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CHAPTER NEWS
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can now attend all meetings of Chap
ter No. 3 that are held on the top of
Mt. Hood on New Year’s day. For this
concession he has agreed to stay away
from all other meetings.
C. D. Cannon and a remarkably
"reasonable facsimile of the same” re
paired squawk boxes in this district
July 28 and 29th, thereby saving the
lives of thousands of fish in Union
county.
CHAPTER No. 4— LA GRANDE
Earl Faye, the Seneca Section Fore
man, has broken his leg. The grapevine
tells us that he tried to ride a wild
horse and got bucked off. We are sorry,
Earl, and you had better stick to driv
ing trucks.
Mr. Otis Buell, the Section Foreman’s
Helper at Hermiston, has passed away.
Our sympathies are extended to his
family.
Paul VanScoy spent one week of his
vacation fishing in the Wallowa coun
try. He reports the fishing was very
good, in fact so good that he is through
eating fish for some time.
George Rother and Charley Erbe of
the shop spent most of their vacation
W hen you think of Life
Insurance . . . Think of
Charlie McElhinny
“T he W idow ’s F rie n d ”
P hone 4676
Salem, Ore.
working on a friend’s farm. Seems to
this reporter that it would be a poor
way to spend a vacation. It would at
least be a change from the shop work.
The grapevine tells us that Albert
Tabor, the Section Foreman at Rich
land, his helper and large truck driver
tried to kill a bear with a 22 rifle. The
bear was too tough and the boys had to
take to the brush in a hurry. A week or
•two later these same men started on a
fishing trip over the weekend w ith their
wives. In fording a river with the car,
they under-estimated the depth of the
water and stalled in the middle. The
women folks had to get out and push
the car to dry land. The men folks are
still very much in disgrace.
Doug Walker has taken up hiking as
necessary training for a D istrict Main
tenance Superintendent’s job. He has
had to walk in from the desert several
times on account of flat tires.
Frank Thomas has been honorably
discharged from the Navy and is now
working in the shop. He has lots of
interesting experiences to tell.
Mrs. W. W. Stiffler has been visit
ing in Baker.
We now have a membership of 225
in our chapter, an increase of 70 new
members in the past two months. There
are still about eight on the maintenance
crews, seven on the engineering crews,
and a few on the oiling crew, who do
not belong to the Chapter. Let each
one of us try to sign one of these
non-members and make the chapter
100%.
Mr. Mark G. Hayes, who is w ith the
Oregon Physicians Service, gave a very
enlightening and entertaining talk on
Hospital Associations and their serv
ices. He explained the benefits offered
by the Oregon Physicians service and
answered questions.