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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 483

Table Of Contents: 

         OTR DIGEST ADMIN's HOUSE BURNED DOWN!!!
    	 otr Digest V96 #482
	 Blue Screens
	 Re: Flashback Power
	 HERITAGE URL ADDRESS CORRECTION
	 Re: Jean Shepherd
	 OTR on shortwave





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From: wdp@[removed] (William Pfeiffer
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: OTR DIGEST ADMIN's HOUSE BURNS DOWN
Organization: AIRWAVES MEDIA


Hello Readers:


Please sit down.  This is very serious.

Disaster has struck my life.  At just after midnight, Friday December
13th, a fire broke out in my home in rural SW Missouri.  I was online
attempting to get the days articles posted when the power failed.
When I went to the breaker box, I discovered a fire burning along one
wall of my house.

For those who do not know I live(d) in a converted mobile home with
half of the house being the mobile and half being the a framed
'add-on'.  The fire began in the added on section.

Immediately upon realizing t5hat the fire was out of control I called
911 and tried to get my mother (who is 82) out of here room (I take
care of my mother since she is elderly and in shaky health).

As the flames engulfed the building I called to my mother who was
trying to make it out of the smoke filled house.  She made it about to
the back door when she collapsed.  I crawled back into the burning
building along the floor and found her, lying on the floor.  I grabbed
her by her shirt and dragged her outside where I administered CPR and
mouth-to-mouth.  At this time she was not breathing.

However the CPR worked and she started breathing.  I realized that I
had run out of the house without any pants on (no cracks, OK?).  A
neighbor came by with some pants and shoes and took my mother in his
blazer to his house next door.  He was badly burned and weak, but
conscious and lucid enough to know her name, age etc.

The ambulance came and took mom to the ICU burn unit of a local
hospital.

Volunteer firefighters came from two area districts and began hosing
the flames which had leapt over 40 feet in the air.  The structure was
burning out of control.  Since my area has no hydrants, the fire
truck ran out of water just as the flames were being controlled.  So
the flames once again started to climb.

The local water superintendent was summoned and got into the pump
house and gave the firefighters water (I live right across the road
from the pump house).  After an hour or two the flames were doused,
However the house was a *TOTAL* loss, both my car and pickup
were charred shells after the gas tanks blew up.  

When I say total loss, I mean total.   I lost two computers, software,
[removed] over 2000 albums and tapes, two stereos, 3 color TV's all mom
and my clothes, all her effects, a satellite receiver and tons of
other stuff, much of it can never be replaced.  In other words, my
life has been wiped out.


Because the trailer was older (1972) and had some roof leaks, the
trailer was un-insurable, translation i have NO insurance other than
the car insurance.  The house is a smoldering tin box and nothing is
savable, I mean NOTHING.

Mom is in ICU in fair but stable condition.  I am homeless, with no
cars, computers, money, ID or anything.  We are working on getting
assistance, but this is Friday, late in the afternoon, and I don't know
what I am going to do next.

It will cost, probably ten thousand dollars just to get another home
on the property.  I have nothing right now.

If anybody on this group can do anything to help, PLEASE do.  If there
is any money offered, I will pay it back.  But for now I am stuck in a
BIG way and am scared, and still in shock as I go through my stuff in
my mind and realize how much of it is irreplaceable, like the data,
disks, albums (over 30 years collection) and all the other persona
effects from my past.

I know the main thing is that my mom and I are OK but I am still very
very lost and am going out on a limb to see if there is anything that
can be done from people on this group.  This is very embarrassing, and I
am feeling like a bum.  I also realize it is a very long shot.  But it
is worth a shot.   

Other than getting a new home, I need computer equipment and probably
anything else you might think of.  I only have the clothes on my back
and they are filthy now with soot.  

Please email me or send me snail mail if you have any ideas.  I am
pursuing all avenues from here too.

Maybe mom and I can be home for Christmas, but as it looks now, I
kinda doubt it.

Sorry about this.  Please avoid flaming me if you find this begging
offensive.  I have no other choice.

William Pfeiffer
Moderator [removed]

PO Box 8746
Springfield Mo
65801



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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 14:01:17 -0600 ()
From: Bruce Toews <toews@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Blue Screens
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

Hi. Earlier this week someone had mentioned that, for reasons unknown, my
posts to the OTR digest turn the screen blue. Can anyone else alert me as
to whether or not this is happening to them, and if so, what a possible
cause might be? Thanks very much.

Bruce

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Date: 13 Dec 96 15:11:06
From: [removed]@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Re: Flashback Power
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

The radio host obviously did not understand the definition of ªgreatª as it was used by the veteran of the great war.  In that context it does not mean Wow! Terrific! or Wonderful!
Great means ªof much more than ordinary sizeª.  When we speak of the Great Lakes we are not describing their beauty but their size.  Specifically, when we speak of the Great War we mean ªof most importance.ª
However, in the meaning that the radio host gave to the word, he was right.  There are no great wars.
Dick Bertel    

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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 15:44:00 EST
From: Thomas Heathwood <theathwo@[removed]>
To: <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: HERITAGE URL ADDRESS CORRECTION
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Please forgive me for giving out an incorrect address for my HERITAGE
website. It should have read:
[removed]
Happy Holidays!!!
<<TOM HEATHWOOD/HERITAGE RADIO/YESTERDAY-USA SATELLITE RADIO NETWORK>>
  12/13/96
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 14:46:35 -0600 (CST)
From: mached16@[removed] (Daevid MacKenzie, UltimaJock!)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Re: Jean Shepherd
Message-id: <v01540b01aed71d262b07@[[removed]]>
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mwaters@[removed] (Martin J. Waters) writes:

>Max Schmid asked in an 11/1/96 post: Where outside NY and Boston was Jean
>Shepherd carried in syndication?
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>In the early 1970s, his program was carried late at night by WFCR-FM,
>Amherst, Mass., a public radio station that then covered western
>[removed] [removed] and most of Conn., with a boost from a translater in
>New Haven, as Conn. had no public radio station then.

...since Shepherd originated on WOR, then owned by RKO General, I suspect
that several of the other RKO stations also carried him if their formats
allowed for such programs (I know KFRC San Francisco did; unsure about KHJ
Los Angeles, CKLW Detroit/Windsor and the rest)...


Daevid MacKenzie, UltimaJock!=81
mached16@[removed] and ultimajock@[removed]
[removed]

At Dick Nixon's funeral it was a felony to
utter the word "Nosferatu" before the body was buried.

"Politically unsound. I like that." - James Vesperman

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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 15:12:28 -0600 (CST)
From: Rhiman Rotz--IU Northwest <rrotz@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: OTR on shortwave
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

	I seem to recall a thread about possible OTR on shortwave
a couple of months back, to which someone responded with a hope that
there might be some on WWCR, but they'd only been able to find a
1995 schedule.
	Well, after some searching and checking that I won't bore
you with, I can report that there is indeed a program called "the
Golden Age of Radio", from the USA Radio Network, sent out on 
Sundays on WWCR 1 [the mostly religious station actually has four
different shortwave "channels].  It would be from 0700 to 0800
Greenwich Mean Time (UTC) at [removed] Mhz.  That info isn't likely 
to be useful to anyone who isn't either on the west coast or a 
night owl, because that translates to 2am EST, 1am CST, midnight 
in the mountains, and 11pm (Saturday night) Pacific.  I'm also
pretty sure it's just an engineer running a tape.  But, hey,
it's radio.
	WWCR also posts regularly updated copies of its
schedule for all 4 channels at:
	[removed]
The transmitters are in Nashville, Tenn.
	Cheers --



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