Documentation Manager: New York, NY.
10+ years in equipment leasing/secured lending. Skilled in management & training, documentation, policy and procedure development & implementation, portfolio reporting. Strong work ethic.
Email: dln1031@nyc.rr.com

Finance: Austin, TX.
20+ years all facets of lease/finance. Collection and credit management. Equipment & rolling stock structuring. $150k credit authority, $100 million portfolio management.
Email: texmartin@juno.com

Finance: Lyndhurst, NJ
CFO w/20+ years leasing/financing. Respected by lenders/rating agencies full & fair financial reporting. Outstanding record restructuring debt. Adept at investor relations and mentoring people.
Email: joemcdev@aol.com

Finance: San Jose, CA.
15+ years sourcing debt, managing cash and receivables and other treasury functions. Strong background in credit, contract administration and bankruptcy litigation experience. MBA Finance.
Email: raycis@comcast.net

Legal: Los Angeles, CA
Experienced in-house corporate and financial services attorney seeks position as managing or transactional counsel. Willing to relocate.
Email: sandidq@msn.com

“I wanted to contact you and get back on your newsletter distribution list at my home e.mail address (no longer works. editor) I am eager to keep in contact with my fellow leasing cohorts despite the unfortunate news of Advanta Leasing Corp's closing.

During my seven years at Advanta I met and worked with so many great people both inside the company and throughout the industry. You, Kit, and many others in the industry were a source of inspiration, excrement, and stimulating humor that I truly adored. Thanks for your kind words of encouragement and the book you sent me.

It was important for me to stick with Advanta and see it through. Advanta had always challenged me and encouraged me to succeed, and that is something I am grateful for and I will take with me wherever I go.

Thanks to Advanta's generosity (and legal obligations) I am taking some time to relax and plan my wedding. I got engaged last Fall and am getting married this May in England. After that I am eager to find new work and new challenges to overcome.

( According to recent reports, she has married, changed her name,
of course, and is no longer in the leasing industry. If anyone
can up-date this, please let us know. editor )

“As I told you the Austrian soccer club FC Tirol has announced to receive 15 Million Dollar from Parker Leasing. The truth is that the club did not get at least one dollar so far.

“On the other hand the clubs president, Mr. Martin Kerscher, transferred already 650.000 dollar to a bank account in Florida ? as a deposit ? as he announced. Strange!!!??? But I guess now he awake and he is trying to get the money back. The chance for success is very little. Kerscher get a lot of pressure because he is manager with Nike sports responsible for Austria, Slowenia and Croatia.

“I would say he is currently pretty helpless. Kerscher cooperates with an English consulter who built up the contact to Parker Leasing. His name is Ian Hethrington. Kerschers last comment to Hethrington: Ian, pull your socks up, because shit is boiling here.

“And: The Austrian soccer league is thinking about taking them away the license. “

“The Austrian soccer club FC Tirol is in business with Parker Leasing. The club is very close to bankruptcy but has announced to receive 150 million US-Dollars from Parker Leasing in the next three weeks. For me it is hard to believe that an American Leasing company gives so much money to an Austrian soccer club.”

Former FC Tirol club bosses convicted
from Slam Sports/Soccer ( sent to us by a reader )

INNSBRUCK, Austria - The former bosses of bankrupt Austrian soccer champion FC Tirol were convicted Monday and sentenced to suspended prison terms and probation for bilking creditors.

Robert Hochstaffl, the club's former managing director, received a one-year suspended sentence for wanton negligence damaging creditor interests. Former club presidents Othmar Bruckmueller and Martin Kerscher both received nine-month suspended sentences for the same offence.

Hochstaffl was acquitted of fraud charges. The court led by Judge Anton Mayr placed all three men on three years' probation.

FC Tirol went bankrupt in June 2002 despite having won the Austrian soccer league championship for three consecutive seasons, causing one of the biggest insolvency scandals in Austrian sport.

State lawyer Wilfried Siegele accused Kerscher of "playing club boss in his spare time."

"What people can expect from proper chairmen was clearly neglected in this case," he said.

"The three defendants' expenses were enormous, not to mention their Parker Leasing folly," Siegele added, referring to the defendants' plan to avoid bankruptcy by obtaining a loan from a Florida-based investor, Parker Leasing. However, an alleged Parker Leasing intermediary vanished with a 850,000-euro ($1.36 million Cdn) commission, and the deal fell through.

The club's management was then forced to declare bankruptcy after accumulating 60 million euros ($96 million Cdn) in debt over five years.

A new report on identity fraud contradicts several commonly held views on the issue of ID theft. Contrary to conventional wisdom, most cases occur through offline channels like paper statements instead of the Internet, according to the 2005 Identity Fraud Survey Report from the Better Business Bureau and Javelin Strategy and Research.

The survey found that computer crimes accounted for just 11.6 percent of all identity fraud in 2004. Conversely, most cases stem from a lost or stolen wallet or checkbook.

It also found that in half the cases where a perpetrator is caught, it is somebody known by the victim: a friend, relative, neighbor or in-home employee.

Finally, the report found that the problem is not worsening: the number of victims fell to 9.3 million last year from 10.1 million in 2003

Salt Lake City, Utah – Tetra Financial Group, a Full Service Commercial Leasing Company Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, is pleased to announce Marci Kimball-Slagle, CLP has been named Director of Credit and Debt Placement.

Ms. Slagle brings with her an extensive background in finance, marketing and sales, in addition to more than nine years experience in the equipment leasing industry.

“Marci will be a tremendous asset to our organization as we manage the growth of our portfolios,” said Scott R. Scharman, Executive Vice President, Tetra Financial Group.

“We are seeing a significant increase in activity in our different businesses and Marci will be an integral part in managing this growth as it relates to our risk management, portfolio and syndication efforts.”

Ms. Slagle is active in various industry associations. She currently serves as Treasurer for the Certified Leasing Professional foundation, was on the Board of Directors for the United Association of Equipment Lessors in 2003 and 2004 and will continue to serve as a regional representative. She also serves on numerous committees for United UAEL, NAELB, EAEL and was a past director or MAEL.

For more information you may contact us toll free at 888-865-6602, e-mail to info@tetrafg.com or visit our website at www.tetrafg.com .

Tetra Financial Group is a direct commercial leasing company that specializes in offering financing to middle market borrowers through its three lending groups: Healthcare Finance, Corporate Finance and Structured Finance.

Marci L. Slagle, CLP
Director of Credit and Debt Placement
6925 Union Park Center, Suite 525
Midvale, UT 84047
(801) 748-2200 ext. 226
(801) 748-1066 (fax)
marci@tetrafg.com

Middle Market Sales Rep.: exp. sales reps throughout country for middle market leasing/financing. Must have min.5-years exp. in “hard assets” ranging from 100K -$1.0MM generated from vendor and /or direct sources. Excel. benefits, base salary and commission program. Resumes to amandell@eqcorp.com .

About the Company: A rapidly expanding Middle Market Leasing / Finance Company located in CT. Equilease Financial Services, Inc

Marsh & McLennan to Pay $850 Million in Restitution and Ban Contingent Commissions Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Acting Insurance Superintendent Howard Mills today announced a landmark agreement with the nation's leading insurance brokerage firm to resolve allegations of fraud and anti-competitive practices.

Under the agreement, the Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (Marsh) will provide $850 million in restitution to its policyholders who were harmed by its actions and adopt a new business model designed to avoid conflicts of interest. Marsh also issued a public statement in which it apologizes for "unlawful” and "shameful" conduct, and promises to adopt reforms.

“To its credit, Marsh is not disputing the problems identified in our original complaint," Spitzer said. "Instead, the company has embraced restitution and reform as a way of making a clean break from the practices that misled and harmed its clients in the past."

Acting Superintendent Mills said: “The settlement agreement restores confidence to the marketplace by requiring restitution to Marsh's aggrieved clients, establishing model business practices Marsh will employ going forward, and instituting a system of full disclosure that enables all parties to know who is paying what, and to whom, when purchasing insurance.”

The agreement comes after the Attorney General's office filed a complaint and the Insurance Department filed citations in October alleging that Marsh steered its clients to insurers with which it had lucrative payoff agreements, and that the firm solicited rigged bids for insurance contracts.

In the last three months, six insurance executives from three companies have plead guilty to criminal charges related to the scheme. The joint investigation by Attorney General's office and Insurance Department is continuing.

Under the settlement agreement, Marsh will pay $850 million over four years into a fund from which clients will be compensated. The company will work with the Attorney General's office and the Insurance Department to encourage clients to participate in the fund and to administer it nationwide.

In addition, the company will adopt dramatic new reforms, including an agreement to limit its insurance brokerage compensation to a single fee or commission at the time of placement, a ban on contingent commissions, and a requirement that all forms of compensation will be disclosed to and approved by Marsh's clients.

“These landmark reforms will help protect against conflicts of interest and help restore the integrity of the entire insurance industry, if followed by other firms,” Spitzer said, noting that the reforms go beyond the model guidelines issued recently by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

According to Spitzer's original complaint, Marsh collected approximately $800 million in contingent commissions in 2003. The complaint alleged that those commissions were tainted by conflicts that harmed Marsh's customers -- large corporations, small and mid-size businesses, municipal governments, school districts and some individuals. The investigation underlying today's agreement has been spearheaded by the Attorney General's Public Advocacy and Criminal Divisions.

Audrey Samers, Deputy Superintendent and General Counsel of the New York State Insurance Department, has led the Department's investigation.

Goodwin Procter Adds Nine Attorneys to Its Boston Office; Six Partners and Three Counsel Join from Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)----Goodwin Procter LLP, one of the nation's leading law firms, announced today the addition of six partners and three counsel to its Boston office. The attorneys, all from Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, are in addition to the 19 partners from that firm who recently joined Goodwin Procter.

-- F. George Davitt, Testa's former managing partner, focuses his practice on private equity, buyouts, securities law and mergers and acquisitions.

-- Rufus C. King represents venture capital and other private equity funds, both in fund organization and in investment transactions, as well as public and private technology companies and venture capital firms.

-- George W. Lloyd focuses on business and securities law, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and technology transfer, representing public and private growth-oriented companies in high technology, media and other industries.

-- Carl E. Metzger concentrates on complex business litigation for technology companies in relation to financial fraud, governmental investigations, and intellectual property disputes.

-- Mark D. Smith focuses on transactional and regulatory banking, leasing and commercial matters for commercial banks and other financial institutions, as well as venture capital financing.

-- Inez H. Friedman-Boyce concentrates on securities litigation, mergers and acquisition-related litigation, contests for corporate control and other high stakes business litigation.

The three counsel joining the firm are Kevin P. McGrath, David J. Goldstone and Christine S. Chung. All will practice within the Litigation Department, with McGrath focusing on white collar crime, Goldstone concentrating on intellectual property and white collar crime, and Chung concentrating on securities litigation and white collar crime.

"We are thrilled to welcome these talented attorneys to Goodwin Procter," said Regina M. Pisa, chairman and managing partner of Goodwin Procter. "Our new partners and counsel primarily focus their practices on technology companies and those companies serving the technology industry, as do many of the new partners who recently joined Goodwin Procter from Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault and McDermott, Will & Emery. The combination of these attorneys with our existing capabilities will create a powerful platform and further position Goodwin Procter as a premier law firm in the technology space, one of our key areas of strategic focus."

Goodwin Procter LLP is one of the nation's leading law firms with 625 attorneys. The firm's core areas of practice are corporate, litigation and real estate, with specialized areas of focus that include private equity, technology companies, intellectual property, financial services, real estate capital markets, and products liability. Goodwin Procter is headquartered in Boston, with offices in New York, New Jersey and Washington, DC.

Remote Dynamics, Inc. Signs Customer Lease Program with Lease Corporation of America; Lease Program Offers Maximum Flexibility for Customers of REDIview

RICHARDSON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)----Remote Dynamics, Inc. (Nasdaq:REDI), a leading provider of telematics-based management solutions for commercial fleets, today announced the company has signed a lease program agreement with Lease Corporation of America to offer an equipment-financing alternative to Remote Dynamics' customers.

"Remote Dynamics and LCA have worked closely together to design a customized leasing program that is very customer friendly and easy to use," said Michael Smith, chief operating officer. "We are pleased that LCA has chosen to partner with our company to create this program. Now, our customers have an alternative to forego up-front capital outlays and instead participate in a flexible financing alternative."

Brian Kemp, senior vice president of sales for Lease Corporation of America, stated, "LCA has been a longtime supporter of the telematics industry and a leading financier of telematics products. We are honored that Remote Dynamics, with its impressive array of product offerings, has chosen to work with us in the continued development of their marketing efforts. We look forward to a long and mutually successful relationship."

The REDIview solution is an Internet and service bureau-based software application combined with in-vehicle hardware that provides an extensive array of real-time and accurate mapping, trip replay, and vehicle activity reports. In addition, REDIview includes a series of exception-based reports designed to highlight inefficiencies in the operations of a vehicle fleet. Utilizing Remote Dynamic's proven, high-capacity network operating center, customers may access their information through the Internet or through a dedicated communications port. REDIview was also designed to be equipment and network agnostic to provide the maximum flexibility in designing solutions that best fit the customer's needs.

Remote Dynamics, Inc. (remotedynamics.com) markets, sells and supports state-of-the-art mobile resource management solutions that contribute to higher customer revenues and improved operator efficiency. Combining the technologies of the global positioning system (GPS) and wireless vehicle telematics, the company's solutions improve the productivity of mobile workers by providing real-time position reports, route information and exception-based reporting designed to highlight mobile workforce inefficiencies. Based in Richardson, Texas, the company also markets, sells and supports a customized, GPS-based fleet management solutions for large fleets like SBC Communications, Inc., which has approximately 30,000 installed vehicles now in operation.

"Remote Dynamics" and the Remote Dynamics logotype are trademarks and service marks of Remote Dynamics, Inc.

Synovus Vice Chairman Elected to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors' Federal Advisory Council

COLUMBUS, Ga)----Synovus (NYSE - "SNV"), the Columbus, Georgia-based diversified financial services company, today announced the appointment of Synovus Vice Chairman Frederick L. Green III to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors' Federal Advisory Council. Green's term began January 1, 2005, and ends December 31, 2005.

The Federal Advisory Council (FAC) is composed of 12 representatives of the banking industry. The FAC meets several times a year to consult with and advise the Federal Reserve Board on all matters within the Board's jurisdiction. Each Reserve Bank chooses one FAC member to represent its District, and the members elect their own officers.

Green represents the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, which has responsibility for the Sixth Federal Reserve District. The Sixth District includes the states of Alabama, Florida and Georgia and portions of Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee.

"To represent our industry on the Federal Advisory Council is a true honor and a great responsibility," said Green. "We have the opportunity to support and advise the Federal Reserve Board on recommendations and management of all matters related to the financial services industry and to ensure that all initiatives represent the public interest."

Green joined Synovus in 1995 when Synovus acquired National Bank of South Carolina (NBSC). He served as chairman, president and chief executive officer of NBSC for six years prior to being named to his current position in 2003. He is responsible for the management of all banking and mortgage activities for the Synovus family of companies.

Green is a former member of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and also served as its Federal Advisory Council representative. Green currently serves on the boards of the University of South Carolina Business Partnership Foundation and the University of South Carolina Educational Foundation. Green received his bachelor's degree in finance and M.B.A. from the University of South Carolina.

Synovus (NYSE:"SNV") is a diversified financial services holding company with over $25 billion in assets based in Columbus, Georgia. Synovus provides integrated financial services including banking, financial management, insurance, mortgage and leasing services through 40 banks and other Synovus offices in Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Florida and Tennessee; and electronic payment processing through an 81-percent stake in TSYS (NYSE:"TSS"), the world's largest third-party processor of international payments. Synovus has been named one of "The 100 Best Companies To Work For" in America by FORTUNE magazine, and has been recognized in its Hall of Fame for consecutive appearances on the list since its inception in 1998. In 2004, Synovus was also named as one of "America's Most Admired Companies". See Synovus on the Web at www.synovus.com.

Synovus Media Relations Aimee E. Davis, 706-644-0528 or Synovus Investor Relations Patrick A. Reynolds, 706-649-4973

    1790- The Supreme Court of the United States met for the first time in New York City with Chief Justice John Jay presiding.
    1859-Considered one of America's greatest composers, Victor Herbert, was born in Dublin, Ireland.
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    1860-The first Rabbi to open the House of Representatives with prayer was Rabbi Morris Jacob Raphall, rabbi of Congregation B'nai Jeshurn, New York City, who delivered the invocation at the first session of the 36 th congress.
    1860-Decree from Norton I, Emperor of the United States & Protector of Mexico, orders representatives of the different states to assemble at Platt's Music Hall in Frisco to change laws to ameliorate the evils under which the country is laboring.
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    1861 - Texas seceded from the Union and joined the Confederate States of America.
    1862 - Battle Hymn of the Republic, written by Julia Ward Howe, was first published in the Atlantic Monthly. The song's music was inspired by the song "John Brown's Body." Howe just wrote new words for the existing music.
    1865- President Abraham Lincoln's signed into law the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution (abolishing slavery): "1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation." The amendment had been proposed by the Congress Jan 31, 1865; ratification was completed Dec 6, 1865.
    1865-The first lawyer admitted to practice before the Supreme Court who was African-American was John S. Rock,. His admittance was moved by Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts. Chief Justice Salmon Portland Chase presided. It would be the last triumphant act in a life overflowing with achievement, for Rock died suddenly on December 3, 1866. He was interred at the Twelfth Baptist Church and buried with full Masonic honors at Woodlawn Cemetery in Everett, MA.
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    1878- Hattie Wyatt Caraway, born at Bakersville, TN, Hattie Caraway became a US senator from Arkansas when her husband died in 1931 and she was appointed to fill out his term. The following year she ran for the seat herself and became the first woman elected to the US Senate. She served 14 years there, becoming an adept and tireless legislator (once introducing 43 bills on the same day) who worked for women's rights (once cosponsoring an equal rights amendment), supported New Deal policies as well as Prohibition and opposed the increasing influence of lobbyists. Caraway died at Falls Church, VA, Dec 21, 1950.
    1893- The first moving picture studio was built at Thomas Edison's laboratory compound at West Orange, NJ, at a cost of less than $700. The wooden structure of irregular oblong shape was covered with black tar paper. It had a sharply sloping roof hinged at one edge so that half of it could be raised to admit sunlight. Fifty feet in length, it was mounted on a pivot enabling it to be swung around to follow the changing position of the sun. There was a stage draped in black at one end of the room. Though the structure was officially called a Kinetographic Theater, it was nicknamed the "Black Maria" because it resembled an old-fashioned police wagon.
    1894—Birthday of rag time pianist/composer James P. Johnson
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    1895--Film director John Ford was born at Cape Elizabeth, ME, as Sean Aloysius O'Feeney; he changed his name after moving to Hollywood. Ford won his first Academy Award in 1935 for The Informer . Among his many other films: Stagecoach, Young Mr. Lincoln, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, Rio Grande, What Price Glory? and Mister Roberts . During World War II he served as chief of the Field Photographic Branch of the OSS. Two documentaries made during the war earned him Academy Awards. He died Aug 31, 1973, at Palm Desert, CA.
    1898- Travelers Insurance Company issued the first car insurance against accidents with horses.
    1901- actor Clark Gable birthday. His first film was The Painted Desert in 1931, when talking films were replacing silent films. He won an Academy Award for his role in the comedy It Happened One Night , which established him as a romantic screen idol. Other films included China Seas, Mutiny on the Bounty, Saratoga, Run Silent Run Deep and Gone with the Wind , for which his casting as Rhett Butler seemed a foregone conclusion due to his popularity as the acknowledged "King of Movies." Gable was born at Cadiz, OH, and died Nov 16, 1960, at Hollywood, CA, shortly after completing his last film, Arthur Miller's The Misfits , in which he starred with Marilyn Monroe.
    1902- birthday of Langston Hughes. African American poet and author, born at Joplin, MO. Among his works are the poetry collection Montage of a Dream Deferred , plays, a novel and short stories. Hughes died May 22, 1967 at New York, NY.
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    1906-- 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth KS. The penitentiary is the largest maximum-security prison in the United States, housing more than 2,200 inmates. Famous inmates over the years included Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly, and Robert Stroud – the famous “Birdman of Alcatraz.” Actually, Stroud's bird work began at Leavenworth, where he served 28 years before being transferred to Alcatraz. The Immanuel Church, located on the grounds, was made famous in Ripley's Believe it or Not as the only church in which Protestant and Catholic services were conducted simultaneously.
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    1911- Thomas Jennings was found guilty and sentenced to death for the murder of Clarence B. Hiller in the Criminal Court of Cook County, Illinois. He was convicted because of his fingerprints and is the first to be found guilty. The Illinois Supreme Court rule that fingerprints were admissible evidence. Hiller was hanged for his crime.
    1919 - The first Miss America was crowned in New York City. The winner, Edith Hyde was found by the judges not to be a Miss. She was a "Mrs." named Mrs. Tod Robbins, the mother of two children.
    1920 - The North West Mounted Police ("The Mounties") became the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
    1934- Bob Shane of the Kingston Trio was born in Hilo, Hawaii. The trio was credited with starting the folk craze of the late 1950's and early '60s with their hit recording of "Tom Dooley" in 1958. The Kingston Trio had a clean-cut collegiate image which helped them win acceptance among the trendy college crowd. The trio broke up in 1968.
    1937- Don Everly of the Everly Brothers was born in Brownie, Kentucky. The brothers were one of the most important acts of early rock 'n' roll. Their music, a mixture of close country harmonies over a rocking beat, resulted in two dozen chart entries, including such number-one records as "Wake Up Little Susie," "All I Have to Do Is Dream" and "Cathy's Clown." The brothers broke up in 1973, reunited in 1983 and again in 1985. They were last seen touring with Garfunkle and Simon, who re-united, and confessed on stage, before the introduction, when they started, they were trying to sound like their idols, the Everly Brothers.
    1939 - On Victor Records, Benny Goodman and his orchestra recorded "And the Angels Sing". The vocalist for that song went on to find fame at Capitol Records, Martha Tilton.
    1940 - For his first recording session, held in Chicago, Illinois, with the Tommy Dorsey Band, Frank Sinatra sang "Too Romantic" and "The Sky Fell Down". Sinatra replaced Jack Leonard as the band's lead singer.
    1941 - "Downbeat" magazine reported Glenn Miller had signed a new three-year contract with RCA Victor Records, guaranteeing him $750 a side, the largest record contract signed to that date.
    1944---Top Hits
My Heart Tells Me - The Glen Gray Orchestra (vocal: Eugenie Baird)
Shoo, Shoo, Baby - The Andrews Sisters
Besame Mucho - The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Bob Eberly & Kitty Kallen
Pistol Packin' Mama - Al Dexter
    1945-- US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie, a major defense of the Nazi regime.
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    1949 - Louis B. Mayer, of Metro Goldwin Mayer (MGM), became a millionaire all over again when he sold his racehorse breeding farm for one-million dollars.
    1949 - 1949, RCA Victor introduced the 45 rpm record. It was designed as a rival to Columbia's 33 1/3 rpm long- playing disc, introduced the previous year. The two systems directly competed with each other to replace 78 rpm records, bewildering consumers and causing a drop in record sales. By the end of 1949, all the major companies, except RCA, had committed themselves to the LP record, seemingly putting an end to the 45. Even RCA itself announced it would issue its classical library on 33 1/3 rpm discs. But RCA was not ready to admit the demise of the 45 rpm record. The company spent $5-million publicizing 45 rpm as the preferred speed for popular music. The campaign worked. Buyers of non-classical records turned increasingly to the 45 rpm record, so that by 1954, more than 200-million of them had been sold. And all the major companies now were producing both 33 1/3 and 45 rpm records.
    1951 -50ºF (-46ºC), Gavilan NM (state record)
    1952---Top Hits
Slowpoke - Pee Wee King
Cry - Johnnie Ray
Anytime - Eddie Fisher
Give Me More, More, More (Of Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell
    1953 - "Private Secretary" debuted on CBS-TV starring Ann Southern as Susie McNamera, the private secretary to New York talent agent, Peter Sands played by Don Porter. With its last show airing on September 10, 1957, the show ran on CBS during the regular television seasons and ran on NBC-TV in the summers of 1953 and 1954.
    1953- "Your Are There" premiered on Television. The program began as an inventive radio show in 1947. News correspondents would comb the annals of history and "interview" the movers and shakers of times past. Walter Cronkite hosted the series on CBS for four seasons. The show's concept was revived for a season in 1971 with Cronkite gearing the program toward children.
    1951 - The greatest ice storm of record in the U.S. produced glaze up to four inches thick from Texas to Pennsylvania causing twenty-five deaths, 500 serious injuries, and 100 million dollars damage. Tennessee was hardest hit by the storm. Communications and utilities were interrupted for a week to ten days
    1951 - The temperature at Taylor Park Dam plunged to 60 degrees below zero, a record for the state of Colorado
    1953- General Electric Theater premiered on TV. CBS's half-hour dramatic anthology series was hosted by Ronald Reagan (in between his movie and political careers). Making their television debuts were Joseph Cotten (1954); Fred MacMurray, James Stewart and Myrna Loy (1955); Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, Tony Curtis and Fred Astaire (1957); Sammy Davis, Jr (1958); and Gene Tierney (1960). Other memorable stars who appeared on the series include: Joan Crawford, Harry Belafonte, Rosalind Russell, Ernie Kovacs, the Marx Brothers and Nancy Davis Reagan, who starred with her husband in the premonitory episode titled "A Turkey for the President" (1958).
    1954 - On CBS-TV, "The Secret Storm" was shown for the first day of a 20-year run
    1960- Greensboro Sit-In. Commercial discrimination against blacks and other minorities provoked a nonviolent protest. At Greensboro, NC, four students from the Agricultural and Technical College (Ezell Blair, Jr, Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeill and David Richmond) sat down at a Woolworth's store lunch counter and ordered coffee. Refused service, they remained all day. The following days similar sit-ins took place at the Woolworth's' lunch counter. Before the week was over they were joined by a few white students. The protest spread rapidly, especially in southern states. More than 1,600 people were arrested before the year was over for participating in sit-ins. Civil rights for all became a cause for thousands of students and activists. In response, equal accommodation regardless of race became the rule at lunch counters, hotels and business establishments in thousands of places.
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    1960---Top Hits
Running Bear - Johnny Preston
Teen Angel - Mark Dinning
Where or When - Dion & The Belmonts
El Paso - Marty Robbins
    1964- "I Want to Hold Your Hand" by the Beatles reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It stayed there for seven weeks.
    1964-The governor of Indiana declared "Louie, Louie" pornographic. The song was about seven years old when the Kingsmen recorded their version in 1963, and the fantastic legend that grew up in its wake--a legend that even an FCC investigation couldn't kill--seems to have sprung solely from their extraordinary lack of elocution. Berry, who spoke on the subject a while back to a Los Angeles interviewer named Bill Reed, explains the song as the lament of a seafaring man, spoken to a sympathetic bartender named Louie. Here, without further ado, are the "official" published lyrics:
"Louie Louie, me gotta go. Louie Louie, me gotta go. A fine little girl, she wait for me. Me catch the ship across the sea. I sailed the ship all alone. I never think I'll make it home. Louie Louie, me gotta go . Three nights and days we sailed the sea. Me think of girl constantly. On the ship, I dream she there. I smell the rose in her hair. Louie Louie, me gotta go. Me see Jamaican moon above. It won't be long me see me love. Me take her in my arms and then I tell her I never leave again. Louie Louie, me gotta go." (By Richard Berry. Copyright 1957-1963 by Limax Music Inc.)
    1966-The first Navy captain who was African-American was Thomas David Parham, Jr., of Newport News, VA, a Presbyterian chaplain, whose rank was raised from commander to captain.
    1967- the American Basketball Association (ABA) was born with 10 teams and George Mikan as commissioner in hits first season. The ABA lasted nine years before four teams, the Denver Nuggets, the Indiana Pacers, the New Jersey Nets and the San Antonio Spurs, were absorbed into the NBA.
    1968---Top Hits
Judy in Disguise (With Glasses) - John Fred & His Playboy Band
Chain of Fools - Aretha Franklin
Green Tambourine - The Lemon Pipers
Sing Me Back Home - Merle Haggard
    1968- Green Bay Packers head coach Vince Lombardi resigned after nine seasons, five NFL titles and victories in the first two Super Bowls. Oddly enough, Green Bay's founding coach, Curly Lambeau, resigned on the same day in 1950 after 29 years on the job.
    1968- Elvis Presley's only child, Lisa Marie, was born. Elvis and his wife, Priscilla, were married in Las Vegas the previous May. They were divorced in 1973.
    1974- “Good Times” premiered on TV. A CBS spin-off from "Maude," which was a spin-off of "All in the Family." "Good Times" featured an African American family living in the housing projects of Chicago. The series portrayed the Evans family's struggles to improve their lot. The cast featured Esther Rolle and John Amos as Florida and James Evans, Jimmie Walker as son J.J., Bernadette Stanis as daughter Thelma, Ralph Carter as son Michael, Johnny Brown as janitor Mr. Bookman, Ja'Net DuBois as neighbor Willona Woods, Janet Jackson as Willona's adopted daughter Penny and Ben Powers as Thelma's husband, Keith Anderson.
    1976---Top Hits
Love Rollercoaster - Ohio Players
Love to Love You Baby - Donna Summer
You Sexy Thing - Hot Chocolate
This Time I've Hurt Her More Than She Loves Me - Conway Twitty
    1978- the first postage stamp depicting an African-American woman was issued. It showed the likeness of Harriet Tubman, the escaped slave and abolitionist who led more than 300 slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad. Bob Dylan's film "Renaldo and Clara," a documentary of the Rolling Thunder Revue tour mixed with surrealistic fantasy sequences, premieres in Los Angeles.
    1982- "Late Night with David Letterman premiered..” This is when it all began: the stupid pet tricks, stupid human tricks and the legendary top ten lists. "Late Night" premiered on NBC as a talk/variety show appearing after "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson." Host David Letterman was known for his irreverent sense of humor and daffy antics. The offbeat show attained cult status among college crowds and insomniacs, as many tuned in to see a Velcro-suited Letterman throw himself against a wall. The show also featured bandleader-sidekick Paul Shaffer, writer Chris Elliott and Calvert DeForest as geezer Larry "Bud" Melman. In 1993, Letterman made a highly publicized exit from NBC and began hosting "The Late Show" on CBS.
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    1984---Top Hits
Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes
Karma Chameleon - Culture Club
Talking in Your Sleep - The Romantics
The Sound of Goodbye - Crystal Gayle
    1985 -69ºF (-56ºC), Peter's Sink UT (state record)
    1985 - Snow, sleet and ice glazed southern Tennessee and northern sections of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The winter storm produced up to eleven inches of sleet and ice in Lauderdale County AL, one of the worst storms of record for the state. All streets in Florence AL were closed for the first time of record
    1987 - Terry Williams from Los Gatos, California, won the largest slot machine payoff, to that time, pocketing $4.9 million after getting four lucky 7s on a machine in Reno, Nevada.
    1988 - Thirty cities in the eastern U.S. reported new record high temperatures for the date, including Richmond VA with a reading of 73 degrees. Thunderstorms in southern Louisiana deluged Basile with 12.34 inches of rain. Arctic cold gripped the north central U.S. Wolf Point MT reported a low of 32 degrees below zero
    1989 - While arctic cold continued to invade the central U.S., fifty- four cities in the south central and eastern U.S. reported new record high temperatures for the date. Russell KS, the hot spot in the nation with a high of 84 degrees the previous day, reported a morning low of 12 above. Tioga ND reported a wind chill reading of 90 degrees below zero
    1989- a Spokane, Washington, funeral director revealed that jazz saxophonist and pianist Billy Tipton, who had lived his life as a man, was a woman. Tipton played for years in the US northwest after a career with several big bands. He appeared to have a wife and adopted three sons.
    1990---Top Hits
How Am I Supposed To Live Without You- Michael Bolton
Opposites Attract- Paula Abdul (Duet With The Wild Pair)
Downtown Train- Rod Stewart
Two To Make It Right- Seduction
    1992 - United States President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed the Camp David declaration which states t hat their two countries no longer regard each other as adversaries
    1992--Barry Bonds signs baseball's highest single year contract ($4.7 million)
    1993- on Lisa Marie's 25th birthday, it was announced that she wouldn't be taking over her father's estate as provided in his will. Lisa Marie left management of Graceland and other parts of Elvis's multimillion-dollar estate to Jack Soden, head of Elvis Presley Enterprises.
    1995---Top Hits
Creep- TLC
On Bended Knee- Boyz II Men
Another Night- Real McCoy
Take A Bow- Madonna
    2000---Top Hits
I Knew I Loved You- Savage Garden
What A Girl Wants- Christina Aguilera
Smooth- Santana Featuring Rob Thomas
Back At One- Brian McKnigh