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(Testimony of Clifton M. Shasteen)
Mr. Shasteen.
too long to stand up. He just wore a rough shod haircut because many I thought, "Boy, you sure ought to let this grow out up here where it will lay down and comb nice or either cut it off where it would stand up." But like I say, he wanted that little bit taken off. I tell you what he did do---He did try. to make the barber work all he could. He seemed like he wanted you to do all the work and naturally, that's another thing, I have a bad attitude towards some people. If a guy doesn't ask me to do much, I'll do a right smart,
but if he thinks I owe him something, he won't get any extras.
Mr. Jenner.
What color hair did this man have?
Mr. Shasteen.
Oh, he was dark headed--I wouldn't say he was real black, you know, what I mean, he wasn't jet black, but most people would call him black-headed.
Mr. Jenner.
What color would you say your hair was?
Mr. Shasteen.
Mine is dark brown, and what is not grey up it's covered up with oil.
Mr. Jenner.
What color would you say mine is?
Mr. Shasteen.
Oh now I think your hair is---it's a shade of black. It's not a dark black. I would say his hair was about the color of yours--it might have been a little bit darker. It might have been a little smuttier. You see, hair is a funny thing--a guy can be dark headed and if he puts oil on it, he looks real black and if he washes the oil out it's got a smutty look and he never did wear much oil because about the only time he ever come in the shop, never had his hair combed and he never had any oil on it or nothing and naturally after we cut his hair and put a little oil on it, it made it look darker.
Mr. Jenner.
It darkened it up?
Mr. Shasteen.
My hair is a whole lot darker with a little oil on it. Now this fellow here, referring to Mr. Davis----
Mr. Jenner.
Mr. Davis, you're talking about?
Mr. Shasteen.
His hair, if you took the oil off of his hair and washed it out with some kind of heavy shampoo, it would almost be what you call a blonde or light red, is that right?
Mr. Davis.
(No response.)
Mr. Jenner.
How much hair did he have? A full head of hair?
Mr. Shasteen.
To me, he didn't have a full head of hair. It was rather short and thin around here by the temples and the way his hair lies back, he would have been bald if he had been 40 years old.
Mr. Jenner.
He had hair around the center, but he was losing his hair around the sides of the forehead?
Mr. Shasteen.
Yes; there was just a little crease that started back here. Naturally, a barber would notice that because the hair is much finer back here, you see, than it was down here [indicating]. In other words, I have as much hair as I ever had but it's just so fine you can't see it and that's what happens to a guy when he gets bald-headed. The hair is still there but it just doesn't grow. It's just little fuzz, and that hair of his, in another 5 or 6 years he would have been bald-headed. You can believe it.
I can tell you another thing--I don't know whether I told this fellow or not, may have. There are little things you can't remember, but he just had a hard look, just sitting in the chair. I'll tell you this much--if a guy comes in the barbershop and he's got a pretty good disposition and he smiles and speaks to people, every barber will want to cut his hair, but if a guy comes in there and he kind of looks grouchy, in barber language we call it soldiering on one another. We might work on a guy just a little bit longer if this guy's next so somebody else will have to get him. He's just the type guy you don't care about working on. I mean, he was just that type. I believe I can speak for all three of the barbers because I have heard their opinion about him. They didn't care if he never came back.
And, he never helped the shop. Well, you will say, how can a customer help the shop? When you ask a man to come back, when he starts out the door and if he says, "Thank you," or "I'll be back." or "I'll see you in 2 weeks,"--that's the language that is used around the barbershop, that helps the feeling at the barbershop, but if ask a guy going out the door to come back and he didn't even grunt, you know, that just lowers its morale in a barbershop right quick.
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