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Hughes: Did they have a Seattle office as well? Dimmick: Yes, workman’s compensation. And that’s when I transferred up and took that. Hughes: Oh, you transferred to Seattle. Had you been dating Cy Dimmick by then. Dimmick: Yes. So I transferred up here, and then I went to work as a prosecutor for Chuck Carroll … I was tired of Olympia by that time. And I just wanted to get back to Seattle. Hughes: Olympia in that era was pretty much a real small town. Dimmick: Yes. And I had an apartment with one of the women who graduated a couple years ahead of me. And she smoked in bed and burned the place up. Hughes: Holy cow! Dimmick: I got out, she got out. We were on the top floor. Nobody was hurt. But that kind of depressed me. So then I moved into a little garage basement of some house. And then I thought, “I’m getting out of here.” Hughes: Your roommate is smoking in bed and nearly burns the place down, and you’re fleeing in the middle of the night in your nightgown and bunny slippers? That would be a little disconcerting. Dimmick: So then I decided, “I’d like to go to Seattle.” So I transferred up. Hughes: It’s 1954. So were you serious about Cy by then? Dimmick: I probably was. Hughes: When did you and Cy Dimmick get married? Dimmick: In September of ’55. Hughes: When do you leave to go to work for Charles O. Carroll in the King County Prosecutor’s Office? Dimmick: In 1955. Hughes: But you were a single woman when you started? Dimmick: Yes. Hughes: Justice Smith said he got a job with Carroll even though Chuck had already filled his quota of Negros – one. Dimmick: Yeah! He had Herbie Stephens. Hughes: Was there a quota for females? 36
Dimmick: Well, as luck would have it he wanted a divorce proctor. He wanted a woman for that job. And that’s what Betty Howard was at the time. So I became a divorce proctor. Hughes: Tell us what a divorce proctor does. Dimmick: Well, you interview women who want divorces, or men who want divorces, and you make sure their residency is the state of Washington and if they’ve got children, how The Seattle Post-Intelligencer announces that Carolyn Reaber has joined the King County Prosecutor’s Office in 1955 much are they going to get? “Have you worked this out?” That sort of thing. You have to have an interview with everybody wanting a divorce. Hughes: You’re the go-between. Dimmick: Well, it was default divorces, so it’s only one side that I talk with. And then we go to court and they have these long calendars. Like I told you earlier, the guys were sitting down there talking to the judge while I’m standing up and doing a good job. Hughes: Was that the kind of job that a young woman got in the Prosecutor’s Office? Dimmick: Yes. Then when I got married Chuck made me take Cy’s name because he thought it was unseemly for a single woman to be doing that work, even though he hired me to do the work because he needed a woman at the moment. Hughes: How did you come to get this job with Charles O. Carroll? Dimmick: I walked across the street and applied. Hughes: Did you get interviewed by the prosecutor himself? Dimmick: Sure. 37
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