November 27 – December 3The Week in Indiana History |
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   Radio broadcasting in Indiana started over 100 years ago. Eight of the first stations, with original call letters, are listed below. Match each to the correct city. 1. WSBT  2. WBAA  3. WHBU 4. WGBF  5. WFBM  6. WJOB 7. WOWO  8. WBOW A. Evansville  B. Hammond  C. South Bend  D. Terre Haute  E. Indianapolis  F. West Lafayette  G. Anderson  H. Fort Wayne
   “We don’t see how some folks git along unless they profit from their mistakes.” Abe Martin was the creation of Hoosier humorist Kin Hubbard. Take an “armchair tour” of the Indiana Statehouse
Answers:  1. C  2. F  3. G    4. A  5. E  6. B  7. H  8. D |
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Hoosier History Highlights: Rex Stout Born in Noblesville
1954   The Indianapolis city purchasing agent approved a new car for Mayor Alex M. Clark.  After reviewing several models, the group selected a 1955 Cadillac.  Specifications called for a large sedan with a 250-horsepower engine with a 129-inch wheelbase.  The car was equipped with power steering, power brakes, windshield washers, fog lights, two spotlights, and a radio. The cost was $2886.
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EPD DAILY ACTIVITY REPORT
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Beauchamp’s game-winner sends UE past Robert Morris
Strawbridge leads UE with 21 points
 SAVANNAH, Ga. – With his team trailing by two points with 16 second remaining, Blaise Beauchamp knocked down his third 3-pointer of the night and it would prove to be the game-winner as the University of Evansville men’s basketball team defeated Robert Morris by a final of 54-53 at Enmarket Arena.
Trailing by 12 at halftime, UE opened the second half on an 8-0 run before taking the lead with 11:42 left in the game. The teams swapped the lead multiple times before the Purple Aces earned their second win of the season.
“We told our guys that Robert Morris plays at a pace that we have not seen and we definitely struggled with it in the first half,†Purple Aces head coach David Ragland stated following the victory. “I told our guys at halftime that we had a decision to make and I loved our response. We kept fighting and showed our resiliency in the second half. It is crazy how basketball works and I am happy for Blaise and our entire team.â€
Strawbridge led UE with 21 points while hitting four triples. Beauchamp finished the night with 14 points. Robert Morris was led by Josh Corbin’s 22 points, 20 of which came in the first half. Kahliel Spear notched a double-double with 16 points and 12 rebounds.
Eight of the first nine shots found the bottom of the net for Robert Morris as they took the early 19-8 lead. Kenny Strawbridge Jr. opened the game with a putback before hitting two 3-pointers as he accounted for Evansville’s first eight points of the game. The Colonials added another make to push the lead to 21-8. Following eight missed shots in a row, Sekou Kalle turned an offensive rebound into a field goal to put UE back on the board.
Blaise Beauchamp converted his first triple with just over eight minutes left in the half to get his squad back within single digits at 24-15. While the Aces got as close as seven points on a Chris Moncrief layup, Robert Morris extended the advantage to 14 before settling for a 37-25 lead at halftime. Josh Corbin of RMU had 20 points, including six triples, at the break.
Just as he did in the first half, Strawbridge came out shooting, knocking down his third 3-pointer of the evening to open the second half. His basket was the first of eight in a row by the Aces to make it a 37-33 game at the 16:51 mark. Seven minutes into the half, Marvin Coleman II grabbed an offensive board and found an open Beauchamp who converted a triple to bring the Aces within one – 39-38.
Antoine Smith Jr. was held scoreless in the opening 20 minutes but his first field goal of the night was a big one as it gave UE a 40-39 lead with 11:42 left in the game. His basket capped off a 6-for-12 start to the period for Evansville. Robert Morris opened the stanza hitting one of its first 14 attempts before Corbin hit a layup with 9:24 left on the clock.
From there, it was a back-and-forth contest with each team holding multiple leads. With UE down one, Strawbridge converted a 4-point play to give the Aces a 49-46 edge inside of the 5-minute mark but a triple on the other end saw RMU tie it right up. He would make another critical play with 3:30 on the clock. A perfect read on the defensive end saw him pick off a pass before turning it into a layup and 51-49 Evansville edge.
Robert Morris tied it up before taking a 53-51 lead in the final minute. Just when it looked like the Colonials would wrestle away the win, Blaise Beauchamp drained a clutch 3-pointer with 16 seconds on the clock. RMU was unable to convert in its final two opportunities and UE would hang on for the 54-53 win. The Colonials finished with a slight shooting edge (38.8%-36.2%) while outrebounding the Aces by a 38-35 final.
Sunday’s Hostilo Hoops Community Classic finale pits the Aces against Fairfield at 7:30 p.m. CT.
THUNDERBOLTS DEFEAT HAVOC 3-1, MOVE INTO 1st PLACE
Huntsville, Ala.: For the second game in a row, the Thunderbolts came through while tied in the third period to win on the road, this time defeating the Huntsville Havoc 3-1 on Friday night in Huntsville, moving the team into sole possession of 1st Place in the SPHL standings. The Thunderbolts’ next home game will be on Friday, December 2nd against the Quad City Storm at 7:00pm CT. For tickets, call (812)422-BOLT (2658), go to EvansvilleThunderbolts.com, or visit the Ford Center Ticket Office.
After a scoreless first period which saw Evansville outshoot the Havoc 14-7, the Thunderbolts broke through in the second period, as Mike Ferraro scored from Brendan Harrogate and Felix Sasser at 8:08 to give Evansville the lead. On a 5-on-3 power play, the Havoc tied it back up as Nathan Hudgin scored for Huntsville at 10:38. In the third period, Matthew Barron deflected a Roshen Jaswal shot into the net at 10:40 to give Evansville a 2-1 lead, and Scott Kirton scored an empty net, power play goal with 52 seconds remaining, assisted by Sasser, to put the game away as the Thunderbolts held on to win 3-1.
Ferraro, Barron and Kirton finished with a goal each, while Sasser tallied two assists. In goal, Zane Steeves stopped 34 of 35 shots faced in net for his SPHL-leading 7th win of the season. These two teams meet again on December 4th at Von Braun Center.
Ain’t that America?
Ain’t that America?
This time, the mass shooting happened in Virginia.
A Walmart employee opened fire at the store in Chesapeake, Virginia, where he worked, killing at least six people. He also died.
This followed the mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado. There, another gunman shot more than 20 people, killing five of them before heroic bystanders subdued him.
That followed another shooting in Virginia in which three University of Virginia football players were shot dead on the way back from a college field trip.
Which followed—ah, any number of other mass shootings.
Here in America, we have shootings at shopping malls.
We have them in churches.
In the workplace.
And, of course, in schools.
Lot of them in schools.
These shootings occur in states that have strict gun laws. They occur with even greater regularity in states that have lax gun laws. They take place everywhere, all the time.
That’s because we are a nation awash in guns.
The United States of America has less than 5% of the world’s population. Americans, though, own more than half the guns in private possession on the globe.
There are, in fact, more guns than there are people in this country. The United States has a population of a little more than 332 million people.
The most conservative estimates of the number of privately owned guns in this country comes in at more than 400 million. There are more than 20 million privately owned AR-styled firearms in America.
Those are the weapons favored by most mass shooters. In most other nations, such guns are restricted to military use.
Here in America, they’re almost as easy to buy as a bag of potato chips.
America’s curious relationship with guns has tragic consequences.
We Americans have watched for much of this year the horrors of the war Russia unleashed on Ukraine. Daily, we are appalled by the carnage of that conflict, the staggering body counts, ceaseless suffering.
The best estimates suggest that more than 32,000 people have lost their lives in that brutal, inhumane war. That’s a lot of death.
A lot of suffering.
A lot of grief.
But that is war.
Here in the United States in 2022, we already have lost nearly 40,000 lives to guns and gun violence. We have lost 25% more lives than two nations locked in a vicious and savage war. We have lost those lives at discount stores, on school buses, in churches, at nightclubs and, of course, in schools.
Lots of schools.
And we are—in theory at least—a nation at peace.
We Americans have fallen into a pattern with these shootings.
When they occur, we shake our heads in dismay. We offer expressions of sympathy to the community where the horror took place and to the people who lost loved ones.
We vow to do something about this ongoing tragedy. We assert that we will get serious about gun violence.
But we don’t.
Instead, we allow ourselves to be held hostage by the special-interest spokespeople from the gun lobby. They stopped even pretending to try to make sense years ago, but still we let them hold the floor.
We let them write our laws.
We let them protect the guns and sacrifice the people.
And we listen to their nonsense while we do it. We listen to an Indiana state legislator spout drivel about how an entire community in Texas sacrificed schoolchildren as part of a “false-flag†operation aimed at coming to get his guns.
We treat such ravings with respect and ignore the suffering in our streets every day.
After each gun-related atrocity, we Americans say this is not who we are. We are better than this, we avow.
But maybe we aren’t.
Maybe this is the country we want, one in which people must fear going to the store, to the mall, to the workplace, to church and even to school.
No other country on earth has this problem. We’re alone—number one by a wide margin, with a bullet.
This time, the mass shooting was in Virginia.
Tomorrow, who knows?
John Krull is director of Franklin College’s Pulliam School of Journalism and publisher of TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students. The views expressed are those of the author only and should not be attributed to Franklin College.
Today Is “Small Business Saturday”
Support Small Businesses in Downtown Evansville
The Downtown Evansville Economic Improvement District (EID) celebrates the 13th Annual Small Business Saturday® on Saturday, November 26 from 9 AM – 4 PM in Downtown Evansville.
“We emphasize the importance of shopping small year-round, but the most important shopping day of the year for our shops is Small Business Saturday,†said Josh Armstrong, EID president. Shopping small supports real economic growth in our community through jobs, business ownership opportunities, and tax base, and an average of two-thirds of every dollar ($0.67) spent at a small business in the U.S. stay in that local community.1“Many of our Downtown businesses search out local products and ingredients, magnifying the economic impact of consumers choosing small businesses,†he added.
The EID will distribute maps and limited-quantity custom Shop Downtown bags, courtesy of Romain Cross Pointe Auto Park, at 318 Main Street. Also, the EID will be selling Downtown Evansville branded attire, including special Christmas items as well. Individual stores will feature specials throughout the day, and unique specialty vendors with items ranging from clothing to baked goods will be located along Main Street from 2nd to 6th Streets. Brick-and-mortar merchants will also have a limited supply of free tote bags for shoppers, courtesy of American Express.
“Shoppers will be serenaded with live music through the event,†Armstrong added. “Make a day of it – shop, take family photos at our holiday displays, and enjoy great food and drinks from our over forty restaurants, bars, and cafes,†he suggested.
Visit DowntownEvansville.com/ShopSmall or Downtown Evansville Indiana on social media for individual shop and restaurant sales and specials. Consumers can learn more about Small Business Saturday and how to get involved by visiting ShopSmall.com.
