Off the Record May 12, 1948

5-12-48
Dr. Harry Stoll states that when one lives in the past, it is an indication of senility, indicating that the articles I have written are an indication of a bit of hardening in the vicinity of the arteries of the thinking apparatus which comes with old age. The first of all these articles which were written while I have been away from Wooster, told of the slump of travel in the Miami area. So for the last article of this series, I will leave the past and live in the present and tell how the Miami season turned out. The other day I was over on Seventy Avenue Miami and shopping at the garage of Wilmer Roby, a former Wooster boy. I saw Mr. Roby looking up and down the street. “I am looking for General Hudson,” he said. “I had some copies of the paper telling of Shibley and Hudson selling out and a note from Hud indicating he was likely to be along almost any old time, but up to date, I have been looking for him and he has not come. I guess I will have to give up.” Wilmer Roby, formerly head mechanic in the Johnson and Yarman Garage in Wooster, owns a flourishing business in Miami, Florida. He has a garage and a filling station and a lovely new home just completed. A heart aliment which overtook him a year ago compels him to let others do the work while he continues to confine his efforts to taking up the collection…..