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PA(jE 4, Seminole (Texas) Sentinel, Sur.da;,, June 4, 2000
Opinion
From the '50s
by M. Gene Dow, Publisher
For those of you who were around in the 1950s,
some of these quotes from the period will sound
familiar. For those of you from the Baby Boom era or
later, they won’t make much sense, but maybe you
will get a feel of how it was back then:
— “If things keep going the way they are, it’s
going to be impossible to buy a week’s groceries for
$20”
— “Did you hear the post
office is thinking about charging *' **
a dime just to mail a letter?”
— “When 1 first started
thought gas would someday cost
50 cents a gallon.”
. — “Kids today are
impossible. Those duck tail hair
cuts are terrible. Next thing you
know, boys will be wearing their
hair as long as the girls."
•— “If cigarettes keep going
up in price, I’m going to quit. A quarter a pack is
ridiculous.”
— “Did you see where a baseball player signed a
contract for $75,000 a year. It wouldn’t surprise me if
someday they’ll be making more than the President.”
— “Do you suppose television will ever reach our
part of the country?”
— “I’ll tell you one thing, if my kid ever talks back
to me, he won’t be able to sit down for a week.”
— “Next thing you know, the government will
start paying us not to grow crops.”
— “Did you know the new church in town is
allowing women to wear slacks to their services?”
— “There is no sense going out of town anymore
for a weekend. It costs nearly $15 a night to stay in a
hotel.”
— “No one can afford to be sick anymore, $35 a
day in the hospital is too rich for my blood.”
— “If a few idiots want to risk their necks flying
across the country that’s fine, but nothing will ever
replace trains.”
“I don’t know about you but if they raise the
price of coffee to 15 cents, I’ll just have to drink mine
at home.”
— “If they think I’ll pay 50 cents for a haircut,
forget it. I’ll have my wife learn to cut hair.”
— “We won’t be going out much anymore. Our
baby sitter informed us she wants 50 cents per hour.
Kids think money grows on trees.”
— “Have you see the new cars coming out next
year? It won’t be long until $5,000 will only buy a
used one.”
— “If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody
will be able to hire outside help the store.”
— “I’m afraid to send my kids to the movies any
more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with
saying ‘damn’ in ‘Gone With the Wind,’ it seems
even movie has cussing in it.”
* * *
THE OLD INDIAN CHIEF SAYS— "Dtm 7
assume that spending twice as much will be twice as
Days Past...
FIVE YEARS AGO—JUNE 4, 1995
Seminole High School students Sara Rixon, Casey
Black and Mikki Rodriquez have been selected as
members of Spirit Wind '95, a 152-member Methodist
youth choir. Incidentally, the group will be
performing at First United Methodist Church Friday,
June 9 at 7 p.m...
Mrs. Doyle “Hixie” Newcomb will speak on
“Strength for the Journey” at the Andrews-Seminole
Women’s Aglow Fellowship on Thursday, June 8.
The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in the Gold Room
of Seminole National Bank.
TEN YEARS AGO—JUNE 3, 1990
The yard of Danny and Dana Quisenberry, 1007
NW Ave. G was selected by the Seminole Garden
Club as “Yard of the Week”. The honor is handed out
each week during the summer and the Seminole Area
Chamber of Commerce places a sign denoting the
honor...
A total of 62 teams are set to participate in the Girls
National Little Dribbler Tournament, which starts
Wednesday and goes through Saturday. Play will take
place at the high school gym, the junior high gym and
the old junior high gym._
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MINDING YOUR OWN BUSINESS
Lessons from Corporate Annual Reports
For more than a decade I’ve been reading the annual
reports of several major corporations. With thoughtful
analysis and a little reading between the lines you can
learn a lot about business operation, corporate culture
and management philosophy.
This year as the statements started to come in, I was
intrigued by the contrast of the top executive’s comments
in two of the annual reports. Floyd Hall of Kmart and
David Glass of Wal-Mart took very different approaches
to communicating the past year’s success to shareholders.
However, you must read between the lines to grasp the
contrast. On the surface, both men’s comments sound
positive and upbeat. Both used the terms “continuous
improvement,” “innovation” and “change.” Both
executives discussed their company’s success and lauded
the commitment of their management teams.
So where is the contrast you ask? The contrast is in the
execution. Many are good at talking about success; few
are truly talented at getting the job done.
A HISTORY LESSON
Let’s roll back the calendar a few years to 1990. It was
during the dramatic year that a new retail sales leader
emerged. Long-time leader. Sears, Roebuck and
Company, was passed by the up-and-coming Kmart
Corporation.
The big shock was that Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. swept by
both Sears and Kmart with a sales surge of 26 percent.
Wal-Mart’s sales for the fiscal year that ended in January
1991 were nearly $33 billion.
And therein lies the basis of the contrast. In the decade
that followed, Wal-Mart executed while the other two
powerful retailers—Sears and Kmart—languished.
While Sears and Kmart talked about continuous
improvement and made only small advances, Wal-Mart
made giant strides toward serving customers more
effectively. While Sears and Kmart revised, revamped
and tried new approaches, Wal-Mart continued to execute
their skillfully crafted plan.
The proof is in the year-to-year resultsthesecompanies
By Don Taylor
Co-aullior of "Up
Against the Wat-Marts".
You may write to him at
P. O. Box 67
Amarillo, TX 79105
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25 YEARS AGO—JUNE 5, 1975
Mike Coston, grandson of Mrs. F.W. Howard,
received the Eagle Scout Award at Eagle Court of
Honor Monday evening at First United Methodist
Church. Coston was honored with a reception in the
Fellowship Hall of the church following the
ceremony...
Lloyd Glass, a dispatcher with the Gaines County
Sheriffs Department from February 1973 to February
1974, became the eighth member of the Seminole
Police Department. His addition provides enough
manpower for the department to begin a five-day
work week.
*•*
60 YEARS AGO—JUNE 6,1940
Another important step in the progress and
development of Seminole will be made Friday and
Saturday when the Davis and Humphries Piggly
Wiggly Store, located on the north side of the square,
opens its doors to the public...
W. E. Cox, Jr., manager of Palace Theatre, is in
Dallas buying furniture and fixtures for the new
Tower Theatre, the construction of which is nearing
completion. The new building will have several office
rooms to rent and there’s also room for two storage
buildings.
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M. GENE DOW
Editor and Publisher
David Fisher........................... News Editor
Joyce Dow........................ Social Editor
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have achieved. In fiscal year 2000 Kmart rang up retail
sales of $35.9 billion. Sears came in at $41 billion, and
Wal-Mart became the second largest company in the US
with sales exceeding $165 billion.
Now keep in mind that all three of these giant retailers
were at nearly the same sales levels in 1990. All had the
same economy to grow in and all had the same buying
clout. All three companies had hundreds of stores and
were present in virtually all major US markets. How did
Wal-Mart grow to be four times the size of Sears and
four and a half times the size of Kmart?
THE DIFFERENCE
I lere are the key lessons I’ve learned from the annual
reports. I believe they spell out the performance
differences.
•Do more with less. WaNMart has always held
expenses in check. They focused on taking cost out of
the business in all areas. Of all the annual reports 1
received this year, the company with least profit, produced
the biggest (60 pages) and fanciest annual report.
•Focus on improvement instead of growth. Wal-
Mart has always been motivated by the idea of getting
better, not getting bigger. Serve your customers well and
growth will come naturally.
•Develop a team of dedicated people. Several Wall
Street experts predicted a period of decline following
Sam Walton’s death in 1992. The decline never came
because Walton built a talented, dedicated team, prepared
them well and empowered them to work the plan.
•Never resist change. Wal-Mart has only had three
CEOs in its 38 year history. Sam Walton, David Glass
and newly appointed Lee Scott. Walton and Glass
pushed for changes that made the company better. I’ll
bet Scott will continue in the same wav. _
Talk of Texas
Copyrighted by Jack McGuire
Early French writer
predicted Texan's
walk on the moon
BELIEVE IT OR NOT—More than a century
before a Texan became the fourth man to walk on the
moon, a French science fiction writer predicted the
event with uncanny accuracy.
and a Frenchman journeyed to the moon in an
aluminum cylinder. It was startlingly like the space
ship in which Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin
touched down on the lunar surface more than a
century later.
Neither of Verne’s astronauts were Texans, but he
had them argue over whether Texas or Florida would
launch the fictional space capsule. In his story,
Florida won and the astronauts were sent aloft from a
point 140 miles west of the present Cape Kennedy,
the spot from where Apollo-Saturn 11 carrying Neil
Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin was rocketed into space
in 1969.
Apollo 12, the second mission of 1969, was
launched with Charles Conrad, Jr., Richard F. Gordon
and Alan L. Bean aboard. Bean, a Texan, was the
fourth and last man to walk on the moon.
In Verne’s story, the flight took 97 hours, 11
minutes and 20 seconds to reach the moon. Appollo’s
actual flight was a bit slower. It required 103 hours
and 30 minutes.
***
IT COULD ONLY HAPPEN HERE—In Texas, a
beautician may give a man a haircut but only a
barber may shave him or trim his beard.
The predicament arises because of a Texas law.
Those who generally style and cut women’s hair are
licensed by the State Cosmetology Commission.Tho.se
who usually cut men’s hair, including facial hair, are
licensed by the Board of Barber Examiners.
Cosmetologists and barbers may work in the same
shop, but the barber has exclusive dominion over
beards. Now there is a controversy over the boundary
where sideburns and the beard begins.
+**
YOU MIGHT LIKE TO KNOW—That in 1946,
KCOR in San Antonio began broadcasting as the first
Hispanic-owned and operated radio station in the U.S.
in 1955, KCOR became the nation’s first Hispanic-
owned and operated television station.
TRAVELING TEXAS—One need not travel
beyond Galveston to spend the night aboard a 120-
foot yacht once owned by Benito Mussolini, the
Italian dictator until he was executed in 1945. The
Chryseis is now a bed and breakfast facility in the
Gulf port.
Owners Pat and Bonnie Hicks ofTcr 11 staterooms
with private baths and over-sized beds and a full
breakfast for $125 and $150. It’s docked at Pier 22.
***
TEXAS FIRST—In 1879, a farmer in Greenvine,
Washington County, accidentally ignited gas that was
flowing into his water well. He piped the stuff into his
house and became the first consumer of natural gas in
Texas!
Bits Vi pieces...
I told the doctor I couldn’t relax. He said," Force
yourself."
Ron Dcttinger
***
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never
misquoted.
ACROSS
TXism: *__as
a dish rag’
TX Skaggs Alpha
Beta became Jewel
j_ in'91
TXism for women
TXism: ’blind as
8 Bangers traded
this pitching Robb
to Florida in '93
9 you can learn how
to be a fighter pilot
at this TX company
16 TXism: ’a whole
__* (many)
18 irregularities
21 Saint TX
22 TXism: ’a _
in a skillet would
have more fun*
23 crim. evidence
**4 TX Rodriguez's
__By’
30 il was used to drill
Spindletop (2 wds.)
34 Heisman winner
Oetmer from TX
35 cuts into glass
36 Coleman Co. fair:
Fiesta___
Paloma
37 TX Charley Pride
played baseball in
old _ League
39 at Fort Hood:
Di t Museum
43 baa jo <e response
44 Qua' ii Parker's
med.^me man
45 namesake of state
forest: Siecke
46 pie a la _
47 UT pro RB Eric
49 TXism: *___bottle
of week-old soda pop'
52 Cowboy's _-season
53 China premier _ Peng
54 this Michael starred
with TX Martin in ’Dirty
Rotten Scoundrels’
54 TXism for small amount—
The Original
of extra cash
TX Crowell wrote Seger's
* on the Moon"
_ City, TX
TXism:
a spell*
TXism: ’went
to the well once
_often’
DOWN
1 TX-filmed'
Run* (75)
2 Port _
TEXAS
CROSSWORD
by Charley & Guy Orbison
Drayton__,
'_bought the
Astros in '92
seat of Garza Co.
Winters h.s. class
nighttime weapon
scope
this Calhoun starred
with TX Hyer in
’Red Sundown*
TX Vikki Carr tune:
’Cosasdel__*
confining a critter
’the’ south of
the border
a Fort Worth Bass
seat of Tyler Co.
’entrance’ south
of the border
TX Reynolds film:
’__For Me’
exercise class
govt. agey. that
stormed Branch
Davidian base
TX Roddenberry's
genre: _-fi
Gulf catch
CAF has WWII
_____schmitt
29 valuable TX asset:
res' _
31 Texans like it iced
32 TXism: ’he's _
beer and no foam*
33 country of plane
in 28-down
38 TXism: ’loose as
Killeen school
(abbr)
Iowa Park h.s class
TXism: ’don't cross
the river 'til__
__it’
Newton cookie fruit
Superman's 'sweet
thang' Lois
TXism: ’let sleeping
dogs *
TX Swayze film
early TX explorer:
Juan _ . Ponce
de Leon
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Dow, M. Gene & Fisher, David. Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 93, No. 66, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 4, 2000, newspaper, June 4, 2000; Seminole, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1049306/m1/4/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gaines County Library.