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Don Locke: Lookin Thru Bifocals

What’s in a name?

How about Ferno Tweeto?

Ferno managed the airport office at a flying service in Alaska. Ferno was a native Inuit married to Jim Tweeto, a former U.S. Navy pilot. Jim moved to Alaska after the Navy and started a flying service, where he met and married Ferno, herself a pilot.

Jim and Ferno were the parents of two beautiful daughters, the youngest of whom also worked at the flying service.

OK; Virgil Jawtack; Virgil was one of our fertilizer dealers in Indiana when I repped for Federal Chemical Company after the airforce.

Virgil resembled his mom. He had a vary large long lower jaw. He sort of favored the TV Cartoon character Dudley Doo Right.

Two old maid sisters operated a large ranch near Victoria, Texas. Their names were IMA and VRA Hog.

There was an H.E.B. Supermarket in Victoria, Texas – part of a chain of supermarkets owned by Howard E. Butt.

When Howard Butt was young, the story goes: he dated a girl with the nick-name Rusty. Howard proposed marriage, however she broke off the courtship.

“I simply could not think of going through life with the name of Rusty,” she lamented.

A farmer in Dunmor, Ky had the last name of Cabbage. Near Dunmore, there is a small community called Holler Bill. It is said that it got its name from a bootlegger named Bill who lived on a hill.

If one desired his service, he parked at the foot of the hill and hollered loudly, “BILL!”

Airline captain Charles Stahl (pronounced “stall” ) now deceased, was a captain for V.S. Overseas Airways and a native of Butler County, Ky.

Captain Stahl flew four engine DC-7s from California to Hawaii for several years…never putting a scratch on an airplane or a passenger.

Aviating somewhat; an airplane wing stalls and cause the airplane to lose lift when the control stick is pulled too far back without adding extra engine power.

When Charles Stahl retired, he came back to Butler County and became a farmer. He has a son; Andy Stahl, who is a movie actor.

Once in a movie, Gary Cooper rode a horse named Henry Henshaw.

The coffee is poured and blowed…and I think I’ll quit now.

Kindest Regards…

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