Wm Oliver Swofford: This Date in History

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My mom was a PHN in Edgecombe County for twenty some years. Princeville seemed to always get the brunt of flooding. It basically sits in a bowl right next to the Tar. IIRC, they were supposed to get a new levee but it was delayed after they found it would cause flooding in Tarboro.
 
Patb78 said:
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I grew up in Edgecombe County about 10 miles east of Princeville. My parents were surrounded by floodwaters that was up to the floor joists but never entered the house except my dad's gameroom/workshop which was on a ground level slab. They did not get electricity for 27 days and telephone service (a big deal still then) was not restored for more than 4 months.
 
Paine said:
My mom was a PHN in Edgecombe County for twenty some years. Princeville seemed to always get the brunt of flooding. It basically sits in a bowl right next to the Tar. IIRC, they were supposed to get a new levee but it was delayed after they found it would cause flooding in Tarboro.
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If your mom worked at the Edgecombe County Health Department then I would bet almost anything she knows my mom. My mom was the administrator of the Tarboro Clinic and then the Women's Center beside the Hospital. She started working in the file room of the clinic in high school and never left working in those two buildings until she retired 50 years later. Ask your mom if she knows Delores Everette.
 
wmheel1287 said:
If your mom worked at the Edgecombe County Health Department then I would bet almost anything she knows my mom. My mom was the administrator of the Tarboro Clinic and then the Women's Center beside the Hospital. She started working in the file room of the clinic in high school and never left working in those two buildings until she retired 50 years later. Ask your mom if she knows Delores Everette.
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Wow, small world. I just asked her and she said yes, she knows her. My mom did work at the health department. She finally left for Johnston Co. a few years back after dealing with serious staffing issues at the HD in the wake of Covid.
 
wmheel1287 said:
I grew up in Edgecombe County about 10 miles east of Princeville. My parents were surrounded by floodwaters that was up to the floor joists but never entered the house except my dad's gameroom/workshop which was on a ground level slab. They did not get electricity for 27 days and telephone service (a big deal still then) was not restored for more than 4 months.
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Oh man. Sorry they had to go through all that shit.
 
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#OTD 1945 b. William Oliver Swofford in N.Wilkesboro. A Morehead Scholar @UNC, his college band unsuccessful, he recorded ‘Good Morning Starshine’ from the musical ‘Hair’ as OLIVER & hit #3 on the Billboard Easy Listening Charts in ‘69. Two months later, ‘Jean’ hit #2. He had modest success in the ‘70s, left music, had a good career in sales, & passed away in 2000. Brother John was Commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference & Quarterbacked @UNC. Another brother played football @dook. Oliver, North Wilkesboro Native, a Sixties Pop Sensation
 
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#OTD 1945 b. William Oliver Swofford in N.Wilkesboro. A Morehead Scholar @UNC, his college band unsuccessful, he recorded ‘Good Morning Starshine’ from the musical ‘Hair’ as OLIVER & hit #3 on the Billboard Easy Listening Charts in ‘69. Two months later, ‘Jean’ hit #2. He had modest success in the ‘70s, left music, had a good career in sales, & passed away in 2000. Brother John was Commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference & Quarterbacked @UNC. Another brother played football @dook. Oliver, North Wilkesboro Native, a Sixties Pop Sensation
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I remember watching the Ed Sullivan show when Oliver was a guest. After Oliver's performance, as usual, he walked over to shake Ed Sullivan's hand. Then Ed motioned the camera to swing out to the audience and Ed identified Oliver's parents and his younger brother, John. At this point in time, John was the back-up quarterback. The starting quarterback (Gale Bomar???) was injured early on against the Air Force Academy game and Olive came in and had a great game, setting a then UNC record for most touchdown passes in a game. Of course, Air Force, had a terrible defense. And Ed Sullivan further identified John Swofford as holding the UNC record for most touchdown passes in a game. I don't think I have ever seen anyone on live TV look more embarrassed than John Swafford did at that point.
 
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OMG! I will be forever grateful that my parents were not the 1950's versions of the head-in-the-sand MAGA's who believed they didn't have to spend the money or run the risk of vaccines as long as everyone else's children got vaccinated. And that was sort of the way that my parents explained it to me. I didn't like shots AT ALL. My parents explained that getting the shots was just part of my duty as an America. My mother reminded that my father had joined the Marines and was wounded on Guadalcanal and Guam to protect the United States and that it was the least I could do to get a vaccination. I had no answer for that. Also, I really didn't like the vaccinations that weren't shots, but where the doctor scaped the skin on my upper arm open so that the vaccine could be "ladled" into the open wound and put a band-aid over it. And all I got--aside the whole immunity thing--was a lollipop.
 
As a young child I was taken to the ER with a high fever. The doctors were concerned I might have polio and admitted me to a polio isolation ward. Polio was ruled out by spinal tap. The doctor left the large metal spinal needle(they were reusable in those days) by my bedside. With its removable trocar and adjustable side ports it reminded me of a space ship. The doctor later let me take it home and I played with it for years. Many years later I would distract patients with this story as I did a spinal tap.
 
Sugar cubes at the local elementary school-I believe it was on a Saturday so the parents were there
1961?
 
mpaer said:
Sugar cubes at the local elementary school-I believe it was on a Saturday so the parents were there
1961?
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My polio vaccine was on a sugar cube. They set up tables on a Sunday afternoon in downtown Concord and you could just drive up and they would ask “how many” and just hand you tiny cups containing the sugar cube. I don’t recall any paperwork or legal disclosures/release of liability being part of the process. I just remember not having to get out of the car to get my sugar cube.
 
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