NEW YORK — In a city understandably wary of low-flying aircraft, New Yorkers and tourists alike watched with joy and excitement Friday as space shuttle Enterprise sailed over the skyline on its final flight before it becomes a museum piece.
Barbara Scheiderer, a controller with The Richwood Banking Company, pumps gas for a Speedway customer during the bank’s gas station takeover Wednesday. Starting at 2 p.m., the bank provided the first 200 customers with $20 worth of free gasoline, a cup of coffee and a cookie. The promotion is part of the bank’s unconventional marketing strategy. “We want to be the purple cow of the banking industry,” Scheiderer said. “f you were driving down the road and saw a purple cow, you couldn’t miss it.”
A 62-year-old Delaware man with a lengthy rap sheet who was arrested on a Los Angeles 1978 murder charge Monday night ironically served on the block watch and safety committee for the retirement community where he lived, according to neighbors there.
Paul E. Spears, chairman of the board of Hanover Shoe Farms and executive vice-president of the Standardbred Horse Sales Company, has been elected as the 27th Little Brown Jug Wall of Fame honoree.