Today is Not Income Tax Pay Day

Well, not so fast.  Your return is still due soon but not until Monday, April 18 because Washington, D.C., is celebrating Emancipation Day, a day earlier than normal, since April 16 falls on a Saturday.  Emancipation Day marks the anniversary of the day that President Lincoln signed the Compensated Emancipation Act.

History 101: 1947: Jackie Robinson became the first black player in a major-league baseball game since brothers Moses and Welday Walker played for Toledo in 1884.

1969 – This singer is released from the Army after serving in Vietnam. Unfortunately, he was overseas during the time that his band enjoyed their biggest success: Archie Bell (and the Drells) “Tighten Up”

We had a visit from Chad with the Animal Services Center of the Mesilla Valley.

With him is Miss O who is available for adoption but considering how adorable she is she won’t last long (we hope.)  The ASCMV is at 3551 Bataan Memorial, Las Cruces, NM 88012.  The number is (575) 382-0018.

And they can use your help in the ASPCA $100K challenge.  They need to finish in the top 50 to move on to the next round of competition.  Today is your last chance to vote: www.votetosavelives.org

101 number one song of the day: was sung by a guy whose two passions were baseball and music. When he went to Auburn University he discovered that his 120 pounds of body mass was not enough to make to the major leagues so when one of the greatest voices in the history of rock and roll asked him to go on the road as an opening act his threw down his bat and picked up his guitar.  Roy Orbison heard him play when he was a sophomore and offered him the job. He toured with Roy for two and a half years eventually joining him onstage singing harmonies. But all the while he was writing his own stuff and when they started to chart, Orbison graciously let him go his own way but assured him the door was open for him to come back if things didn’t work out. But they did work out especially when he came across a song written by Bobby Russell who would later write a song for his then wife Vickie Lawrence which we featured just a short while ago. That was the “Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia” This song was inspired by a tree in his front yard. One day he looked out and he was shocked to see “how big it had grown” The song flowed from there and it was riding atop the music charts at number one on this day in 1968 for Bobby Goldsboro.  The song: Honey