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Carolyn Niebruegge May Michael L. May 
Vol. 2, Is. 27 Jan.
18, 2013
From the
Editor
I’d put money that many of
you thought I would expound on “Gun Control” this week. Well, you have NO IDEA how badly I wanted to,
but resisted because I know I’d get few to any saying that you agreed with my
thoughts—even though I’d bet most of you would and more than likely a few of my
“left wing friends” would say, “Now Mike, you know that everybody doesn’t agree
with you on this.” So to keep from
facing the ugly truth, I’ve chosen to move to a new subject that I seriously consider
to of great concern to me.
On a number of occasions I
have mentioned a problem with some weeks’ papers not being delivered to Yahoo
email addresses and suggested that you consider getting an email account from
another provider. So far it has been
impossible to put my finger on how large this problem is. In fact, I only know of this happening to a
few people, but “a few” is too many for the work we put into putting out the
paper. You deserve your copy!
Here’s what happens. Yahoo (and sbcglobal which is apparently a
company owned by Yahoo) have limitations of no more than 100 emails going
through in one transaction and no more than 50 emails from Yahoo or
sbcglobal—without being “tagged” as spam and handled appropriately. We have about 355 subscribers to the
paper. When this limit is reached, Yahoo
“holds the mail” in a box under a code of “452—too many recipients.” then
attempts over the next few hours to deliver the emails that didn’t get
delivered the first time. We believed
that eventually all emails would be delivered—but that is just an assumption
that I can’t prove given that some of you say that you’re not getting the
paper.
That said, fortunately or
unfortunately, however you look at it, some of you may be getting the paper
this week that haven’t gotten it for a long time. That’s because with this mailing, we have
broken the mailing list into 5 separate mailing lists with fewer than 100
entries total and fewer than 50 Yahoo addresses. Additionally we sent only one list out each
hour over a 5 hour period to see if Yahoo would “swallow” our pill and deliver
to each address. This is A LOT OF EXTRA
WORK! Work that I’m not sure I want to
put up with on a weekly basis because Yahoo doesn’t want to service me because
they think I’m sending out spam. The
simple fix which is GUARENTEED to work is to just post the weekly issue
“online”—at http://www.234enterprises.com/RooseveltNews/newscenter.htm--as
we do anyway and forget about sending out the emails that are creating such a
problem. Obviously, the other fix is to
get rid of your Yahoo email in favor of another carrier. Carolyn is not overly excited over going
“online” only.
What do I want you to do so
we can decide how to deal with this?
First of all, if this is the first copy of the paper you’ve received in
a while and you have a Yahoo or sbcglobal account, please let us know. Secondly, if you have a strong objection to
us going with the “online” only version, let us know that too. If I get no responses, then I’ll assume that
you have all been getting the paper and we can continue sending it out as we
have in the past or we can change to online and that will be fine with you also.
mlm
Content
Contributors for the Week
Charles
Curtis, Class of 1965
Bill
Hancock
Kate
(Roberts)
Gary
Wax
All
those who sent messages to the Email “Bag”
Thank
you all!
Remembering…
Here is this week’s query
about
This Week’s Query:
What businesses have been on the west side of
What we’ve learned….
Last Time’s Query: What businesses have been on the lot where
the Sonic is located today—on the northwest corner of Washington and Highway 9,
across the alley from the Wagon Wheel?
Smith-Hoyt
The first business we could
find on that corner was Smith-Hoyt Dodge-Plymouth dealership, which was there
in 1951 and 1952. Then Marion McEndree took over the company in 1953 and
kept it for a year.
Bowling and Skating
Then, in 1955, A.C. and
Marie Pillow opened the
Ruth Ann, HHS ’64, said, “I
spent hours there, bowling and skating while my parents were working at the
Wagon Wheel.”
It was quite a social
center. Many
I had my first hamburger
basket there. So I guess the place had a small grill.
Pin Boys at Pillows’ Bowling
Alley
Butch
Barker, HHS ’65 wrote, “If I remember, it did not have automatic pin-setters,
but they hired high school aged boys to sit at the end of the alley and then
after the ball was bowled they would jump down and grab the down pins, set them
in a rack and then pull the rack down by hand to set the pins. They would
then put the balls on a return track, above ground so you could see the ball
rolling back to the bowlers.”
Corky Maley and also Butch Barker remembered that the business had a couple of
lanes that used smaller bowling balls. (Maybe they were “candlepins” or
maybe “duck pins.”)
Richard Chase was a pin boy
and said it was hard work. “When a bowler knocked down seven pins, we had to
pick them up and place them in a frame in the same order they were knocked
down. After the second ball was thrown, we replaced the pins, sent the ball
back on the rail and pulled a lanyard that would send the frame down, and set
the pins. It was hard work. Got paid ten cents a
game. Sometimes when we were
short of pin-setters, one boy would set two alleys side by side and you had to
be quick.”
More from
Richard: “Ray Marler, his wife and another couple came in to bowl
one night. Ray threw the ball extremely hard and the pins would fly up
and hit me. I was always a cocky skinny kid, so once when he threw his
second ball, instead of sending it back, I placed it beside me and began
sticking (lighted) matches in the thumb hole. When it came his turn to
bowl, I sent the ball back and had this big grin on my face as he placed his
thumb in the hole and jerked it out and was shaking his hand, trying to cool it
off. He started down to the pit to confront me when A. C. Pillow stopped
him. Later he got in my face and his wife saved me from a whipping.
I didn’t get a tip, either.”
Jimmy Crumpton was another
pin-setter. “He always complained because I would bowl before he got out
of the pit,” said Corky Maley, HHS ‘60.
And Maley had another
memory, of the skating rink when he was in junior high. “I fell and hit
the railing and ended up with four stitches in my left eye.”
More on that Corner:
J. M. “Smitty” Smith ran his
oil-well cementing servicing business at that address for a while in 1960 and
1961. I believe his son, Pat, was in the class of ’67.
The Wagon Wheel Trading Post
was operating on the corner in 1961. Jim Barnes, HHS ’67, said Stanley
Davis may have operated the saddle shop and western wear store. Another
friend suggested maybe Dayrold Davis had the shop. I don’t know if the
Andy Anderson and Mae
Anderson opened A&A Furniture and Appliance in the building in 1963.
The business operated just about a year.
Jim Barnes, HHS ’67, said
Stanley Davis may have operated a saddle shop and western wear store on the
corner in the ‘60s. Another friend suggested maybe Dayrold Davis had the
shop.
Before the Sonic, the
business that occupied the site longest was the trailer factory owned by Caleb
Axtell and his son, Bart. It was called Bar-T Trailers. We don’t
know whether it was in the old bowling alley building or not.
The Sonic opened April 12,
1976. Its new building on the same site opened in 2011, right?
B&B Grocery
From Jim Griffin, HHS
‘65: “In the 9th grade, I worked there sacking groceries and
stocking the shelves. Paper sacks only!
And if I did not put something into the sack correctly, Burl would make
me take it and do it properly. I
learned quite a bit about cutting meat from Burl back in his butcher shop area.
I’m pretty sure that was my first job. I
can't remember what I was paid but the 75 cents I earned an hour at the
Star-Review was a better job!!! Very few folks actually paid for their
groceries at the time of purchase. I
thought that was perfectly normal then.
From Kay Hubbard Senter, HHS
‘66: “Linda (Evans) Marler's mother worked at the B&B Grocery in
1966. She parked her car outside the
store, and Linda and all her friends would sit inside after we'd eaten our
Frito chili pies. We were sitting in
that car when some handsome young Key Club member came over to tell Linda
Barton that she had been selected the Key Club Sweetheart that year.”
Budd’s Grocery (Park Inn;
predecessor to the B&B, southwest corner of
From Alice McElyea Peninger,
HSS ’55: “In the 50's it was Budd's Grocery but again catered mostly to
the high school kids. We hung out there
before school and before we went back after lunch. The Budds owned and ran it. We couldn't buy a cigarette for a penny, but
they did let us smoke in there. They lived next door to (her parents,
Bennie and Pauline McElyea) on
Professora Hobbs
From Kay Hubbard
Senter: “Danny ‘Friar’ Marler would crawl in the window of Profesora
Hobbs' Spanish Class after going to the B&B Grocery to shop for
candy for those of us who were not really interested in learning Spanish with
the new headphone conversational method.
Danny (Smith) Hooper and Nancy (Tolbert)
P.S. Does anyone know
how Danny Marler got his nickname?
Thoughts from
the Squirrel Lair
To My Friend
This explains why I forward
stuff:
An old cowboy was riding his
trusty horse followed by his faithful dog along an unfamiliar road. The cowboy was enjoying the new scenery, when
he suddenly remembered dying, and realized the dog beside him had been dead for
years, as had his horse. Confused, he
wondered what was happening and where the trail was leading them.
After a while, they came to
a high, white stone wall that looked like fine marble. At the top of a long hill, it was broken by a
tall arch topped by a golden letter “H” that glowed in the sunlight.
Standing before it, he saw a
magnificent gate in the arch that looked like mother-of-pearl, and the street
that led to the gate looked like gold.
He rode toward the gate, and
as he got closer, he saw a man at a desk to one side. Parched and tired out by his journey, he
called out, “Excuse me, where are we?”
“This is Heaven, sir,” the
man answered.
“Wow! Would you happen to have some water?” the man
asked.
“Of course
sir. Come right in, and I’ll have some ice water
brought right up.”
As the gate began to open,
the cowboy asked, “Can I bring my partners, too?”
“I’m sorry sir, but we don’t
accept pets.”
The cowboy thought for a
moment, then turned back to the road and continued riding, his dog trotting by
his side.
After another long ride, at
the top of another hill, he came to a dirt road leading through a ranch gate
that looked as if it had never been closed.
As he approached the gate, he saw a man inside, leaning against a tree
and reading a book.
“Excuse me,” he called to
the man. “Do you have any water?”
“Sure, there’s a pump right
over there. Help yourself.”
“How about my friend here?”
the traveler gestured to the dog and his horse.
“Of
course! They look thirsty, too,” said the man.
The trio went through the
gate, and sure enough, there was an old-fashioned hand pump with buckets beside
it. The traveler filled a cup and the
buckets with wonderfully cool water and took a long drink, as did his horse and
dog.
When they were full, he
walked back to the man who was still standing by the tree. “What do you call this place?” the traveler
asked.
“This is Heaven,” he
answered.
“That’s confusing,” the
traveler said. “The man down the road
said that was Heaven, too.”
“Oh, you mean the place with
the glitzy, gold street and fake pearly gates?
That’s hell.”
“Doesn’t it make you angry
when they use your name like that?”
“Not at
all. Actually, we’re happy they screen out the
folks who would leave their best friends behind.”
Sometimes, we wonder why
friends forward things to us without writing a word. Maybe this explains it:
When you’re busy, but still
want to keep in touch, you can forward emails.
When you have nothing to say, but still want to keep in contact, you can
forward jokes. When you have something
to say, but don’t know exactly how, you can forward stuff.
A ‘forward’ lets you know
you’re still remembered, still important, still cared about. So the next time you get a ‘forward,’ don’t
think of it as just another joke.
Realize you’ve been thought of today and your friend on the other end
just wanted to send you a smile.
P.S. You’re welcome at my watering hole anytime.
May God bless you and yours.
Life is
short…forgive quickly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably…and never regret anything that made you smile.
Alumni Website
We
have renewed the account that Wanda Jackson had set up at the photo sharing
website, picturetrail.com for the Roosevelt Alumni: http://www.picturetrail.com/rooseveltalumni. She had posted many pictures from past
reunions, class panels, and old schools buildings along with write ups about
them. We thought you might find these
interesting if you haven’t visited this site in the past.
Cooperton Valley Picture Trail
The “
Interesting
Tidbits
Tour of the World
Take a tour of the
world. These are beautiful pictures and
nice music.
Turn on the sound, run in
full screen (left click the little box at the lower right of the screen, click
on the arrow at the bottom of the picture to start the slide show and enjoy!)
http://www.slideshare.net/merilu13/tour-du-monde-virtuel-4947822
News
The
Roosevelt Senior Citizen Center serves lunch on Tuesday and Thursday from 11:30
a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The cost is $4 for
those 60 and over and $5 for the younger generation. Stop in and enjoy a good meal while visiting
with your friends.
The
menu for next week is as follows:
Tuesday,
January 22: Baked Ham, Hashbrown Potato
Casserole, Green Beans, Salad Bar, Rolls, Pudding
Thursday,
January 24: Stew, Cornbread, Salad Bar,
Cinnamon Rolls
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The Kiowa County Democrat is now being
published by new owner, Dee Richardson.
Subscriptions are $30 per year and it is sent out each Wednesday evening.
Email or call for more information.
kiowacountydemocrat@gmail.com
580-569-4235
Birthdays and
Anniversaries
We
have compiled all of the birthday and anniversary information we could from
Wanda’s files. We are sure we are
missing some. Please send us the
birthdays and anniversaries for your family and friends so that we can have as
complete as list as possible. We are
going to start with what we have from Wanda’s files so if we miss you, please
send us the information so we have it for the news next year. In addition, should any of the birthdays we
list be wrong, also please let us know.
Happy Birthday
To:
January 19 – Laira
Downen
January 19 – Lakin Sage Cole
January 19 – Kruz Kendall Lile
January 19 – Jackie Felter
January 21 – Sharon Wood
January 22 – Debbie (Peterson) Wager, Class of 1978
January 23 – D. A. Franks
January 24 – Ann (
Happy Anniversary To:
January
24 – Buck & Louann Cook
Humor
Should
I Really Join Facebook
I think I relate to this!
Does this sound like anyone you know or are related
to?
Read it all the way through! It's a good laugh! AND really quite true!! A good
laugh for people in the over 60 group !!!
When I bought my Blackberry, I thought
about the 30-year business I ran with 1800 employees, all without a cell phone
that plays music, takes videos, pictures and communicates with Facebook and
Twitter. I signed up under duress for
Twitter and Facebook, so my seven kids, their spouses, 13 grand kids and 2
great grand kids could communicate with me in the modern way. I figured I could handle something as simple
as Twitter with only 140 characters of space.
That was before one of my grandkids
hooked me up for Tweeter, Tweetree, Twhirl, Twitterfon, Tweetie and
Twittererific Tweetdeck, Twitpix and something that sends every message to my
cell phone and every other program within the texting World.
My phone was beeping every three
minutes with the details of everything except the bowel movements of the entire
next generation. I am not ready to live
like this. I keep my cell phone in the garage in my golf bag.
The kids bought me a GPS for my last
birthday because they say I get lost every now and then going over to the
grocery store or library. I keep that in
a box under my tool bench with the Blue tooth [it's
red] phone I am supposed to use when I drive.
I wore it once and was standing in line at Barnes and Noble
talking to my wife and everyone in the nearest 50 yards was glaring at me. I had to take my hearing aid out to use it,
and I got a little loud.
I mean the GPS looked pretty smart on
my dash board, but the lady inside that gadget was the most annoying, rudest
person I had run into in a long time.
Every 10 minutes, she would sarcastically say,
"Re-calc-u-lating." You would
think that she could be nicer. It was
like she could barely tolerate me. She
would let go with a deep sigh and then tell me to make a U-turn at the next
light. Then if I made
a right turn instead. Well, it
was not a good relationship.
When I get really lost now, I call my
wife and tell her the name of the cross streets and while she is starting to
develop the same tone as Gypsy, the GPS lady, at least she loves me.
To be perfectly frank, I am still
trying to learn how to use the cordless phones in our house. We have had them for 4 years, but I still
haven't figured out how I can lose three phones all at once and have to run
around digging under chair cushions and checking bathrooms and the dirty
laundry baskets when the phone rings.
The world is just getting too complex
for me. They even mess me up every time
I go to the grocery store. You would
think they could settle on something themselves but this sudden "Paper or
Plastic?" every time I check out just knocks me for a loop. I bought some of those cloth reusable bags to
avoid looking confused, but I never remember to take them with me.
Now I toss it back to them. When they ask me,
"Paper or Plastic?" I
just say, "Doesn't matter to me. I am bi-sacksual." Then it's their turn to stare at me with a
blank look. I was recently asked if I
tweet. I answered, No, but I do fart
a lot."
P.S. I know some of you are not over
60. I sent it to you to allow you to
forward it to those who are. We senior citizens don't need anymore
gadgets. The TV remote and the garage
door remote are about all we can handle.
From the Email
“Bag”
January
11, 2013
I did not know you were
doing this until my long time friend Judy (Johnson) Erickson told me about
it. I would like to receive the newsletter. I was on Wanda
Jackson's list but must have gotten lost. I graduated from
Virginia Walker, Class of
1954
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January 12, 2013
Mike and Carolyn;
I find it amusing, or maybe in my advanced years my children tell me I am in,
that I recognize so many of the names in the e-newsletter, yet plenty I have no
idea who they are. The ones I know, no matter what they have to say, it
brings back fond memories of living in
Anyway, Mike your opening comments in the e-newsletter of January 10 hit the
target exactly. We have had many conversations since the passing of my
mom 16 years ago of exactly how true this is. Fortunately on the Perkins
side there are still several "older" members, but they are getting
really old, like Albert and Nelson Perkins to only name two. But on the
McDowell side, as far as blood, there is my younger brother and me. Both have all girls, so the McDowell family
is done when we are gone. Kinda feels weird being the "old
ones".
Geary McDowell
********
January 14, 2013
Hi Carolyn and Michael,
I went to
Some of your Newsletter
viewers may remember Janel Culvahouse McPhail. Her parents had the store across the road from
the Con.8 cotton gin for years. The
guestbook is www.OrrGrayGishfuneralhome.com
in Tipton. Janel and Paul had moved to
Thank you both for all the
work that you do.
Gaynelle Gray
(While visiting with family
and friends, I mentioned the Roosevelt Newsletter to a couple that now live in the City. Patti Hicks Nichols said she lived
east of Roosevelt until she was 6 years old and her dad built a house east of
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January 17, 2013
BTW, if you know
Phil you know this, but if not, he has a bit of an odd sense of humor, almost
British like. He is a believer in the power of prayer and how he is
personally experiencing it, not just seeing it in others. Geary McDowell
Thanks
for the prayers. Right now that prayer
stuff is making the difference. I have
really been worried about having to wait to see a dentist, which I got to see
yesterday, almost two weeks earlier than they originally had me set up for. My oncologist set it up. I have two teeth on the radiation side that
have had root canals done and they don’t like to radiate where those teeth
are. They break off too easily and then
the bone gets infected. So they just
pull them before the radiation starts and then they don’t have to worry about
them. However, they just called me a few
minutes ago and said those two teeth of mine would be out of the radiation
field so they won’t have to pull them.
That means I won’t have to wait two or three more weeks to get my
treatments started. I have been worried
about that. This cancer has been going
since November and they say it is an aggressive one. I’ve been afraid it would go else where in my
body before they get started trying to get rid of it. I will see the chemo doctor tomorrow and
start my radiation set up on Monday and my first chemo sometime that same week
I suppose. I feel better about the whole
procedure with that settled.
Phil
Arnold
Food for
Thought
"The Gun Is Civilization"
by Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret)
Human beings only have two means to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you
must either convince me by reason or force me to do your bidding under threat of
harm. Every human interaction, without
exception, falls into one of these two categories. Reason or force, that's it.
In a truly moral and civilized society, people would exclusively interact
through reason as force has no place as valid social interaction. But the only thing that removes force from
the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as that may sound to some.
When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade
me, because I have a means to negate your threat or employment of force.
The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal
footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a
19-year old gang banger, and a lone guy on equal footing with a carload of
drunken guys with baseball bats. The gun
removes all disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a
potential attacker and a defender.
There are plenty of people who consider the gun also to be the source of
"bad force." These people
think we'd be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because
they believe a firearm only makes it easier for an armed mugger to do his
job. That, of course, is true only if
the mugger's potential victims are disarmed either by choice or by legislative
fiat. The argument has no validity when
most of a mugger's potential marks are armed.
People who argue for the banning of firearms are asking only for automatic rule
by the young, the strong, and the many, and that's the exact opposite of a
civilized society. A mugger, even an
armed one, can make a successful living only in a society where the state has
granted him a monopoly of force.
Then there's the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that
otherwise would result only in injury.
This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won
by the physically superior party that inflicts overwhelming injury on the
loser.
People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones
do not constitute lethal force, watch too much TV, where people take beatings
and come out with a bloody lip at worst.
The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of
the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker.
If both are armed, the field is level.
The gun is the only weapon that's as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as
it is in the hands of a weight lifter.
It simply wouldn't work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn't both
lethal and easily employable.
When I carry a gun, I don't do so because I am looking for a fight, but because
I'm looking to be left alone. The gun at
my side means that I cannot be forced by another, only persuaded. I don't carry it because I'm afraid, but
because it enables me to be unafraid. It
doesn't limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only
the actions of those who would do so by force.
It removes force from the social equation... and that's why carrying a gun is
both a civilized and a civilizing act.
So, the most civil societies are those where all citizens are equally armed and
can be persuaded only through reason, never by force.
Obituaries
Evelyn
Janel McPhail, 77, former
http://www.orrgraygishfuneralhome.com/sitemaker/sites/graygi0/obit.cgi?user=862676McPhail
Useful
Links:
Becker
Funeral Home of Snyder, OK
http://www.beckerfuneral.com/?page=snyder
Peoples
Cooperative Funeral
http://www.peoplescooperativefuneralhome.com/who-we-are/history
Ray
and Martha’s Funeral Home of Hobart,
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http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/listing/user/rooseveltcemetery
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