He [Betts] was wrong in doing what he did, and I could have done all kinds of things. But I decided why make him angry. I needed the summer off, anyway. I started writing him cards from different parks. We went to about 30 different parks. Frank would see Lloyd walking in the parking lot and say “Hey, got a card from your brother today.” And Sholly would say “Got a card from your brother.” Well, by the end of the summer, they were calling him Larry. So then we never really discussed this afterwards, but I think Sholly knew I’d been done wrong. And I didn’t deserve it. By the way, they did cancel the bill totally. That was little consolation for losing my job, but I did win. Then Sholly called me one day and he said, “We need a dispatcher up here.” It was October, and they needed somebody to run the dispatch for hunting season. “Would you be interested?” He got me on in an emergency hire, where they don’t have to go through all the procedures. Here I am sitting there dispatching and Frank walks y, doesn’t say a word to me. I worked, I think, only two weekends and then Sholly kept me on as am employee. When it came May, he just converted me over. I didn’t have to fill out any applications or anything. I just went to work for him and I was back on with the Park Service. Frank and I never said another word to each other about it. But he accepted it. He didn’t try to get me, and say that guy’s not coming back. I think I proved myself by not making somebody angry. I have been trying to teach my son this, that there’s always a way of doing things if you know the man well enough and you work with him. I never got down on my hands and knees and begged. I never had to. That as just the way things worked out. He was very well liked, and if I remember it right, he was there about five years, well, no three. I was thinking he was there longer than that.
