B: I see. And how do you manage to stay unhitched?

0: Well, it hasn't been no problem. I just never let nobody get
 that close to me, I guess.

B: Well, I understand there are lots of eligible women around.

0: There is. I have lots of friends.

B: Maybe you'll change your mind some day.

0: Well, they....

B: I thought my son would never change his mind. He was about as
 confirmed a bachelor as anybody I've known, I guess, but he met
 a sweet little girl (and this was Bruce,) and so a few months
 ago he was married. I liked her very much. I always said,
 "You and I are going to work to trap that old bachelor!" (Laughter)
 She said, "You'd better help me!" Anyway, they were married a
 few weeks ago, and they seem to be very happy. Married Miss
 Barbara Carter, and they seem to be very happy.
 Of course, I tried it again. Two of my sons got married
 within the past two months. It was Roger Dale, and Bruce, and
 I--I think we gotmarried, all three of us, in the same month.
 Can you beat that?

0: No, that's wonderful.

B: So I says, "Well, the Bartons must be on a marriage spree."

0: Hmm.

B: I suppose it's whatever you are used to, comfortable with, a
 wife.
 Do you think migration is increasing in this direction, or
 staying about the same? Do you think more people are coming to
 Baltimore, or...?

0: I don't think so. I think it's staying about the same, and some
 people are returning to Robeson County about now.

B: About how many people are working with you at The Council Fire?

0: We have hired to this date thirteen people, but in all, the res-
 taurant will hire approximately twenty-four people.

B: Now, when you get the present people trained, will they be on