January 27, 1963
Sun about 10” new cloudy windy and snow 18 and squalls in afternoon. Wayne took us to church picked up Bev, Donna H, Donna Brown and Janette. Had church and Sunday School at parsonage as heater in church didn’t work at night. Clifton picked us up after Sunday School. Boys all went out after dinner. David and Doug got stuck over the cross road and had to go get trucks to pull them out. Gerald came back from Mary Anns about 5:30. David stayed at LaVerne’s all night to go with Roberta with mail.
Comment: Another snowy day on the hill. Not sure who Donna H, Bev, and Janette are. Below are pictures of 1951 Chevy and 1951 Ford parked facing downhill so if they would not start with the battery, we could "roll-start" them down the hill. The Ford had a manual transmission and after popping the clutch, would turn the engine over easily and start. The Chevy had an automatic and would have to get up to about 18 miles per hour before we pulled it into low. Because of this, we had to wait till it got to the last, steepest part of the hill before we tried to start it and if it did not start, we were stuck with the car at the bottom of the hill on the level and had to jump start it with the Ford. This meant walking back up the hill, finding the jumper cables, driving back with the Ford, starting the Chevy, then getting both cars back up the hill ready to go somewhere, probably leaving late for where ever we were heading.
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