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About The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1946)
12 Chapter News SALEM CHAPTER No. 1 "Saludos, Amigos!” Well, here is your unworthy correspondent once again (and for the last time we hope), gazing into the crystal ball in hopes o f coming up with some few items of interest to satisfy ye editoress of chap ter news. We would like to take the opportun ity to thank those few of you who have come up w ith personal items from time to time, but would like to know whatever happened to all those sub correspondents "W ebb” promised us when we took over our hitch as corre spondent. Wurra! Wurra! President Ross, due to illness, was unable to preside at the special meeting held on November 6, so the mantle of authority fell on the shoulders of Vice President Ermal Owens, who did a no ble job of pinch-hitting. During the business session, nomina tions were completed for chapter offi cers, delegates to the General Council were given a vote of confidence by the attending members (approximately 35 being present), and there resolutions relating to "Hours of W ork and Over time Payments,” 'Prior Service Allow ance-Retirement A ct” and "Wages” were passed by the chapter. Association President Floyd Query gave a talk on the more important matters to come up at the General Council and stressed the stand of the association on methods of increased taxation to help pay the increased cost of State Government. Virgil O ’Neil’s face is quite red these days. It seems in talking to Charlie W itter (one of the deans of the draft ing room) ; he held forth on the joys to be derived from the retirement act. He did such a good job of selling that one day Charlie failed to show up, and in checking in his time card the follow ing statement came to light. "O ’Neil thinks I have worked too long, and so do I.” (Quite a guy, Charlie.) Honk! Honk! Another new car is being driven around. "DeSoto Wolfe” they call him now. Yep, "Vic” finally got on top of the list and came out with a new car. Hubba, Hubba! Too bad, girls, he is a married man. Malcolm Cameron is back at work again after a few days off due to a strained back. Ernie Skelley is off work for a few days— doctor’s orders. That old man, ' high blood pressure,” gets the best of them. H urry back, Ernie. The boys in the office engineering department are still shaking their heads over the phenomenal luck of that lucky guy, Jack Nash, who has cleaned up three football pools in a row. W hat a hectic home life he must live. Tsk! Tsk! There is some talk of holding an investigation or else banning Jack from all future pools. (Colonel) George Hester is back at the old stand in the office engineering department after five years’ service with Uncle Sam. We wish to endorse Forrest Stewart’s letter to Governor Snell as it appeared in the September-October issue of The Oregon State Employee, particularly the paragraph on page 10 regarding the survey conducted by the Oregon State Employees Association among its mem bers in various» Oregon cities, which showed, and I quote, ". . . that a great many state employees are not able to maintain a desirable standard of loving on the salary paid by the state. . Hear! Hear! T hat’s thirty for now, and best of luck and my blessings to the new cor respondent, whoever he or she may be. EUGENE CHAPTER No. 6 We have been pretty busy lately and so haven’t much in the way of news
