From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Tue Feb 14 12:34:04 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 k1EJY4jb018930; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:34:04 -0700 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 k1EJY1Yn008496 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:34:01 -0700 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 k1EH5AFI015656 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:05:10 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k1EH5ATU015655 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:05:10 -0500 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 k1EGidFI015562 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:44:39 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k1EJDLtO008153 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:13:21 -0700 X-Envelope-From: paul_odlesr@yahoo.com Tue Feb 14 12:13:20 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 k1EJDKjb008142 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:13:20 -0700 Received: from web60921.mail.yahoo.com (web60921.mail.yahoo.com [209.73.178.249]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k1EJDIuR029492 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:13:19 -0700 Received: (qmail 15564 invoked by uid 60001); 14 Feb 2006 19:13:13 -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=irmzM33Fjl+SIaR08qTE5e9tahG7eDsObVB57ae/kUJhgY/aw5b6eP89HODF3vWmYsN9uZLccKJmZzzoXPDB5Tbq++KlA+il3Y5z8tW19jqwrJe9ItG7V6v7b30Pp3tT9ob1UE0Y42BDprcHAj1gXExjgT1b9//Xty0uksad3/s= ; Message-ID: <20060214191313.15562.qmail@web60921.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.141.90.216] by web60921.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:13:13 PST Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:13:13 -0800 (PST) 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 k1EJDLtO008153 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by roots-l.rootsweb.com id k1EGidFI015562 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Memories 'Round The Mill The Ice Skaters My best pal EARL ED NOVAK and I grew up in the 1930¡¯s to 1950¡¯s ¡®Round The Mill Town of Yukon, Oklahoma during the ice ages. We use to have snowdrifts up to the windowsills from September until past Easter. And although I am sure we did not have knowledge about the winter Olympics. Because had my best Pal Earl Ed and I known about the Olympics there is no doubt in my mind we could have made the US skating team! I t was in the year 1946 that Earl Ed and I took up ice skating on the old Yukon High School football Field that was located on ninth Street just South of Byron and Marion Kroutils home. The Foot Ball field would freeze over with ice and it would be just perfect for ice-skating. I do not recall where my best friend Earl Ed Novak got his ice skates. They might have belonged to Aunt Helen Maxey/Howery¡¯s only son who died while in college. I found my Uncle RAYMOND ODLE¡¯S old rusty ice skates in my Grandmother ADDE TICE/ODLE¡¯S barn loft. My father JAKE ODLE told me that when he was a boy that the North Canadian River would freeze so solid that he and his friends the Wagner and Sanger boys use to ice skate from Yukon to El Reno and back. Earl Ed. Novak had a Cushman Motor Scooter that was like the Postman neither snow nor ice or anything nice would slow Earl and his scooter down. We always clamped our ice skates on our bowling shoes and that worked great. One Sunday after Church Earl Ed. And I was just living on the edge as always and we could hardly wait to get to the High School to test the ice on the Football Field. We were both wearing dress-up penny loafers. I hopped on the back of his motor scooter and away we went as fast as the wind. When we arrived at the Football Field we sat down in the snow and clamped our ice skates onto our penny loafers. That latter proved to be a bad mistake on our part as our ankles had no support. Some little kid walked up and said to us ¡®can you guys really ice skate? We said of course we could. I got my skates on first. There was a small slope leading down to the Foot Ball Field. As I skated down the slope to the Field my ankle turned my other leg went high into the air and I landed hard on my temple. Man that smarted! Earl Ed and this little kid are laughing their heads off at me! About that time my sympathetic best pal Earl Novak comes skating and laughing down the slope and his ankle turned and his leg went up toward the over cast sky and he landed hard on his temple just like I did only I was in too much pain to laugh at him. What a way to start your day! We mounted the old faithful Cushman Scooter and went after our bowling shoes and blue jeans. And we skated down that slope like any other down hill skater would do with out a flaw. I can just hear the judges at the Olympics voting 9.9,9.9,9.9, and 9.9. We would have brought the Gold medal back to the tiny village ¡®Round The Mill in Yukon, Oklahoma. My old partner and blood brother (we cut our thumbs and put them together when we were nine years old and declared we were blood brothers for life) is now ice skating in heaven with the Angels and I look forward to ice skating with him again. By Paul L.Odle, Sr. Lawton/Fort Sill Veterans Center P.O. Box 849 Lawton, Oklahoma 73502 1-580-354-3287 or 1-580-512-4767 Paul_OdleSr@yahoo.com --------------------------------- What are the most popular cars? Find out at Yahoo! Autos