ODDLY ENOUGH

ODDLY ENOUGH

Ad company takes down Southern secession billboard

MONTGOMERY, Ala.

The head of the Confederate League of the South says an advertising company has removed a highway billboard that advocated a Southern secession from the United States.

Michael Hill is president of the Confederate League of the South. He said last Monday that Lamar Advertising Co. took down the billboard along Interstate 85 in Montgomery after complaints.

The billboard had the word “secede” in capital letters, along with the league’s name and website.

The sign went up in the middle of May and was removed recently.

Hill said the company offered a refund, but that wasn’t necessary since he had yet to pay.

A Lamar Advertising executive did not return a message seeking comment.

Cubs error: Mistake on mural shows Lindbergh at Wrigley

CHICAGO

Even by the standards of the woeful Chicago Cubs, this was an unusual error.

A 1927 photograph of the late aviator Charles Lindbergh was included on a mural at Wrigley Field, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the home of the Cubs.

But the Cubs said recently that the picture was actually taken when Lindbergh visited Comiskey Park, the now-demolished home of the Chicago White Sox.

Team spokesman Julian Green said the photograph of the triumphant Lindbergh was incorrectly labeled as photographs were gathered to mark the anniversary season.

The mistake was first noticed by a blogger and the Cubs soon concluded that the scene depicted the South Side home of the White Sox, not the North Side home of the Cubs.

A closer look at the mural also revealed that a photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt was taken at Wrigley but before he was actually elected, despite what the caption reads.

“We are now reviewing all of the photos,” he said.

Green said the team is planning to fix the mural to make it historically accurate.

And while the photograph replacing the one of Lindbergh hasn’t been selected yet, he said the Cubs will make absolutely sure it was taken at Wrigley.

It won’t be the first time the team has had to correct a mistake at the friendly confines.

In 2008, after unveiling the statue of Cubs great Ernie Banks, it was quickly noted that the quote attributed to Mr. Cub wasn’t grammatically correct, prompting the sculptor to return to add an apostrophe to “Let’s Play Two.”

Associated Press