Oral History Interview with Sybil Bale, September 23, 2001 Page: 28

                                
HETSY: That is a phenomenon, I think, that has started since the protesters with the
Viet Nam war. I think that's when that started.
MRS. BALE: I think that's true.
HETSY: I hope that that's changing. I hope the United States tragedies that have
occurred recently will promote...
MRS. BALE: I think it will.
HETSY: I also think the fact that we haven't had a draft for a number of years, we have
generations of people who don't understand the military and that probably would be a
little bit of that changing, too.
MRS. BALE: And another thing, and this has been a very difficult thing for me, we grew
up in Clovis, and we had a black school and a white school. We had a Japanese colony
there, and we had the Mexicans down there.
HETSY: What about the Indians? Did you have them?
MRS. BALE: We didn't have Indians in Clovis. They're back West but not our area.
And we had five Jewish families in town, and there was never any prejudice. There was
a little change among all of us. Of course, the Japanese children went to school with us
and so did the Mexican children. The black school there was much interaction and there
was a man who was a porter on the Santa Fe Railroad and they had four boys and they all

worked at the hospital. And I can remember the times that I was in that hospital those
boys coming and singing before they started work in the morning. And I told the two
Japanese here for this symposium about this. The Japanese colony was there and they
were picked up.
HETSY: I was going to ask you, were they able to remain with you?