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    "ocrText": "-21-\nand didn't want to pay his fine. He was going to appeal to the Supreme Court,\nI guess. I don't know. I remember Oppy is supposed to have said to him, he\nsaid, 'Look, pay your fine and shut up.\" 11\nLAMONT: Was Oppy on the town council?\nSMITH : Oh no, no, no, no. But Chambers, I'm pretty sure it was\nChamb ers, was very persistent on this and Oppy said \"Pay the fine and shut\nup. 11 Now Oppy, the amazing thing about Oppy, he always seemed so quiet\n/\nand so easy going about whatever was discussed, this man understood it.\nAnd the questions would go on for a certain point and Oppy would say, Well,\nso and so and so and so, and sort of summarize the situation. He'd say, now\nthat I've satisfied you, I think I'll have the meeting adjourned. This man was\na very forceful individual, and no one objected to it. And I think he just said,\n\"Pay the fine and shut up. 11 And that was the end of it. We had some of the\nTRUMAN\nNATIONAL\nLIMITED\nARCHIVES AND\nworst drivers in the world.\nRECORDS\nSERVICE\nGOVERNMENT\nLAMONT: One of the things I heard about, Smitty, was that during\nthis period, because of the isolation and so forth, the birth rate soared. I\nrecall that the good G eneral G roves wasn't too happy about this.\nSMITH :\nWell let me just turn it around a little bit and tell you a\nfuny little story on that. We met them, they would greet the people, the young\ncouples that came that were married, and they'd say, now look, this is the\ntime to have your family, because the hospital care is free. You get all your\nhospital care free, you know, the delivery and hospital expenses and everything\nelse. This is the time to have your family. And they would do this. And, of\ncourse, the hospital was never big enough. Now the real reason the hospital"
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