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UNDER PRES ROOSEVELT THE WPA(WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION) AND THE CCC(CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS) WERE STARTED. 

IN JULY 1934 I WENT IN THE CCC'S. I TOOK MY BARBER KIT WITH ME. I WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT COULD CUT HAIR. THERE WERE 300 MEN THERE AND I CUT MOST OF THEIR HAIR. I WOULD BARBER AND SHAVE THE DOCTOR AND THE LIEUTENANT ALSO.(BBB)

WE GOT PAID A DOLLAR A DAY. I WOULD SEND THAT TO FERN PLUS WHAT I GOT BARBERING. SHE GOT A CHECK EVERY MONTH.(BBB)

PIC..ELDRED RUSSELL BACON (SECOND FROM THE RIGHT)

IN 1934 DAD(ALBERT BACON) HAD ME(ELDRED) BUY THIS FARM AT A-4. I LEASED ANOTHER 160 ACRES NORTH OF GEORGETOWN ID. IN 1936 LLOYD DUNN(F-10) AND I BOUGHT LAND ABOUT 4 MILES NO OF GEORGETOWN ID AND LEASED SOME MORE. THERE WAS AN OLD HOUSE AND BARN THERE. WE HAD OUR COWS OUT THERE AND MILKED THEM NIGHT AND MORNING AND SEPARATED THE MILK IN THE HOUSE. IN 1946 I WAS ABLE TO GET 80 ACRES FROM BISHOP RICHARD SOLOMON SLEIGHT.(BBB)(A-2(6)) 

PRES ROOSEVELT HAD A PLAN WHERE THE GOVERNMENT WOULD HELP YOU BUY MACHINERY. IN A COUPLE OF MONTHS LLOYD DUNN & I BOUGHT A TRACTOR, PULL-TIGHT COMBINE, PLOWS, HARROWS, ETC. FOR ABOUT $2200. IT WAS AT 2%-3 PERCENT INTEREST. WE HAD TO HAVE 300 ACRES TO COMBINE TO GET THE EQUIPMENT. WITH OUR LAND, MARVIN CLARKS(I-2), DAN SIZEMORES(H-4), BOB ANDERSONS(J-5) AND BILL HESS'S(K-3) LAND, ALL OUT NORTH, IT GAVE US THE 300 ACRES. WE HAD THE THIRD COMBINE IN THE COUNTY. YOU PULLED IT WITH A TRACTOR. WE HAD A COMBINE BEFORE ANY OF THESE MEN. BOY! WHAT A REVOLUTION J(BBB)