Before they sold out to Peyton and Company.
Henry wouldn’t give up on it and he kept looking into it. We thought Crater Lake was just the lodge. I can see now why people get so confused because I thought that was where you went to work. We didn’t realize there were government jobs up there. So Henry started investigating. The offices were here in Medford. Crater Lake just took a real bite on him. So he went over and talked to Marion Anderson (Personnel director). He found out there was an opening as a tuck driver, so he hired on. Raymond, our other friend went over there and he got hired on as a truck driver. So they said they’d go, and then in June of ’59, Raymond turned the job down. He decided he was going to work for his dad. He calls up Marion and says I’m not going to work for you. They had to go to work the next day. This never happens now-a-days. I don’t think it even happened then. Marion said, “Well, do you happen to know of anybody that would like to have the job?” You’re not supposed to do that, even in ’59. Raymond says, “Well, Lloyd Smith is looking for a job this summer.” I was in the hospital up in Portland, as it turned out. I was having some constructive surgery done, so I wasn’t available. So Marion called Lloyd. He was out milking the cows and the phone was ringing. Lloyd happened to walk in the garage and he could hear it ringing. Marion had let it ring and ring. Again, this is showing you how one little thing can change a whole person’s life. He’s ready to hang up, but Lloyd hears the phone. He rushes in, picks it up, and Marion identifies himself and says would you like to go work at Crater Lake tomorrow. Mother was with me up in Portland. Dad was at work. Lloyd was 18. Do you want to go work at Crater Lake? And he’s standing there and goes. “Well, yes, I’ll go work.” And that’s what started the whole thing. So then I came back in ’60. Tried to get on, couldn’t. But in ’61, I got on in maintenance. Found out how you did it back in those days, you got Congressional appointments.
