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Show Lee Manwill Jul 11,2001 could buy a hamburger for a nickel you know. Anyway I charg dad llar and th plac was packed. o when I'd get hold of something like that I'd really make s n1 m n y n it. It was a lot of money for me in those days. LUK: Yes, it was. LEE: Oh, if I took in $200, why that was like six months wages. I was still single, and there were girls in each town. And they kind of fell for the city slicker, which I was. Those were the good old days. Then I got drafted into the army. No, I didn't; not yet. I didn't get drafted in yet. I went on a mission before. LUK: Oh, wow! Tell me about that? When did you get called? LEE: In early 1936. My parents had moved to Roosevelt, Utah, so my records were there, and I had been active in the LDS Church. And the bishop of the Roosevelt ward called me on a mission. So I went to England. Dad had a hard time keeping me there. This was in 1936. And, by the way, those who know President Hinckley. He went on a mission, but he went to college first, and he went to England. And he left England in late 1935, and I arrived there in mid-1936, about eight or nine months after he went home. Oh, by the way, I spent a night in jail in England, too. LUK: Oh, what did you-what were you arrested for? LEE: No, I wasn't arrested. I'll explain this. My dad had a hard time keeping me there, and I hadn't received my monthly allowance yet. I got transferred from the City of Hull, Yorkshire to Lowestoft in Norwich County. Anyway, I got my transfer, but I didn't have money for bus fare. So I decided to hitchhike. And I left Hull, and the British people 13 |
