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SPARK PLUG OF THE MONTH

By Joe Fahnestock

Dayton Daily News & Radio's "Joe's Journal"

Not always can ye Spark Plug don overalls, grab a monkey wrench and saunter off down to the barn to belabor himself on his pet antique gas engine - as a thin excuse for getting out of drying the dinner dishes or oilier household chores to do.

For, like "Everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go" - so wherever Marion Ertle sallies forth, along goes Hazel too.

Thus it is that, whenever Spark Plug-Marion Ertle of Winchester, Ind., gets that faraway, "gas engine" glint in his eye, wife Hazel, doing a take-off on Rosie the Riveter, drops her beauty shoppe comb and scissors, jumps into dungarees and strides along at his side.

All of which, though finding our hero, Spark Plug Ertle, in the dubious role of being both "on" and "off" the proverbial horn...

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