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AREA COORDINATOR DURING WORLD WAR II 





Baum: Then, when you stopped being sheriff, you left to go 

 into your dollar-a-year job. 



Miller: Yes. I made a deal with the board of supervisors 



that I would be area coordinator for this county and 

 represent this county on all matters concerning win- 

 ning the war, and I mostly busied myself with getting 

 the things necessary to win the war. I mean, so many 

 people here didn't have enough food; it was my job to 

 see that they got enough food. And so many people 

 here that we didn't have any sewers for. My job was 

 to see that we got sewers. They were sleeping in 

 trailers and they were going to school in two and 

 four shifts; it was my job to get schools here. 

 Couldn't fight the fires, had no fire houses, so it 

 was my job to get fire houses here. 



And I was a Republican and I must say that I 

 went to — we had a fellow named Sheridan Downey who 

 was a Democratic senator, and I brought him my cred- 

 entials and he looked them over and I told him what 



