February 19, 1963
Tuesday. Cloudy hi 40 snow started about 2:30pm and colder 30. David went to Windham in am to see if that job had started yet. Clifton, the girls, and boys, and I went to Cobleskill. In afternoon. David and Wayne went to Timberland after we got home. I wrote to Dougie and sent him the Middleburg News.
Comment: Timberland was the charcoal plant in Stamford where LaVerne was the general manager. David worked there for a while and got his hand caught in a briquet press and injured it pretty bad. His hand was caught until LaVerne went into the control panel and re-wired it to reverse the press. I used to draw bark for the factory out of the paper mills in Mechanicville, NY getting paid 8 cents a mile. I got fired when the trailer brakes blew out on a steep hill just outside of Schoharie and complained about the poorly maintained equipment. That was an exciting ride.
They probably went to Cobleskill for Dad to sign up for unemployment which was always scheduled for a Tuesday....
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