Mostly Cloudy, 50. Wayne and Laura here in afternoon and Michelle too and stayed for supper. Took a pie and went to call on Phyllis at night, her folks were there. Glenna (?) Swella sick with pneumonia and in Kingston Hospital.
Comment: Glenna is a friend from church....Here is a memory of Dad from an article in the Gilboa Historical Society, I think by Art Van Acken when he was driving a truck for Dad....Here is Dad with his grader.....
Clifton Hubbard was superintendent of highways and helping to rebuild the
surface of the ball field at the Gilboa-Conesville Central School.
My job was to bring gravel from a bank near South Gilboa to the ball field, and Clifton would level it off with the town grader.
I had taken the muffler off the truck and used just a straight pipe—I enjoyed the rumble, but even I’ll admit it was loud.
On this one trip, heavily loaded with gravel and roaring along, I found my
brakes had gone straight to the floor. No brakes in a heavily loaded truck com-
ing into the village of Grand Gorge! By downshifting, I was able to make it
through Grand Gorge, then left and over the hill to Gilboa and the dam. I made
it to the school, unloaded the truck, and immediately worked on the brakes.
I am sure that making the trip down the hill north of Grand Gorge without
a muffler and with no brakes must’ve sounded like German dive bombers.
I never told Clifton I had lost the brakes, and he probably thought I was just
showing off ! He was a man who seldom lost his cool.
As a senior who was there said, “Safety back then was something to be dealt
with each day. I think these reflect that period.”
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