| Show Let’s shake the family tree and see who fails out There’s a banker a professor a witch Now which should I claim as kinfolk? I have never been one of those people who stay up nights wondering about their “roots” The way I see it we all have two parents four eight grandparents and 16 and by the time you go took 0 generations 300 years or so you had 1024 people walking around from whom you are directly deBy Carol Halebtan scended In any group of 1024 peoCharles Osgood is the ple you are likely to find a horse anchor of CBS Sunday thief or two which explains perhaps Night News He is editor and anchor of why there is a little horse thief in the best of us and The Osgood Which brings me to the Osgood File on CBS Radio family Charles E Osgood the distinguished University of Illinois professor who pioneered the once told me that he and I had to be study of psychosemantics related And actor Tony Perkins and I must be kinfolk His father was actor Osgood Perkins Anybody whose first last or middle name is Osgood is most likely a distant cousin Pm told Over the years I’ve been broadcasting I’ve heard from a uncle number of Osgoods wondering if I’m their sent me a tattered old family Bible recording Somebody several Osgood births deaths and marriages dating back to the early 800s It also shows that there were a few Hookers in the family That doesn’t surprise me in the least Just recently I received a letter from a Connecticut Osgood who had done some research on the Osgoods and had come across an old Osgood will Now you’re talking I thought Naturally the idea of an Osgood bequest caught my attention right away As it turned out however Peter Osgood of Upper Wallop Hampshire England had neglected to leave me any real estate or a dime for that matter when he passed away 400 years ago last January Rather thoughtless of him I do owe Peter Osgood something since all the American are descended from him Peter's Osgoods apparently John Osgood took off for the Massachusetts Bay in 1637 and settled Andover Mass One offspring of John’s and a possible ancestor of mine is Samuel Osgood who was bom in Andover He became a member of the Continental Congress was a friend of George Washington’s and an organizer of two banks one of which is now Ciubank and the other Chase Manhattan Given my own present relations with these very same banks it does not seem likely I could be descended from Samuel Osgood Samuel was definitely not my kind of guy But there is another even more intriguing possibility John Mary Clement Osgood was indictOsgood’s ed for witchcraft by the Salem grand jury m 1692 She confessed according to the records and escaped the gallows only because Cotton Mather whose conscience must have gotten the better of him persuaded her to recant her confession I could claim one or the other but not both Samuel and since they are in different branches of the Mary as ancestors family tree But I’ll tell you one thing I would rather be descended from a witch than from a banker any old day Fresh vegetables grow in popularity Mom always told us to eat our vegetables and apparently we are percent of women say they buy more fresh vegetables now than three years ago Also 47 percent say they’re buying less salt and 43 percent are buying more fiber That should be good news for the American College of Nutrition meeting in Washington DC this week Source: Mark Clements Munch Research Inc Research A big hike in football salaries 895 the first year of pro football players got $5 to $1 0 a game In 985 the average pay per game in the NFL was $12653 Average yearly salary by position: In Alert I munch we crunch popcorn t 15000 popcorn lovers dig into 2000 pounds of the fluffy stuff during Popcorn Day in this weekend it’s to celebrate the Ridgeway 100 millionth package of popcorn processed at Blevin Popcorn Co Most of us don’t need much 693 million prodding to munch: We devoured pounds of popcorn in 1985 — up percent from the year before I Source: I When The Popcorn Institute Pee measure up? Ridgeway Chamber I I I I I I of Commerce I Will Wee I Pee Wee Herman faces some tough competition when his new show — Pee Wee’s Playhouse — joins CBS’ Saturday morning this weekend (1 EDT8 PDT) The lineup Saturday morning shows last season among kids 2 to Comedian Source Hispanics reflect 859000 TV periods: a ratings households Source: ABC Graphics name League Management modern-da- Council I heroes y Mexico observes Independence Day Tuesday and resimany of the 22 million dents of Los Angeles celebrate this weekend with a big fiesta at the Kiosk of El Pueblo State Historic Park Mexico began its fight for independence in 1810 after three centuries of Spanish rule Heroes then included two priests Jose Maria Morelos y fov6n and Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Recently some of the USA’s 146 million Hispanic citizens were asked to name their heroes as well as the quality they admire most in their heroes Men chose courage women chose honesty Their heroes in order of preference: President Reagan Pope John Paul II Mother Teresa Cesar Chavez Lee Iacocca Julio Iglesias Rita Moreno Nancy Lopez and San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros Source: Ratings National Football Mexican Chamber of Commerce Vista Research Alert point AC Nielsen by Dale Glasgow nzszaz 1323 — Christine Maggio and Regina Dennis 1 I I I 1 I i I I I I I I 1 I I I I 1 s I ! I I I 1 1 i I I I 18 USA Weekend StPT 1986 I |
