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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