OHB 0023 | Oral History

OHB 0023

Founder, White’s Auto Stores. Family background; early work experiences; education; work in auto supply stores, garages; starting own business in Clinton, Oklahoma, during Depression; location of home office in Wichita Falls; expansion and growth through franchising and company-owned stores; diversification of merchandise lines in auto stores; effects of growth on organizational structure; employee relations; views toward unions; selling out to Household Finance, 1969; comments about family-operated businesses; other business interests with Mercantile Credit Corporation, Beacon National Insurance Company, Eureka Life Insurance Company, White Fuel Corporation, ranching.

About this Oral History

Physical Description 127 pp.
Terms of Use Open
Interviewer(s) Floyd Jenkins
Date of Interview December 14, 1978, February 1, 1979

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