Tuscaloosa

BERTHA MAE CRADY, age 86, of Tuscaloosa passed away May 13, 2006 at DCH Regional Medical Center. Following a private burial service a memorial service will be held at Tilghman Methodist Church at 12 noon May 23, 2006 with fellowship with the family following the service. She was preceded in death by an infant daughter, her parents, four sisters and seven brothers. She is survived by Charles H. Crady, her husband of 70 years of Tuscaloosa; a daughter Muir C. Steward (F. Gordon) of Tuscaloosa, two grandchildren Beth Steward R.N. of Streetsboro, Ohio, Charles C. Steward Ph D (Mimi)

What makes an artist assemble 193,000 toothpicks?" Pete Hilsee, spokesman for the American Visionary Art Museum, mused the other day. The Baltimore museum boasts a 16-foot scale model of the ocean liner Lusitania made with something the uninspired masses use to pry poppy seeds from teeth. Hilsee invoked that piece as he was pondering another, featuring child-like choo-choo crayon drawings with mathematical calculations on the bottom. Is it art? Is it mental illness? Either way, it's the latest exhibit at the museum of "self-taught and intuitive artistry.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- The biggest obstacle facing Mount St. Mary's might not be playing 13th-ranked Alabama on its home court in the East Regional of the NCAA women's tournament.Instead, it might be whether the delivery man arrives in time before the 13th-seeded Mountaineers (24-5) meet the fourth-seeded Crimson Tide (20-8) tonight at approximately 9:30 at Coleman Coliseum.Susie Rowlyk, the Mount's leading scorer at 15.8 points, is questionable because of an eye injury suffered in a collision with an official.

Warren Gans Blosser, a World War II Navy gunner who participated in the assault on Iwo Jima and later worked as a railroader and insurance agent, died of congestive heart failure Nov. 14 at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. The former Fallston resident was 85. Mr. Blosser was born in Smithfield, Pa., and was raised there and in Uniontown, Pa. After graduating from Smithfield High School in 1939, he worked at U.S. Steel's Clairton Works in Clairton, Pa., before enlisting in the Navy in 1940.

Warren Gans Blosser, a World War II Navy gunner who participated in the assault on Iwo Jima and later worked as a railroader and insurance agent, died of congestive heart failure Nov. 14 at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. The former Fallston resident was 85. Mr. Blosser was born in Smithfield, Pa., and was raised there and in Uniontown, Pa. After graduating from Smithfield High School in 1939, he worked at U.S. Steel's Clairton Works in Clairton, Pa., before enlisting in the Navy in 1940.

What makes an artist assemble 193,000 toothpicks?" Pete Hilsee, spokesman for the American Visionary Art Museum, mused the other day. The Baltimore museum boasts a 16-foot scale model of the ocean liner Lusitania made with something the uninspired masses use to pry poppy seeds from teeth. Hilsee invoked that piece as he was pondering another, featuring child-like choo-choo crayon drawings with mathematical calculations on the bottom. Is it art? Is it mental illness? Either way, it's the latest exhibit at the museum of "self-taught and intuitive artistry.

The rapidly expanding Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., based in Baltimore, has bought the assets of an Alabama television station for an undisclosed price, the company announced yesterday.Sinclair, which owns Baltimore's Channel 45, has purchased the building and other assets of WDBB-TV in Tuscaloosa, Ala., said David D. Smith, Sinclair's president.The Baltimore-based broadcast group also has entered into a management agreement to operate the license of WDBB-TV, which is currently affiliated with Fox Broadcasting.

Rite Aid Corp.'s appetite for growth continued yesterday as the Camp Hill, Pa.-based company announced it will acquire two privately held drugstore chains to bolster market share in the South.Rite Aid will buy K&B Services Inc. of New Orleans and Harco Inc. of Tuscaloosa, Ala., in a cash deal that will give the company significant market share in new markets in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee and Florida.The company did not disclose terms of the transactions, but a source familiar with the deals said Rite Aid paid from $325 million to $340 million for the companies.

On Saturday, August 16, 2003 ANN SANDERS, 73, of Spring Hill. She was born in Tuscaloosa, AL and came here 10 years ago from Severna Park, MD. She was Protestant by faith and a member of the Garden Club of Severna Park, MD. She was a Life Master Bridge Player and played bridge in various clubs in the area. Predeceased by son Gary, she is survived by her son Joe Sanders and his wife Amy of Spring Hill; three sisters Patty Templeton of Birmingham, AL; Lorraine Lee of Smyrna, GA; Ercell Sloane of Arkansas; brother Thomas Higginbotham, two grandsons Michael and Kyle.

Johnny Shines, 76, one of the last of the original "Delta blues" guitarists and singers, died yesterday in Tuscaloosa, Ala. He had been hospitalized since March 18, when his left leg was amputated because of hardening of the arteries. A native of Frayser, Tenn., he spent much of his youth in Mississippi playing acoustic blues with such legendary musicians as Robert Johnson. He moved to Chicago and became a mainstay on the electric blues scene, playing on dozens of records under his own name and as a sideman to other blues musicians.

BERTHA MAE CRADY, age 86, of Tuscaloosa passed away May 13, 2006 at DCH Regional Medical Center. Following a private burial service a memorial service will be held at Tilghman Methodist Church at 12 noon May 23, 2006 with fellowship with the family following the service. She was preceded in death by an infant daughter, her parents, four sisters and seven brothers. She is survived by Charles H. Crady, her husband of 70 years of Tuscaloosa; a daughter Muir C. Steward (F. Gordon) of Tuscaloosa, two grandchildren Beth Steward R.N. of Streetsboro, Ohio, Charles C. Steward Ph D (Mimi)

The rapidly expanding Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., based in Baltimore, has bought the assets of an Alabama television station for an undisclosed price, the company announced yesterday.Sinclair, which owns Baltimore's Channel 45, has purchased the building and other assets of WDBB-TV in Tuscaloosa, Ala., said David D. Smith, Sinclair's president.The Baltimore-based broadcast group also has entered into a management agreement to operate the license of WDBB-TV, which is currently affiliated with Fox Broadcasting.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- The biggest obstacle facing Mount St. Mary's might not be playing 13th-ranked Alabama on its home court in the East Regional of the NCAA women's tournament.Instead, it might be whether the delivery man arrives in time before the 13th-seeded Mountaineers (24-5) meet the fourth-seeded Crimson Tide (20-8) tonight at approximately 9:30 at Coleman Coliseum.Susie Rowlyk, the Mount's leading scorer at 15.8 points, is questionable because of an eye injury suffered in a collision with an official.

Robert M. Shelton, 73, longtime head of a Ku Klux Klan faction that once claimed 40,000 members, died Monday at a hospital in Tuscaloosa, Ala. He was once imperial wizard of United Klans of America Inc., considered the largest Klan faction in its heyday. He traveled the South in cars and planes speaking to white supremacist groups. He briefly went to federal prison in 1969 for refusing to release Klan membership rolls to the House Committee on Un-American Activities. In 1979, 20 members of his United Klans were indicted in connection with racial violence in east Alabama, resulting in 13 convictions, according to a history of the organization compiled by the Anti-Defamation League.