Beckham County, OK - Biography: F. M. Gregory
Friday, 29 February 2008
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BUSINESS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
GREGORY, F. M. (3 Mar 1930, Monday, Sayre Headlight, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
"Twenty-Two Years In The Business And Demands For Ice Have Grown Greater
Each Year," Says F. M. Gregory, Owner; Two New Storage Houses To Be Built
At Carter And Cheyenne This Year.
Installation of three new stands of ammonia condensers before hot weather
sets in will add approximately eight tons daily to the capacity of the
Sayre Ice Company plant.  With the extra condensing space the 18 and 12
ton ice compressor machines will produce sufficient ice to care for
consumption in the Sayre trade territory, under much less stain than in
previous summer seasons.
Building New Storage Houses.
In addition to the new plant equipment storage houses will be built at
Carter and Cheyenne before the summer season opens, according to F. M.
Gregory, proprietor.  Plans at this time are to erect a combined Filling
station and storage-house building at Carter.
Besides meeting demands of Ice users in Sayre, the company has permits to
sell Ice in ten surrounding towns and all crossroad stores outside of
Sayre.  Seven of these permits are in Beckham county and the remaining
three are Roger Mills county.  After storage houses are completed at
Carter and Cheyenne, whoever operates the branch houses will handle Ice on
a retail plan of buying from the company and selling it on to the
consumer.
May Eliminate Buying Ice.
With the plant making 28 tons daily early in the season it is planned that
enough Ice will be put in storage in addition to manufacture to tide over
this year without buying from outside firms as in previous seasons,
Gregory states.  Eight workmen, four at the plant and four on delivery
trucks, will be required this summer the same as in other years, he says.
Berlin, Grimes, Cheyenne, Sweetwater, Mayfield, Delhi, Spring Creek,
Carter and a number of crossroad stores have been stops on the Ice truck
routes for several years and will be so again this season.
In Ice Business 22 Years.
Gregory started in the Ice business 22 years ago, in 1908.  He built the
present plant two years later.  Since that time business has expanded from
merely taking care of Sayre city trade to manufacturing and buying Ice for
the whole countryside.
Trade demands are heavier each year than ever before.  New equipment
enlarging the capacity of the plant is being installed to meet these
increased annual demands, Gregory states.

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