Verlon had dinner with us this noon here at Brookdale; then we went on our "standard" car ride. We went up the old "Golf Course" road to the farm where Elaine was raised. Then headed east to 81-A, the Johnson Dam in the PL-566 Middle Oak, watershed. I was the SCS survey party leader for "laying out" the Dam from plans developed in our Regional Office. And, then the Construction Inspector for its construction back in 1959. Verlon would have been 9-years old at the time and often went with me on Saturdays where the Contractor was moving dirt. To assure proper compaction of the "zoned" fill, I would take soil samples to determine compliance. It was a detailed process carried out in a construction bus with Laboratory equipment. Verlon was old enough to remember the "smell" of the process. My Diary on August 29 indicates that "Verlon went along (to the dam) & he weighed & measured several samples". He went along on several additional Saturdays. We were living in Lincoln at the time. I was taking night classes plus cutting weeds on "soil bank" land at our farm.
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