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Charles Biggs

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Galloping inflation is making everything cost a lot more

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This summer,I saw an online ad for a Tulsa grocery that had 95% ground beef for $6.59 a pound. This particular store had a discount program with ground beef at $4.58 a pound but that is still 50% higher than what we paid last year. In the summer, we like to buy ice cream from…

Staying in your present home may be the wisest choice

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In 1997, we purchased the house we now live in. By all accounts, 24 years later, it is worth double what we paid for it. Maybe more. The housing market is exploding. In our neighborhood, when a house is listed for sale, an offer is made in day or two if not within hours. Why…

To see corn, drive through Kansas, Nebraska, S. Dakota

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Driving through Kansas, Nebraska and parts of South Dakota in the summertime is like seeing the set of Field of Dreams over and over and over again. For the second time in two years, we drove from Tulsa to Mitchell, South Dakota, on a long July 4th weekend. Our route was about 660 miles. There…

Here comes the 50th anniversary of the Game of the Century

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I was 18 years old when No. 1 Nebraska played No. 2 Oklahoma in the “Game of the Century” in Norman in 1971. I was crushed when Nebraska won, 35-31. The Sooners, behind quarterback Jack Mildren played more like a track team than a football team. OU went 11-1 and Southern Cal was the only…

When it’s hot in Tulsa, there’s always someplace hotter

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The worst heat I have ever experience was when I was a boy at Bible Memory Association summer camp in Ruston, Louisiana. This was in the 1960s. It was hot and humid. I was kind of used to the heat because I grew up without air conditioning in Tulsa. But this camp was in the…

Here’s my strategy in the middle of a crazy car market

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The car market has gone crazy. Two years ago, my wife and I bought a brand new Buick from Hudiburg Buick in Oklahoma City for almost $10,000 below list price. I had priced the same Buick at four Tulsa area dealers and Hudiburg’s price was $3,000 below anyone else’s. And three of the four Buicks…

Travel abroad and you will appreciate the United States

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I haven’t traveled outside of the United State very much but I have some. In 1997, I traveled to the Russian Far East and to Moscow. This was an eye-opening experience. I was traveling with three couples who were adopting Russian babies. I was told that the average Russian woman has 10 abortions in her…

People need to get the message about problems with MSG

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A couple of years ago, I walked into Zaxby’s restaurant on Mingo Road at 71st Street. I looked at the menu and asked the teenaged worker behind the counter if their chicken contained MSG. “What’s MSG?” she asked with a puzzled look. “It’s monosodium glutamate,” I said. “What’s that?” she replied. She was not dumb…

Oxley’s New Prospect Co. celebrates its 40th year with friends, employees

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FORT SMITH, Ark. – While so many energy companies are filing bankruptcy or going out of business, former Tulsan Mike Oxley, founder of New Prospect Company, just celebrated the 40th anniversary of his firm with a banquet for employees and friends. What is the secret of longevity for this company amid the ups and downs…

You could not ask for a better Dad than Harley Biggs

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The older I get, the more I appreciate my late father, Harley U. Biggs, Sr. Dad was a three-sport athlete at Cherokee High School in the late 1930s. He starred in basketball, football and baseball – but his first love was baseball. He said he had an offer to play baseball at Oklahoma A&M (now…