RE: I started practicing law in Clearwater, Florida, in the latter
part of the 1920's and then went from there to Fort Myers,
practiced law there a year, and then went to Palatka, Florida,
in 1931, practiced law there until I went to work for the State
Road Department and was a right-of-way attorney working out of
Jacksonville and then I was transferred to be the resident
attorney for the State Road Department and went to Tallahassee
in 1937.
RG: Yes sir. You were the right-of-way attorney with the old State
Road Department which is now the Department of Transportation
and you were instrumental in the formulation of the bill that
went before the Legislature to create the Highway Patrol in
1939. Can you tell me some of the things that
RE: Yes, I knew Colonel H. N. Kirkman in Palatka. He had been the
bridge engineer on the Memorial Bridge that crossed the St.
Johns River there and I also knew H. M. Fearnside who in 1939
was a member of the Legislature in the House of Representatives
from--Putnam County.
RG: Yes sir.
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