Larry Smith

To get his high three? (8)

Yes. So it’s interesting what happens to people after awhile. He wouldn’t play by the rules, either, so I guess he deserved part of what he got. Maybe it was his choice. I don’t know. But you saw a lot of people that belonged in the Park Service and other people that didn’t. Management styles of some of the superintendents. Crater Lake was called the elephant grounds, if you know what that expression means. This is where they put people out to pasture, Superintendents, I mean. Brown, was an example. I never did know Williams (9).

He was just before.

Yeager was old, my was he old (10). He had a ’61 Plymouth with the big wings on it, I remember. Every morning he’d come down to the maintenance building (11). He’d drive up in his big green Plymouth with the wide wings on it and get out and they’d plan the day and what people were to do. But he was kind of a grumpy man. People didn’t get to know him, little guy. Everybody was fascinated by his first name, Ward. I guess “Leave it to Beaver” had been on by then, but I had never watched an episode of it. Richard Nelson was old (12).