Our parents let us keep dating these boys after we got home. Our dates were a show, popcorn and home. These boys had to drive about 35 miles each way and we made our dates by mail. It was such fun - first dating.

September came and with it school. I began my Junior year along with all our friends and all our old ritual. We continued dating the boys until September 5. June's mom got a phone call that Andy was injured in an accident where they were doing road work and nobody put up warning lights that night Andy was going home from work. He lived only 2 days. My folks took June, Willa and I to Sierra Madre for the funeral. Ray and Ralph's parents were concerned then about them driving so far to our home so that stopped our long distance dating.

By the time President Roosevelt was inaugurated 3-4-'33. Our country was in the 4^th year of the depression. The stock market failed in 1929 and real panic and many people committed suicide for they had lost everything - Banks started closing and on March 9th, 1933 the president declared a nationwide bank holiday and closed all banks and 4 days later sound banks resumed business. I lost my school savings account. A whole $4.18 during the time and my Dad lost a lot, as many of the people he did plumbing for paid him by check and so he was considered a depositor in the banks the checks were drawn on. Unemployment reached 12,000,000 by this time. In his inaugural address, F.D.R. assured people "the only thing we have to fear, is fear itself." To get the economy moving, the President started his "New Deal" with C.C.C. Camps and the W.P.A. The C.C.C. was the "Civilian Conservation Corp." run by the U. S. Government from 1933 to 1942 - it provided work for single men from 18 to 25 years old and at the same time conserved our forests and soil resources. 3 million men were employed during these 9 years. They were paid
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