KILGOROUND

EXPECT Pat McCrory to be down to about 60 pounds by Halloween.

SKIPPING lunch during a United Fund board meeting Friday, McCrory said he wasn't eating because "it's too hot out there."

IT'S going to be a long summer for Pat.

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YOU gotta love golfers.

DON Bowne is a golfer. He's also a member of the city's Strategic Planning Committee. As such (both) he's lobbying awfully hard to get an 18hole course in the city's long-range plan.

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CAROL Hinton worked at Citizens Bank and ran the branch inside Brookshire's. Amelia Free now runs that branch. Hinton was at one time president of the old Kilgore Kiwanis Club. Free is president of the Kilgore Oil Patch Breakfast Kiwanis Club. Hinton is retiring after 20 years from (one of) her volunteer job(s) - executive secretary of the United Fund of Kilgore. Free will

be the new executive secretary of the United Fund.

Those of us who like Amelia can only hope that Carol doesn't step out in front of a car...

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THE photo this week of the monstrous steam engine stopping in Overton provoked this memory from former Kilgoreo Mart Lapin:

"Jack Wrather and his wife, the movie star Bonita Granville, decided to make a movie in Kilgore with the early days of the oil boom, including the declaration of martial law, which occurred in Kilgore in the early 1930s. They were better known as the owners of the Lassie series. It, of course, starred Bonita Granville. Other actors were a gentlemen named Corrigan and the male lead was a tall, lean actor, whose name was Rod Cameron.

"I was one of several hundred extras hired to portray the national guard troops. We were bussed to Overton, got on a train and came back to Kilgore, so the scene of the troops arriving and getting off the train could be filmed.

"The director was a man named Lesley J. Selander.

"There were a number of scenes of "mobs" shot downtown, as well as in and around the location of the Daisy Bradford #3.

"The name of the film was "Strike it Rich" and it premiered in Kilgore. That, undoubtedly, was one of the worst films ever created. Also, we were supposed to get paid for being extras, but it never happened."

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BLOWING out birthday candles today (Sunday) are Donnie Furlow, Tom Watson, Christine Harden, LaShekia Kenney, Brandy Marie Hughes, Kathy Schlau, Bob Cargill, Jamie Kay Johns, Sherry Smith, Mrs. Odie O'Neal, Stanton Martin, Stephen J. Pattie, Cathy Casiday, Gary Hassell, Marion Harris, Stephanie Harris, Tiffney Hardt, Jean Avery, Jacki Beane. HAPPY wedding anniversary

today to Mr. and Mrs. Danny Patterson, Danny and Janice Males, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Geese, Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Laird, Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Crabb, Mitch and Jenna Lucas

HAPPY birthday Monday to Sue Fuller, Pam Earley, Tiffany Joiner, J.W. McCubbin, Kari Campbell, Felicia Ward, Alan Reese, Clay Cleary, Jody Slaughter, Dorothy Mitchell, Jerry Oglesby, Bert Dickerson.

CELEBRATING wedding anniversaries Monday are Burl & Viola Burton.