"A
surprising footnote to the career of one of my helpers on the senior play:
Saturday afternoon Ralph Metzger landed in the Coldwater jail....As technical
director -- in charge of lighting and sound effects--he was the hardest worker
among the seniors. He was my right hand
man.
"King
tells me that he was arrested for breaking into a store after the play. His accomplice confessed everything before
they picked Ralph up. Previously the two
had entered many stores & homes here in Protection. Shortly before noon yesterday he had come up
to the apartment to deliver Christmas cards which I had ordered through
him. Juvenile delinquency hits at home,
too."
--Letter
from my father, Protection, Kans., to my mother, Winfield, Kans., evening,
Sunday, November 23, 1947.
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