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Show LESTER ERBES #1 SG: Yeah, I know. Well, you can just go out and look at these roads and mines, you see all kinds of-- LE: That's true. SG: In terms of the television station itself, your job is just strictly delivering the news? LE: Local and area news, Moab and San Juan County to the south, and that's about the size of it. If there is national news that affects people here in Moab, I would use it; for instance, a rise in the income tax rate. That includes everybody. When it applies to people in Moab, I use it. Otherwise, I do strictly local news. It's my own little business. As I said before, I get my own sponsors and show their products on TV, so I call at these stores every day and get the product and take it back to them and collect the news and that's about it. It's a retirement sort of job. Takes about six to seven hours per day. The only drawback to it is, like the farmer with the herd of milk cows, you have to be there at milking time. SG: It doesn't give you much vacation time. LE: I have to be there at news time. But I'm on a permanent vacation. For instance, I get off the news at ten o'clock in the morning. I can deliver my merchandise back to the stores, rush back home, get in my care, and forty minutes later I can have my fish line in the stream. I can fish 10 |
