The wife and I were on vacation last year at this time. We had never been to Niagara Falls so we decided to go to the Painted Desert in Arizona. The thought of getting into the Nissan Pathfinder and just taking our time; seeing this great Country of ours at a nice leisurely pace appealed to us so we took TWA's non-stop flight out of Cincinnati to Flagstaff. On the way we had a layover in Vancouver, BC. It was there that we met Scrubs Martingimble.  SCRUBS MARTINGIMBLE The layover turned out to be six hours due to problems with one of the propellers and the fact that they had to drop off a mail bag. I thought back to that episode of Green Acres where Mr. Kimble had to......oh, nevermind. (It's interesting that I could remember the name "Mr. Kimble" after not seeing the show in nearly 40 years). Scrubs was sitting outside hangar #3 wearing a wrinkled Security Guard Uniform. I thought back to the episode of Andy Griffith where Barney dresses up like an old lady and enters the Mayberry Bank in order to find out if the extremely old security guard was inept at his job. He was. But enough about the extremely old security guard being inept at his job. Let's move on.  I'm not sure if Scrubs was inept at his job or not but I am certain that he was an interesting character. My wife Jody and I sat down and shared the bench with Scrubs. We introduced ourselves and he smiled and pulled out of his pocket a ragged old document. I read it aloud, "Born on the Nineteenth day of November in the Year of Our Lord 1893 Teegan Scrubs Martingimble; County Seat, Sioux City, South Carolina". Scrubs Martingimble was nearly 110 years of age. Until 1953, at the age of 60, Scrubs had not worked a day in his life.   He related to Jody and me that his dad had died in 1897 and left him $72 Million in Gold Bars. The Dad, Farnsworth Martingimble made the largest claim in the Gold Rush of 1849. Farnsworth had all of his gold made into bars and hid them under the front porch of their Sioux City home. The gold went untouched until 1953. One day, in that year, Scrubs was walking downtown and started noticing the Stickers and Labels on shops, telephone poles and cars. They were all worn out with white backgrounds and black lettering. This was wrong, he thought; and decided to change things. He sold all the bars of gold for approximately 1.4 billion dollars. He gave away all but $500,000. With that money he hired a research team to investigate the possibilities of diverse ways to brighten up Stickers and Labels in the World. For the next 40 years Scrubs and his cohorts invented the machinery, formulations and software necessary to produce multicolored and weatherproof Stickers and Labels. "If the government can make beautiful and glistening bars of gold then why can't we make Stickers be brilliant Silver and Gold also; so we invented them". Why are all labels rectangle, he asked himself? Let's make them look like great Starbursts and Ovals. By 1997 Scrubs and his partners brought into being all kinds of custom and brightly colored Stickers. He invented a way to score rolls of the same label with perforations. Scrubs mechanized the bumper sticker industry with machinery that could produce thousands of these multicolored messages in just hours. He invented mass production of the bar code using fluorescent stock. Scrubs continued telling us of the innovations he and his crew had brought to the Sticker and Label market. Jody and I were stunned as we listened. I asked Scrubs about the business and copyright. What about the fortune he should have by now? Scrubs told us that he signed all of it over to his partners. In 1999, penniless, Scrubs took this job as security guard for Hangar # three.  Scrubs passed away yesterday.  okay thanks Scrubs