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July 9, 2008 [Wednesday]
Issue #527

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BILL YOUNG (Houston-Sugar Land, TX) Sorry to hear about the loss of Murphy Martin...what a kind man he was. He and I both worked for the same company back in 1958. I had moved back home to Lufkin after a year at Baylor and WACO Radio and had taken a job with my 'high school' employer, KTRE Radio. Murphy was the news director and anchor of KTRE TV and, at the time, the only other 'single' man on the staff...so, we got together frequently and 'road around together' as it was called back then. We talked a lot about our 'love life' of which each of us had 'zero' at that moment. As we drove through the main drag in town after lunch one day, the Lufkin Business School was just letting out. Lots of 'women' we had never seen!!! I saw one at the corner that I thought was a knockout and Murphy said he could find out who she was. NEXT NIGHT, we had an 'audition' at the TV station which just happened to include the business school student...a lady who would become my wife for 12 years and the mother of my two sons, Scott and Eric. Pat still lives in Lufkin. Lufkin was very proud of its East Texas 'native son' when he moved to ABC and for the last few years, we communicated frequently via email. Murphy was a good man.

MONTE NENNIG (Houston, TX) Jim, I worked with Rick Upton back in the day at KITY/KONO and I’m trying to contact him. Do you possibly have a cell phone number or email address for him? If you are uncomfortable providing me with this info, can you contact him and give him my email address and cell number, 832-692-7800? He no longer works for My 20 and they have been less than helpful. I would really appreciate it. Thanks, Monte Nennig, ADaBoy Advertising

MARK CARRILLO (San Antonio, TX) Well heck, I reckon I have to pass on my thoughts about Dan Cook. I left KENS/KCWX a little over a year ago to work at mySA.com but I still do VOs for KENS. When anyone walks through the door and hangs a left, there is Dan Cook’s photo. A prominent place for a prominent man. Here’s one of those occasions when using the word legend gives you the definition. Mr. Cook was beloved by everyone and a part of our every day as Tex-Mex food and Texas weather. Back around 1979, 80 he did a short stint at KONO contributing sports reports (hey, remember when radio had a news commitment?) and I’d pass him in the hallway. Always a nice man ready with a wave. Early in my radio days while working at KITY/KONO and KISS/KMAC I also was a DJ at the legendary (there’s that word, again being used in a fitting manner) Crystal Pistol. One night I walked in and Dan Cook was in there with one of his daughters. Again, a nice man who acted like a regular guy. He seemed to be okay with his greatness and I’m sure wouldn’t want folks to make him out to be anything but capable, honest, hardworking, and knowledgeable. Dan Cook was a down to earth fellow who has the respect of everyone who ever knew about him. And when it came to broadcast sports, if Dan Cook said it, then that’s it. Mark Carrillo (www.mysanantonio.com)  

RAY WHITWORTH (D/FW-Arlington, TX) Subject: Dan Cook: Wow Jim, a man who was truly a legend is gone. When I was growing up in the 1960's the the ritual at 10pm was to watch the KENS channel 5 news. The anchors Pat Boyette, Bill Shomette, Sometimes a Young Herb booth, Gene Tuck and Finally Chris Marrou. The weathermen Jerry Zimmerman, Ed Combs, Jud Ashmore, a young Herb Booth. The news anchors and weathermen change but Dan Cook waa constant. Gary Delaune came in during the early seventies with His: Mighty Minute men of Memorial High", but Dan Cook would pause for a commercial with a "brief time out'. It wasn't sports unless Dan reported it (my apologies Gary). I visited Channel 5 three times once as a part of my high school group at John Jay and Dan would come over ask our names talk to us, ordered us pizza. A couple of years later while at San Antonio College and on the air at KSYM, some of us would go to Dan Cook's "Time out". The Parking Lot was painted green,and hash marked like a football field. We became regulars. Dan would give us constructive criticism (he would tune in and listen to us) I joked to him one day ,that I ever wanted to get married ,could I do it on the fifty yard line of his club's parking lot. His "response "Son no problem but make sure you punt on first down'. My youth is rapidly disapearing and Dan Cook was a very large part of it. What a man, what a legend. Ray Whitworth

TRIVIA ANSWER: Francis Scott Key writes The Defense of Fort McHenry while he watches the Royal Navy ships bombard Fort McHenry at Baltimore, MD in Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812. Set to music and re-titled it becomes the United States of America's beloved national anthem The Star Spangled Banner.

BEN LAURIE (Dallas, TX) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#526-40) July 7, 2008 [Monday] Great column, Jim, but FYI...WFAA-TV is Channel 8. Ch 13 is KERA, the PBS station. Hope you had a great Fourth. Regards, Ben

MIKE SHUPING (Dallas, TX) Subject: MURPHY MARTIN R.I.P (1925-2008) Hi Jim, Good article on Murphy. WFAA-TV is channel 8, not 13 which is KERA. You have been away too long. He was one of my favorite newscasters. By the way, WFAA is the only one of the 3 national networks to still have the same call letters we grew up with. Mike

SCHOOLDAYS ARE GOLDEN RULE DAYS As I grow up in the Oak Cliff (KLIF-1190) section of Dallas in the Fabulous Fifties, we have many neighborhood chums and many fond memories. Mike Shuping is one of those buddies from that golden era. We attend the then brand new 4000 student Justin F. Kimball high school. Well over 400 of us Kimball seniors receive our diplomas in 1962. The #1 TV station in Dallas that we watch is WFAA CH-8. Here in Houston now for 31 years and the hottest TV station is KTRK CH-13. Both are ABC affiliates. Both are on the top rung of the ladder. They have so much in common that often I misconfabulate the two. That's what happens on Sunday as the latest JRRR comes to press. CH-8 in Dallas becomes CH-13. However, there really is a CH-13 in Big D but it's Public Television KERA. Thanks to watchful eyes that grave error immediately surfaces like the shark's teeth in the 1975 movie Jaws.

MOTHER TERESA [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu of Calcutta] (August 27, 1910-September 5, 1997) To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

Jim Rose and Tejas
Houston, Texas États-Unis
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