Smiley Anders for August 22, 2008

• By SMILEY ANDERS
• Advocate columnist
• Published: Aug 22, 2008 - Page: 1B - UPDATED: 12:05 a.m.

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Leo Honeycutt says he was fact-checking items for his biography of former Gov. Edwin Edwards when “I ran across an unrelated fact that raises questions.

“On March 21, 1977, a sealed box was placed inside one of the walls of the Centroplex while it was being built. A story in the Morning Advocate explained that it was a time capsule to be opened on March 21, 2027.

“In this treasure chest are newspapers from the 1970s, the usual bits of clothing, and a 16 mm projector holding a film shot by WBRZ’s Bob Durham of interstate construction, Centroplex construction, Mayor Woody Dumas etc.

“But the article never mentions in which wall of the building, now the River Center, the mysterious time capsule has rested for 31 years.”

Leo wonders who knows exactly where the capsule is located. After all, he says, we have only 19 years to get ready for its grand opening.

“By the way,” he says, “in March 1977, gasoline cost 55 cents a gallon. A 20-gallon tank fill-up cost $11!”

No pigging out
Rhetta Sellers says our item on football bets reminds her of the 1966 Cotton Bowl, when LSU played Arkansas:

“My dad, Jack Gremillion, was Louisiana attorney general. He made a bet with the Arkansas attorney general — a tiger for a razorback.

“LSU won the game, but the Arkansas attorney general never sent the pig.

“So when my dad threw a party for the LSU players at the UCT hall, he had a friend in north Louisiana send down a wild hog.

“The ‘razorback’ was dyed with red Clairol. It washed off after the party, when he was released into the wild.”
(I’m having a hard time believing a guy named Gremillion missed such a fine chance for a cochon de lait.)

Southern delicacies
There’s something about an LSU-Arkansas football game that generates bets.

Fiddling Doc Chaney says he and a Razorback friend have a running bet: