Bill Lauderdale was a longtime broadcaster, newsman, and sports announcer at KVSO radio in Ardmore in the late 1940s through late 1950s. Particularly interesting for Ardmore history, KVSO-TV Channel 12 went on the air in August 1956. The station was affiliated with NBC, with ABC as a secondary network. Its management listing specifically identifies Bill Lauderdale as news Director.
I looked several times to find the burial site, obituary column or any info on Bill Lauderdale on the Net without success. Maybe someone knows?
I spent many hours at the Number 2 Fire Station on East Main in Ardmore with these guys waiting for an Alarm to come in. This would have been in the late 1960s. Firefighters Gene Willingham and Bob Miller even taught me to how to throw the fire truck into Pump Gear. Fire Chief Jim Ozment was very lenient with me, allowing me to do things that John Q. Public would never be allowed to do.
Ten Acre Rock north of Tishomingo, Oklahoma. 15 miles north of Tish near Reagan, Oklahoma.
We received exactly 1 inch of much needed rain 2 miles south of Lone Grove last Sunday. Poor Duncan just 50 miles west of here has not received over 1/4 of rain in 67 days. Hope next week the rains will return to dry Oklahoma.
Back in 1995 I started designing the first website of a county government in Oklahoma. I had already designed my personal oklahomahistory.net website a year earlier and had it up & running and online. I wanted to see Carter county have their own website. I took this before the county commissioners meeting and they approved it on January 8, 1996 making it the first county government website in Oklahoma on the internet. Just a few weeks after I started publicizing the new website I got a call from Comanche county commissioner Gary Jones of Lawton advising me that Carter county was not the first county government in Oklahoma to have a website, that his was in Comanche county.
After some discussion Gary and I agreed that Carter county was the first true county in Oklahoma to have a website as his website in Comanche county was only maintained by his district in that county (Western District). His website was not approved by the Comanche County Board of Commissioners in a meeting. Anyway, with both of us being computer geeks, we got to be friends sharing computer stuff. One thing I learned about Gary is he was far ahead in computer and technology knowledge than most county governments and commissioners.
Gary Jones was Comanche county commissioner for 4 years (1995-1998) and at the end of his term he decided not to run again. When I learned of this I called Gary and asked him what happened. Gary said, “Butch you don’t understand, everything I tried to do the other two commissioners would vote No”.
Later Gary Jones did run for Oklahoma State Auditor and won! (2011-2019).
My mind flashes back to the early 1990s when one of the State Auditor’s employees, Sue Ward, who lived in Tishomingo, Oklahoma was in my office and said: The first thing she noticed when she walked into the Carter County courthouse was how many computers we had. Computers everywhere and on all the floors. She told me Jefferson county to the west only had one computer in the entire courthouse. She went on to say she was surprised how many county governments were not taking advantage of Federal and State grants that were available to city and county governments, just for the asking. Many cities in Oklahoma were applying for and receiving grant money, but not many county governments. Sue told me when she mentioned it to most Oklahoma county commissioners back in the 90s, they didn’t seem interested.
Ravia, Oklahoma railroad station and train – 1905
From This Weeks Mailbag
Your cousin Don Bridges’ song about Milburn, Oklahoma was really nice!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YMcsnnLD2n0igjJ9jzB2ijmPhf8723Hv/view
HAM Radio Talk
Submitted by Joe Keith in Sadler, Texas KF5S
Now that I am retired, and with the emergence of out-of-control use of AI (artificial intelligence), especially on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and even Google, I am also making some changes to my online activities, with the big change involving Facebook and Messenger Chat. I will be migrating away from using BOTH of those very soon. For my HAM EMAIL, I will be using my old, original email from years ago… kf5s@yahoo.com I’ve had this email since I first got the KF5S call but switched to using G-Mail with KF5S.WX@gmail.com which still be active, but I will not use it on a regular basis and I will eventually deactivate it. As for CHAT, I will still use our 97 texting group on my phone. Just know that my days of using Facebook and Messenger are coming to an end very soon and for those of you that still choose to use it, please be very careful with what you post and share… it could come back to haunt you. META AI already has the ability to track keystrokes and mouse movements along with screen content using their Model Capability Initiative (MCI) program. They are currently testing only with META Employees on company issues laptops… but they had to pause the program due to internal data exposures and staff backlash. The new META Facebook is not the Facebook that you grew up with and neither is Instagram and some of the other social media platforms out there.. My NEW “social media” will be on ham radio ON THE AIR.
73,
Joe Keith in Sadler, Texas KF5S
The 147.285 repeater here in Ada, the old club license expired, can’t get it renewed so I programmed in a different Call sign on it KD5NQA. I should be back on the air tomorrow. -Eddie Collins, Ada Oklahoma W5WBB
KD5NQA Repeater
Location Ada, Oklahoma
Frequency 147.285+
Input 147.885
PL Tone 114.8
Q. Why were you not able to renew the Ada, Oklahoma repeater license?
A. The Ada Amateur Radio Club has no membership anymore. No Paperwork etc. The license could not be renewed without the Current documents. A guy storing the equipment threw the paperwork in the trash several years ago. -Eddie Collins W5WBB
“Trust but verify” -Ronald Reagan
See everyone next week!
Butch and Jill Bridges
Ardmore Oklahoma
580-490-6823
https://oklahomahistory.net
