Oral history interview with Milton Harold Searle and Elva Caldwell Searle by Kathleen Irving [Transcript]

Oral history interview by Kathleen Irving with Milton Harold Searle and Elva Caldwell Searle. Topics inlcude: Milt's parents and siblings; Death of Milt's father a month before his birth; His mother moving the family to her Diamond Mountain homestead; Different properties his mother owned; Amicable distribution of property between Milt and his brothers when their mother passed away; His mother remarrying when Milt was four years old; Having car sickness; Hitchhiking to Colorado to get a job at age thirteen; Elva's parents and siblings; Growing up in Vernal; Her father's work ethic; Attending school in Maeser until eighth grade and High School in Vernal; Playing baseball; Milt attending school in Vernal; Playing marble and baseball; Elva joining the drama club in high school; Milt dating Elva's Aunt; Milt and Elva's first kiss; Sewing; Elva writing and staring in her own play; World War II; Milt's participation in school plays and playing tennis; Leaving high school to join the Navy; Attending hospital corps school; Bombing of Pearl Harbor; Giving shots to soldiers; Joining the Marine paratroopers; Service in the Solomon Islands and Guadalcanal; Horros of the war; Evacuating to New Zealand; Having Malaria and pneumonia; Returning home on leave; Elva's high school graduation and employment; Milt asking Elva out while he was home and asking her to marry him; Marriage; Birth of a child; Milt leaving the Navy; Living on Diamond Mountain and moving to Vernal; Milt's electrical appliance employment and starting his own store; Serving a mission together on an Indian Reservation for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Native Americans; Being members of the Chamber of Commerce and Roping Club; Church service; Church buildings; Grain production, threshing, and milling; Water system differences between being in or out of town; Bathtubs in the kitchen; When pants became popular for females; Run-way wagons; Eating strawberries; Selling Cream; Making butter; Milt's time as a Scoutmaster; and Baptisms.