Theodore
lines through some swamps, just to layout a traverse and map so they could
locate other things down there later.
I really enjoyed that summer. I can't remember that it ever rained. I had to
drive
miles to get to work-100 miles a day. I was living up in
Reisterstown, actually in a little town called Woodensburg north of
Reisterstown and driving, picking up people in Baltimore and going out the
Philadelphia Road to
Again, we were working five and a half days
week, so it was six days a week driving up there.
You were talking about being hired on with the Quartermaster Corps and then
going to
Arsenal. Do you want to continue from that point on?
Well, we did all that surveying, and I can remember the muck that we surveyed
through when we went down that peninsula through some of those swamps-the
grass at the upper end of some of the little creeks. It was a messy, messy job.
One of my
got sick because of the foul odor, and I had to go in there
to finish the job.
This lasted the whole summer of 1940. I put 12,000 miles on my new car in
three months driving to and from work
Let me ask you a question if I might.
Yes.
Now this chemical warfare depot-Edgewood Arsenal-this question is
obviously for the benefit of knowing your thoughts about present-day concerns
about dumping and toxic pollution and so forth, so when you did this arsenal-
Oh, people have just been convicted of improperly disposing of chemical waste
up there. The people that were charged.
That's right. Those civilians.You knew that the arsenal was going to be used
for chemical warfare experiments and so forth, and there would be, I suppose,
a dumping problem. Was there any concern when you were doing the
surveying about the dump sites being properly located so there wouldn't be any
kind of pollution or anything like that?
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