| The Winehouse Chronicles
The year 2007 was the year of the good, the bad and the ugly for Amy Winehouse. With her trademark beehive hairdo, soulful vibe and retro production, it's easy to see why she fascinated music lovers in need of rehab for the soul. And she delivered. In more ways than one as her latest album Back to Black proved to be a platinum plus introduction to fans who had yet to discover Amy in her early Hip-Hop, jazzy form on her freshman effort Frank. Even rap fans had to bow down as the singer received co-signs from Prince, George Michael and The Roots' ?uestlove as well as Ghostface Killah, who appears on the remix to Winehouse's "You Know I'm No Good,"and Pharoahe Monch and Jay-Z, both of whom officially expressed their love and respect for Winehouse by showing up on remixes to her hit single "Rehab." That song, which detailed Winehouse's refusal to take her management company's advice to go to an alcohol rehabilitation center, would go on to be the theme song of the singer's year as Back to Black went multi-platinum overseas and in the U.S.
Denison once home to many manufacturers
Overalls and dungarees for men and boys, farmerette suits for girls and women and children's sportswear were put together at the plant that used principally Texas products and catered to the wholesale trade. Certainly sounds better than all the "Made in China" or "Made in Bangladesh" we see these days doesn't it.The Kraft-Phenix Cheese and Mayonnaise Factory, forerunner of Kraft Cheese, at 1406 West Washington was the southwestern division headquarters of the Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp. The operation of 28 plants in eight states in addition to the local plant was directed from Denison.Total floor space in the local plant was 61,000 square feet and approximately 26,996,000 pounds of cheese were produced annually in the Denison plant. 50,000 pounds of Roquefort cheese were imported every year from France to Denison along with 100,000 pounds of Swiss cheese and large quantities of other varieties from Denmark and Holland.In the Denison plant 53 different products were manufactured including mayonnaise, spreads, french dressing, salad dressings, varieties of cheese and by-products from whey for poultry and stock feeding.At that time he plant employed 156 men and women with an average monthly payroll of $18,000.The Denison Cotton Mill at 701 W.
Standing up to the crowd
But you have to put that kind of near-unanimity in perspective and understand the public meeting environment. A landowner friend of mine at the Billings meeting had a prepared, well-thought-out, written comment opposing the permit proposal and explaining his reasons why. But as a steady line of perhaps 40 or more hunters over the course of an hour stood at the microphone and strongly backed the proposal, he became less and less interested in heading to the microphone himself. To his side of the issue, it was obviously a hostile crowd. And in the end, he didn't speak — opting instead to just mail in his comment. In talking with people who have been at other public meetings around the state, it is not a rare situation when one group or another has taken over and dominated the session with its views.
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