Oakfield Alabama High School - Oracle Yearbook (Oakfield, NY)

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W k,,L. 3 lg s I I , K .. -f 'dugg ,.-I N' of C flu.: DED!CATION The right to own and operate a business by an individual or a group of individuals is known as free enterprise, This right is one of the resaons our freedom-loving country is so great. From 1825, when a farmer digging a well near Five Corners discovered an in- teresting soft white stone - a mineral introduced into this country from France as a fertilizer by Benjamin Franklin and by him called land plaster - and stimulated the opening of the first gypsum mine and mill for grinding this sbustance into fertilizer again in 1892 when Stephen Olmsted using a farmer's feed kettle and a paddle found out that gypsum could be made into plaster of Paris and established here the first calcining mill in New York State right down to 1952 the fiftieth anniversary of the consolidation of several small area companies into the now famous United States Gypsum Company it has been private enterprise all the way that has improved the methods of mining and processing gypsum and has found various new uses for the product Today not only does the gypsum industry provide employment for a goodly number of area workers but it also pays a large share of the local school tax 2070 of it, in fact It is private enterprise that is sending gypsum products from Oakfield into the forty eight states and all over the globe Because we have observed what free enterprise can do to make a community a bigger and better place in which to live and at the same time develop a fundamental natural re source to make the world more comfortable and enjoyable we have chosen to dedicate this issue of the Oracle to this typical American system free enter pI'1SC In making this dedication, the staff sincerely hope that their generation and all posterity may be given the wisdom to continue the practice of this American system, without undue government restriction, for the betterment of all man kind W'-.

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