About my 2nd week on the job, Don was careless and caught his finger in the cutting blade' Bleeding was slowed by holding pressure with a rag on the wound, and I ran up to the office and asked the owner, Barney Snyder what to do. Barney cursed and asked me to walk Don down the street to a Doctor's office, yelling that he didn't have time do do that himself. So i walked Don there and he got bandaged and Don and I went back to selling Newspapers,earning One cent for each sold.Barney paid us our $2 and I hope the doctor got paid.

Also, in 1934, Bob recalls:

Aunt Alma and Uncle Oscar The swede community in Los Angeles,CA, in my childhood memory, learned who their more-or-less distant kinfolks were and they attended each other’s parties and ceremonies with us kids as mere observers. Scanning the “Descendants of Nils Olafsson”, searching for Aunt Alma, I find only one Alma… Alma Justina Andreasson –b: 1889in Hono, Vastergard , Ockero(O). My Aunt may be some other person, but I feel a duty to remember her. Alma (Jackie) Fox apparently was Thorwald’s cousin. She had been a nurse with the AEF in France and was married to Frederick Fox and was childless. They lived in Glendale CA. Fred was an aviation mechanic , an accomplished violinist and a singer in the Welsh tradition. Fred’s father was a’49er gold miner whose hobby was crafting violins.

Fred was the inventor of a gyroscope device for the slant-drilling of oil well bores. Fred and Jackie attended Leny’s and my wedding reception in my parent’s home in 1964.Fred and Jackie retired to a Masonic Home in Northern California and I have heard nothing more about them. I recall Fred’s Marmon cloth-top roadster, riding in the rumble seat through the mountains, and Fred climbing down a mountainside to cut a flowering stalk of a Spanish Bayonet for Jackie.Oscar Eriksson, another of my father’s cousins was a nearby neighbor, and was well-off enough to afford the Sunday funny papers, so when we kids returned from Sunday School, past his house, we were always to be seen on our knees on his front room rug studying the Katzenjammer Kids and Popeye. Oscar was a Structural Engineer who designed Dirigible hangars. Oscars mother and father lived in a separate house in the rear of Oscar’s house , Oscar’s father was the carpenter who had built both houses. Pa and Ma Eriksson had acreage in San Fernando Valley where they retired to raise chickens, turkeys, geese and goats, as well as apricots and walnuts, an appropriate memorial to their early North Dakota farming days.

Oscar’s wife, nee Macy Rowan drove us to visit Pa’s ranch one rainy day in 1934 and the railroad across the highway in front of the ranch was an effective dam that held back most of the flood from the nearby mountains. Oscar’s sisters Clara, Lily, and Mabel were frequent visitors. Macy ‘s 2 younger brothers, Cecil and Tommy Lived with her sister Harriet in a downtown apartment. One day Tommy and I got a job delivering handbills over a large area of the city and it was hot and Tommy got the bright idea to dump the remaining handbills down a gutter drain and our employer was watching so we got fired without payment.