FNP 51 Page 2 was afraid to get un-caught because I was afraid the rest of the poles [were] going to shift. So, they got some help in there, and several hours later, they got me out without the load shifting and, afterwardss, [blocking] it up and secured everything enough that nothing else would [move]. [The pole] crushed my foot, but that was all it did to me. P: So, other than that, you were not badly hurt. G: No, sir, that was all. That was on April 1, 1964. P: Tell me about your work with turpentine. What did you use that product for? G: The turpentine was actually brought in by the English back in their occupation of Florida before it becamee a state. Turpentine was used [in], I guess, a thousand different products, from cosmetics to automobiles to paints, you name it. The last year that I worked turpentine, I had three crops of faces, and there's 10,000 faces to a crop. We would gather it and then put it in these great big swell-belly [fifty-five gallon] drums and haul it up to the still, and that is where we sold it. P: And who did you sell it to? G: I was selling to two companies. One of them was Langdale there in Valdosta, and the other one was another company out east of Valdosta. P: Was that a pretty profitable business? G: It was labor-intensified, and that's what eventually [ran] the turpentine business out of business. They're still extracting turpentine, or gum, but they're doing it with these papermills now. When they're bringing in pulp wood, that's one of their main byproducts. P: Who did you hire to do that? Because that is a tough job. G: You hire only turpentine folks. There's a certain, you can call it, a breed or certain [kind of] people that just [do that]. That's what they want to do, carrying those one-sided buckets. You go through and make your rounds, your trails, all the way through these woods, and a lot of it is down at the edge of the swamps. But you cut your trail; it looks like animal trails, but it is big enough for a man to walk through. It depends on the size bucket of how many [trees on a round], so that you try to make your rounds so that when you get back to the wagon, you've got a full bucket. So, if you're working [few] faces on this trip, then you take [a smaller, twenty-five pound] size bucket and your large buckets [on longer rounds]. It took [strong] men to do this because it's hot down there. You're