The other permanent ranger, Dewey Fitgerald, was not exactly honest. Well I better go on with Gilbert…one at a time! Clyde would go down, he’d say, “I have to go down to the office down there”. His days off were Thursday and Friday. The reason they were Friday was because he was a great football buff and he wanted to see Medford High School play on Friday night. ‘Course they didn’t play on Friday night but he still wanted to be there. So he took Thursday and Friday off. He would go down on Tuesday in order to be at the office on Wednesday, to conduct his business so he could have Thursday and Friday off. Well it doesn’t take much of a mathematician to figure out how many days he would spend at the park. He would usually be there, and sometimes he would not get back until late Saturday afternoon. And it got so that sometimes he would not get back until Sunday morning and he would leave on Monday morning. And he was our chief ranger. And at that time there were three of us here, three Rangers. There was a chief, Fitzgerald, and myself. So again, you can see what the damage was as far as getting your work done. One day he was still squiring this gal down there and it was getting pretty hot and heavy. He was on his way down to Medford. I don’t know if you remember, but there is a ranch down there that has a big white fence around it. It’s about, it’s probably a little over half way down to Medford. But a woman ran out in the road and flagged him down and says, “My husband’s having a heart attach!” He went in, the man, as I recall, was dead at the time, and of course he was the shoulder for her to lean on. Well, I mean she was the sole heir of this ranch. Clyde immediately changed his love life to this woman and he married this woman. But in the mean time, the woman in Medford thought that she was very badly jilted and she went to the superintendent and started to raise all kinds of charges. One of the charges was that Clyde had used the station wagon, the government station wagon, for immoral purposes.
Well I know this is the case, I mean there is no question in my mind about it. When I say I know, I didn’t see it. But anyway it got to be a real investigation. Leavitt got them in from San Francisco, our chief legal man from San Francisco, who was kind of an old time lawyer and tough as nails. And he had practically everyone in this park over in the Administration Building questioning about what we knew about it.
