Mr. Jenner. Yes, in Cairo.
Mrs. Cunningham. And part of the time I was a housewife. In 1938 I went to Jefferson City where my husband was employed—this was Jefferson City, Mo.
Mr. Jenner. That is the State capital?
Mrs. Cunningham. Yes. I was with the Missouri Employment Commission and I worked in the central office there and he was a teacher in the public schools of the city and I went from there to the St. Louis metropolitan office in the spring of 1940, I think.
Mr. Jenner. Was that the OPA?
Mrs. Cunningham. No; that was the War Manpower Commission—really during the war period. You know, we moved from State to Federal and then back to State—it was much easier going in than coming out—with the stroke of a pen—we were in.
I moved with that agency, I guess, from interviewer to labor market analyst for that metropolitan area and then I taught awhile. There may have been a period where I was not employed, because Mr. Cunningham and I have had heavy family responsibilities on the other end of life from 1940 to the death of his mother this past Christmas at 89, the same as Churchill, and in 1951, we came down here.
I have basically worked for A. Harris as an accounting clerk. In 1957 I had qualified under the Texas law and had taken the examinations, and in August 1957—I was employed by the Texas Employment Commission as an interviewer of some variety.
Mr. Jenner. And you have been at it ever since?
Mrs. Cunningham. Yes.