Promises Unkept

From South Carolina’s Georgetown Times:

It’s been nearly five years since Georgetown County Council passed a resolution promising to name U.S. Highway 17 Business in Murrells Inlet after its most famous resident--author and actor Mickey Spillane.

So far, it’s a promise that has not been kept.

Spillane died of pancreatic cancer in July, 2006--a month after the resolution was passed.

“I’m mad. The county should have followed up on it,” Mickey Spillane’s widow, Jane Spillane said this week.

You’ll find the full article here.

(Hat tip to Max Allan Collins.)