I read the other day that June 20, 1975 was the day the movie “Jaws” hit the big screen.

That year my sister had graduated from Hobart High School and headed to OU where she pledged Kappa Kappa Gamma.

In the small world department, the girl who was Missy’s Big Sis, Carolyn Kuhn, was the real-life sister of my roommate at the Sigma Chi fraternity house.

I had heard about the movie but am not the keenest on scary flicks.

The two girls wanted to go so I hauled them to the movie house in Norman to take in the film.

One girl sat to my right and one girl sat to my left.

Pretty soon both of the young coeds were clutching my arms.

Both of them had long fingernails that eventually dug into the crooks of my arms.

The more damage the shark did the more the fingernails dug into my arms.

By the time Amity Police Chief Martin Brody and shark hunter Quint blew the shark out of the water I felt like had shark bites in both arms.

I was glad to get out of the theatre without losing any blood.

jdm

Depending on where you were in Purcell last Thursday, the first day of summer by the way, you might have had quite a shock.

In downtown proper there was a downpour of rain that fell for about 10 minutes.

It was a very isolated cell that  was fairly intense for a short period of time.

Traveling north, the rain quit just a little north of Van Buren.

It didn’t go very far west, either.

But downtown got a pretty good drink of water to usher in the summer season around 4:45 p.m.

jdm