 When the action occurred on the town's streets, there was always in the background a bass player carrying his instrument on his back.The "Dixie Dugan" Sunday page included a topper strip, "Good Deed Dotty", which ran from February 5, 1933 to October 17, 1948.Striebel continued to work on the strip until the early 1960s, when he became ill. Streibel's assistants were Al Bare, Dave Huffine and Frank McNitt, the son of McNaught Syndicate co-founder Virgil McNitt.