From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Thu Aug 31 17:38:21 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k7VNcLjb030549; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:38:21 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7VNcHcY026858 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:38:17 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k7VKvfFI031517 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:57:41 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k7VKvf6l031516 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:57:41 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k7VHpMFI031100 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:51:23 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k7VKVm7i029594 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:31:48 -0600 X-Envelope-From: paul_odlesr@yahoo.com Thu Aug 31 14:31:47 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k7VKVljb029583 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:31:47 -0600 Received: from web60920.mail.yahoo.com (web60920.mail.yahoo.com [209.73.178.248]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k7VKVhHZ014137 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:31:43 -0600 Received: (qmail 77608 invoked by uid 60001); 31 Aug 2006 20:31:38 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=VbpMBF1WIGYpzrtwVSDbvrV84SfO+BLafO/uW43Cr6mFdo88FaDPcsJIPHu5wrR6ccSasQ5SX5E8EguVB1k2nV5Qqxa8QDlkt+GCwhxwzKVvbBl1Yf6qDLAx0jy0b5vtx+iBK4PGTxFLO3K1c/TASErXLwD9xC83Bcgl01VnT3E= ; Message-ID: <20060831203138.77606.qmail@web60920.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.141.90.216] by web60920.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:31:38 PDT Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:31:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Odle To: Roots Webb MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by lists5.rootsweb.com id k7VKVm7i029594 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by roots-l.rootsweb.com id k7VHpMFI031100 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Peter's Dairy Peter¡¯s Dairy It was in the winter of the year 1940-1941 that I lived on the farm called Peter¡¯s Dairy with my father Jake Odle and Mother Hazel Odle, my younger brother ¡°Buddy¡± Orville Lester Odle and our baby brother Jimmie Lee Odle. My dad was a farm hand on George Petter¡¯s Dairy Farm. That was one very cold winter. I was 7 years old and I had to walk about a fourth of a mile to catch the school bus. I can remember standing on that cold corner with the strong cold Oklahoma wind blowing on my freezing little body and my beat red frozen face. It always seemed like an eternity before the School bus arrived. I always wondered if I had gotten to that corner too late. Petter¡¯s Dairy Farm was located on a farm where the New Hospital is located now! That was Cemetery Road a narrow dirt road with very deep and wide bar ditches on either side. A thick forest lined the dirt road. About every 45 minuets a car would drive by. There was a big kid by the name of Jack Barker that sometimes caught the school bus at that corner. I was standing on the cold, cold corner early one morning when a car came from the West going East at a high rate of speed and at that very same moment there was another car coming from the north headed south at a high rate of speed. The car coming from the West barely clipped the car coming from the North. The car coming from the North Flipped in mid air and landed on it¡¯s top up side down in the bar ditch. That happened in front of my very eyes. The other car kept going east. I was scared to death. I heard no sounds coming from the car. I just knew that person was dead. Finally a car came by and I flagged it down. The accident victim was the Principals wife Mrs. Marion McElroy. The Man I waved down went down in the bar ditch and got her out of the car and took her into down to the doctor. Mrs. McElroy was lucky she only had a broken arm. The only heat we had in that house on the Peter¡¯s Dairy Farm was a pot bellied stove that you had to fill it with coal or wood and light it with a kitchen. My mother kept a Teakettle of water heating on top of the pot bellied stove. When I would get home from School my mother would let my brother Buddy and I toast slices of her home baked bread on top of that pot bellied stove. Back in those days in the winter time little boys wore 100% wool overhauls. That wool made your complete body itch all over. I hated those wool Overhauls. This one night right after school Buddy and I were toasting bread on the stovetop. Our mom told Buddy to put the teakettle underneath the stove. So we would not trip over it and get burned. But did not do what mom told him to do and sure enough he got his foot hooked under the Tea Kettle handle and fell on the floor and he started rolling on the floor. The more he rolled the worse he got scalded with the scalding water soaking up in those wool clothes and holding the heat from the boiling water. Buddy little butt and side was severely burned. Dr. Le Roy Goodman gave mother a gallon bucket full of cocoa Butter and told my mother to spread that cocoa butter with a butter paddle all over Buddy¡¯s burns. By brother was scared for life. In the Year 1949 the Mach Brothers Bill and Charley owned the Peter¡¯s Dairy Farm. The Mach Brothers had a Big Red Hereford Cow named Grady that Jumped into the Silo and they could not get her out. I was a freshman at Yukon High School when on that fateful day Grady the Cow put Yukon on the map and in the news. I knew that Silo so well I had played in it many times when we lived on George Peter¡¯s Dairy Farm. The Mach Brothers received Telegrams, mail and advice from all over the world on how to get old Grady. Don Wilson was famous for singing the JELLO commercial over the radio. He Telegraphed the Mach Brothers and told them to fill the Silo with Jell-O and slide her out the top. I was in Yukon, Oklahoma today visiting my friend Venita Shannon and we visited with a lot of old friends in the Dale Robertson Senior Citizens and the Maple Fry Library. I saw my old Friend Bart Gray, Ted and Kathryn Johnson, Mrs Blevins, Frank and Lavena Whitely. I had a nice visit with Sue Kilmer. I was in the Yukon National Bank and saw some Bank Friends Earlene Smaistrla, Sharon Bryan, John Knuppel and Mike Fry. It is always good to come home and see old friends. I bought a copy of Una Belle Townsends Children book ¡°GRADY IN THE SILO.¡± I plan to read it to Lawton School Children at their school. I filled up my gasoline tank on the north side of Mustang, Oklahoma for $249.9 per gallon then I drove to the East Side of Mustang where I saw Gasoline for $239.9 per gallon. Gasoline in Lawton, Oklahoma is $265.9 per Gallon all over town. Something is wrong with this picture? While I was in Yukon, Oklahoma I took my good friend Vanita Shannon to lunch at the YUKON SUPER BUFFET where they have all you can eat Chinese, Mongolian, American and Japanese Food. YUKON SUPER BUFFET is located at 1105 B Garth Brooks Blvd. Yukon, Oklahoma 73099. My best Childhood Friend Fenton Ramey took me to the Yukon Super Buffet to eat about two months ago and I am hooked on their great food. I have three new books coming out next week ¡°Memories ¡®Round The Mill,¡± ¡°Memories Around Home,¡± and ¡°Memories Around A Veterans Center,¡± by Paul L. Odle, Sr. The First Two books is short stories about growing up in Yukon, Oklahoma and a few other Cities in the 1930¡¯s, and 1940¡¯s. The third book is daily short stories about living in a brand new 38 million dollar Veterans Center and learning to adjust in an all new environment, cope with pain from deep Stasis Ulcers on both legs for 20 months and recovery from five bi-pass heart surgery while learning to live with diabetes. By Paul L.Odle, Sr. Lawton/Fort Sill Veterans Center P.O. Box 849 Lawton, Oklahoma 73502 1-580-354-3287 Paul_OdleSr@yahoo.com --------------------------------- All-new Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster.