Petticoat Junction/Beverly Hillbillies/Green Acres

Around the time of the Kennedy assassination, the new sitcoms on TV were interesting. Paul Henning created the Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction which had 3 girls at the top of the water tower seemingly taking a bath. The first press release that I heard about the assassination said that 3 shots had been fired in Texas. I know a Bea and Jo who live on Warpath/ Sanford in our town; "it's the big one." (Sanford and Son, ran a Salvage shop). Bea B. played Kate on the show and flips uncle Joe's suspenders as she comes onto the porch where he is napping during the opening to the show. The ending had a box of Tide laundry detergent during the credits. Green Acres ran back to back with the Beverly Hillbillies. Eddie Albert played Oliver. The web site for the paid subscription version to the local newspaper has to do with olive. I think the Al Gore family was originally in the newspaper business. I grew up on Elmhurst Drive and I think Randolph Hearst was one of the first tabloid type journalists. My aunt that worked for the OBGYN had a daughter Patti when living in the duplexes in the Green Acres area. The local historic mansion in town next to Big Elm is owned by an OBGYN; strangely there was a memorial Elm tree planted I read at the Oklahoma City bombing site. I read that the rural shows of that time were cancelled because they had a "tree in them." Some of the actors crossed over into HeeHaw; a friend of mine said that her aunt was Minnie Pearl in Nashville who was a regular on HeeHaw. She wore funny hats with the tags hanging to the side still on from the store. She died from an OBGYN related problem. The Charles Manson murders were also around this time in California. They occurred in BelAir. There is a church with several same name issues in our area that sits in front of a street with that same name. Manson was born in Cincinnati,Ohio and moved to the west coast where he was an acquaintence of Wilson, one of the Beach Boys. I worked with a pharmacist who plays computer scrabble and I know a Veach family connected to NASA/Houston that played scrabble with my parents when I was growing up. The pharmacist who plays live computer scrabble said that he is amazed sometimes; he can tell that he is playing against someone using a computer to win. Point being, if playing mind games, one better know exactly WHAT is at the other end "of the tunnel" spitting out information; it might just be an "evil computer." Helter Skelter.
There is a local physician with the same name as one of the Beverly Hillbillies stars; my exhusband had a friend Beverly who lived in Memphis when we were there and died in an odd car accident in NC while working at a local OBGYN office. The NASA shooting after the VT shooting was in building 44 and involved someone named Beverly. My aunt who worked for the only OBGYN in town for several years has a 44 on the car tags of a red focus car and a local ER had someone,44, altering narcotics records.
The dead end streets off of the same road (Warpath) include Tacoma, Meadow, and Alameda. There is a Tacoma Hospital in Greeneville, birthplace of Andrew Johnson, and there are Alameda Apartments in the neighboring downtown area not far from Lone Star restaurant that closed. My exhusband lived there one semester with 2 roommates when he was in college. Hemlock Road is right next to the former Lone Star location; and there is a road with the same name next to the park entrance in our town. There is an OBGYN on that road, and my exhusband lived next door to that family when he was found dead. There is also a Smoot family on that road, and there is a Smoot in Hooterville. The pharmacist who works near the Tacoma Hospital in Greeneville likes to sew and took a quilting class in Pigeon Forge. There was a sewing shop that opened in the Lone Star complex along with a AAA office and the Electric Cowboy. I had eaten with my youngest daughter at Lone Star right before the largest beef recall in US history in Los Angeles, California. There were bad slaughterhouse conditions; electricity,etc,was being used to get the very sick cattle to slaughter. My daughter and I were seated in exactly the same booth as 2 married pharmacists from a local pharmacy where I have worked in the past; the previous visit the lady had come in behind me and her husband from the front. I was served 2 creams from the Golden Corral which had recently had a problem with carbon monoxide poisoning and my daughter was reminded not to smoke because of the new nonsmoking laws. (My personal thoughts at that point on the smoking issue was that the "dumb butt" section had quickly gone to the "smart ass" section with nothing in between, but I let it drop). The Golden Corral in our town burned down. On the way home, I decided to go to Walmart; I drove past a dead cat in the road at Sonic that looked exactly like Sylvester, our cat that was hit by a car when I was at my aunt's Christmas party, then Disco Duck started in the Walmart parking lot. Rick Dees, 1976, had the big hit in Memphis where he was a DJ, Disco Duck, and he and his wife Julie and the Caste of Idiots relocated to LA (Brittney Spears) where he does the Rick Dees Top 40. Around the time Sylvester arrived at our house, there was an AP news clip that appeared in my news window on the computer. There was a cat exactly like him at 9Downing Street in England that was later pictured with the PM's wife; she did not like the cat and sent it away. After a public outcry, she had to go find it and have her picture made with it or so the story went. I was called in to a store in the south area of the neighboring town to find a similar picture hanging in the pharmacy when I got there; I immediately suspected a bad day was to be forthcoming and it did not take long to get started. The technician from the same subdivision where I grew up "across the RR tracks" immediately called in sick. There is a house that sits at the crossing that highly resembles a cash register (toll booth). The manager called Tim from Gate City,Va. but it took a long time to get help. I have only heard the Disco Duck one other time since 1976 on the radio; I was in Memphis and had just gotten coffee from Starbucks in the car with my son. A lady in front of us did the "swoop and squat" maneuver I had seen on TV/CNN/AC360 next to the commercials featuring a pharmacist that I was working with on the national news. My large coffee landed almost completely in my lap.
I bought a house on Meadow Lane after my divorce; the realtor brought me here and it was by far the nicest one for sale in my price range. I discovered at closing that the daughter of the previous owners had been the town beauty queen years ago. When I took out title insurance at closing, suddenly everyone remembered that the second mortgage on the house had not been paid off and we had to sit for another hour or so and redo all of the paper work.
Mark has gone from a Bob Seger look to Charles Manson this morning. One of my classmates Charles lives in Littleton where the Columbine bombings took place. I heard that his children were at the school that day. Mark was getting numerous calls from ITT (caller ID)during the time when CVS was scheduling people to come work on wiring in the ceilings where I was working. One day when I went out to get a jacket from the dryer,there were blue spots all over them like fabric softener; I arrived at work and there was a Snuggle quilt pattern lying by the sink from a quilting class in Pigeon Forge. I am hoping that I am not a stool pigeon here for CVS. When I was working in Virginia one day there was a very frequent customer named Littleton who arrived shortly before someone named Hooker called whose BD was 9-11. 911,911 I have a hooker and bombs going off in both ears. A red haired girl around the age of 10 came in with her grandmother not too long afterwards. The grandmother left a huge key ring lying on the counter when she left and the girl came back to retrieve them. She had on a Disney shirt with 6 elves and a caption that read "Happy Isn't Everything." Disney had several people die on their rides after this including a military child. There was a huge power outtage down the Atlantic side of Florida and sharks in the water during the time of the beef recall. Bad days for tourism. Walmart is a huge supplier of Disney clothing items for children. My son's cub scout leader who worked at an OBGYN office had a son at the VT shooting the day that it happened. She told me once that she worked at the post office with "B"; she then told my exhusband that "B" had gotten into trouble for drugs. My family and I took BR to his probation officer one day after lunch, and prior to this he had had a terrible old car with no seat belts that my children were not allowed to ride in. This 'B" was obviously in some sort of trouble. Problem, ASAP the mother of another "B" who works at the school immediately starts moonlighting at my job; the families know each other. There also was a cashier Ruby whose daughter with the same name as me worked at the First Tennessee Bank and another cashier was hired who has a son "B". BRoberts had turned up dead (similar name to the street the TN Board of Pharmacy is on),then another "B" died. There have been extreme efforts made to confuse this issue/whatever the exact issue is also is a mystery to me. Ruckus society or haze maze is the best explanation I can come up with. Several of my family members are DAR participants, Daughters of the American Revolution. The country seems more on the verge of collapse Civil War style; lots of different scenarios, agendas and everyone wants theirs on the table.
My cousin Mark who had a heart and lung transplant in Seattle died around this time in Phoenix,Arizona where Jack and Ruby live, my aunt and uncle. There was a Teddy Bear twin mass murder in the capital hill district in Seattle, Washington. A teddy bear twin shot up a raver's party and about 1/3 of them went from looking dead to really being dead. The highway patrol has a teddy bear fund for abused children and Mark looks like the highway patrol officer in NC court. Something is terribly wrong with this situation. I have had endless weird coincidences; someone knows where I am and what I am doing seemingly every second of every day.
One of my kids knew a guy who drove a white mustang and had a west coast choppers sticker in the back window. He had a Titans flag, a big weight set, and a clock collection. This was around the time that Ron Ramsey who was in my HS class but whom I do not know and don't recall ever speaking with was clocked going very fast in a government car in the rain right outside of Knoxville. Gov. Bredesen was in the Mayo Clinic for a tic bite I saw in the paper at the same time President Ford was there. I was told another employee who lives near the bridge in town with the same structure as the one in Minnesota that collapsed was there also (next to a mansion that is OBGYN owned); he quit around that time. Is it RideSallyRide? I made that joke and no one got it. They didn't know Sally Ride was an astronaut. Thought I was making a cowboy joke. This leads me to my next comment about the school system. There was someone in Women's Cascade Group named Hargis; my OBGYN in this group went bankrupt in Washington around the time that my husband died. He then returned to Ohio. "Dipper" Hargis when I was in elementary school caught the bus at the big white house at the entrance to the street that leads to the back entrance to the park; his mother took him out of class when the bible ladies came until the court stopped the bible ladies from coming. I don't recall giving to much thought to the bible ladies one way or the other; I was probably around 10 or 11 when this happened. My thoughts now are this. The ladies who want the bible classes back in school so badly, what else have they done? Have they organized Saturday breakfasts in the park or religious car pools? Probably not. I think that most of them crave attention for themselves and the audience that the school provides for their attention craving that they cannot get from smaller religious events that actually they do have the ability to organize or "pull off" without bringing extremely unneeded strife into the public school system.
This is sort of the way that I feel about the PlanB picketers. PlanB works at exactly the same spot in the reproductive cycle as an IUD does which is a surgically implanted device that the patient has no control over once inserted. IUDs now have hormones added but did not in the past; it would be considered an abortive means of birth control. They have been around for years, and I have never seen anyone picketing over them. Physicians who tell their patients that they do not do abortions should probably have not be inserting them. Sometimes people like to "get on the bandwagon" (Mr. Hanie,Green Acres, loves to wheel and deal/endlessly jaw)when they do not have all of their facts. The set of duplexes in town near Big Lots is in Green Acres. Someone actually confronted me once very upset after seeing an order for an abortion from a physician whom he said his wife went to because he told her that he did not do them. I was familiar with this case but did not discuss it with him and told him to "see the physician." (privacy issues). The technical facts there did NOT even remotely add up; a physician who was inserting IUDs during that time should not have been saying that he did not do abortions because technically he was inserting devices that could cause one abortion per month (planB standards) . I was 100% certain that the physician was inserting IUDs because I went there also. Sometimes the "wiring" in the circuits do not all lead to the same place. The stories do not add up; and they seem to be possibly designed for nothing but endless strife. Bill OReilly on Fox announced that Fox had traced Teresa Heinz Kerry's money to Ruckus Society right before he was slapped with a sexual harrassment lawsuit. Mark says that his dad's side of the family is from Andelusia,Alabama and Ft. Rucker is there. He says in Andelusia the roller rink,gas station, and dairy bar are all in the same building. I noticed that Ft.Rucker's high school was hit with a tornado not too long after we visited the Alabama coast,.and the pier where we fished was gone also after Katrina.