Dear Ann Landers, missed your first article on Roger Daub, who fell from the Garrison Dam, but I saw the second letter, and it brought back memories. When I was a 20-year-old engineering student at the University of North Dakota, I got a summer job on the Garrison Dam. I worked as The Rfsi k Am La in he rs / 2 3 7 an inspector on the surge tanks, and one of my primary responsibilities was to see that the contractors followed safety standards such as wear-ing safety belts on the scaffolds. I had been on the job only about a week when Roger Daub came tumbling down. After that happened, I changed my major from engi-neering to math. Nobody falls 150 feet in math.
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Dear Readers, , “My one vote won’t matter, so I just didn’t bother”? For several years I was an election judge supervisor at one of the precincts in our city. The following was copied from a page in The Election Judge's Manual. Since your column is nationally syndicated, perhaps it will be read by many people who will finally realize how important one vote can be. If our right to vote in a free election were ever taken away, there would be utter chaos. Please, Ann, get behind this. How Important Is One Vote? In 1645, one vote gave Oliver Cromwell control of England. In 1649, one vote caused Charles I of England to be executed. In 1868, one vote saved President Andrew Johnson from impeach-ment. In 1875, one vote changed France from a monarchy to a republic. The Best he A n I a m ii e ii s I 243 In 1876, one vote gave Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency of the U.S. In 1923, one vote gave Adolf Hitler leadership in the Nazi Party. In 1941, one vote saved Selective Service-just weeks before Pearl Harbor was attacked. -From Missouri
