Holly
Sugar

When the dam work was too cold for concrete to pour we were laid off and I then looked for other work till it opened back up in the spring. My neighbor who worked in the sugar beet factory told me I could probably get hired if I showed up at the side door at the start of the midnight shift. If someone did not show up for work they would take whoever was waiting at the door and hire them on the spot. If the one that didnt show up for work took longer than 3 days to come back to work I would have the job.

I was hired and replaced a worker on a good paying job but after a couple of weeks they had a policy where if someone else wanted that job and had more seniority then you would be bumped down to another job. That what happened and I ended up on the beet washer machine which did not pay as good. This lasted a couple of months.

The sugar beet factory had a warehouse built one spring before the dam called us back to work. I was able to get hired and helped with the construction. It was a round dome that started out as a balloon that was held in place with air compressors. We then sprayed foam insulation on the underside and attached rebar for a framework and later gunite was sprayed onto the iron framework for the completed warehouse. It was very interesting working on this unique warehouse.