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vember 5 th. Early for this district. A
snowstorm hit the John Day country
the night of the 7th and old timers
said it was the worst storm in ten years
while it lasted. Local weather prophets
are predicting a very severe winter.
We are moved to write a brief verse
in rhyme.
With apologies to Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow.
"The day is cold and dark and dreary.”
It seems the rain made Henry weary.
But did he ever have to go
About his tasks in waist-deep snow,
With the wind coming out of the
frozen north
Bandying the treetops back and forth?
Bet that would have made him weary.
"Be still, sad heart.” He also told us.
As if he thought the advice would
hold us.
"Thy fate is the common fate of all.”
Not me. I’ll go south another fall
Where the weather’s a bit - more
cheery.
Several of the "old hands” are trick
ling back from the service and asking
about their status in regard to their old
jobs but few taking them immediately.
They want to look around a bit.
Yesterday we visited awhile with Bob
Spend Your Evenings Dancing at
Club Tumble Inn
On Highway 99E, two miles
North of Albany
Open every evening except Monday
Francis L. Wester, Prop.
McAtee, who used to be assistant car
penter on the bridge crew in this dis
trict before joining the Seabees, where
he worked up to Carpenter’s Mate 1/c.
He rather took us to task about our
story of his $20 fish. It seems it was
much smaller than Bob had been in
the habit of catching and this was just
the Judge’s way of kidding him.
A. L. Macomber, section foreman at
Spray until he fractured his leg last
year, fractured it again this year and
was off duty for several months. He
thought it would be but a short time
until he’d be able to go to work but his
leg became worse and he has been sent
back to the hospital. The members of
the chapter are sorry to hear this, Al.
PORTLAND CHAPTER No. 17
This chapter, having voted on June
28, to discontinue the summer meet
ings, will resume its regular monthly
meetings on October 26. This meeting
will be held in the Men’s Lounge Room
of the Public Service Bldg., at 8 P.M.,
and all State employees, members, or
otherwise, are invited.
Dr. Harold M. Erickson, State Health
Officer, will be the featured speaker,
his topic being "What Do You Know
About Health.” There will also be some
worthwhile entertainment which we are
not going to tell you about. If you don’t
want to "wish you had been there”—