Delivery poses challenges, perks for drivers
By Gerry Beltz
Senior Reporter
Through brightest day, through
darkest night, through rain, snow and
... security buildings?
The delivery driver creed doesn’t
exist in such a steadfast form, but the
job involves more than just
sense that they have no one etee who
would help them out.” s'
Both Fox and Torghffle said re
ceiving tips for their deliveries was
infrequent, but does occasionally
happen.
“There’s this one couple who has
faithfully made an order with us ev
ery W ednesday for the 1 ast fi ve years,”
company car — a Chevy Cavalier
Wagon — instead of his own vehicle.
“That’s the plus,” Fox said, “be
cause the.wear and tear on your per
sonal vehicle takes up a big part of
your tips and profit on maintenance.
“In terms of delivery, the best
delivery jobs are when you use the
company car or truck.”
□ringing pizzas ana nowers
to our doors.
Kevin Fox, for example, a
UNL junior majoring in bio
logical sciences, works 15 to
20 hours a week as a prescrip
tion delivery driver for Four
Star Drug at 1340 N. 66th St.
“The benefits of it are the
hours,” Fox said. “There’s
enough hours to be working,
but not so many to impede
studying.”
Dan Torghele, produce
manager at Leon ’ s Food Mart,
32nd and South streets, also
does deliveries, taking bags
of groceries to people all over
the city. ,
“On the average, I deliver
about three bags to each cus
tomer,” Torghele said, “but
I’ve delivered up to 12 bags
at one time.”
Many of the customers
whom Fox delivers to are eld
erly, invalids or couples busy
Tanna Kinnaman/DN
Kevin Fox delivers prescriptions in the
evenings and Saturdays for Four Star
Drug.
lorgneie said learning the
outlay of the streets was one
of the toughest parts of doing
deliveries.
“I still carry the same phone
book in my car,” Torghele
said, “but once you get it
down, it just goes boom
boom-boom (snapping his
fingers three times).
“Now it feels like I’m just
following a path.”
It isn’t just figuring out
where someone lives that can
be a pain, Torghele says.
“The weather stinks,”
Torghele said, “and security
buildings can be tough to deal
with.”
Fox said his skill as a driver
helped him to become an ef
ficient delivery driver.
“Street knowledge and pizza
delivery has helped me the
most,’ Fox says, “and how to
avoid traffic tie-ups and evad
ing crazy drivers.
wun ineir careers, rox saiu ne en
joyed the people he met on the job.
“They are all very appreciative
about getting their prescriptions out
to them that they wouldn’t be able to
get themselves,” Fox said.
Torghele has done more for some
of his customers than just dropping
off groceries, he says.
“I’ve done everything from fixing
electrical outlets to taking out the
trash and picking up the mail,”
Torghele said. “I’ll help if I get the
ne saia, ana sometimes sne oaxes up
some cookies for me.”
Driving around making deliveries
isn’t new territory for Fox, who used
to work as a pizza delivery driver, but
he said he enjoyed delivering pre
scriptions more.
“It’s a lot more relaxed ” Fox said.
“Generally, there are never any com
plaints. Plus, there’s no uniform. It’s
all casual attire.”
Fox said the best part of working
at Four Star was being able to drive a
i enjoy anving, ana tnat s wnat
makes the job easy, where others might
be overwhelmed by rush hour traffic.”
Today, however, is the last day
Torghele will be loading up his red
Toyota to deliver groceries all over
the city. He is moving on to other
pastures, and said he would miss the
people he has met.
“I’ve been saying goodbye al
ready,” Torghele said. “There’s a
couple of them I’ll keep in touch
with,” he said.
Tanna Kinnaman/DN
Dan Torghele, produce manager at Leon’s Food Mart, loads
groceries in his car Wednesday.
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“My American Journey”
Colin Powell
643 pp. NY: Random House, 1995
The lion’s share of memoirs writ
ten by public officials and statesmen
are pontifications of otherwise dis
tinguished careers.
Clark Clifford’s memoirs, for ex
ample, comprise a 700-or-so-page ego
trip in which he takes credit for every
thing short of writing the Constitution.
Henry Kissinger’s memoirs, which
span nearly 2,500 pages in two-vol
umes, are ridiculously detailed and
pompous. Similarly, George
Schultz’s memoirs are 1,200 embel
lished pages of how the secretary of
state managed the national security
of the world.
Last month, Colin Powell added
to the long list of memoir authors by
publishing “My American Journey.”
And in 643 pages, he says very
little.
The few worthwhile points Powell
makes could have been summed up
in a magazine article.
On the Iranian arms deal, which
later spiraled into the Iran-Contra
affair, Powell believed it “would die
of its own foolishness.” He adds that
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger
thought along similar lines.
In addition, Powell writes, nobody
at the Defense Department had any
idea that significant illegal arms trad
ing was going on.
Powell refutes the argument that
by leaving Saddam Hussein in power,
the Persian Gulf War was incom
plete. Since the United Nations man
date of liberating Kuwait was ful
filled, he says, the war’s objective
was successful. He then follows with
several pages of biting criticism of
the media’s handling of the crisis.
Powell says that President Clinton
asked him to replace Warren Christo
pher as secretary of state, but he
disagreed with too many officials at
the State Department to accept the
offer.
The majority of the book consists
of extensively detailed portraits and
cliches of family members, friends,
military comrades and government
officials. Powell offers very little
analysis of issues, even in the defense
arena, and not one remark about his
political preferences.
What emerges is a light-hearted
story of a can-do-no-wrong Ameri
can hero. Like Clifford’s, Kissinger’s,
and Schultz’s volumes, Powell’s work
becomes less interesting after about
the first 100 pages.
Powell’s book should be read for
enjoyment and amusement, but no
responsible individual should read
this work and decide whether or not
Powell should enter the presidential
race.
For that, you’ll have to look further.
— Neil Feldman
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CD-ROM too accurate for Eastwood
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The
past got a blush out of Clint
Eastwood.
At a party Monday night to in
troduce a CD-ROM on his life, the
year 1960 was clicked on a
timeline, filling a restaurant with
the strains of Eastwood singing
“Rowdy-Cowboy Wedding Song.”
“There were things I would just
as soon they hadn't delved into,”
an embarrassed Eastwood said.
“But it’s very impressive what
they’ve been able to do with the
technology.”
Eastwood isn’t technologically
inclined.
“I have a computer in my heli
copter. That’s about it,” the tough
guy actor said.
The two-disc CD-ROM, called
simply “Eastwood,” includes two
hours of clips from his movies, an
hour of interview footage and a
trivia quiz.