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able to be rehabilitated and made useful
for government service. Both of the
former will also take precedence over a
veteran not disabled, but who has been
in the thick of combat in Africa, China,
Guadalcanal or Italy.
MAURICE HUDSON APPOINTED
CORPORATION COMMISSIONER
Maurice Hudson, Portland Attorney,
was appointed corporation commissioner
June 13, 1944, by Governor Earl
Snell, to succeed the late Lloyd R.
Smith.
Mr. Hudson is a native son, born in
the Tualatin Valley at Gaston, grad
uated from the University of Oregon
Law School and admitted to the Ore
gon Bar and the American Bar As
sociation.
He was an attorney for several years
for the United States Government and
then was associated with Sewall and
Sewall and Judge Guy C. H . Corliss
for many years in Portland.
METZGER GETS NEW
POSITION
Appointment of A. W. Metzger, who
was for seven years chief of the division
of foods and dairies in the state depart
ment of agriculture, as senior employ
ment officer in the US employment ser
vice, replacing Ethan G rant in the Sa-
lem office, was announced June 1 by
W. H . Baillie, USES manager here.
G rant has been given a promotion in
the service. He is now in Pendleton but
will headquarter in Portland.
Metzger is in charge of the labor
stabilization program w ith the office
in Salem.
We have nothing more important in
the administration of government than
a system— the best that has yet been
devised—of securing men of the needed
capacity by competitive examinations,
whenever such examinations are prac
ticable. I believe in that; I thoroughly
endorse it; and I hope to see it extended
throughout the States of the Union.
— Charles E. Hughes.
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