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A: Well there's a fellow hy the name of Big Ed. He was kind of a great hig - the guy seemed like he had the rule of the roost over there. ilnil then there was a [~ri~fessl>r. I can't rememher [what] he was. He was more of a business teacher, the 1)usinvss vnrl of it. Russo, I think it was. Professor Russo. I can't remember the first - and Father Fritz, he.. . But the>- always had control of you, believe me, and you respectell them. When they said something that was it. They'd give a smoker for the hoys anti hoy, that - t c ~ tear11 you how to make a cigar, you know. Q: Oh, really? (laughter) A. You thought that was something Q: Yes I guess so. Ln high school days. A: Yes. They would teach you how to smoke a cigar. Q: You yet sick at it? A: If you're going to smoke, they wtmteil you to smok~ a cigar. Better than rigarettes, I suppose. Q: Big Ell, you say he was outgoing JVhat d~d he tench'! A: I can't recall anymore what Big Ed taught. 1Ie. . . . I know we had Big Ed and Rig Fritz. We'd call him Big Fritz and Big Ed and Rig Fritz and Russo. Anil Father Julian n,as administrator. He was a tough cookie. HP was really sorry as hell if he - never had a smile on his face. Q: Well. Were there any nuns involved? A: Oh, oh no, no no. All men. And they h:uI :I n-all around the whole hlock and these monks, you'd call them, they would take a walk every eveninl: and noulri he walking up and down the sidewalks around and we had to stay inside. But there again I got lo plai hall at school and . . . Q: I was going to ask about sports. Did they have a . . . .4: Oh yes, you hail hasehall and you had haskethall, you had hoxvling. \Ye hail all thar there. I used to like to howl. I gor to be a pretty good howler. Q: Diil they have a honling allcy ilu\vn here, or 1: Ye h a a - what do you call it'' \Ye had some kind of a - got it hatk ilo\\-n hrrr, \ye ililln't hare the kind you had up there. We had one of those \\-it11 sm;rllt:r halls or t ~ n . . . and . . . kink^' r ~ i n :I: Yes something likv that. Hare a bunch of straw stai:kcil up, just haling. Q: Oh, it \\as ~iurkhall, wasn't it? A: Yes som~thing like that Q: Did you play haskethall while you were up there? Carl Wittmond Memoir -- Archives/Special Collections, University of Illinois at Springfield
A: Sunir. yes, oh yes. I've got several l~ictures. I rrnlenibrr nhcn I n-as playing or1 u team up thrrr. I h:ive . . . (2: \Vho did Quinry Iligh School ur Quinry College l~lay'! A: Oh we played a lot of the local - pl;~yrd the high schools ;iround. got in ton-n. they had another high school. And ttien we playcii Xlilconil~ and wr 11layrd FI;lnnibal anti iiitfrrent towns likr that. Martin fiinnn n-as In!- idol up th~irt,. They nanirrl ttir fi~lil 1111 tliisrr nl'lrr hinr now 1 belirv~!. Martin Ilinan. I think hr got killed in sonrr kind of a freah acciii'nt some place in ralifornia somewhrrr. Q' \+'hat was so ciistinguished about him? \Vtiat . . . .A: Oh hc was just good at liis work in the athlctiv field. .And it seerued likc he look an interest in the boys in what he ilid. And in teml)rranirnt, it secmrd like hl, - 1 always rementher he nevcr got rough or loud or tough with anyone. He had control in a meek w:iy. St.ill he had rontrol of it. Q: Well let's ser now, ahat year \\-as this tlial you \vent up there, ahout 1915, or sornpplarr along in thrrr? A: In 1916, 1917, l!IlX anil 1919, I guess. 11 \\-as sornewhrrr iili~ng tha~. Q: \Vlii~t was it, a I'o11r-year term or two years'! A: Yes. Four years. Q: So actually about th~i tirne you finished up thrrc, World \Var I was ahout hreaking out at t.hat time. A: Yrs. Q: Was there eit.7. any indication that you rnighl he draftrtl or go into LVorld \Var I'! A: No I was too young. I c(iuIdn'~ get in. I wanted to get in \Vorld \Var 11. I had it set up, I was going to get in that one. I a-as looking for excitement you kntnv. I wasn'~ rnarrierl anti I was looking for something. And I had it all set up, I \\-as going to get a cornmission and evrrything. Antl thrn they changt~rt - they had thr age limit rhanged . . . Q: I'll he darned A: And just 11y thirts- days ~hry rut me ou~. I3ut it ivould hare heen a good rsperirnr.c for me. And 1 could have done some good hvcause I knca something about lh:ct kind of n-urk. Q: Ilow did you go about gutting that srt up? A: There was sorrir - I yucss you'd c:ill hi111 colonel or \\-hat 1l0 you call him'! Some tlig official who come doivn ant1 i~tv 3 lot. And hr liked a little ivaitrrss \vi. had herr rval weI1. He was wanting to send her to srhool. A hell or 3 nice guy. And I got lo talking to him one day and I wanted to (lo it and he's the one a.110 set it all up I'or mu. Q: Oh is that right? (chu~.klesi 1'11 1,e darned A: Yes. Q: Whvrv was he assigned? Thrre in St. I,ouis? Carl Wittmond Memoir -- Archives/Special Collections, University of Illinois at Springfield
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University of Illinois at Springfie
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CARL WIITMOND ILLINOIS HOUSE OF REP
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orrrniilnity in central Illinois. A
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Carl Wittmond SESSION I, TAPE 1, SI
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A: Yes. Q: Okay. And then your fath
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County that had a spur on this side
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A: It's peculiar how you always rem
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Q: I see. (chuckles) A: Out of the
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A: . . . and he took care of you. A
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A: Oh yes. You'd have a showboat he
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A: Yes it really happened. This thi
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my motber had to scrape around here
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that's how narrow people are you kn
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you know. It wasn't too prosperous.
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A: Well, I guess it was. I guess 1
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to stay all night to go to a show a
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Page 83 and 84: Q. (chuckles) We11 this kind of gav
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Page 109 and 110: him. Down there - see. Blackie uras
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Page 131 and 132: district. Powell said, "YIIu'~ h~tt
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;mil the key Dcrnocrats. the) xverc
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you ran't beat." I said, "Some day
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:I: Yes I ren~ernher that. :I: I pr
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.A: Yes. they was \.otiny and vice
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Q: What was your position on that?
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Q Did she usually do it at your des
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a lot of the cunstituents don't un~
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A: Yes I remember him Q: \Ye11 let'
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11: 011 I never did get excited ove
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'1: Oh 1 probahl) thought there wer
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to hlock it if he wanted to. So man
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it would he alright or whatever the
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Q: Yes. A somrthing. fle might have
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Q: Well let's see, he lived in Edwa
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Q: Oh, I see. A: Ht. thought that 1
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in the Granite City area - he was t
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:I: Oh yes, oh yes Q: What other ro
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So I put the bill in anyway to get
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A: . . . get credit for it, see, if
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A: I ctin't rrcall anymore \\.hat i
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A: hutuhahn, over in . . . Q: Germa
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Q: Well. Do you recall any particul
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I'd voted for the bill. That would
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Q: Let's see, the Zion [Illinois Be
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:\: Ile nrust not have run ;my more
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A: Wide open sparrs, that's right.
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Q: I'd like to ask first today abwt
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.A: Yes 1 can rt,call something of
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Q: Oh. He wanted the department you
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kno~r-. (;- I could have got on but
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who knrn. sonrething ahuut agrirult
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.A: \Vr ~ntrrtainzd several - one t
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town. And a lot of people was compl
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:I: Oh, n-c went a few other places
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.A: Not at that timc but they promo
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some of then1 - hut their unions ar
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sonielhing happened. I think I had
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Index .Ahl.nhani Lincoln Hl~tcal. 1
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Hinan, Martin, 79 IIitler, Adolph,
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