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weary battle, the field emerged victor,
but not without a bitter struggle. Ye
scribe would guess that the liniment
trade made a big sale the next day or so!
When the tumult and shouting at the
ball game died down, races for the kid
dies, baseball throwing for the ladies
and other festivities common to all pic
nics,. were carried on. The kids showed
a lot of speed, considering the amount
of food and ice cream they had con
sumed—and boy, why didn’t some of
those ladies sign up for the ball teams?
Many employees also took full advan
tage of the swimming pool, and from
the squeals and yells from that vicinity,
must have had a wonderful time.
Along about 6 p.m., the weary but
happy 300 commenced to climb aboard
their chariots and head for home. All in
all the picnic was a glorious success;
Let’s have more of them! i
LA GRANDE CHAPTER No. 4
The La Grande Chapter held a Pot
Luck Picnic on July 15 th at Emigrant
Springs State Park near Meacham. The
Round-Up» Chapter at Pendleton was
invited to co-operate by bringing re
freshments. They turned out in force
with their baseball, horseshoe pitchers
and mumble-peg teams.
All State Employees were invited
wether or not they were members of
the Association.
The committee in charge of arrange
ments were: J. K. Campbell (chair
man) , Joe Sellers, Noel Klitz, Charles
Erbe, Ed Aronson, August Moser, Ed
Chidsey and Glenn Tetrick.
The regular meeting of the Associa
tion was held at 8 p.m. on June 8, 1945.
Raymond Hayes’ name was drawn for
the kitty, but he was not present so
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