LET'S CELEBRATE EASTER WITH REMEMBRANCES
Spring has sprung. Flowers are blooming, bees are buzzing, days are longer - time for us mammals to come
out of hibernation. Easter is once again upon us. Always took for granted that Easter fell on the first Sunday in April.
That seemed to sound natural. Relied on my church, radio, TV and newspaper ads to usher in that glorious
day so it wouldn't pass me by.
Just to make sure, checked the old reliable World Book Encyclopedia volume 6, which is the E variation. Boy, was
I in for a surprise. Easter Sunday can fall between March 22 and April 25. Discovered that's when most Christians observe
Easter. More than six weeks before Easter, there's Ash Wednesday, which is the day after Shrove Tuesday. Around
the time of Easter, we Christians are supposed to begin a 40 day fast, which brings up another name - Lent. The last week
of Lent is the Holy Week which begins on Palm Sunday. Maundy Thursday arrives in that same last week of Lent. Then comes Good
Friday. Always thought that every Friday was a good one. That's just prior to Holy Saturday. Saturday mornings are the most
holy periods of the week. That's my most fave time to be on the radio. By the time Easter Sunday gyrates in,
we've attained a spirit of perplexity. This reminds me of the second year of algebra.
All of
us know that Easter Sunday is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. But, don't recall anyone who ever mentioned
to fast at Easter. Not a bad idea as a matter of fact, but why do they toss in those tasty chocolate eggs? Call that
a fast? People in different parts of the world celebrate Easter in their own way. We Christians right here in the United States
of America will celebrate Easter Sunday 2005 on March 27th.
ROD TANNER
(Houston, TX) rodiana@ev1.net Hey Jim, Just wanted to check
in and let you know I traveled over to our old stomping grounds last week and visited with a couple radio friends. I went
to San Antonio to visit the grandkids and got together with Johnny Shannon and Steve Sellers. Steve works for KONO and did
when we were gainfully employed over there. He went by Charlie Scott in those days. Johnny said to be sure and tell you hello.
And I had to write and take a small exception to a piece in your column in week before last on Howard Stern
where you talked about his moving to Satellite radio and it being a lot fuss about a little. You mentioned that only about
7% to 10% of his listeners said they would pay to hear Howard. I would think that is about right. But considering that all
surveys put Howard's listener between 12 and 15 million, if you take the lowest percentage, say 7% of 12 million, that works
out to about $10 million dollars a month in subscribers at $12.95 a hit or $120 mill. a year, not counting ad revenues he
would bring in. I would say he will be cash in the bank. I personally find Howard to be rather boring on a day by day basis.
Keep up the good work. Rod Tanner
Those figures
were from a survey that I came across. Thought it very interesting that HOWARD STERN has a huge amount of fans, but most of the STERN rooters won't
pay to listen to his theatrics. Moon radio needed something to harp on to bring in sudden
attention to their wares. HAPPY HOWARD has brought his new satellite radio destination mucho free publicity. Free
promotion is wonderful stuff and STERN has certainly poured it on.
Certainly glad ROD TANNER had a chance to visit our colleague, JOHNNY SHANNON, and made the journey
safe and sound back home. SHANNON's been a good friend since our Elkin's season in 1964. About 2 years ago, when I zoomed
west to attend the TAB radio convention in San Antonio, spent the night in JOHNNY's house in Kirby. Hadn't seen hide
nor hair of JOHNNY in a couple of decades. We wasted most of the night away with attempts to catch up
on past radio experiences. MR. SHANNON's gotten married again. He's become a landlord for the Kirby house. The newly
wedded ones now reside in another abode.
Awhile
back, HENRY LAROCCA, and son motored to the Bayou city to usher me back to Beaumont to view some of his rental
property in and around the home of Lamar College. HENRY had visions of us on a morning deejay team show. That would be nice,
but the one year I spent at KTRM/KIEL FM in Beaumont (1976-77) was all I could handle. LAROCCA and son spun me from Spindletop
to the Neches River and almost all parts in between. Nothing had seemed to change at all from when I was there before.
The ROCK
arrived here in Houston's far westside Energy Corridor behind the wheel of a huge brand new Chevvy quad cab with every conceiveable
extra, including TV and satellite radio. HANK, JR. sat in the rear seat with eyes glued to the tiny TV screen and ears plugged
into music. HENRY, SR., who is only 45, was very proud of his fancy new orbit radio gadget.
LAROCCA punched up nearly every type of radio format within comprehension. Almost like a kid with a new toy. Hey,
listen to this! During the over 200 mile journey from here, there and everywhere, I grew to enjoy the refreshing moonbeam
radio vibes, too. Celestial radio is pretty cool.
Boy, the
Internet phenomenon is something else. This H-P has kept me snowed under with mystifying computer puzzles. Haven't
even had time to finish reading the Sunday papers in some time. They just stack up. Did breeze through the 1st chapter
in ROD TANNER's fine book, SURGE. This tells the tale of a type of Tsunami which collides with the
shores of Galveston and rolls across Houston. Thoroughly remember when Huricane Alisha afflicted the Bayou
City in August 1983. Was only one year into my new house. Watched through the patio door as a neighbor's roof was
peeled away like a deck of cards. Hope to sit down and finish ROD's written work ASAP.
Wednesday afternoon at 1:20, there was a monstrous explosion in Texas City at the BP-Amoco refinery.
This blast had a burst of fire that was described to reach as high as 500 feet in the air. All vehicles which were close by were
demolished by fire and detonation. 31,000 residents were within 3 miles of the mishap. Windows and roofs were shattered. This
was the most destructive event in Houston's ship channel refinery area since another big one erupted in the late
1940's. Well over a hundred injured folk were rushed to area hospitals. The UTMB burn center on Galveston island received
many severely chafed victims. First word quickly came in of four casualities, but authorities abruptly
put a hush on the total so as not to startle next of kin and friends. The latest account lists fifteen fatalities.
The most colossal event to strike the Houston refinery area since the 1947 explosion of the French
ship Grandcamp, which leveled almost everything within 1500 feet, killed 581 citizens and injured 3500. The present disaster
occurred right there on the edge of Houston's ship channel where millions of barrels of crude oil arrives daily from
South America to be purified for automobile consumption back here in the USA. Immediately executed an account to
one of our regular readers in Chicago to see if the northern eagle of news had broadcast to its citizens the
breaking news of what had brought a large portion of the Houston area to its knees.
DALE FOX (Chicago, IL)
afoxden@aol.com Wow, hadn't heard anything about it with all of the other news going on. I remember hearing about the big explosion
in Galveston many years ago when the whole harbor blew up and there was a huge fire. Much loss of life. Talk with you soon.
Dale
That's what I was afraid to find out, broadcadst stations only offer selective news coverage, even
to such a tremendous disaster as occurred Wedesday here in the great state of Texas. Sad to say, the Clintonesque broadcast
consolidation will only produce more of the same. But, we do have the Internet.
JAY KELLY
jaykelly97@hotmail.com Mr. Rose, My name is Jay Kelly. I tripped across your website while surfing for any random information about my
father...Gene Kelly. I'm not sure if you knew him or not. Like you, he was part of the "oldschool" radio deejays, working
for KBUC, Harrell Banks and Tom Turner. He even had a short stay at KILT before then when it was a top 40 station. Unfortunately,
he passed away in October '97.
While at my mom's house over the weekend, I grabbed a bunch of cassettes with my dad's old radio broadcasts
on them. After listening to them, it made me do a couple of searches on internet. With the vast internet, you never know what
you're gonna find. Anyway, just wanted to say a random Hello from an admirer of the deejays/radio programs of my childhood.
Sincerely, Jay Kelly
During the times devoted to KBUC FM-AM (1968-71), KILT FM-AM> Album Rock-Top 40 (1980-81)
and KILT FM-AM> Country-Classic Country (1993-97), had the opportunity to on the same team with several quality broadcasters.
Numerous comrades of radio and TV fame now enjoy status in the Texas Radio Hall of Fame. GENE KELLY was
one of many outstanding radio personalities who passed through the doorways of KBUC FM-AM and
KILT FM-AM.
Last month, JIMMY STIX, from New York, had his publisher dispatch his latest book,
America Wake Up! to my doorstep. This quarto promises to be a hair-raising truism on terror prevention steps
that STIX maintains, We must take now. Cannot wait to peruse the pages of JIMMY's opus because we
do live in perilous times. JIMMY STIX's tome tells of how to prepare for and deal with consequences such
as this latest one in Texas City, plus defenses against all odds that may come our way. The Bible is another requisite
in times like these or any other.
Clicked
KILT's site briefly. Our pal, TOM FONTANE, looks sharp with a huge grin from ear to ear. Radio's fame and fortune has sprouted
a little fur on FONTANE's chin. TOM finally got his just and due reward after serving as KILT's do it all specialist for
over a decade. KILT is TOM's very first and only radio adventure. He's really made a good go of it. FONTANE's the only
one of our bunch from either KILT FM or AM who's still in the new building. Pleasantly surprised and delighted to discover
that LESLIE T. TRAVIS has made a triumphant return engagement to KILT FM, she's now on Saturday nights, 7p-midnight
ED GUERRO
(San Antonio, TX) edward-guerrero@sbcglobal.net Jim, Minutes after sending KKYX's Jerry King an e-mail asking about Bruce Hathaway's
where abouts i decided to make another search on Pat Tallman. And BINGO i found Your interesting website.
On
my msg below i asked about him and shared some past history about old time radio. Although i never made Radio or Tv broadcasting
my career i have fond memories of my association with people that made this type of livelihood. The person i have mentioned
below, Layman W.Cameron was owner of the Muzak franchise in the mid 50's. Layman married a lady named Garrnet Sparks and not
having any children they took me under their wings and made them-selves my mentors. Layman in his spare time would take me
out to all the surrounding area broadcasting facilities and was introduced to many people of Your fraternity. Enjoyed every
bit of it.
Jim,
You mentioned the KBAT transmitter location as being down on Bandera Rd. did i get it right about the downtown studios. So
far i have not read every page of Your website and i hope to find some interesting info embedded in all Your stories about
your experiences. Regards, Ed PS: Did You ever meet Bruce while you worked here locally?
So really
nice to hear from ED about those wonderful San Antonio radio times. Several of the members of the Texas Radio Hall of Fame
are San Antonio radio legends. Well, by the time I left KBUC in early 1971 and made KBAT-870 my home, the studios had a new
dwelling. Bandera Highway was way out west - actually northwest. That was where the powerful transmitter and multi-tower congfiguration
stood as proud as a suzerain. When I was at KBAT, its format was Pop Standard with a spattering of Easy Rock and mellow Country
tunes tossed in for good measure. Bandera, Texas is considered the Cowboy capital of the the world. Sometimes I would steer
the horsepower toward Bandera and dine in delight at one of finest steak houses in south Texas. Those were the days, my friend.
BRUCE HATHAWAY
had become a living legend long before I joined KBUC FM-AM in August 1968. HATHAWAY was also a local TV star with an American
Bandstand type of TV show. For many years as a deejay and programmer, BRUCE's light shone brightly on 55-KTSA and later, its
sister station, KTFM FM. HATHAWAY's deejay style is non-abrasisive - smooth as silk and very communicative, as your next
door neighbor, but with a HATHAWAY flair.
BRUCE HATHAWAY
sported jet black hair and beard that marked a strong resemblance to ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Wherever BRUCE went he was idolized
by fans and rightly so. HATHAWAY is a real down-to-earth kind of guy who wins everyone over by his mere presence. BRUCE became
a friend.
One night,
probably in late 1968 or early 1969, JOHNNY SHANNON and a very attractive young woman, whose name eludes this cranium right
now, came over to my apartment to check out the fancy new stereo system that I had purchased. This very lovely flame spoke
with the most cute suductive female voice that I ever heard and I have heard many. She was a close friend of BRUCE HATHAWAY.
This was not one of those wild Hollywood parties. Just an innocent get together of friends to play around with this new stereo
masterpiece which came by delivery from far away places to my home and amused us to no end.
This overwhelming
stereo masterpiece was one of those all-inclusive units with a turntable, cassette player/recorder, plus two microphones and
long cords. Also included in the package was a type of public address system. Our voiced noises came right back at us in the
speakers. Two separate human beings could each hold one mic in their hand and make stereophonic recordings with one person
on one channel and the other on the opposite channel.
A cereal
or something similar by the name of CLACKERS was heavy advertised on radio and TV. The word CLACKERS was prominently shouted
out on all broadcasting facilities. JOHNNY held one mic in each hand and strolled back and forth across the room making
fun of CLACKERS. This SHANNON noise carried from one channel to the other on tape. Both JOHNNY and I made idiots of ourselves
with those mics while the lovely lass sat and quietly tolerated the whole epidemic. Finally, she took hold of one mic
and presented the most alluring desafinados in Bexar County. New I.D.'s for KTSA were duo-voiced. We three had a blast playing
around with this new marvel. Still have that very cassette and wouldn't take a million trillion strands of spaghetti for it
because from one his visits from Dallas, dad was also on that same tape. This was dad's premier engagement to hear his
vocal chords strumming through speakers and was the very first time in his life on tape and the only time.
Here's
a copy of the message ED sent to my amigo, JERRY KING, at KKYX.
ED GUERRO
(San Antonio, TX) edward-guerrero@sbcglobal.net I've been away from the area and haven't tuned into Your morning show for the past 3 wks. Your morning show format
is now minus Bruce. We all miss Your AM antics. Is he coming back? I've surfed the net to see if i could find more on this.
Being that Bruce was about the only remaining old time radio announcers in this area i always wanted to call him to see if
we could reminisce about the radio era say about back into the 40's.
In
the 50's i worked with a guy that got his start in radio in the early 40's along with WOAI's Henry Guerra. My boss' name was
Layman W. Cameron. Leaving the the San Antonio market he went national. One of his announcers job was with the old Lone Ranger's
radio show. Layman rubbed shoulders with many high profile names. During his colleges days in Indiana his roommates were notable
people like Burl Ives and another future radio personality named Dick Stork. Stork later became a TV producer/executive.
Layman
returned back to San Antonio during the mid 50's. Besides having announcer's jobs at different outlets he turned to TV station
construction. Introducing the first UHF channel in Erie Pa. He went on to introduce TV in Cuba. To prove all of his achievements
he had tons of newspaper clippings on his scrap book. Of all of the ones that i remember most was the picture of him with
Fidel Castro honoring him for his service to Castro's country.
i have
been surfing the web to see if i could find some history on the early founding of Your radio station KKYX 680 AM. I'm old
enough to remember that the old call letters starting back with KBAT (studios i believe were located on the corner of San
Pedro & Ashley) and the old KABC (studios located in the old Milam Bldg). By the way i befriended, during the 50's, an
ex KABC AM station engineer whose name was "Smitty" while i worked as radio & TV repairman at a shop on S. St Marys and
Madison (Forrest Bakers' Radio Service Co). By now i guess Smitty left us just like the old vacuum tube of yesteryear, eh!
Another
person i've tried to find out more is your old departed colleague Pat Tallman. if Your response to my e-mail is not possible
please accept this story of the past that i wish to share. Congratulations to Your recent introduction into The Radio Hall
of Fame. Regards, Edward Q. Guerrero San Antonio, Texas
San Antonio's
legendary TV news anchor, HENRY GUERRA, and I appeared in a TV commercial in early 1971 for Travis Savings which
ran for a solid month on all three of San Antonio's network affiliated TV stations during their six and ten PM newscasts.
HENRY was a class act. PAT TALLMAN was an excellent newscaster at KBAT.
Just before
I left KBAT and hit the road back to Dallas in 1971, discussed at length, plus layed out the plans, as a radio consultant
will do, with BILL RHODE, KBAT'S Program Director, what KBAT must do in order to hit the radio listening charts big. Narrated
to RHODE the beginning lines to the script that he must follow to the letter.
First and
foremost, the call letter situation was a hinderance. As Program Director of KBUC FM-AM, was a witness to the fact that San
Antonio had three radio stations with much too similar call letters - KBUC, KBER and KBAT. What BILL must do was change
the call letters to digits which are dissimilar to any other in Bexar county. 870-KBAT has one
of the most powerful radio signals in south Texas. Ditch the floundering Pop Standards niche for the very hip and popular
Country music mode. Do not swap deejays because KBAT already has top notch radio pronouncers.
Less than
a year after my departure, KBAT's General Manager, RICHARD MARCELLAN, proceded along the path to success which I had layed
out to ROHDE. The KBAT nomemclature was tossed out in favor of a new title - KKYX. SWANCO Broadcasting's KBAT put a shunt
to the Pop Standards melodies of ROBERT GOULET and FRANK SINATRA. KKYX stirred up abundant favor and delight with the
likes of MERLE HAGGARD and GEORGE JONES. The leap from waltz to two-step zoomed KKYX's ratings to the top of the heap for
years. RIC has departed this earth, but RHODE still looms on with a popular talk program on
the Alamo City's 50,000 watt powerhouse, WOAI-1200.
ED GUERRO
(San Antonio, TX) edward-guerrero@sbcglobal.net Jim, Thanks for Your response. Presently i'm retired here in SAT. At 70 years of
age i've lived out of this area about 50% of my life, USAF, work, with my children living on either coasts and other venues.
So when in the area i had listened to KONO 860 ( Howard Edwards, Bill Keilly and others ) during the early 60's and KITE about
the same period. With KITE 930 i remember hearing personalities like Paul English, who
sadly died in a Jeep accident at his property and also there was a Brit nicknamed "Duckey" she was quite a character. Were
You in the area about early to mid 60's?
I briefly
returned early 70's about when KBUC erected their + 1k ft FM tower near the local TV stations antennae farm by Lake Calaveras
on the SE side of town. Incidentally, the land leased by KBUC for their tower is owned by a
personal friend family.
As
for the KITE transmitter site i remember then being located; which is now Gen. McMullen Dr. out on west Commerce. I visited
the location with my boss, Layman Cameron. I met the station chief engineer i believe his name was Cesar, a Hispanic. This
was in the mid 50's. I'm returning to Your website pages to catch up on Your career. Regards, Ed
Remember
PAUL ENGLISH very well. PAUL was a very popular AM Drive deejay KITE-930. This was when I was at KBAT. As many will
do with their Jeeps, PAUL went rough-housing at his country farm. A tragic mishap occurred which left San Antonio radio
fans awestricken.
Saturday
night, March 19th - STAN WILSON's oldest daughter, CAROLE, gives us the latest word on STAN's current
condition.
CAROLE
WILSON PUGSLEY. (Ft. Worth, TX) Wanted to let dear friends and family know that Stan went back to All Saints Hospital
at noon today after suffering a heart attack. As of tonight he is stable, comfortable and as lucid as ever. Don't know the
extent of damage yet, but they are trying to stabilize his condition through meds, as any surgical interventions at age 89
would be too risky. We would appreciate prayers for his recovery so that he can return to Stonegate Nursing Center soon (hopefully,
in two days, says the Dr.). Meanwhile, he will remain in cardiac ICU and cannot have visitors. Thanks for your concern....Carole
Wilson Pugsley (oldest daughter)
Our prayers remain heavy for treasured friend STAN WILSON and the WILSON family. STAN has been
on this green earth for 89 years. He been a first hand witness to radio's many evolving doors, from the Red and Blue
networks to the Texas State Network (TSN) and beyond. STAN is a radio legend not only to those many of us who were so
fortunate to be on his winning team at KFJZ-1270, but to all radio fans.
Clear Channel
put the muzzle on Houston's Album Rock KLOL FM in favor of tunes from across the border down Mexico way. We mentioned the
return of KLOL FM's Album Rock format to a new spot on the dial with brand new call letters, KIOL FM. Also, spoke of the possible
return of KLOL FM's legendary deejays. DAYNA STEELE is one who many claim was the First lady of Houston radio during
the time that KLOL FM was in full swing in the 1980's. Well, DAYNA has opted to head in another direction. The divine MISS
STEELE will sit down behind the mic at another of Houston's new radio stations, BIZ-RADIO 1320 which was the former home of
KXYZ for decades. DAYNA's new words of expression begin to make radio waves each day at 3 PM.
And we
radio folk think we're isolated with all the format and ownership changes. A schoolmate and former neighbor for years in Dallas
fills us in on the semi-conductor industry.
DON A.
TIFFIN (Dallas, TX) dtiffin3@yahoo.com Jim, Semiconductors got to be about the same way. Mostek had 18 layoffs from 1981
to 1989 when I left, never got laid off, but lots of stress...I left the place in 1989 they had cut my lab that I ran down
from 10 people to 3 and I ended up working in the fab area as a process development engineer on thin films..in an area that
was sealed to prevent the escape of different deadly gasses that might get out...but if they leaked, they would kill the people
working inside that area. They tore down the deposition tools once every 8 hour shift, so that your life, if you were working
in the area, depended on how good the R&M techs were at putting the tool connections back together. Anyway I don't like
fabs all that much.
I left
there and started my own small company doing analytical work for semiconductor companies. I rented instruments from the local
universities: North Texas, UTD and SMU and didn't have overhead till I had a PO, which was good.
In
1992 though I was trying to market to AMD in Austin when I found out they were going to make their small SEM lab (electron
microscope lab) in to a full analytical lab and might be looking for a lab manager to design, buy the instruments, hire the
people and bring up the lab. I went down and takled to them and went to work. Gave my small business to my partner. Stuck
around there till '97 when the stock market was real good and we thought it was going to keep being that way...so I left and
just retired...market crashed in the Spring of 2000, down 60%....so back to the semiconductor industry...put out two resumes
and got lucky they needed a lab manager at Sematech, a research thing for all the major semiconductor companies...went there...stuck
around 3 yrs.
They
did a spin-off of the lab and formed a corporation...I wrote the business plan and started the marketing...then the marketing
got eaten up by the marketing group that did that for the fab there...So I took my stuff and came back to Dallas.
Now
contract marketing for AMD's same sort of lab "spin-off"...its the lab I designed and brought up in the '90s. But, its slow
going, they want only large accounts and there are not that many of them. So think I will look for something else to do for
a while and then retire. Need to try to build up some more to retire on though. But, its all such a "rat race" seems. The
simple life is better anyway I think. Think I should have stuck around Beckley Heights for a while anyway....Oh well. Not
sure which direction I am going to go now.
Still
working on one big deal with TI for these guys in Austin....not sure if that is going to go and it's gotten smaller than it
was. Been working on that for over a year anyway...Tried to get it for Sematech also. I may look for some kind of small business
I can do. Don
Many industries
have had their ups and downs in the past few years, but broadcast radio consistantly has ownership, format and staff changes.
That's the nature of the radio station climate when those in higher places draw a complete blank in radio programming, but
are quite proficient in livestock sales. Head 'em up and move 'em out.
Now that
the Clinton administration has allowed one individual or company to buy up all the radio stations they can reach out and grab,
we have a handful of companies who nab several radio properties in one fail swoop in each city which is descended upon. The
major player has at last count over 1200 radio stations in their bungalow, or is it boog-a-loo? That type of environment brings
deejays into a sort of bungee cord arrangement. If the twine snaps, we're no longer able to play ROCK because we smash into
rocks. Since the borders are now slung wide open, the hottest new radio format is the Spanish fly. Maybe amateur radio is
the way to go. The signal sure does carry out much farther than commercial FM or AM.
DON TIFFIN
(Dallas, TX) dtiffin3@yahoo.com Jim, Are you doing any radio now at all? So when you were in the oil stuff,
were you in the design area? Houston was real hot, for a while in the '70's when I was down there in that area. We were there
in '75 to '78.
I ran
into a guy from Kimball down there, Larry Kennedy, I don't think you knew him, he lived over to the west of Kimball back in
those days. He was a ham radio op and ran into him on 2 meters. 2 meters was just getting going as a local communications
thing back in those days. Larry also worked in oil related things, forgot which company at that time...ah Baroid, some kind
of down hole instruments or something.
Hey
you should get an amateur radio ticket. Might enjoy doing that...maybe not. Some people do anyway. Good bunch of people to
communicate with all over the state here and the world. I've got to replace all my ham gear, as it went in the fire. It was
all old...collectors items. I was up to 1971 for the newer gear. So I guess I will replace all of it with just one HF radio
and maybe two VHF/UHF radios, my wife Patsy is also an amateur. The new ones cost more.
Get
you an amateur ticket, then you can talk to folks, build antennas, radios if you like. Talk all over town on 2 meters or other
VHF/UHF bands on FM with repeaters. Talk all over the world on shortwave. I've worked over 100 countries. If you want more
info, let me know....go to the ARRL web site...arrl.com. I've got a setup where I can get into 2 meter repeaters on the internet.
I can sit here and talk into the Austin 146.94 MHz repeater and talk to the mobils all over Austin or in the Dallas area or
Houston or where ever, even in Europe from the net...that's cheating, no antenna.
Looks
like the weather is going to be nice this Sunday morning here in the exciting city of The Colony, by the lake...Take care,
Don
Capitol
records in Nashville said that CHRIS LEDOUX's family's wishes of cremation were carried out Thursday, March 10th. There was
a private memorial service for the immediate family near CHRIS' home in Kaycee, Wyoming. CHRIS died Wednesday March 9th at
the young age of 56. LEDOUX fought the good fight, but stomach cancer won out in the long run. You may convey your thoughts
with floral tributes and condolences sent to the Cassidy Inn, 346 Nolan, Kaycee, WY 82639. Memorial contributions will be
accepted in CHRIS' name at the Justin Cowboy Crisis Fund, 101 Pro Rodeo Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80919.
DALE FOX
appears to have a pretty good knowledge about many subjects. Asked FOX if he had enough years behind him to remember a fovorite
expression of mine, See you in the funny papers.
DALE FOX
(Chicago, IL) afoxden@aol.com JIM,
No, I'm not too young to remember that expression, but getting too old to admit it. HA! How about, cat's pajamas, a
cat's whisker, in the pink, swell, or jake, or even, so's your old man! All idioms of days gone by. Days I wouldn't mind returning
to at times. Dale 
