Oscar and family moved here and the children began to attend Cicero School. The grade cards for Walt for his 7th, 9th and 10th grades show him to be less interested in school.  

The George Foulke family farm was located 5 miles west of Cicero and consisted of about 102 acres in 1930. They ran the farm until about March of 1934 when things got really bad and Arthur could do nothing further to help his mother and she lost the farm. Arthur committed suicide over this and probably other things as well, but mostly the farm.  While the Oscar Robbins family was running the farm they lived in the big house which was a 2-story house with about 8 rooms or so and Mary moved down to the smaller 4-room tenant house which was about 1/8 of a mile from the main house.  The 1930 US Census Shows the Oscar & Grace Robbins family plus Mary Frances Foulke living on the George Foulke Farm. 

They had taught algebra at Cicero High School. They fired the teacher because everyone passed the first semester but he failed everyone the second semester. Cicero was going to have a special class for the students the next year so they could get the credits in Algebra to graduate. Dad's family moved to a rented farm in the Arcadia area and he began going to Walnut Grove School.  They did not honor this and would not let him out of the first semester of Algebra so he quit school in the 10th grade in the 1934/1935 school year and began working on the farm. His mother didn't like it but his dad didn't mind. If he had stayed at Cicero he would probably have graduated.   His father had gotten ill and he took over the biggest part of the responsibility for the farm and his parents bought him a car for helping.  The car, the first one for Walt, was a 1930 Chevrolet Coupe, dark in color which cost $150.00.  He was 17 at the time and that made a nice vehicle for a young man.  He also stated that gas at that time was probably about $.20 a gallon.  Walt was a farm boy at heart and stated that he had always like farming.  He said that he started helping on his dad's farm when he was about 9 years old and continued until he left his last farm in 1958. 

In about 1937 the family moved to Randolph County to a farm near the little community of Fairview in Green Township.  This is the first farm that the family bought after losing the Cadiz Farm in 1930. This farm consisted of several acres. Walter was unsure about the exact amount but estimated at about 105 acres. The Fairview Farm was where the family first got electricity.  It was a Co-op of some kind out of Portland. They paid something like $40 for a share in the Co-op - They also had to pay for the poles and the wire up to the farm from the road.  Also, on this farm there was a tobacco barn between the house and the big barn - Dad and Myron were tearing it down and part of it fell on Myron and later Myron got a nail through his finger and it became infected.

By 1940 Walt was listed on the US Census as a Wire Cutter on Cabinet Parts in a Tin Shop (McCormick's Brothers in Albany).  This source stated that he had worked 40 hours in the week of 24-30 March 1940.  He always talked favorably about working there and said the owners were fair to the employees and there was plenty of overtime if you wanted it.  They made the wire shelving for refrigerators.  In Oct 1940 Walt was described on his Draft Card as White, 5' 8", 154 pounds, Brown Hair, Brown Eyes, Light complexion.  He also worked at a service station in Muncie and performed minor automotive repair and serviced vehicles.