then to working at RCA was not the most uh, enjoyable thing for me because I was really not that skilled in working with intricate parts. And that’s— L: This was assembly line work? J: This was an assembly line work kind of thing. And I had a really difficult time with it. Haha. Um…Making the

suppose I was. They put me in the cadre, no training, just, just got in and I was— L: ‘Cause you could type. P: I learned because of my commercial background in schools. Well, I st—I stayed there for, for um, maybe a year and a half, two years and, through that kind of work and they decided to send me

uh, um, I called it junkyard. Uh, which is a scrap metal collection down on, uh, off of Prince Street way down at Millers. L: Millers. B: Uh, but she was encouraging me to, she encouraged me to just go back, to go to school. And in fact to help settle that argument, she went back to work and did

. L: A lot of marching, following orders? W: A lot of marching, climbing the different obstacles and things that you had to do, just like the men trained. L: And how long was that, was it a short period or did you have basic training in more than one place? W: No, basic training in I think it was Des

afterwards, I did some work to get the Air Force to integrate them. Then I went out and retired. I had a friend of mine said to me "are you serious about retiring?" And I said "Yes". He invited me out to Mountain View, California where GTE, which was Sylvania at that time. Went out, and it looked pretty good

briefed, stationed in? J: I was in England. I: In England? J: Then I went to Germany a little a bit, and came back to England again. I: That’s a whole nother interview I can talk to you about that. One of the things we’re looking at doing is collecting histories, oral histories of that [term]. And always

then they closed the enlisted programs, so I went volunteer for the draft board out in Ephrata. I remember the guy in charge of it, he said “Stay in college, we’ll let you there”. I said, “No I don’t want to go”. So I volunteered and went to boot camp O-6 in New York. That was twelve weeks. Then I went

Independence Hall again. And it hasn’t. Up till now, they are talking about taking it away for the Susque…you know the ah…Centennial N: What kind of transportation did you use to get there and back? W: Ah…we walked (laughter) N: How far? (laughter) W: Oh, yes, we walked. We walked from the corner of Marietta

happened, and you said your mother said your father was unfit to live with from the beginning of January to April first. H: Yes. I: As you got closer to April first and everybody was making ready for this. Let’s take the week the April first, the week preceding April first. What kind of, I’m trying to get

continuation or addendum to what April firsts were like in Lancaster County. Our narrator this time is Mr. Lester H. Herr. Mr. Herr, tell us a little bit about yourself first of all. L: Well my experience with the April first goes back to 1918, being a banker. And since then things have changed considerably of