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JO H N D A Y C H A P T E R No. 13
“ Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored
mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the
wind.”
If Alexander Pope was right and an
Indian does get religious inspiration
from the wind it occurs to us that
there has been a great deal of potential
Redskin piety going to waste in this
district lately. Poor Lo would have
been more than welcome to it.
The housing situation harbors no
fears for Dow Davidson now. When
the bridge crew, in which he is assist
ant carpenter, moved to Brogan, he
hunted from there to Vale for a house
to live in but couldn’t get even a hotel
room as the hunting season was start
ing and all rooms were reserved. H e was
forced to go to his brother’s ranch at
Hereford, sixty miles away, to stay all
night. H e evidently thought this was
too far to commute from so didn’t
show up for work next morning, but
when he did return he had his own
house on wheels. And the landlord
won’t be tacking " N o dogs allowed”
signs on the door, either.
C. T . " C liff ” Wooden took a vaca
tion some time ago and it is rumored
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that he was looking over some ranch
properties with a view to purchasing a
place to spend those carefree years after
he has put in thirty for the State H igh
way. We’ll wager , the one nearest a
good fishing stream will get first con
sideration.
A l Pearson, truck driver for the
State Highway at Dayville and Bro
gan until he joined the N avy in 1 9 4 2 ,
is out of service and working on the
maintenance crew at John Day. He
was with the Battleship Iowa, which
was anchored alongside the Missouri,
almost in the shadow of Fujiyama, the
sacred mountain of Japan, in Tokio
Bay, when the peace treaty was signed
on the latter ship.
Recent rains and melting snows have
caused high water to do considerable
damage to roads in this district in the
Eugene
Hotel
Eugene, Oregon
Krauger's Lunch
Frank Krauger
Headquarters
For All Occasions
In the State Office Building
Salem« Oregon
C. E. McLean, Mgr.