I did not push Paul or Leo to come into the business. I let everything happen as it would, but I was very pleased and very proud that they did decide to come into the business.

My brother Morris really started a lot of what Underwood's became. The first dining room opened in 1951, in Lubbock. Brownwood was the second place where we had a dining room.

If they got trouble, they would be sent here and I would put them to work. But they weren't here very often.

You've got to stay on top, especially in the produce business. If you don't sell your produce, you throw it in the garbage.

We'll welcome as many volunteers as we can get. This is serious business for us to determine whether what we've planned in the event of such an emergency works.

To not maintain the center, it just continues to hurt our business. Some of our customers think we're not going to be there anymore, some think we're not there anymore, based on how the center is maintained.