Who, What, When, Where & Wiandt

I always thought that Dr. Bruce Banner turned into the Incredible Hulk in the comics. I knew it because I read it. Over and over, that was his secret identity, known only to Rick Jones. On TV he was known as David Banner, but he remained Bruce in the comics.

So now I see in a reprinting of Fantastic Four #25 in Fantastic Four King-Size Special #4, which I purchased from Jeff Harper’s commic book convention in Akron Sunday, that the Hulk’s alter ego is really BOB Banner. Above is as scan of the top strip of Page 5 of FF 25. I never saw this before. Did you?

Former Cleveland Indians manager Eric Wedge and Commissioner Dolan from Will Eisner’s “The Spirit.”

Pluto the iguana recently fell out of his beroom window in Cuyahoga Falls and was out in the cold until the Fire Department rescued him out of a tree five blocks away and a teacher housed him until his owner took him home a month after he disappeared. Read all about it here.

Does anyone remember Klines Chips? They were made in Bolivar.

These are some photos taken of the Warhawk crash site in Cuyahoga Falls (See Aug. 12 post). Janet Bales Rawson shared with me. Her brother took them.

Today is Bailey’s first birthday. My Yorkie turns 1 today. Happy birthday, Bailey Sue!

A story I wrote recently on the crash of a Warhawk airplane in the middle of a Cuyahoga Falls neighborhood in 1944 has stirred up a few memories. I wrote a column to follow-up on some of those memories. That led to a phone call and an e-mail from two more people who remember that day.

Janet Bales Rawson, 86, of Cuyahoga Falls, told me by telephone on Aug. 7 that she remembers hearing the plane crash and seeing the flames from the wreckage from her parents window. Pregnant with her first child, She was living with her parents, Howard and Dorothy Bales, at 706 School Ave. while her husband, Rollin Rawson, was stationed in Germany. Mrs. Rawson said she was home at the time with her brothers Dick and Jim Bales.

Mrs. Rawson said her mother was at the funeral of Walt Schnabel, the owner of Schnabel Lumber Co. She said a lot of government workers came and worked all night to clear away the debris from the crash. Feds also inspected the Bales home. The only damage was several cracked windows which the government replaced.

Janet’s daugher, Cynthia, said there was a rumor that one of the neighbors had a piece of the plane hanging in his garage. She also said her Uncle Jim or Uncle Dick may have some photos of the crash. (I hope so.)

Fred E. Clark of Jackson Township in the Canton area e-mailed me the following:

I was one of the kids playing in our back yard on Myrtle during the plane crash of 1944.  We lived a couple of houses from High street.  I was almost 3 years old playing with my older brother Keith Clark (6) and another kid.  I still remember the plane smoking, circling  and then seeing the pilot jump.  My brother yelled “run” and then I remember the noise of the crash.  Later that night or the next day, we went salvaging and picked up enough parts to fill a Quaker Oats cereal box (round back then too).  We kept it for several years, then ????

I think that the plane hit the ground just north of a small store on the east side of High.  We lived on the North side of Myrtle, east of High – I don’t remember the address, but I could probably find it.

Our family moved from there to Madison Ave in 1948, where my Dad lived until he died in 1992.

In Feb. 8 issue of the The Cuyahoga Falls News-Press was a story I wrote about a police dog named Zeus who died in December 2008. For the story I interviewed Falls Police Sgt. Perry Tabak, Zeus’s handler. The following are a couple of stories written by Perry that weren’t included in the article.

I knew I was going to have a fun partner the first day I picked him up. [another police officer] and myself went to pick him up near Columbus. (Zeus had been imported from Austria and shipped to Columbus) While driving we looked back and Zeus was laying upside down with his head towards us just looking at us, he did this most of the way home. He could be as silly as he was serious when he was working.

While in a pursuit of a fleeing vehicle the subject rammed my cruiser. He then exited the car and I sent Zeus to apprehend him. Zeus did what he was suppose to do but I could tell that something was wrong.  He was in pain when he bit the subjects arm.  After the subject was taken into custody I examined Zeus. When the subject rammed my cruiser Zeus had been bounced around the cruiser and completely broke one of his canine teeth exposing the root.  Even after this he still attempted to do his job and apprehend the subject. The subject was charged with multiple violations including Felony assault on a police dog, he was later convicted.

Had to stick this in to let everyone know that Tink’s going to be all right.

This blog seems to have gone to the dogs. I have to ask you to pray for Tinkerbell, the yappy little dog in the comic “Crankshaft” who may have sacrificed his (her?) own life for Ed Crankshaft, the mean old man who told the dog to keep quiet while he was gardening.