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Miller: chops. I was in control at all times. 



Baum: Did any other regions or counties ask you about your 

 plan? Or was there interest in spreading this plan 

 to other parts of California? 



Millers I had a lot of reactions; different counties were 

 told about how I was doing it. There were a great 

 many people that came down and interviewed me on how 

 I did it. I never bothered about it much, I never 

 paid much attention to it. I was too busy to worry 

 about it. All I had in mind was getting a job done. 



Baum: You stopped registering pickers in about 1940; why? 



Miller i Because the state had taken over that job, the 



federal government or the state, and they kept coming 

 in there more and more and more, and I thought as 

 long as they're doing it they just relieve me of 

 that much work. After all, it actually was not a 

 sheriff's duty to do all that. 



Baum: It seems you had given a lot of extra service. 



Miller: Yes, I gave that extra service because I wanted to 

 be in control of it, but I knew all the time that 

 this was extracurricular and it shouldn't be a part, 

 the extra work that I gave. 



