One Pharmacist's View

An Exaggerated Report I guess everyone has wondered what would happen to his job, his family, his good old buddies if he happened to unexpectedly die. How — one can wonder — would they take it. I had a little taste of that one day.

Going Through Airport Security Seeing what a danger terrorism is to the flying public made me glad to see security was on the lookout for my safter one morning not so long ago. Keeping us safe. Several recent test attempts to smuggle fake bombs, guns aboard passenger planes were successful.

The Big Tornado Night in Stonewall. It was what we would call a “sultry” night in Stonewall, Oklahoma, in 1947. I was 12 and I had a less than lucrative job running the popcorn stand at the Main Theatre there on Stonewell’s Main Street.I was glad to be there.

August Sunlight This summer we have seen our usual hot sunshiny days of over 100F with the sun’s angles being sharp and anxious to inflict skin cancers. Just another proven fact we chose to ignore each summer.

In 1954 I was involved in taking my sister-in-law Judy back home to Spearman, Texas — A dusty town in the center of the dust bowl that whipsawed the Great Plains in the 1930s.The bedraggled panhandle town, like many in our part of the world had lost a lot of its population. But Judy had to go home.

Ain’t This A Wonderful Country! The wind was whipping my pants pretty hard and I could hear the dust hitting my car, parked there in front of the courthouse of Cimmaron County— Boise City, Oklahoma.

When I first moved to Allen in 1963 the news was there were "Haints" in the area. Yes, they were spotted around "Seed Tick Cemetery" and all around the South Canadian. Yes, Big Foot was alive and well in the Allen area.

Olden days in Oklahoma Whatever happened to all the old hardware stores in America?In Allen we have memories of some great hardware stores here such as Fritz Johnson operated.But it is long gone.His was located in the middle of downtown where the Allen Historical Site now sits.

Taking Care Of What You Have I was out mowing my front yard a few years back when my neighbor, the late Da - vid Jones, pulled his mower over to where I was. He did this sometimes when he wanted to talk. So, I pulled up and we be - gan to chat about this and that.

We Were Eclipsed A long time ago — well one week ago — the much heralded “North American Eclipse” came to Allen. Weather forecasters happily forecasted that we probably wouldn’t be able to see it anyway. Clouds they said. I watched all this with a sort of wishy-washy attitude.