Tommy Gordon Dies

VWSD Bus Driver Dies at Wheel - A longtime Vicksburg Warren School District bus driver who had just dropped off students died on his way home this morning after suffering an apparent heart attack, Warren Count Coroner Doug Huskey said.

Thomas "Tommy" Gordon, Jr., 70, was headed home from his morning bus route at 8:10 a.m. when his bus left the road in the 6400 of Halls Ferry Road and slid into a ditch, hitting a mailbox along the way, Huskey said.

The bus "eased off" the right side of the road at a slow speed and bumped a mailbox, authorities said.

Gordon was a 1958 graduate of St. Aloysius High School, who worked for years in his family automotive repair shop on Grove Street.

He worked as the school district's assistant transportation supervisor from 1990-2003, then began driving school buses, said Shannon Daniels, secretary for Superintendent Dr. Elizabeth Duran Swinford, who was in meetings this morning.

"He was a sweet man," Daniels said, "just a very sweet man."

No one was available at the schools' transportation office to say which school Gordon had just left.

Gordon is survived by two sons and his wife, Rosemary.

Fisher Funeral Home has charge of arrangements, Huskey said.

The Vicksburg Post by Danny Barrett, Jr., dbarrett@vicksburgpost.com

Some 50's video's

Class of 1959 ~ History

1959 the unemployment problems eased to 5.5%. Television programs included "Rawhide", "Bonanza" and "The Twilight Zone", movies included "Some Like it Hot", "Ben Hur" and "North by Northwest". Hawaii was admitted to the the Union and became the 50th State. The Boeing 707 Jet Airliner comes into service and little girls love the Barbie Dolls made by Mattel. Fidel Castro comes to power in Cuba. Cost of Living 1959 How Much things cost in 1959 Yearly Inflation Rate USA 1.01% Average Cost of new house $12,400.00 Average Yearly Wages $5,010.00  Cost of a gallon of Gas 25 cents  Average Cost of a new car $2,200.00  Movie Ticket $1.00  Loaf of Bread 20 cents Kodak Movie camera $67.50  Ladies Stockings $1.00 What Events Happened in 1959 Fidel Castro comes to power in Cuba after Revolution with the first communist state in the west Mattel's Barbie Doll is Launched Alaska becomes the 49th State of the United States Hawaii becomes the 50th State of the United States Hudson and Nash become the AMC (American Motors Association Archbishop Makarios is elected president of the Independent Cyprus Republic The United Kingdom grants Cyprus its independence. Flood in Taiwan leaves 2,000 dead. St Lawrence Seaway a joint US / Canadian venture is completed linking the great lakes to the Atlantic Ocean US Unemployment reaches 1.4 million NASA introduces America's first astronauts to the world including John H. Glenn Jr, and Alan Shepard Jr. An International agreement is signed topreserve Antartica The first known human with HIV dies in Congo. The spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama flees Tibet and obtains political asylum in India. Popular Culture 1959 The US Grammy Music Awards Started  The chartered plane transporting musicians Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper goes down in an Iowa snowstorm, killing all four occupants on board. The tragedy is later termed "The Day the Music Died," popularised in Don McLean's song, "American Pie."  The Film Ben-Hur premieres in New York City  Popular Films Ben-Hur  Some Like It Hot  Anatomy of a Murder  North by Northwest  Sleeping Beauty  Popular Singers Elvis Presley Doris Day  Frank Sinatra  Connie Francis  Jim Reeves  Cliff Richard Ella Fitzgerald  Popular TV Programs Bonanza premieres on NBC, the first weekly television series broadcast completely in color Technology 1959 Boeing 707 Jet Airliner comes into service cutting 8 hrs from transatlantic Flight  USSR Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon as the first man-made object and Luna 3 sends back first photos of the far side of Earth's Moon  IBM shipped the transistor-based IBM 1401 mainframe. Xerox launches the first commercial copier US Launches first Weather Station in Space  De Beers manufactures a synthetic Diamond  QANTAS introduces the Boeing 707 on its Sydney-San Francisco route, the first transpacific service flown by jet. Inventions Invented by Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use ) Microchip USA by Jack Kilby Etch A Sketch France by Arthur Grandjean Computer Modem USA Lunar Probe Russia Lunik I passed the Moon;Lunar Probe Russia Lunik II crashed on the Moon; Lunar Probe Russia Lunik III photographed the far side of the Moon Research for this year is provided by The People History. See History By Year and Decade for more prices and information. Find out more about the 50s at ThePeopleHistory.com.

Old "666"

This is a terrific WWII story. Maybe you have seen or heard of Old 666 but I had not.  

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Senior

True story from a Kansas State Highway Patrol officer:

I made a traffic stop on an elderly lady the other day for speeding on U.S. 166 Eastbound at Mile Marker 73 just East of Sedan, KS.

I asked for her driver's license, registration, and proof of insurance.

The lady took out the required information and handed it to me.

In with the cards I was somewhat surprised (due to her advanced age) to see she had a conceal carry permit. I looked at her and asked if she had a weapon in her possession at this time.

She responded that she indeed had a .45 automatic in her glove box.

Something---body language, or the way she said it---made me want to ask if she had any other firearms.

She did admit to also having a 9mm Glock in her center console.

Now I had to ask one more time if that was all.

She responded once again that she did have just one more, a .38 special in her purse.

I then asked her what was she so afraid of?

She looked me right in the eye and said, "Not a darn thing!"
 

Seniors - Don't mess with them. They didn't get old by being stupid.

Impromptu Performance

For all you music lovers out there...here is another one of those impromptu public performances.  This one is in Denmark.


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Grandmother's Recipe

 

1. Build fire in back yard to heat a kettle of rain water.

2. Set tubs so smoke won't blow in eyes if wind is pert.

3. Sort things: make three piles, one pile white, one pile colored, one pile work britches and rags.

4. Shave one whole cake lye soap in boiling water.

5. Stir flour in cold water to smooth and thin down with boiling water.

6. Rub dirty spots on board, scrub hard, then boil, rub colored but don't boil just rinse and starch

7. Take white things out of kettle with broom stick handle then rinse, blue, and starch.

8. Spread tea towels on grass.

9. Hang old rags on fence.

10.  Pour rinse water in flower beds.

11.  Scrub porch with hot soapy water.

12.  Turn tubs upside down.

13.  Go put on clean dress, smooth head with side combs, brew cup of tea, set and rest and rock a spell and count blessings.