CATEGORY: HIGH SCHOOL
PHOTO: WOODEN FOOT BRIDGE

In 1946 when Bill Flatt, one of my high school mates, was a Junior at Moro High School, he and about eight other boys went out on Halloween night and removed the foot bridge that crossed the small stream in the park in Moro.  They were able to detach it from its footings and move it some distance down stream, ruining it in the process.  About a week later, Bill and all the other boys involved were called into the Sheriff’s office.  The Sheriff had a list of the names of every one of the boys who had taken part in the bridge dismantlement, even though none of them had told anybody.  Supposedly.  Each boy, and/or each boy’s parents, had to pay for his share of the expense in replacing the bridge with a new one.  No one ever found out who had squealed.

Those boys never did that again.