. (The Lennon/McCartney composition was released as a single in the U.S. in July of 1964 making it a summer song.) 

On what proved to be a memorable summer day, reporter Bill Cortez and I followed up on a call heard over the police scanner involving a farmer in rural Douglas County, Wisconsin. The farmer had threatened a survey crew on the road outside his property. He was believed to be armed and the crew called on the sheriff's department to come to their aid. Bill and I left downtown Duluth where it was cool and cloudy, crossed the High Bridge to Wisconsin and motored into the woods and farmlands of rural Douglas County.

We had a map and the fire number of the farm. In addition, we were familiar enough with the area to find it fairly quickly, even in those pre-GPS days. The temperature had risen as we drove away from Lake Superior and the pure blue sky was devoid of clouds. It was a perfect summer day.

When we arrived, there were several deputies on the scene, they were excited to break out their new equipment purchased with Law Enforcement Assistance grants. (The federal program was designed to provide local law enforcement with equipment and technology.) Among new equipment being taken out of the cars were M16 rifles. I felt somewhat out gunned as I unloaded my CP16A 16mm camera from my news vehicle and filmed the officers loading cartridges into the magazines of their rifles. The sun glinted off the cartridges and the clicking sound of the shells filing the magazines mixed with the birds singing in the trees that lined the rural road. No summer music was heard except from the birds and an occasional police radio transmission.

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