PDF “Your story about the mail order toy solider kits of my youth was a nostalgic treat. I actually had every one of those sets with the exception of the circus diorama. Thank you for bringing back these wonderful memories.”
Robert Hansen
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“What 12 year old from the fifties didn’t have an ant farm? Or one that was breached by the ants? To find that the man responsible for the toy solider ads I remember was also the man behind the infamous Uncle Milton’s Ant Farm, was an unexpected payoff to the story.”
Edward Spencer
Kingston, OK
“Cool. Very cool. I can’t tell you how cool it was to see those colorful toy soldier ads from the comics I read and collected. I still have many of the original comics in my collection. I had no idea about the story of Milton Levine. Thank you!”
Jon Miller
Pottsboro
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Charlie Haldeman is the KXII news director, and he is the co-anchor of First News at Six and Ten alongside Maureen Kane. He joined the First News team in January of 2006 and lives in Sherman with his wife Amanda and their daughter, Hattie Elaine.
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The most unusual thing was on Crockett Street. I went to mark the tires, and there weren’t any. It was sitting on cement blocks. Later I found out that the driver was renting the tires and had had them repossessed. I kind of laughed, because I was like, I know someone is watching me right now, thinking “Is she going to mark the rims?” Shoot, I thought, I’ll give this driver a break.
Judge Jake Loy
Drive across the Red River Bridge from Denison into Oklahoma without paying a toll, and you have State Representative Jake J. Loy to thank. Go fishing or to a livestock show at Loy Park, and you have County Judge Jake J. Loy to thank. You can even listen to a recording of trumpet player Tommy Loy, and you can thank a doting Uncle Jake J. Loy.
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