise Underwood, Antwerp, and Janice Goshia, Defiance.
Cassendra Miles, 6 weeks old, of Antwerp was in stable condition at Paulding Hospital with a broken leg.
Her mother, Janet R. Miles, 21, and Betty Underwood, 21, of Antwerp, were in fair condition at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, Ind. Robert L. Goshia II, 10, of Defiance — Janice Goshia’s son — was in serious conditiion at Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne.
The patrol said authorities, including the National Transportation Safety Board, would continue investigating the cause of the collapse today.
Gertrude Rister, who lives near the bridge, said she told county officials several years ago that the bridge was settling.
County Highway Foreman John Colley confirmed the settling problem and said his office had built up the pavement on the bridge, installed about eight years ago.
Ms. Rister said she heard ‘explosions’ several minutes apart about the time of the accident, but did not know what they were until a man came to her door and said a bad wreck had occurred at the bridge. The two contacted authorities.
‘It appears the bridge collapsed and then the vehicles one-by-one drove into the creek,’ a trooper said.
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