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John Day River, in the little village of
Monument, which weather bureau sta
tistics tell us has a mean annual tem
perature and we’ll certify to that for
July and August. This was once an
overnight stop for stages and freight
wagons coming from the Columbia
River, via Heppner, to John Day and
points south. Old timers love to tell
stories of the days when this was a
region of romance and rattlesnakes, hu
man as well as reptilian. Now the ro
mance lives only in memory, the rat
tlesnakes are few and the place has
settled into a typical cow town (milk
cows roam the streets night and day).
But there is a new interest afoot. Army
engineers say the government is going
to build a dam across the narrow gorge
a mile down stream and impound sev
eral million feet of water. Some of the
residents are jubilant while others say
they won’t move out. Well, all we can
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say is, the government usually does as it
plans and if these citizens remain ob
stinate, Monument may some day have
quite a floating population.
Richard W. Smith, office man at
John Day, has transferred to the weigh-
master’s department in Salem. Good
luck to you, Dick, in your new work.
The manpower shortage is still acute
in this district. Glen Cress, at Spray,
was alone several weeks. Austin was
the only station that had a full crew
at last report. W hat’s the secret, Frank,
personality or climate. We’ve tried al
most everything but taking Dorothy
Dix’s advice on how to get and hold a
man.
Now that school is out in John Day,
Dolly Williams, section foreman at
Brogan, has moved his family down
there. He had quite a time getting liv
ing quarters and is now only tempor
arily located, pending the completion
of the purchase of a house. The housing
problem seems to be as serious in the
district as the manpower shortage. One
employee who recently moved into a
small town complained to us that he
couldn’t find a place fit for a hog to
live in. The only advice we could offer
him on the spur of the moment was
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