v. It W. Held Wooley, Escalante, water master, reads the watergauge for the city. Mr. Wooley spent 3T eventful years as city marshall and 22 ESCALANTE "If a movie was written about his experiences It would be exciting movie from start to finish." one neighbor said about the life of W. Reid Wooley. He served 37 years as City Marshall of Escalante and 22 years as deputy sheiiff under five different sheriffs: Frank Haycock, N. Orald Henrie, Deward Woodard, George H. Middleton and the present sheriff, Keith R. Fackrell. When he took over as City Marshall during the CC Days, he was asked to take it for a few days until another Marshall could be located, as the past two had only lasted, one three days and one less than two months. "The trouble at that time, were the 300 boys from the Deep South and the 250 boys from New York, all there at the same time," Mr Wooley said. Camp F 18 was from New York and Camp S 211 was from the deep South. Only about 40-percent of the guys could as much. as sign an X for their name. - "Both camps were about as-rough a group as I have ever, or ever wish to be around," Wooley stated. "They carried guns, knives, and iron bars. They were always in fights with either themselves, each camp or with the residents of Escalante," he added. One time he said he put 11 men, overnight in two 7x5 feet roms. "They were laying all over and on each other," he said. "They were all too drunk to let out on the streets. They were mean, they had to be put somewhere where they could sober up," Mr. Wooley said shaking his head as he remembered the incident. He remembers the day the city marshall before him quit, after only three days on the job. Two CC boys beat the whey out of him one dark night, Wooley was fighting another group so could not come to his rescue. During the CC days and the days of the Uranium boom, law and order was obtained anyway the officers could get it. Many times, Wooley, six foot 150 pounds, was unable to get the information he was after. Mr. Wooley said he would just as soon knock some sense into them as to look at them so one way or another he would get the information he was after. "Although he did not weigh a lot, he was rasised to fight, he knew how to take care of himself," one neighbor said of Mr. Wooley. During the 1936-37 CC Days, men were shot and there were several knifeings. As an example of how rough the men were, Mr Wooley related one time a fellow cut one of his buddies up pretty badly. When the first fellow returned to his home in Kentucky the second jears as Deputy Sheriff He recalls the days during the uranium boom and CC da s as being rough and colorful. Wooley Leads Colorful Life fellow's brothers were waiting for him to get off the train and shot him right there on the spot. Days were different years ago, and an officer would use any means he could to apprehend the wrong doer. "I remember one time looking down the barrel of a loaded 30-30 with the hammer pulled back." he said. One fellow living 13 miles west of Escalante on the old highway, got in a fight with his daughter-in-law. The daughter-in-law threw a bolt at him and hit him in his arm. It made him mad, he grabbed the 30-30 and threatened to kill anyone that came around him. "1 was deputy under Sheriff Orald Henrie at the time. Sheriff Henrie brought Richards along with him. We went up to the cabin and knocked on the door. V'e heard him cock the gun, pulling the door open about the same time and stuck his loaded 30-30 right in my face," Mr. Wooley said I told him that was a terrible"' -way to treat the doctor I had brought up to take care of his arm." The sheriff was in his old everyday clothes, they did not have a special uniform at the time. He finally put the gun down, still cussing all the time I lenrie and Wooley got into the house, still pretending Henrie was the doctor to look at his arm. "We worked to the side of him, then began looking at this arm, I was on one side, Sheriff Henrie on the other side. We both grabbed an arm and pulled them around his back and got the hand cuffs on him. Boy was he mad!" Mr Wooley has always been an avid sportsman, fishing and hunting He relates the time he shot a large deer and was on his back ready to slit its throat when the deer jumped up, bounding through the trees with hitn still on its back By jumping off. and manipulating the deer so its horns were around a tree he and his wife were able to kill the deer, providing them with many meals during the long cold winter months rr Although Mr; Wooley claims' he is retired he is still kept very busy helping Escalante during their water shortage problems as water master for the city