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20 Chapter News SALEM CHAPTER No. 1 Well, fellers, "tempus fugit” and keeps on "fugiting,” as the editorial staff informs me, so once again I takes me pencil in hand and sets me down to the task at hand. Yum! Yum! On the night of April 9 opproximately 125 members were in attendance at the chapter banquet, whether from hunger, interest, or from a mercenary viewpoint, remains to be seen. At any rate, they were present, which, after all, is the important mat ter. Everyone settled down and enjoyed the turkey feed with all the trimmings, as placed before them by the bevy of beautous damsels in the persons of most of the feminine members of the chap ter (that one doesn’t cost you girls a single cent). The entertainment com mittee is to be highly complimented as to the quality (if not' quantity) of the feed and the manner of presenta tion. During the brief business session, held prior to the feed, we were very glad to see Jerry Farrar back once more and very much in evidence dur-. ing the discussions. We were also very much surprised to hear Larry Smitton admit that he '‘didn’t know what it was all about, but would like to do something about it anyway.” The "k itty ” of ten cents per (making a nice sizeable pot) was split two ways by Zelma Sweeney of the Sign Depart ment and Clinton Deo of the Weigh- master’s Office. At the May 14 meeting the chapter managed to "table” for further discus- siori most of the matters presented, with the exception of one matter relating to the specified duties of the welfare com mittee in regard to sending flowers or cards to sick or deceased members and officials, and one matter regarding the rental or purchase of a typewriter for our hard working financial secretary and corresponding secretary. It was voted that the chapter rent a typewriter at the present time for the use of the secretaries. As soon as the rental of one typewriter had been de cided upon, Lowell Shinn, the Financial Secretary, suggested that it might be better to rent two typewriters, as the standard typewriter was a mite too heavy to "tote” back and forth. After much discussion, pro and con, the mat ter was settled (we hope) by Paul Da vies, the Corresponding Secretary, ad mitting that he had an old beat-up typewriter, vintage one, which he could use in a pinch. President Ross has promised us some "roving reporters” from each department, who, we hope, will bring us some more personal news items to grace these pages. Of interest to those not in attend ance is the question of shall we, and if so, where, when and how, hold our an nual picnic? This matter is to be taken up at the next meeting, so let’s all be there with our suggestions and ideas. After the business session was dispos ed of and relegated to the limbo of things past and done with, the chapter was entertained by a most excellent musical program presented by the Ja- quith Music Shop Clarinet Quartet, fol lowing which our hard working enter tainment committee (lacking two of its members— by the way, John Grah am, how was the ball game) gave forth with sandwiches and coffee. Wren Crews came out of retirement and is back on the job to help out for a while with the current rush of business in the permit department. He looks ".very natural,” rushing up and down the corridors. We understand that Paul Davies is setting up a new filing system for "Miscellaneous Materials” to handle the
