Tag: Burl Kincaid

The Owingsville Panthers

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From the journals about a basketball team that he played on. He and his teammates would have been between 18 and 21.

Prior to the 1935-36 basketball season, a group of young men organized a semi pro team. After much discussion regarding organization, uniforms, transportation, finances, and team name, it was apparent from our first talks that we would like a name not being used much in our area so we chose the name “Panthers.”  Having attractive, colorful uniforms required much input from the squad members. Finally, we selected crimson and gray (Ohio State University colors) which made a very striking outfit.  Our warm-up jackets were crimson with gray sleeves and they had a Panther head to the left on the chest.  Fortunately, we knew Roy Kissick who was the proud owner of a huge Cadillac(with jump seats) and would transport our team. On occasions he would crowd 13 in that fine car.

The Panthers scheduled several independent or semi-pro teams in this area, such as Paris, Camargo, Morehead CCC, Carlisle, Little Rock and others.  We won more than half of the games we played.

The Panther Squad

Coach Morgan Steele

Players:
John H. Elliott
Roger Byron
Burl Kincaid Jr.
Harold Reynolds
Charles Hazelrigg
Charlie McKee
Charles Anderson
“Dinks” Jones

        

What was Owingsville and the world like in 1916?

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There was no I-64. It was built in the 1960’s. The main road was the Midland Trail which was gravel.
The automobile of the day was the Ford Model T and they were all black.
To go somewhere of any distance, you went to Preston or Olympia and caught the train.
US 60 as we know it did not exist until 1926, when they built it out of concrete.
There were no microwave ovens, stoves of the day were probably wood burners.
There was no natural gas for gas stoves and the main heat was coal burning stoves.
No clothes dryers existed – you hung them on the clothes line!
Half of all homes in the US didn’t have electricity. Most still used oil lamps.
High Street was a gravel road and all the houses on the street had fences because . . .
turkeys, cattle, pigs were all driven or walked down the main streets.
Morehead State University at that time was called Morehead Normal School.
There were no…..
computers,
cd players,
ipods,
cellphones,
air conditioners
televisions,
cable for tv’s,
Internet,
mini calculators
Subway, McDonald’s, Dairy Queen, or Pizza Places,
Only 8% of all homes in the United States had a telephone.
A loaf of bread cost 7 cents and sugar was 4 cents per pound.
Most families had chickens, pigs and a garden….in town!
The population was 942 – in 2010 the population was 1592
Owingsville was 105 years old – this year it is 205 years old
Owingsville was exactly 1 square mile – it is now approximately 2 ½ square miles.
There were no water faucets in the house,  Water came from wells – the city water works were built in 1927.
There were no indoor toilets.  Every building had a privy or outhouse in the back yard.
There was no city sewer system – it was built in the mid 1950’s.
There were no street lights.
No weather radar or army radar existed.
No radio, if you wanted the news, you read the newspaper.
For fires, huge cisterns were built, many of which still exist.
World War 1 was being fought in Europe.


Daddy talked or wrote about all of these things at one time or another. He loved history and the memories of his town. He was born on February 23, 1916.  This coming Tuesday, February 23, 2016 he would have been 100 years old.

Don

Letter to the Herald-Leader about Frank Jones

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Mike Fields, Staff Writer
Lexington Herald-Leader Co.
100 Midland Avenue
Lexington, KY 40508

Sir,

Read your column Friday 19th and noted your piece about Jeremy Simpson and Mark Higgs.

In 1969, Bath County had a great running back-Frank Jones.  Frank was the leading scorer in Kentucky high school football that year.  Jones scored 38 TDs and 22PATs for a total of 250 points.

Jones rushed for a total of 3,361 yards in 327 carries in 1969.  Frank’s average per carry was 10.24 yards.

The above statistics ware taken from the Nov. 13, 1969 Louisville Courier-Journal.

Also, Frank Jones is the all-time rushing leader for Morehead State University.

Am enclosing a copy of the Courier-Journal article from which the above statistics were taken.

Yours for good sports,

W. Burl Kincaid, Jr.
Owingsville, Ky

Jones still holds the record he set in 1969 for rushing a total of 3,361 yards.  
Official records of this can be found at KHSAA internet link below.  Don

http://khsaa.org/records/football/individualrecords.pdf

More odd Phrases…….

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Here’s another list of odd phrases that he collected and found lots of humor in. ~ Don, 1/24/2016
A sign seen in an Owingsville service station”NOT RELIABLE FOR ACCIDENTS!”
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Git a hankerin’
As bitter as gall
Pretty as a picture
Hotter than a $2 pistol
Hotter than a firecracker
Bigger than a bear
Meaner than a snake
What’s cookin’?
Hackin’ it
Gone fishin’
Wed backer bed
Young whipper snapper
Punkin’ stud
Middlin’ to skuddlin’
Sharper than a tack

Odd Words and Phrases

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The use of proper grammar and correct enunciation were important to Daddy.  His mother, Jane Kincaid, taught for many years, and he taught and worked in the board office for 42 years.  Here is a list of words he wrote down that were local regionalisms. When coming into town one of his favorites was ” we have arroved!” ~ Don
That therin (that)
Hit (it)
His’n, her’n (his or her ownership)
Wed backer beds ( weed tobacco beds)
Hain’t (they ain’t)
Summers (somewhere)
That’s all they are to it.
Sumpin (something)
Agin (against) 
He listed a few sayings as well:
Nip and tuck (thought to be the same as neck to neck as in a race)
Colder than a mackerel (cold and dead)
Darker than pitch. (roof pitch is black)
Madder than a wet hen.
Meaner than a snake.
Hotter than a fire cracker.