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Richard C Gilbert’s Thursday Blog

March 14, 2019 By Richard C. Gilbert

* * * * T H U R S D A Y * * * * M A R C H 14th * * * * D A Y 73 of 2019 * * * *

It’s International Ask a Question Day ! Asking questions is not something I’m foreign to

Happy Potato Chip Day !

1794: Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin

1900: The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard

1914: Henry Ford announced the new continuous motion method to assemble cars. The process decreased the time to make a car from 12½ hours to 93 minutes

1964: A Dallas jury found Jack Ruby guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald

1983: OPEC cut crude oil prices by 15 percent

In the News: Commissioners set date for public hearing on financing new service center…New County Forest Ranger introduced…Shooting suspect wanted in Iredell County arrested in Virginia…Delivery driver robbed in Newton…Hickory Police issue warrant for former Statesville Police Officer

Weather: Clouds, but warmer. Showers tonight and Friday

Sports: Cougar Baseball Maul McDowell…AC Softball loses in Marion…College Recruiting meeting set for ACHS tonight…Pack get win in ACC Tournament, Top seeds get in action today…Panthers re-sign Williams…Will Tepper move headquarter to South Carolina ? Golf’s 5th Major tees off today

Happy Birthday: Michael Caine, Quincy Jones, Billy Crystal, Larry Johnson, Stephen Curry

Billy Crystal

Steph Curry

The Mafia is making a comeback. I’ve read stories that say the Italian mob is regaining some of it’s lost significance and Meth is one of the reasons. The New York mob is heavy into importing the nightmarish drug from Mexico

I understand the business sense of possibly moving the Carolina Panthers headquarters and practice facility to South Carolina but here’s some advice to owner David Tepper. Don’t ! He has yet to learn what most of us know, South Carolina is just a place you drive through on the way to Georgia

The number of people complaining about the time change is on the wane

Quote of the Day:”Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes”…Don Marquis

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