Ed, you ask about the birth of the pencil idea. Knowing that write-in campaigns are difficult without a name on the ballot. Write-in suggests pencils and I ordered small ones with this message, then realized I didn't have time to distribute them. Then I thought, make it so large to not be missed from the road! I took Bobby Morrison to see some large columns that Red Nixon had taken from Dr Giles' house and stored in my warehouse.

Bobby, our chief engineer, said too heavy, too dangerous, can we do one column. Wanting it tall, I continued to search. On the same day, Jeff Scott and Barry Stotts suggested cardboard tubes for concrete forms.

After a lot of searching, I found large ones in Louisville, a piece of metal roof, and some insulation foam and Marg went paint shopping. As Edison said, it was 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration, mostly from Bobby and Dale Morrison.

Barry Stotts just appeared with his trailer truck and large backhoe and then Joe Lynn Barbee closed the critical step with his large crane just at the right time. They just got it done. - BEN