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D. M. S. office; He also made a run
over to Grande Ronde to see Vic Mof
fitt and the rest of Paving Crew No. 6,
and said the smell of asphalt made him
homesick, so he tried to find an extra
rake but the boys had them all in use.
Bill is 50 Cal. Machine Gun Specialist
on a Carrier.
TH E GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
R e n d e r e d by
a
S ea b ee
Each State employee is in reality a
public relations officer of the State.
Each OSEA member is a personal rep
resentative of the Association— a sales
promoter for growing membership in
1944. How HAVE your public rela
tions been today?
A Seabee in the South Pacific pat
terned his version of life out there along
the lines of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Ad
dress, as follows:
"Two score and seven days ago our
battalion brought forth upon this is
land a new project, conceived in a fox
hole and dedicated to the proposition
that all Japs are created evil.
"We are now ensnared in the heat,
rain and mud of the island, testing
whether this project or the Seabees will
long endure.
"We are all together slipping and
sliding as we do this, but in a larger
sense we cannot cultivate, we cannot
navigate, we c a n n o t harrow this
ground, for those rains which make
this mud here have made it impossible,
far above the poor power of all but the
"Cats” (tractors).
"It is for us, the Seabees, rather to
be enslaved here by this menial labor
which they who are in charge have
thus so freely advanced. It is rather
for us to be here sickened by the dish
of hash set before us, that from these
cans we took our nourishment; nor no
devotion to those cooks, for our stom
achs gave an everlasting measure of
commotion.
"The world will little note nor long
remember what we build here, but we
shall never forget the hash and beans
we ate here. Let us resolve that we
shall not have sweat in vain; that this
battalion shall have 30 days freedom
in the United States by Easter; that
this thought shall not perish from our
hopes.”
Leighton’s Auto Part
& Machine Works
Kimball Brothers
Lumber Co.
Sgt. Leland P. Dixon, U.S.M.C. Sgt.
Dixon, former office man at Burns
D.M.S. office, is back home after two
years in the South Pacific and is en
joying a well earned rest. He says he
appreciates the Oregon scenery more
than before and didn’t realize it was
so restful to the eyes.
Lt. Lloyd Russell Chandler, Seabees.
"Pop” as he is known by most of us,
has moved from his pin-up station on
the East Coast for places unknown, so
advises our LaGrande reporter, Joe
Campbell. Pop will be remembered as
the "H erm it of M cDermitt” where he
engineered for quite a while.
Pvt. David M. (Kelly) Palmer, Co.
G. 328th Inf. APO 26, Fort Jackson,
S.C., was recently transferred to his
present post from Fort Shelby, La. Pvt.
Palmer while enjoying his travels, from
all reports still thinks Oregon is best.
Kelly was on J. H . Scott’s engineering
crew until he was inducted into the
army last November.
Wholesale arid Retail
Phone 737
La Grande, Ore.
Douglas Fir and Red Cedar
Lumber
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