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Tape/Side/Part
21/1/1
Time
0:00
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Introduction
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Tape/Side/Part
21/1/1
Time
0:21
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Family background--family jewelry business in Janesville--move to farm near
Beloit--move into Beloit
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Tape/Side/Part
21/1/1
Time
5:06
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Recollections of youth in Beloit--the Goodwin Hotel--forms of
recreation--recreation and the river--Mr. Wooten's boathouse
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Tape/Side/Part
21/1/1
Time
10:32
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High school experience--Beloit College years
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Tape/Side/Part
21/1/1
Time
12:33
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First work experience, for the Midwest College Endowment
Campaign
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Tape/Side/Part
21/1/1
Time
15:09
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Work experience in Sheboygan, Wisconsin--Sheboygan as a “different
country,” absence of Negroes--awareness of Negroes in Beloit--Bill
Waffles--belief in separation--Jack Wells
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Tape/Side/Part
21/1/1
Time
21:18
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Recollection of the migration of black people from Mississippi--accepted
forms of conduct--restaurants--blacks came to improve their conditions
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Tape/Side/Part
21/1/1
Time
26:39
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Further comments on the black community--few blacks in
Janesville
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Tape/Side/Part
21/1/1
Time
28:20
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Work experience with General Refrigeration, sales correspondent--nature of
the business
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Tape/Side/Part
21/1/2
Time
0:00
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Purchase of General Refrigeration by Yates-American-Markets for G.R.'s
products
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Tape/Side/Part
21/1/2
Time
1:31
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Taylor freezer as only small, commercial freezor--G.R. bought out Charles
Taylor--beginning of the soft ice cream business by accident--Leo Morans--the Taylor
Freezer--the mercury switch
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Tape/Side/Part
21/1/2
Time
8:52
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Recollection of father's involvement in the American Protective League
during World War I--check on pro-German Americans--father as stalwart
Republican
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Tape/Side/Part
21/1/2
Time
14:23
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Summer work for Fairbanks-Morse during high school years, testing the Z
engine--publishing Hill Folks for F-M as an outside
contractor--editorial responsibility
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Tape/Side/Part
21/1/2
Time
21:29
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Other publications--on advertising staff of Beloit
Daily News
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Tape/Side/Part
21/1/2
Time
22:45
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Becoming clerk of Beloit's Selective Service Board after Pearl
Harbor
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Tape/Side/Part
21/2/1
Time
0:00
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Introduction
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Tape/Side/Part
21/2/1
Time
0:11
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Further comments on Hill Folks--recollection
of union development--black workers as foundrymen
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Tape/Side/Part
21/2/1
Time
5:34
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Fairbanks-Morse and the war effort--plant under military control--diesel
training at F-M for the Navy
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Tape/Side/Part
21/2/1
Time
14:45
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Responsibilities as Selective Service Board clerk
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Tape/Side/Part
21/2/1
Time
17:31
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Dealing with draft registrants problems--local board's
discretion--importance of keeping the board informed--draft board as a welfare
agency--case of unmarried father
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Tape/Side/Part
21/2/1
Time
23:57
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Comments on malingerers, a small minority--problems from rule
changes
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Tape/Side/Part
21/2/1
Time
27:03
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Membership of the board-D.F. as clerk until 1950, then a board
member
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Tape/Side/Part
21/2/1
Time
28:44
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Induction of blacks into segregated units--two sets of files
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Tape/Side/Part
21/2/2
Time
0:00
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Feelings as board clerk--board had reputation for fairness
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Tape/Side/Part
21/2/2
Time
3:07
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Attitudes toward drafting for segregated units--case of mixed files--Gene
Crowley and black draftees--good response to draft from blacks--poorer physical
condition--no black reaction to segregated units, an “accepted
fact”
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