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Some Stuff I Wrote and Some Stuff I Didn't (2011) H. Morris Williams

From BiU Roy (CHS 1939), Attorney, Naples, FL.

Former Lake City City Commissioner

February 22,2010

Dear Morris:

Thank you very much for a copy of your new book “Lake City.”

I read it cover to cover the first day that I received the book.

As a historian you did a very good job trying to cover over a hundred

years of history and hundreds of people and their activities.

Morris, I can fill in a few things though I know that you covered an

awful lot.

The Naval Air Station, Lake City, closed and was turned over to the

FAA. In turn the FAA turned all the property over to the City of Lake
City to operate a municipal airport.

As Commissioners, we had all of the abandoned buildings and steam
lines, sewer plant and water plant, etc. to look out for fires and vandals.

The former fire chief Richard Adicks and one other person patrol led
around the air station for fire vandals.

They foundlOO yards of chain link fence had been stolen. Overhead
steam pipes were cut and removed.

Frank Snyder, a local contractor, bought barracks from the city barracks
buildings and cut them into sections and moved the sections to locations
to make houses out of them.

Gordon Granger came before the City Commission, of which I was a
member, and received our support for a ‘Forest Ranger School.’

Forester “Click” Mathewson was also the inventor of a “dibble” to plant
pine tree seedlings. I made some photos for him of the device.

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