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Carolyn Niebruegge May Michael L. May 
Vol. 2, Is. 38 Apr.
5, 2013
From the
Editor
The “road trip”
continues. By the time you read this we
should, if still on schedule, be preparing to move on to Medicine Lodge, KS,
and from there on to
I got so “tied up” in my
editorial last week that I totally forgot the point I was trying to make when I
planned it. So that said, I’ll digress
and pick back up on that theme for this week’s discussion.
This is our first trip back
since Carolyn and her brother lost their Mother last December. Although I know there is most certainly a
critical piece missing for both of them, they are both handling it extremely
well. As we drove out of
Now back to “the road
trip.” So far this has been one of the
most unusual trips we’ve made since we married over 43 years ago. It was totally scheduled and planned out
(that’s how Carolyn “rolls”), but has been very unhurried. I like that.
She explained the following to me as we planned other events around her
reunion: “I have pushed so hard while we
had our parents--and especially when that group was reduced to just Mom to get
home as fast as I could so I could spend as much time with (them) her as
possible and then push to return home as fast as I could so we could catch up
on what had gone undone while we were gone.
Now my reason to hurry is behind me and we can take the time to do the
other things we’ve wanted to but not taken the time to include.
On other occasions I’ve
addressed my philosophy on how our life goes through stages--earning a living,
raising our family, watching our children go out on their own, start their
families, watching our parents age, and then facing the tragedy (but reality)
of losing them. After all that, if we’re
fortunate and still have our health we enter the little “window” of when we are
pretty much set free of the responsibilities of life and have some “us
time.” Well, I believe we have just
entered “us time” and hope we have a few years left to
do those things we just never thought we had time to do. I think it’s going to be fun. We’ll see.
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Content
Contributors for the Week
Bill
Hancock
Wayne
Rickerd, Class of 1945
All
those who sent messages to the Email “Bag”
Thank
you all!
Remembering…
Here is this week’s query
about
In 1984, LaJuan’s
Boutique occupied the old Dillingham Jewelry Store building just west of Gaines
Drug (now home of the Chamber of Commerce.). Who was LaJuan? Many other
businesses have been in that building; name the ones that you remember.
What we’ve learned….
Our query last time
about the Dimension Theater generated many comments, far more than when
we asked about Letha’s Bar a few weeks ago. Guess that says a lot about
The Dimension, which
was on
One friend wrote that some
people, “complained about R-rated movies, so the Esquire stopped showing them.
Then the Dimension opened and that’s all they showed....and it was run by the
same guy.” We’re not sure about that. Several folks remember having seen family-type
movies there.
Dan and Jolene Wolfenbarger
of Purcell and Kenneth and Martha Sullivan of Sentinel opened the theater in
late 1970. It operated about seven
years. They had leased the building at
410 S. Main (just south of the Home State Bank) from Johnny Cunningham. So the building was transformed from furniture
store to movie theater. (Cunningham’s store moved to
the northwest corner of Fifth and Main, opening October 15, 1970.)
Some folks remember that the
theater’s official name was “Dimension 98.” One person said it was “Dimension
198” because it had 198 seats.
John McConnell, owner of the
Esquire Twin Theater, bought the Dimension in September 1976 and closed it
shortly after that.
A friend wrote, “(person X)
and I were the only two customers there one night. Wish I could remember what
we saw but it was very strange to be the only ones there!”
Another said, “Never went to
a show there, remember it, though.”
Glenda Rich Scott: “I went
to the Dimension Theatre twice before they closed it. It was nice. Hard to believe in the 70s when I first moved
here there was two theaters, a bowling alley, a recreation center and a Dairy
Queen. We all drug main on Friday and
Saturday nights.”
Truett Guthrie: “When we moved to
Kelly Dianne Green: “Saw Star Wars there! And remember them having the Ben poster sitting
to the side for a while. The big rat poster.”
Cheryl Harris Duff: “Don't have a real clear memory of the theater
but it seems to me that the front lobby was small. I did not remember the name,
surely it was not open very long. Remember
taking some 6- and 7-year- olds to see Bambi there and they were so traumatized
by Bambi's mother being killed we had to leave the theater!”
Cathy Folsom Crain remembers
seeing “Jaws” at the Dimension. I wonder
if the shark caused as much trauma as the death of Bambi’s mother. For me, definitely yes.
Scott Carlson: “Mark White, Mark Case and I got into big
trouble at the Dimension once. I
remember it well. Almost
got kicked out.”
Jerry Hulme: “I remember taking my wife to that theater to
see “The Last Picture Show” and I think that was the only time I was in that
theater.” (There’s some irony!)
Jenny Pearson Grubbs, Robin
Emerson, Mary Holland Tindle and Linda McCannon were among those who remembered
the special, large seats that rocked. Those
seats made the Dimension a cut above the Esquire across the street.
Karree Engle Patterson: “Saw Jaws there. Threw popcorn everywhere.
Fun times!”
Lanette Armentrout: “I saw Jaws there also. My younger brother went with us. My date had to leave to take my brother home
because he wouldn't quit screaming and crying when the head popped up out of
the water.”
Robinson Emerson
Colbert-Johns: “Seems like the seats
were gold colored. I also remember
watching Love Story there, with Ali McGraw and Ryan O’Neal. And, Diane, I also
remember the ‘Ben’ poster.”
Virgil Brian: “Saw The Exorcist
there, and after show, some were still screaming in the streets.” (Virgil is
incredibly funny,)
J.C. Penney
Darla Bynum knows about the
cup on the string. “Money was kept upstairs
in the office, when you made a purchase downstairs the ticket & the money
went up the string to the office where change was made and then sent back down
the string. I remember Sissy Colberg
working in that office.”
Bill Finch also remembers: “I recall that Dorothy (Morris) Rule worked at
the top end of that wire at J.C. Penney’s - was interesting to see the can with
papers attached travel up and down from southwest corner to northeast
downstairs.”
So does Dot Snodgrass: “The paper that went between the two floors
was the cost of the merchandise downstairs. The wire carried the amount of purchase and
money upstairs to have the change sent back down to the first floor to give to
the customer. The same thing was at the
More from Dot: “The business office of both
And Jim Barnes: “I remember going to JC Penny's when I was a
little boy so my mother (Christine) could buy sewing patterns. She used to sit me on a stool and I would
watch the clerk whiz a jar along that wire up to the back balcony, where they
made change and sent down a receipt. This
was one of my two fascinating adventures when I was a little guy. The other was going up and down one floor in
the Dixie Store elevator.”
Harold Gibson worked at
Penney’s in the 1930s: “The balcony in
the J.C. Penney store was home of the cashier. There were wire lines from the principal
check-out locations in the store to the cashier's desk in the balcony. When a sale was made, the money being paid by
the customer was placed in a cup that fit its place on the wire mechanism. The sales slip was attached to a clip on the
bottom of the cup. The sales person then
pulled hard enough to propel the information along the wire to the cashier. The cashier then made the proper change and
returned the cup to the check-out location. The sales person completed the requirements
for the sale. Each check-out location
also had a cash drawer with a code that the sales person could use to open it
and make the proper change locally. This
was used much of the time when the store was not very crowded.”
Bob Shriner knows about
this, also: “There were
originally no cash registers on the main floor of Penney's. Clerks filled out sales slips at stations on
the main floor (much as waitresses fill out sales slips in cafes today) then
attached the sales slips and cash into cups on the wire via pulleys that took
them to the cashier's desk located on the balcony. (Remember, we didn't have credit cards back
then.) There the transaction was
recorded, change was calculated and placed back in the cup, and the change and
receipt were sent back down the cable to the customer.
“My wife
Gaynelle Ellis Carley Gray: “Our family would go to town (Hobart) most
Saturdays. I took piano lessons from
Mrs. Benny McElyea on Saturday morning. Her
husband was school superintendent and her son was Bruce. The Penney’s store did have a balcony and the
cashier sat there facing the ground floor. Our cash payments were sent up to her, and she
would send the holder back down to the buyer with our change. I was very impressed with that service. The restroom was also on the balcony. I enjoyed reading and remembering about The
Vogue dress shop with the beauty shop in the back.”
Ken Hebensperger,
Groceries to
Typewriters to Baseball Gloves to Printing
The building on the south
side of
Mike Gage is among several
who remembered that big bass fish sign, hanging under the awning. I remember
the wood floors and the store’s sweet smell.
Mac’s Sport Shop flourished
for 16 years, 1952-1968. Pam McDonald Wolf was six years old when her mother
and father, Bus and Ernestine, opened the store. Bus and the creative Ernie designed many
special window displays for "Let's Go Fishing - Hunting - Camping"
themes. There was an area for displaying
guns, knives, and rifles, and a clothing section featuring Jantzen and White
Stag sports clothes and swim suits. Fishing
supplies were sold, as well as toys at Christmas. Much
of their business involved the area schools' uniforms and equipment. Dene' Morgan was a steady employee, and Betty
Reynolds hired on occasionally. Pam’s brother, Kris, worked at the store until
he graduated in 1956.
In early 1968, the affable
H.D. Self (who proved his mettle by being my seventh-grade Sunday school
teacher, for that it’s worth) moved his printing business there, from the
previous location at 408 S. Main. Self
Printing was an anchor of that block for 26 years—until 1994. We’re pretty sure Kenny Schoonmaker operated
another print shop there after H.D.
Bad Fire, Movie House,
Dempsey and Phyllis
Most old-timers will
remember the nifty building on the south side of
The Palace Theater had burned
to the ground twice before the existing building opened March 14, 1929. The second fire, in 1916, started across the
street and burned all the buildings from the alley west to
Harold Gibson, HHS class of
1939, remembers the Palace Theater in the 1920s. “Each Saturday, that theater
featured westerns. The cost to enter was
10 cents. The tickets were numbered, and the last digit of the number was the
holder’s chance to win a prize. The
lucky number was determined each week by a contest of some sort by a comic
movie involving 10 characters participating in the contest. Each character had a number and the winner
carried the weekly winning number. The
prizes were dishes or some sort of equivalent. I never won. Smart kids would check with patrons after they
bought a ticket so they could then get in line and buy a ticket with the number
that they wanted. The theater crossed up this technique after a time by
altering the contest winner for a given contest.”
The Palace is remembered as
the “nickel theater.” It certainly was
less luxurious than the
The Palace closed in 1941 or
1942. The building was vacant for a
while, and then Boyter Auto Parts and Turner Auto Parts stores were there until
the A&B moved in.
Alice and Bob Lee had
started the A&B in what later became the Ben Franklin building east of the
alley. Flossie and Bill Benson moved the
restaurant into the Palace building. Dempsey
and Phyllis Elkouri, had it longest, of course. Does anybody know when they took over?
For some reason, a
restaurant called Koko’s occupied the A&B space in 1973. What was that all about?
Anyway, Dempsey and Phyllis ran the
A&B until December 11, 1992. It was truly a
Miscellaneous Stuff
Janet Kenimer Dickerson
remembers one of the restaurants on
It’s hard for me to know
whether to quote people who comment, or just say “a friend said.” Any suggestions?
Carolyn Asbury Shockey said,
“I got all my ‘up-do’ hairstyles at that beauty shop in the back of Vogue!”
Trucks delivered the Daily
Oklahoman and Oklahoma City Times newspapers to the Mistletoe Express office at
320 S. Washington in the late 1940s—on the east side of the street just north
of the Safeway store. Frank Williams was
a paper boy: “I only remember that when we were finished folding the morning
Deidra Watson reminded us
that her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Owen, operated the Suburban Grocery (
The talk about the wire at
Penney’s reminded John Shriner of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
office which was upstairs over Penney’s or the Vogue Shoppe—or both. (Someone tell us which one, please.) A stairway led up to the office. John wrote, “I had a preschool janitor’s job
there my senior year, 1960. The switchboard had roughly ten operator stations
but overnight the only occupant of the entire office was one bored operator,
who faced away from the door entrance. I
had a key since I had to show up around 6 a.m. and I considered it my duty to
sneak up behind the semi-awake operator and yell BOO at least once per month. It would usually take me at least that long to
recover from the wrath of the previous “joke.” Who knew that women could be so excitable?”
Thoughts from
the Squirrel Lair
The Four Candles
This is a very meaningful
message.
http://www.openmyeyeslord.net/thefourcandles.htm
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
Ammunition Manufacture
The following videos are
very interesting. Part 1 was very
enlightening on how ammo is actually made.
Part 2 tells about quality control of the manufacture and shows what different
types of .22 Long Rifle ammo will do. These are both very enlightening to those of
us who may love to shoot but never thought about how that ammo is made.
.22 Long Rifle Ammunition Manufacture (Part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvK9QlQtrKI
.22 Long Rifle Ammunition Manufacture (Part 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdNkfTS0lOQ
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,
April 9: Hamburger, Fried Potatoes,
Baked Beans, Salad Bar, and Dessert
Thursday,
April 11: Baked Pork Chop, Mashed
Potatoes/Gravy, Black-Eyed Pea Salad, Rolls, Salad Bar, and Dessert
********
The Snyder High School Reunion was a
huge success. Alumni from the Classes of
1962 and 1963 were honored as they celebrated their 50 year reunions. Members of those classes as well as several
other classes had parties before and after Saturday’s events. A member of the Class of 1937 was the oldest
alumni present. One alumni
traveled over 2000 miles to attend. Many
saw friends who they hadn’t seen for several years--maybe even since they
graduated. A good time was had by
all.
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:
April 5 – Kevin McCannon
April 6 – Dick Jackson
April 7 – Janice Ward
April 7 – Charles Pollard, Class of 1956
April 8 – Geri Baden
April 8 – Brooke Franks
April 8 – Marge Salhus
April 8 – Austin Simmons
April 8 – Carlee Haynie
April 9 – Shirley (Rickerd) Munselle, Class of 55
April 10 – Brianna Taylor
April 11 – Shane McLaury
Happy
Anniversary To:
April 11 – David and
Galeen Chain
Humor
Aw…the Zoo!!
Little Johnny wanted to go
to the zoo and pestered his parents for days. Finally his mother talked his
reluctant father into taking him.
When the day came, Little Johnny and his daddy got in the car and headed for
the zoo. They were gone most of the day,
and as the sun was setting, they arrived home.
“So how was it?” his mother asked Little Johnny.
“Great!” Little Johnny
replied.
“Did you and your father have a good time?” asked his mother.
“Yeah, Daddy really liked it a lot,” exclaimed Little Johnny excitedly,
“especially when one of the animals came racing home at 30 to 1!”
Food for
Thought
The Myths and Realities of ObamaCare
April 1, 2013
The Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as ObamaCare, is a massively complex
bill. With a goal of affordable,
accessible and quality care, the campaign to make ObamaCare popular fails to
recognize a number of myths and realities. Deconstructing these myths should lead to
ObamaCare being repealed, defunded or challenged in court, says Sally Pipes,
president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute.
While some contended that
ObamaCare would achieve universal coverage, the reality is that according to
the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), there will still be 30 million uninsured
in 2016.
Many people claimed
ObamaCare would reduce cost, but the CBO estimates that costs will increase by
$1.3 trillion to $2.6 trillion between 2013 and 2023.
Another myth held that the
insurance premium for the average family would decrease by $2,500 but the CBO
estimates that the premium for the average family will increase by $2,100.
Despite claims by the
president that nothing would change if you liked your doctor before ObamaCare,
roughly 7 million people will lose their employer-based coverage -- and their
doctor.
The president also claimed
that no family earning under $250,000 would see their taxes increase; in
reality, there are about $1 trillion in new taxes, including a $28 billion
excise tax, a 0.9 percent increase in the Medicare payroll tax for higher
income individuals and couples, and a new Medicare tax of 3.8 percent.
Before ObamaCare was passed,
it was commonly stated that individuals and small businesses would be able to
purchase insurance in state-based exchanges, but federal and state governments
are struggling to set up the necessary exchanges to fulfill this promise.
The president also promised
to eliminate Medicare Advantage plans, which were "unpopular and too
expensive," but instead is only cutting funding by 2.2 percent because the
plans are in fact very popular. The cuts
will make accessibility more difficult for seniors.
Proponents of ObamaCare also
claimed that tax credits would be available for small business for providing
insurance for their employees, but the tax credit is too weak and too confusing
according to the Government Accountability Office.
With the effects of full
ObamaCare implementation soon taking effect, many of the taxes associated with
ObamaCare should be repealed. In
addition, Medicaid expansion funding should be reduced, medical malpractice
should be reformed and tax breaks should be expanded for Health Savings
Accounts, Flexible Savings Accounts and Health Reimbursement Accounts.
Source: Sally Pipes, "Myths
and Realities of ObamaCare," Pacific Research Institute, March 2013.
source: http://www.pacificresearch.org/california/california-article-detail/myth-and-realities-of-obamacare/
Obituaries
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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