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No surprise WCSD teachers feel they are not appreciated.
It has always been that way with this district.
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Obituary: Melvin Dummar, 74, known for his alleged relationship with Howard Hughes when Dummar supposedly picked up the disheveled billionaire hitchhiking, and then later claimed Hughes left him something in his will, has died of cancer.
It was a colorful episode and spawned a movie, but the story was pretty much bullshit, and it was discovered Hughes didn't have a will at all. His billion-dollar fortune was split among I think 22 relatives who wound up with around $50 million each.
I remember all the damned wills that were purportedly Hughes's, but not one of them was proven genuine. He died without a will.
Geoff Schumacher, the author of “Howard Hughes: Power, Paranoia & Palace Intrigue” (2008), said in a phone interview that there had been no logical reason for Mr. Hughes to be in the desert without his usual coterie of aides, and that the handwriting on the will was not even close to Mr. Hughes’s.
Mr. Schumacher, an executive at the Mob Museum in Las Vegas, said he believed that Mr. Dummar had picked up someone in the desert, but that it could not have been Howard Hughes.
Still, he said, Mr. Dummar was a likable and sympathetic figure, “a guy just trying to get along in the world,” and that in telling his story he had always been consistent.
“In recent years, in places like rural Nevada and rural Utah,” Mr. Schumacher said, “there were many, many people who believed Melvin’s story. He was one of them. And they believed he got screwed.”
It was wildly implausible and out of character for Hughes. The story and all the wills reeked of total bullshit.
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