From 1954 until 1957, so stated Dad as he completed filling out his Clearance Questionnaire, he worked on different jobs around Las Vegas as well as Mercury, always as a heavy duty operator.
I learned a few other facts from his Clearance Questionnaire that was too young to comprehend at the time they happened even though I heard Mom and Dad talking about them.
Dad had been arrested twice in his life time. Once in January of 194 when Dad was unemployed and had all those children to feed. He was arrested for killing a white faced calf to take home for the family to eat.
Mom told me about it years later. She got a call from the sheriff in Mesquite, Nevada to come get him. Dad was let off with a suspended sentence when he told the judge if he locked him up, the State would have to feed his family and t would cost a lot more that if they would let him go.
This happened right after Dad was laid off from his Washington County Road Department job.
Dad's second arrest was basically the same thing. it was a deer he was arrested for not tagging at the time it was shot during deer season in 1955. Dad was fined $15 for that. daddy was upset about that one. When he was out of work he saw nothing wrong in augmenting the family food supply with a few deer now and then, he got his $15 worth back many times over.
When I got married in 1955 the only meat I knew how to cook was venison. there was none to be had in the store meat counters so my husband had to put up with me learning to cook beef for him.
the annual deer hunt was not only necessity to provide meat supply for the coming year, but a bonding time for all those who got to the get when Dad wanted them to go. The grown sons remember fondly of nights around the camp fire telling about the big one that got a way.
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