Gerald W. Smith, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, March 19, 2002: Saving the legacy tape no. 437

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GERALD MITH M R H 19 2002 So we kind of had to stick around. It's kind of like animals on a farm: you cant hardly g without being there taking care of them two or three times a day cows and chickens or whatever. So my dad decided, "Okay, let me try it. I'll take care of the plant where I have to bottle it and deliver it to the customers." So we went there and we only had two or three ten-gallon cans coming on the train to start with but we did have a few cows, my dad got some cows and we had a cow bam and hay and a corral and a bull and stuff like that. So we took care of all that. But he kept increasing and we kept doing better and the Depression, of course, was coming, and that's when I went to high school and graduated from high school. I think, yeah, all my brothers and sisters graduated from Globe High School and the last one graduated-he's ten years younger and he graduated the year I got-not the year I got married-but when I got married and came to the dairy, after I was married, he graduated that spring. So I was there when he graduated. But anyway, it worked out and the business kept building up a little more and more because my dad did all the work and the boys were getting older. I was ten when we moved there so by the time I got out of high school I could drive and deliver milk. But in the winter, I usually milked the cows and that way I could go to school. My dad did the route. Then in the summer I did the milk route, the stores and the customers and the service stations. We even had service stations that took little half-pints of orange juice and chocolate milk and stuff. People would come in to get soda pops and this would be in there with them. Some of them would take that instead. BEC: I see. GER: So we had a little business; it wasn't much. Anyway, it helped; everything helped, I guess, in those days. So I graduated from high school. I was in music 9