MoonShiner #5 Paul Thrift Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 2/13/2013
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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You are searching for a well hidden ammo can along with my shine.

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Paul Thrift was one of 12 children born to a Georgia Bend couple, Jode and Caroline Raulerson Thrift. While most families in the area produced moonshine to make a scant living, his family plowed the fields and planted All their crops from sun-up to sun-down, grubbing their livelihood.

Thrift served for three years in the European Theatre during WW II, seeing action in Africa, Sicily, Italy and Germany. Upon his return to the USA, he came back to Baker County and in November, 1945 married pretty Willa Mae Johns of Taylor, whom he met for the first time at a social gathering at the Baker County Community Center.

The couple moved to Macclenny in 1946, settling down in a modest bungalow on north 228 where they reared their three children, Timmy, Paula and Joey. Baker County housemover Will Gilbert moved the little country store for the brothers from Georgia to Macclenny, where they operated the convenience store business together for many years.

Paul successfully continued in the convenience store business. He eventually became interested in politics and was elected and served first on the City Commission and later on the County Commission. From 1966 to 1972 he served as sheriff. Thrift holds the distinction of being the first Baker County sheriff to hire a black deputy. His name was Frank Smith.

The man who rose from backwoods poverty to one of the most successful and respected men in the community now sits back in his retirement years and quietly recalls those days.

During my years as sheriff, bootlegging was not as prevalent as it had been in previous years. This was due in part to state-enforced regulations on the purchasing and distribution of the raw materials needed to produce the moonshine, such as sugar, rye, yeast, syrup, and so forth. "As sheriff, I cooperated with both the state and federal agencies to terminate the bootlegging that did exist in Baker County. But 1966-1972 was an era of transition from bootlegging to the illegal growth and sale of marijuana.

Today, the couple finds great enjoyment in their three outstanding children and four grandchildren who live near by. Daughter Paula, a former Baker County Teacher of The Year and recipient of the Ruth I. Shuler Teaching Award, is now Director of Family Services for the Baker County School System. Son Timmy, who has taught World History at Baker County High School for 18 years, has been honored twice as Baker County Teacher of the Year. Twice, he has received the coveted Ruth I. Shuler Teaching Award. Their youngest son, Joey, owns and operates a successful sawmill on north 121. The quiet and gentile man has lived through the primitive pioneering days of Charlton and Baker Counties into the Space Age era, but for him, little has changed. He still believes strongly in the human value system and being supportive of family and friends when essential to meet the needs of mankind.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

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