CDW: YOU ALSO HAD A FIELD SERGEANT HERE, DID YOU NOT?
MB: NO.
CDW: NO FIELD SERGEANT.
MB: WE JUST HAD RADIO OPERATORS, A CLERK, A CORPORAL--WHO CAME
LATER--, AND 2 MEN ON THE ROAD.
CDW: DID THE 2 TROOPERS ON THE ROAD WORK MORE THAN JUST PUTNAM
COUNTY?
MB: NO. THAT WAS ENOUGH TO KEEP THEM BUSY AND THEN SOME, REALLY.
THEY'VE GOT SO MANY PEOPLE OVER THERE NOW I DON'T EVEN KNOW
WHAT POSITIONS THEY ARE. SEE, I RETIRED IN 1975.
CDW: RIGHT ABOUT THE SAME TIME CAPTAIN HILL RETIRED WASN'T IT?
MB: A MONTH LATER. I RETIRED JANUARY 31 AND CAME TO WORK OVER HERE
AS HIS SECRETARY ON FEBRUARY 3.
CDW: YOU GO BACK IN A SPAN OF TIME THAT YOU WERE WITH THE
PATROL--WHO WAS THE MOST MEMORABLE CHARACTER YOU CAN REMEMBER?
MB: JIMMY HILL. I MEET HIM FIRST IN 1958 IN MIAMI AT THE
GOVERNOR'S CONFERENCE AND TO THE BEST OF MY OBSERVATION, HE HAS
CHANGED THE LEAST IN ALL THOSE YEARS OF ANYBODY I KNOW. HE
STILL CUTS THE FOOL, HE LAUGHS, HE CAN BE SERIOUS--I'LL
GUARANTEE YOU. I REMEMBER A YOUNG MAN WHO QUIT THE PATROL AND
A FEW MONTHS LATER HE CAME OUT AND TALKED TO JIMMY AND WANTED
TO GET BACK ON THE PATROL. JIMMY CALLED ME IN AND ASKED ME TO
WRITE HIM A LETTER AND I WAS TAKING HIS INFORMATION AND ALL OF
A SUDDEN HE SAYS, "YOU KNOW, I LOVE THAT MAN BUT HE SCARES ME
TO DEATH". I SAID "WHAT IN THE WORLD DO YOU MEAN HE SCARES YOU
TO DEATH", BECAUSE EVERYBODY LOVED JIMMY. HE SAID HE WAS IN
JACKSONVILLE ONE DAY AND THE LT. AND CAPT. WERE IN THE LT'S.
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