GETTING BUGGED: “I would like to know if you can research how,
why, when and who was responsible for the release of ladybugs in
our area. I think it was in the late ’70s or ’80s. I would like to
take a 55-gallon drumful of them and dump them on their front
lawn.”

David Valo of Roulette seems a tad frustrated by this
infestation of ladybugs, yes? The Era has done many articles on
these bugs over the years and know for certain they were not
deliberately released into the area but, rather, were accidentally
introduced – to our perpetual dismay.

MUSICAL NOTE: George T. Howard of Peachtree City, Ga., writes:
“Here’s another item about the music scene in Bradford following
World War II. My wife and I along with many friends attended the
Saturday dances at the American Legion on Pine Street. I remember
two bands – Joe ‘Fats’ Cavallero and Little Civics. Those were good
times.”

MARJORIE WEST: Jim Frambes of McMurray writes about an unusual
anniversary – the disappearance some 70 years ago of Marjorie West
who had been picking mayflowers in Marshburg for her mother.

Her disappearance, just before Mother’s Day, touched off an
exhaustive search of the region – but she was never found.

Jim continues, “Recently read in the Olean paper of a missing
child of 70 years ago. My father told of the long, grueling,
unsuccessful search and I still think of that when I’m fishing
Chapel Fork. Also a year or two before or after another little girl
was lost in the Straights Creek area. He also assisted in that
unsuccessful search.”

OH, ZIPPO: Skip Riekofsky of Kushequa writes: “In relation to
the first ‘Zippo sighting,’ it seems to me that in one of the
Bogart movies there was a telltale ‘click’ as he lit one of his
cigarettes.”

ON PATROL: Chauncey Kan, Panama City Beach, Fla., writes: “I,
too, was a patrol boy at Cyclone Elementary. I lasted one day, was
fired for some reason. What really stunk was that the job was
given to a girl! Younger than me! My little sister, Toni! She got
to go to D.C. and I’ve not spoken to her since!”