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Show MARS POPE Ill PAGE 4 I know I had a little old garage that didn't even have a floor in it that I had several people come, just wanted to rent that garage, someplace so they could sleep. But they had no facilities anywhere, and no place for trailers. That's one thing that started , here. That's the only thing they could do, though. If anybody wanted to, they could fix a trailer space. Well, of course, we got trailers all over this town, scattered all over. Then, when things get kind of quieted down, people didn't like those trailers all over, but you couldn't keep them. out. I mean, they' re ther.e. And it made our town not the most attractive in the world. At the same time, you got to take care of the people some way, and that's the only way they could do it in those days. But the problem was finally worked out. We still have lots of new trailers here. We have lots of new buildings, and still have trailers scattered here and there where they have just stayed ever since those days. And, of course, when things got quieted down, why, the power company was able to take care all of it. It was just a cast mostly that, I felt at the time, as I mentioned before that they just didn't feel--the powers that be--that this was going to amount to anything. And they didn't prepare for it soon enough. It kind of left us in the lurch. But it finally got so that when they built the line down here they would send line crews down here to help out wh.ere we couldn't possibly do it with what men we |
