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My own personal experiences riding passenger trains as a child were exciting. But as it was, I was more a watcher than rider. One hot July day in a cotton patch near Lula as the “Streamliner” zipped past. My Uncle J C and my brother Gerald stopped their work chopping cotton and leaned on their hoes. As the train went by you could see people walking about the train and then the dinner car passed. There were people in coats and ties eating and drinking “Heaven knows what” in airconditioned spender and my brother was stunned.
Read moreThey said Sam was a dependable, reliable person. He was a man who took care of his family. He went to church on Sundays and enjoyed his job, working on a big aircraft carrier being constructed at the Fore River shipyard Massachusetts. The carrier Cabot had been ordered sometime earlier and was expected to join our fleet — if they ever got it finished. Pressure was on the shipyard and its 23,000 workers and Sam to hurry up and do just that.
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“Customer Service” - the belief that every person walking in through the door of the store needs to be treated as vital to the financial life blood of that business. When did it become “Customer To Be Tolerated Or Ignored?”
Read moreI probably should write more often about Allen’s rich history in Oklahoma. Last week I mentioned Allen’s role in the Green Corn Rebellion back in 1917. This rebellion fizzled out before it really got started after action taken by Pontotoc County sheriff Bob Duncan and 10 deputies. They were first on the scene after these insurrectionists burned the big Francis railroad bridge and cut the phone lines out of Ada to areas north. Then the governor sent his big “posse” down and arrested 450 locals, loaded them up in box cars and took them to prison in McAlester. I made the comment that later the governor released all these malefactors but actually 150 of them were tried and went to prison for 10 years. But a point I wanted to make is that important history occurred here.
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We just observed Memorial Day — a time we honor all veterans who served our nation. In many cases these men and women paid with their lives to preserve something we Americans have always held dear. Freedom. Now we know that in some of our liberal WOKE school systems the causes and reasons these wars were fought are brought into question. The very fact that an evil man rose to power in the 1930s and captured a democracy called Germany and directed that country’s political and military power to a goal to fulfill his own sick dream of fascism has become distorted.
Read moreIt’s been decades since I’ve given this old customer of mine from long ago much thought. After all, he’s been dead 40 years. But I remember him well. One day he called in his prescription refill and I asked him if he would be in to pick it up. He said, “I would like you to bring it to me. I need to visit with you.” I was pretty darned busy but on the other hand, my home deliveries often produced the highlight of my day, so I told him OK. Later I drove out to his house. He lived in a house that is long gone now. I parked and went up to the door.
Read moreI was watching TV last week and saw that the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority had decided to sort of back off doing much of anything for the time being. This was obviously a result of the “hornets’ nest” the authority stirred up with their proposed expansion of the Kickapoo. The Kickapoo was to connect I-40 down to I-35 in the Norman area bypassing the congested Metro of downtown OKC. A popular idea for some of those who try to get through Oklahoma City to Norman or south to Dallas. Not so popular for the people who live in the path of the proposed toll road.
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