I worked switchboard for seven years.  I was working when the Japs hit Pearl Harbor.  Well I wasn't working, I was on a split-shift and I was at home taking a nap.  They called me and said, "Get back to work as quick as you can," and I did.  We stood up, we couldn't even sit down and work.  You've never seen anything like that.  That switchboard was just like a Christmas tree.  You couldn't begin to answer it.  People got so mad because you couldn't answer them but we were doing all we could.

Sunshine Hosiery Mill was a great place to work in those days.  I went to work for $7.50 a week.  It was on the corner of Church Street and Vine Street where Am South Bank is today...........I guess they worked 200 people and that was a whole lot of people back in those days.  Well I got promoted and made $9.00 a week.  Then I went on and got another promotion and that's $12.00 a week.  When I got trained [on the new machine] I was making $13.50.  Oh, I was rich then, I bought a car..........It wouldn't run over 25-30 miles an hour, at the most.  I bought it right here from Charlie Burns, Burns Motor Company.  Boy we had a lot of fun!