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  Chapter 25 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave

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  chapter 25. lola la la la lola.

  i’m not sure where i met steve h but it was love at first sight.

  not physical love, thought looking back i don’t think he would have minded that.

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  I remember that when someone jumped off the Towers. He hit the window sill of my room and this knocked him toward the street sign. I had a bunch of potted plants on the sill.

  Do you remember when Phil Wilcox got his hand in the press and it took off a finger? I think it was press 35. I pulled the rollers out of the color section and saw his finger fall down.

  Do you remember the "Mr. David Convention" at the St. George Hotel? That was my first introduction into the gay community. I was from the back woods of the south.
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  Chapter 24 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave

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  chapter 24. feed the rounder.

  i was dying everyday on the machines.

  i prayed.

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  mann377

  I was on the third floor of the Towers. It looked out the front of the hotel above the entrance. My room mate was Joel Reed. We had our own bath room, each had a walkin closet. Not bad.

  New boy do you remember Norman Dignard and his make ready crew? Ha Ha. What was your impression of Richard Wheelock?
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  Chapter 24 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave

  by new boy in

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  chapter 24. feed the rounder.

  i was dying everyday on the machines.

  i prayed.

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  mann377

  I roomed there when I first got to Bethel. It was high on the bid list. Roomed at Towers mostly.
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  Chapter 24 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave

  by new boy in

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  chapter 24. feed the rounder.

  i was dying everyday on the machines.

  i prayed.

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  mann377

  Did you room in 58?

  You mean down at Squibb?
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  Chapter 24 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave

  by new boy in

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  chapter 24. feed the rounder.

  i was dying everyday on the machines.

  i prayed.

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  mann377

  I think I remember you. I worked on press #2 across from Wheellock's office building one.

  Press room "animals". I remember being called that. Pressman were a different breed from all the others in the factory.
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  Chapter 23 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave

  by new boy in

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  chapter 23.

  in 1970 i saw a move that changed my life forever.

  which looking back, would have been a total blessing from god.

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  mann377

  Eugene Alcorn!! "Corn" is what I called him as we worked on press #8. He called himself ni--er charley, when I was introduced to him in the press room. He was wild!! Once he bent over to adjust the press rollers I shoved a broom handle up his ass, there was a hole in his pants. He had a sense of humor about it. Could I tell some x rated stories about him!
  
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  Chapter 22 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave

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  chapter 22. the machines conquer all.

  after doweling’s committee meeting many of us got job changes out of the laundry.

  i guess they wanted to bust the trouble makers up.

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  mann377

  Glad I was in the press room! Did you know Joe Gotez? He told same stories as you.
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  Chapter 21 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave

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  chapter 21.

  “black thursday” the day the music died.

  knorr gathered all the bethel overseers and governing body to the kingdom hall in the 119 building.

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  mann377

  Thanks Sparky for refreshing my memory. Knorr's wife was Audery and her maiden name was Mock. The Mock sisters married Knorr and Larson. Russell Mock was not a bad guy, very pleasant.
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  Chapter 21 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave

  by new boy in

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  chapter 21.

  “black thursday” the day the music died.

  knorr gathered all the bethel overseers and governing body to the kingdom hall in the 119 building.

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  Knorr and Larson were related by marriage. Brotherinlaw's. Fred Barnes..... that name brings back memories. He was on the plumbing crew at the factory when I knew him. I ran around town with him and his wife when dating a Bethel sister. Knorr had another brotherinlaw at the farm. He was appointed to the farm committee around '75.
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  Chapter 18 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower Slave

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  chapter 18. my privilege of service.

  it was moved there in the spring of 1969 from the basement of the 124. why is it that people like to put laundries in basements?

  the 119 was the newest of all the society’s properties.

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  mann377

  Love reading your post. As an exbethelite myself I can relate. Although I was sent to the pressroom as my first assignment and last, I knew the other departments were hell. At least being a press operator they left you alone and you were sort of your own boss.