No, there's no trade that I… I've had some folks that follow kind of in
the footsteps of my great-grandfather and be mechanical, architectural.
I had an uncle that was an architect, and I've had several fellows
that's got big in the tin business. I had one cousin that lived in
Lenoir, and he was on the city board up there for about thirty years. He
run a tin shop up there, and, well, they did a lot of… They built these
big ducts that takes shavings away from the machines in these furniture
plants, collects it up and all. He built that duct system [unknown]. One turned out to be a contractor, Luther Moss
at Moss, Morrow[unknown] Building Company in Hickory. He
was my first cousin. He was the illegitimate boy, but… He never had a
dime given to him in his life [unknown].
Page 41 And he had some half-brothers, and they done well, too.
Sometimes it makes me ashamed of myself when I was brought up to have
something, and they didn't, to what they've done. Of course, I've not
done bad; I'm proud of what I've done. But, you know, they just didn't
have no damn chance at all, raised over there on a little four-room
house over next to the river, the other side of Brookford. They come out
of there, and they was willing to work and done well. Of course, most of
them are dead now. I was in Olympia on the Puget Sound in the State of
Washington when I got word that Moss was dead. I was in a pay telephone
and talking to Doris. I was telling you about, I said there was the
angel of the place, the tallest girl, that's been with me thirty years.
She's never worked for anybody except me.
4 I've got a boy out in the plant that's production manager and
inner plant coordinator. I don't know whether you've seen him or not.
He's never worked for anybody except me. He has two girls in here that's
never worked for anybody except me. One of them occupies the desk just
over there.