Bill Porter (September 9, 1932- December 4, 2013)

Born with cerebral palsy in San Francisco, CA, Porter moved to Portland. OR.
with his mother at a young age. Unable to gain employment due to his disability,
Porter never gave up and eventually convinced Watkins Incorporated, makers
of baking products and other household items, to give him a door-to-door sales
job. He sold Watkins products within a seven-mile route in the Portland area and
soon became a top salesman for the company.

Bill Porter’s successful determination brought him media attention across the U.S
when The Oregonian newspaper in 1995 ran a feature story about him. In 2002
a made-for-TV movie starring William H. Macy called Door to Door aired on TNT.

A long time friend, Shelly Brady, said “it wasn’t the disease that he fought that
killed him, it was a regular infection.

Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman) is 81 today

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Artist’s depiction of the five lost TBM Torpedo Bombers

The so-called "Lost Squadron", Flight 19, departed at about 2:10 P.M. from the U.S.  Naval Air Station, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. They were on an authorized overwater navigational training flight. A radio message intercepted at about 4 P.M. that
afternoon was the first indication that Flight 19 was lost. They were never heard
from again. A PBM patrol plan was launched at approximately 7:30 P.M to search
for the missing squadron, but this aircraft was never seen nor heard from after it
took-off. Flight 19 remains one of the great aviation mysteries of the Bermuda
Triangle.

The Martin PBM Mariner seaplane

Flight 19’s scheduled navigation exercise

Lorne Green become the second Canadian solo artist (after Paul Anka)
to have a number one hit on the Billboard singles chart when his spoken
word recording about a Western gun fighter named Ringo reached the
top. The star of NBC-TV’s hit show Bonanza recorded seven albums
for RCA.

"Ringo” also peaked at #1 on the "Easy Listening" chart and stayed at
the top for six weeks. The single also went to number twenty-one on
Hot Country Singles chart.