Oral Fuquay

Growing up in a "dyed in the wool" Pentecostal Holiness family, I was BOUND to hear talk of the career of "Brother Oral" as he was known, Oral Roberts that you associate with the Tulsa, Oklahoma University that bears his name and his now famous, "God will take me" proclamation if he didn't raise millions of dollars. I know, bless his heart, right?
Every successful man has stories of early failures and in an exerpt from a book I found on line, there is a reference to the future televangelist's early days in Fuquay Varina, North Carolina, then known as Fuquay Springs.
Maybe it was Oral's part Cherokee blood that brought him to this town originally known as Sippihaw by the Indians ("native Americans") But Brother Oral broadcast on WRAL radio, which is my alma matre. Of course, the A.M. became WRNC and now WPJL! I can picture the young twenty-something evangelist in the now quaint studios on Bart Street in Raleigh. It was probably a little drive in those days from Fuquay.
Roberts pastored a church referred to only as "the Tabernacle" there and made a brave go of it and the book, "Oral Roberts An American Life" puts the best face on it possible. Oral is described as driving around Fuquay with a loud speaker on top of his car, finding a busy intersection, playing music and then preaching the gospel for all to hear. He also was involved in street ministry.
I THINK I know the building that was the "Tabernacle" but I cannot swear by it ("Peenycawstal-Holeness" folks don't do that, anyway)
For less than four bucks I can secure a copy of the book from Amazon. But I was really only interested in the Fuquay connection, so unless I find it in a yard sale or something, or someone gives me a copy, I won't exert the energy.
"Our crowd" looked down its nose at Roberts long before his dumn remark that was so controvercial or his son's little escapades. Years ago, Oral quietly left the PH ranks to become Methodist (which is the movement our denomination branched out of in the first place)
So, read the book, if you want a somewhat slanted view of "the REST of the story" as Paul Harvey would say.