Excerpt from:

                         Oral History Interviews by
                            Margaret Green Rogers
                 Interview with Mr. Adolph Rubel - June 7, 1977


    MR:   ...How about Roscoe Turner, do you remember much about him?

    AR:   Oh, yes.  I remember- The first I knew Roscoe he opened up a
    garage.  He was one of the first garage men in town.  He repaired
    Model T's- and he started in that.

    MR:   Let me ask you, did he have a car agency in connection with
    that?

    AR:   No, I don't think so- First car agency I remember was old man
    Heyer.

    MR:   Do you remember whether or not there was a car that was called
    the Gray?

    AR:   No- but getting back to Roscoe, Roscoe was a chauffeur for some
    prominent man in Memphis.  I don't know who the man was.  He went
    from that into aviation.  He learned to be an aviator.  That's when
    he became famous.  He was an old country boy from out here in the
    country. Lived out here on the --

    MR:   Turner Hill.

    AR:   Right.

    MR:   On the Smithbridge Rd.

    AR:   That's right.

    MR:   The reason I was asking that about that car agency, Fred
    remembers that he had a car agency for a Gray car and that the name
    of the automobile was Gray.  To demonstrate its pulling power he
    drove it up the front steps of the Court House.  Do you remember
    anything about that?                               

    AR:   I remember when they thought it was quite a feat if an
    automobile would go up Stevenson's hill out here by Liddon's Lake.
    Of course, there was more of an incline there in those days than
    there is now.  If anybody could take an autombolie and they'd get up
    Liddon's Lake in high gear, that was a real good automobile.  It
    could just- that was the way they demonstrated it.

    MR:   You used to have to shift into second.  Sometimes even into
    low.

    AR:   That's right, to get up a hill.  That was a real feat then....


    SOURCE:   Margaret Green Rogers.  Unpublished. Corinth,
              Mississippi: Northeast Mississippi Museum, June 7, 1977.



    Data transcription by: Milton Sandy, Jr. Corinth, MS - May 5, 1993