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OUR NEW EST CHAPTER
Congratulations to the employees of
the Oregon State Hospital for the or
ganization of our newest chapter.
The chapter is to be known as the
Evergreen Chapter Number 28. Mr.
Billy Wilson is President and also chap
ter delegate with Gwendolyn Champion
as alternate delegate. E. O. Rinderman
was elected temporary secretary-treas
urer.
This chapter has already held three
meetings and others are scheduled for
the near future. Membership is grow
ing by leaps and bounds and predictions
are that this chapter will make some
of the other chapters sit up and take
notice, not only in membership but
in activity as well.
Best wishes and welcome to O.S.E.A.
PRODUCTS OF T H E MERIT
SYSTEM
From Good Government
As Good Government has hertofore
noted, the civil service merit system
has been responsible for securing for
the federal government the services of
many scientists who have won world
reputations for achievement. Employees
of the Naval Research Laboratory who
have been given distinguished civilian
service awards, include Drs. Robert M.
Page, for his work in developing ra
dar; Herbert Friedman, for his inven
tion that made possible the mass pro
duction of crystal quartz oscillators;
Clarence E. Jackson, for developing
better methods of welding; and Elias
Klein for developing underwater de
tection equipment.
State, county and municipal officials
of Washington, Oregon and California
recently met in Portland, Oregon to or
ganize the Pacific Coast Board of Inter
governmental Relations, the purpose of
which is to facilitate the handling of
administrative problems.
Coleman Heads
State Civil Service
William G. Coleman was named as
the full time director of the state civil
service board.
Coleman, who was senior classifica
tion analyst of the war production
board’s personal department in Wash
ington, D.C., telegraphed his accept
ance and said he would report here
March 15 if released from the navy by
that time.
Coleman has also served as merit
system council in Baton Rouge; re
search assistant in the school of public
administration of the University of
Chicago; and in the school of public
administration at the University of
Missouri.
WEST TRAVEL BOOM AHEAD
Ten billion dollars is no trifling sum
even in these days when, on a national
scale, anything less than a billion is
considered "small change.”
Yet, ten billion dollars is the amount
which Americans are expected to spend
next year for travel. And indications
are that the eleven Western states will
get a large slice of that financial melon.
Airlines and railroads are preparing for
a record-breaking peacetime load, espe
cially on Western routes. Nearly half
the persons contacted in a nation-wide
automobile association survey have a
preference for travel in the West.
In fact, travel experts urge those
who plan westward travel by plane or
train in *46 to wait until after June to
avoid the crush.
The American nose has been held so
close and so long to the grindstone that
the prevailing desire is to get "away
from it all.” And where could said
nose better enjoy the free air than in
our Western wide open spaces?