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HILL, Jack (b. 1922)

Oral Histories

OH 1664

For the Texas Textile Mill Oral History Project. Former employee of the Texas Textile Mill. Childhood in McKinney, Texas; family’s experience in the Great Depression; decision to drop out of school to work in the mill at age of sixteen; lay-off due to new child labor laws, and decision to go to work at Wilson’s Grocery Store and later at Cole’s Groceries; enlistment in Army Air Forces during World War II and service in China-Burma-India Theater; tornado of 1948; career in retail sales.