Transcript
Index
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:00:27 - Family background--family jewelry business in Janesville--move to farm near Beloit--move into Beloit
00:05:16 - Recollections of youth in Beloit--the Goodwin Hotel--forms of recreation--recreation and the river--Mr. Wooten's boathouse
00:10:47 - High school experience--Beloit College years
00:12:45 - First work experience, for the Midwest College Endowment Campaign
00:15:26 - Work experience in Sheboygan, Wisconsin--Sheboygan as a “different country,” absence of Negroes--awareness of Negroes in Beloit--Bill Waffles--belief in separation--Jack Wells
00:21:37 - Recollection of the migration of black people from Mississippi--accepted forms of conduct--restaurants--blacks came to improve their conditions
00:27:00 - Further comments on the black community--few blacks in Janesville
00:28:44 - Work experience with General Refrigeration, sales correspondent--nature of the business
00:30:55 - Purchase of General Refrigeration by Yates-American-Markets for G.R.'s products
00:32:33 - Taylor freezer as only small, commercial freezor--G.R. bought out Charles Taylor--beginning of the soft ice cream business by accident--Leo Morans--the Taylor Freezer--the mercury switch
00:40:04 - Recollection of father's involvement in the American Protective League during World War I--check on pro-German Americans--father as stalwart Republican
00:45:35 - Summer work for Fairbanks-Morse during high school years, testing the Z engine--publishing Hill Folks for F-M as an outside contractor--editorial responsibility
00:52:47 - Other publications--on advertising staff of Beloit Daily News
00:54:27 - Becoming clerk of Beloit's Selective Service Board after Pearl Harbor
00:57:16 - Introduction to second part
00:57:25 - Further comments on Hill Folks--recollection of union development--black workers as foundrymen
01:03:02 - Fairbanks-Morse and the war effort--plant under military control--diesel training at F-M for the Navy
01:12:14 - Responsibilities as Selective Service Board clerk
01:14:56 - Dealing with draft registrants problems--local board's discretion--importance of keeping the board informed--draft board as a welfare agency--case of unmarried father
01:21:37 - Comments on malingerers, a small minority--problems from rule changes
01:24:43 - Membership of the board-D.F. as clerk until 1950, then a board member
01:26:25 - Induction of blacks into segregated units--two sets of files
01:28:15 - Feelings as board clerk--board had reputation for fairness
01:31:40 - Attitudes toward drafting for segregated units--case of mixed files--Gene Crowley and black draftees--good response to draft from blacks--poorer physical condition--no black reaction to segregated units, an “accepted fact”
