From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Thu Mar 9 19:21:10 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 k2A2LAjb021013; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 19:21:10 -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 k2A2L9Z1009722 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 19:21:09 -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 k29NotFI015868 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 18:50:55 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k29NotcY015867 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 18:50:55 -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 k29NQbFI015778 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 18:26:37 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k2A1ueWP032467 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 18:56:40 -0700 X-Envelope-From: paul_odlesr@yahoo.com Thu Mar 9 18:56:40 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 k2A1uejb032456 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 18:56:40 -0700 Received: from web60916.mail.yahoo.com (web60916.mail.yahoo.com [209.73.178.244]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k2A1ucDr032266 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 18:56:39 -0700 Received: (qmail 94605 invoked by uid 60001); 10 Mar 2006 01:56:31 -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=dDvNgZk8CCYgwMO4QGu4LlePQ4/9YvDtqbNnrU4lW+AF1ZZJl5QTOwOklnRMm5F1FcBfqHt0Ohrcm3vhHXgxKEJwaapx0uKIE32bAgPU0f6+FN4YoCxiFdNjxyDQekcXYKs1r8zNZ+yNRLu/f0M51hM0jTclsXDx5PqUyUiJ5P0= ; Message-ID: <20060310015631.94603.qmail@web60916.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.141.90.216] by web60916.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:56:31 PST Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 17:56:31 -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 k2A1ueWP032467 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by roots-l.rootsweb.com id k29NQbFI015778 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] The Funny Papers Read On The Radio/1930's/1940's The Funny Paper¡¯s Read On The Radio I use to love Sunday mornings in Yukon in the late 1930¡¯s & the early 1940¡¯s. I would wake up around 6 a.m. to the melodious distant sounds of a rooster crowing some where to the west of our home. I would jump out of bed and run out of the house in my P.J.¡¯s to get the Daily Oklahoman Newspaper, so I could get the funny paper first. Now I am talking about the grand old days of radio, way before we ever heard of T.V. I do not recall if it was 7 or 8:00 a.m. on Sunday morning there was a show where they read the funny papers to children, with all of the sounds of the people & animals. If you had a birthday, some one would mail your name into the show. You had to set very quite & listen for your name to be read out loud on the radio. It made you feel special to hear your name read on the radio. You know how you feel now when you read your name or see your picture in THE YUKON REVIEW , THE DAILY OKLAHOMAN, or THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION that kind of special. Around 8 or 9:00 a.m. you could hear the chimes coming from THE FIRST NAZARENE CHURCH and you could hear the bells tolling from the CATHOLIC CHURCH on Oak Street. What a marvelous sound to motivate you to get up & get ready for Church. Yes those were the days when most folks in Yukon attended church. It was a great period to grow up, children were not expose to all of the evils of the out side world. Families stayed together, if you were a child your brothers & sisters all had the same last name. It was a common thing to hear adults talking about the characters that were in the comic section of the paper or what AMOS said to ANDY on the radio show "AMOS & ANDY," or "FIBBER MCGEE & MOLLY." Next Sunday morning lie quietly in your bed & see if you can hear a rooster crowing in the west or Church bells tolling. If you have a little child in your house try reading the funny papers to him or her in a manner that you believe that sounds like that Character. And if you hurry just a little bit you will find time to make it to Sunday school & Church of your choice. Those were special times for special people in our lives. And oh how I wish I could bring back those special people to sit with me and listen to the funny papers being read on the radio. And I am sure the little girls remember looking forward to cutting out this weeks JANE ARDEN paper dolls. 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 --------------------------------- Relax. Yahoo! Mail virus scanning helps detect nasty viruses!