From the July 3, 2015, Wilmington (NC) Star-News "Back Then" by Scott Nunn.
I always love it when he writes one of these from news from the paper in the past. Unfortunately it is no longer done on a monthly basis.
JUNE 19, 1915: From Wrightsville Beach-- "A jumbo turtle weighing something like 500 pounds is on exhibit at the Oceanic hotel. It will be kept on exhibit until tomorrow afternoon when it will be butchered by a skilled turtle butcher.
"It is expected there will be between 200 and 500 eggs in the turtle, which was caught in the surf by two experienced anglers from New York, who also caught several large drum."
You sure wouldn't be exhibiting a sea turtle and especially not killing it today.
JUNE 11, 1965: Maxwell D. Taylor, U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that there was no plan for a dramatic increase in U.S. ground troops there. He said there was no truth to the rumor that troop levels would be going from 53,000 to 250,000.
According to the U.S. department of Defense, in 1964 there were 23,300 there and 184,300 by the end of 1965. The number peaked at 536,100 in 1968.)
Liar. --Cooter
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