MB: WELL, I HAD TO CHECK THE DAILY REPORTS OF ALL THE MEN AND THE
ACCIDENT REPORTS AND KEEP A RECORD OF THE TIRES. WHEN THEY
WERE ISSUED, THEY WERE ISSUED FOR A PARTICULAR WHEEL OF THE
PATROL CAR.
CDW: IS THAT RIGHT?
MB: YOU HAD TO KEEP A RECORD OF THAT.
CDW: I DON'T GUESS THEY ROTATED THE TIRES BACK THEN--IT WOULD HAVE
CAUSED MORE PAPERWORK, WOULDN'T IT?
MB: THEY ROTATED THEM BUT WE KIND OF IGNORED THAT.
CDW: I UNDERSTAND, I UNDERSTAND. YOU SAID YOU CHECKED THE TROOPERS'
DAILY REPORTS AND THAT WAS BACK WHEN WE DID THEM EVERY DAY AND
HAD TO TURN THEM IN. THAT MUST HAVE BEEN SOME KIND OF A RECORD
KEEPING PROCESS.
MB: I REMEMBER I SENT AN ENVELOPE TO TALLAHASSEE ONE TIME AND THEY
SENT ME BACK WORD IF I WOULDN'T MIND, I COULD USE 2 ENVELOPES
TO SEND THEM IN. MY FIRST SERGEANT AT THAT TIME MADE THE
REMARK THAT I WAS THE ONLY PERSON HE KNEW WHO COULD PUT A DESK
AND CHAIR IN A 9 X 12 ENVELOPE.
CDW: WHO WERE SOME OF THE PEOPLE THAT YOU WORKED WITH BACK THEN?
MB: WELL, WHEN I WENT TO WORK, CAPTAIN TAYLOR IN LAKE CITY WAS THE
TROOP COMMANDER.
CDW: THAT WAS RED TAYLOR?
MB: YES, AND LT. CLINT HANCOCK WAS THE LIEUTENANT IN CHARGE OF THE
DISTRICT. THEN HE BECAME CAPTAIN AND HE HAD A HEART ATTACK AND
CAPTAIN K. D. SCONIERS CAME DOWN AS AN INTERIM TROOP COMMANDER,
AND THEN CAPTAIN PRATER, AND THEN CAPTAIN JIM HILL, AND
THEN--WHAT WAS HIS NAME, TOM--HODGES. I DIDN'T WORK ACTIVELY
UNDER HIM. I WAS THERE WHILE HE WAS IN THE FBI ACADEMY, AND
THEN TOM SIGMAN CAME.
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