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the main highway and provided them with a description of the wanted
prisoner. The following day a bus driver reported having passed a hitch-
hiker that he thought matched the description. One group of Military
Police drove to the location where the hitchhiker had been reported to
be. He was gone. They then raced down the highway and passed a car
having as a passenger the wanted prisoner. They signaled the driver,
who knew nothing of whom he was carrying, to pull over to the side of
the road. The Military Police jumped out of the Jeeps and pointed their
shotguns at the driver and the passenger. They caught their prisoner and
they later reported that the driver had probably lost a whole quart of
water! Who wouldnt?
In September 1947, we bought a new black Nash sedan (costing
$1,925) from a student at UC Berkeley who had driven it out from the
factory in Michigan. The car was otherwise nice but the starter broke
about once every three months. We drove to Salt Lake to spend Christ-
mas with Jeans family in 1947. In driving back, I thought I heard an
odd sound but could see nothing when I raised the hood. We were driv-
ing at night and we were taking Jeanette home from Salt Lake as well
as our two kids. In one lonely stretch of road the car stopped. The fuel
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down a car and the driver was kind enough to help. He pushed our car
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headlights were not bright and his vision was obscured by our car. There
were occasional icy stretches on the road. It was a nightmare. Because
his car was so close behind ours, his engine heated up and he stopped
near a little roadside garage and left us. With the engine not running, the
car had become extremely cold inside and we had wrapped the children
with everything available. In the early morning hours, a mechanic re-
ported to the garage. A bolt holding the fuel pump to the engine block
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remove it, the problem was simple; if not we faced a major problem.
Fortunately, the bolt turned and he was able to reattach the fuel pump
with no problem. We were delighted to be on our way. I think we were
blessed to have been able to maneuver at night through a curving road
with periodic ice sheets while having no engine power and with limited
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