Back in them days if you didn’t want to finish school they would put you to work at home on the farm. I told my boys – I was one of them they advertised on TV. One of those dropouts! (Laughter) Which, yes I was and no I wasn’t. Then I worked locally in an elevator, grain elevator, lumberyard, farmers, drove a tractor, 1950 I come to Cooper Tire & Rubber, there about a year and then I went with Uncle Sam four years.

At Cooper, I started out working in the plant. Working what they call piece rate. I worked in several departments over 42 years. But four years of that counts when I was in the service, seniority.

After I started at Cooper and I got adjusted I never used an alarm clock. I’d just automatically get up. I worked a lot of overtime. My wife more or less raised the boys because I was in Cooper. I was good to my stockholders but they were good to me. Looking at it that way. I retired in ’92.