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Page 5 . gamnntrafifiellnrfm. Thursday, June 23, 2016
Got rambling in my bones
this week. No particular sub-
ject in mind other than just
whatever I can conjure up.
Back yonder in 1946 when I
started the first grade under
Francis Croaker, the Linden
High paper had' “Devilish
Diggings.” One week the edi-
tor laid out a roadmap for girls
looking for something special
in a boy which included eyes
like John Echols, hair like
Billy Rhodes, and teeth like
Murphy Glass.
I was interested in the mili-
tary even back that far, and
there was a new pay scale
designed to attract new
recruiters. A private would get
paid $75 a month, and a high
rolling Master Sergeant could
expect to pocket 165 US.
dolars for 30 days work.
Down yonder at the Wright
and McKnight market in the
country seat, you could pur-
chase 25 pounds of Polar Bear
flour for $2.00 and a can of pet
milk for six cents.
Thomas and Charles Miller
Jr. were just back from tremen-
dous combat in Europe and the
Pacific respectively, and both
got installed as new Deacons
in the Linden Presbyterian
Church.
Linden was the champion of
the Black Belt Baseball
Leagure with 28 wins, 14loss-
es, and some way or ‘nother
tying one.
Moving on ten years to one
of my favorite times, my
cousin, Fab Little, had gone off
to high school in Virginia, and
got crowned Poinsettia Queen,
and 1956 was the year Elvis
made his first picture show,
“Love me Tender.” Demopolis
got .into that big time when
Henry Webb at the Marengo
Theater gave away a pair of
blue swede shoes from Spights
Clothing Store, along with a
live and baying hound dog in
DAYS GONE BYE. . .BY TOM 30665
A HiI- ‘N A Miss ~
honor of Elvis.
Rambling on into 1957 saw
some big doings such as the
highway department putting
new highway decking on the
railroad trestle between
Myrtlewood and Naheola on
account of there was getting
built a new Marathon Southern
Paper Mill ‘cross that river.
Shucks, the telephone com-
pany announced they had put
in a bunch of new telephones
in Linden Town totaling 573
sets. We were also sporting
dial phones, and no more party
lines. also no more Central
Operator to ring up and ask the
time or location of the fire
when you heard the siren down
at the old jail.
Elmer Dill came to Linden
High after the departure of our
beloved Coach Bobby Golden.
Suppoed to be the best Red
Devil team in history, but that’s
another story for another time
that I’d just as soon forget any-
Tim String with trophy speckled trout caught in Mobile Bay
Bay fishing booms
By DAVID RAINER
Ahlbu‘i‘lm‘ Department of C'unrrfifl'rr‘uzi
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Tim String is a happy
camper again. The speckled
trout fishing in Mobile Bay
and nearby estuaries has been
excellent this spring and early
summer, which means Stringis
boat .is full of happy campers
as well.
“From last year to this year
there is a 100 percent differ—
ence,” String said. “From talk-
ing to people I know and I
trust, it was tough last year.
The fishing just wasn’t pre-
dictable. But this year, the fish-
ing for the 14- to 18~inch trout
has been very, very good. And
I've got a lot of 5-pound-plus
fish this year with topwater
plugs and live bait. It’s really
different than last year, thank
goodness.”
String said he really can’t
explain why the fishing is so
much better this year, but he
does know the weather has
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been different.
fff'this year We’ve had a lot;
offi‘watei‘ coining~ down the"
rivers,” he said. “It started in
April. I don’t know if that’s it,
but last year it was so unpre-
dictable. One day we would
smash them, and we’d go back
the next day and couldn’t find
the fish. I had to look for the
fish a lot more.
“This year there seems to be
a lot more fish. There are more
schools of fish. I’m finding
trout feeding on shrimp under
the birds. That’s something I
haven’t seen in about three
years on the bay. I’ve been see-
ing the birds for the last month
and a half. There are a lot of
shrimp moving around, which
is another thing I haven’t seen
in a couple of years.”
String said he is seeing more
and more signs that the shrimp
crop of 2016 is definitely bet-
ter than in the past couple of
years.
“Last year, the shrimpers
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were catching them, but they
really.~ had‘t‘o’ ’ Work" at it,” he
saidf'h‘Th‘is“ “year? I’ve " seen
them pulling all the way past
Gaillard Island up to McDuffie
(coal terminal) and raising big
bags of shrimp. There have
been shrimp boats in places
that I haven’t seen them in the
last few years.”
String said one theory of
why the trout fishing was
tough the previous few years
was the number of anglers pur-
suing Alabama’s top inshore
game species.
“A lot of people are saying
its the pressure that caused the
tough fishing,” he said. “As
we get into the summer, we’ll
see what happens and see if it
really is the pressure.
Hopefully, the trout are in
recovery. We’ll see. I do know
there’s about 40 percent more
people on the water these days
than there used to be.”
String, who considers him-
self semi-retired after 25 years
how.
Jean Bath got picked out to
be Miss Demopolis, and I think
that’s about when Joe Richie
made up his mind he would
marry that little gal, and that’s
what he did later on.
Moose and I didn’t choose
to run around in those floppy
short pants on the basketball
court after football, mainly
‘cause we couldnt dribble or
hit the basket, but the All
Tournament players for the
Black Belt Conference select-
ed were George McKee from
Thomaston, Charles Pope from
Sweetwater, Jimmy Roberts
from Linden and Morris
Meador from over yonder in
Butler. '
That was ‘bout the time they
upped and changed the name
of Livingston State Teachers
College, dropping out the
name “Teachers,” but it went
right on turning out some
mighty fine educators without
that name.
Iknow all this stuff was way
back yonder, but thats what we
do.... talk about those wonder-
ful days gone bye, keeping in
mind that wonderful days are
being stockpiled right now for
you youngsters to recollect
many a day into the future.
I’m sitting here right now a
little bit blue as I reconginze
that Moose is no longer just a
phone call away from us to talk
about those times. Pete
Barkley has been gone a lot
longer, and he sho did know
some stuff about goings in
these parts back in the day.
How I miss my lifelong friend,
Frank Aydelott, who knew
more stuff about those days
than you could shake a stick at,
and how he and I loved to
remember together.
Hey, I just chuckled to
myself to remember remi-
nisces of my Ma and her life-
long friend. Elizabeth
Mashbum, as they sat around
the living room sipping coffee
and laughing.
Those precious folks have
rambled on, but their memo-
ries will stay with me forever,
and their recollections will
continue to appear on these
pages as long as I’m able to
type them.
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