Three women all named Helen Luth and all from Newman, Illinois:
“We share the same telephone party line”
In the
introduction, Garry lists several other things the Luth women have in common,
including that they all have two children, go to the same church and are married
to farmers. Two of the women married
brothers, and the third married a cousin of the other two. Party lines, especially in rural areas, were
a staple of early wired telephone service deep into the 1970s. Multiple telephone subscribers shared a single
circuit, and if one person was using the line, no one else could. That presented challenges even in the best of
circumstances, and was probably even more confusing for the various Luth
families. The Luth trio returned to the
show with the same Secret in 1965 (
E590
) for the special episode featuring
the panel from To Tell The Truth.
Howard Millar from Murfreesboro, Arkansas: “I own the only diamond
mine in the United States”
Diamonds were
first discovered in Arkansas in 1906, creating a ‘diamond rush’ to the area
around Murfreesboro even though traditional mining never proved to be
particularly productive. Millar took
over the property in 1951 and renamed it “Crater of Diamonds,” operating it for
two decades as a tourist attraction.
Amateur geologists could pay admission and dig for diamonds by
hand. The state of Arkansas would
purchase the property in 1972 and operates it today as Crater of Diamonds State
Park, retaining its pay-to-prospect appeal.
In honor of the unique mine, Arkansas’ state flag and state quarter both
depict a diamond among their imagery.
Special Guest Edmund O’Brien has had
his picture taken with each of the panelists during the week, each time in a
different disguise. O’Brien is starring
in the syndicated crime drama Johnny
Midnight (1959-60) in which he plays a private detective who occasionally
dons various disguises to solve crimes.
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