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About The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1947)
17 SALEM CHAPTER No. 1 Well, here’s one last fling by your old correspondent concerning the doings of Salem Chapter No. 1. The results of a highly pdntésted election of chapter officers’ were an nounced to approximately 75 members in attendance at the Decembér meet ing of the chapter. One hundred and sixty-six ballots were cast, out of a possible three hundred and sixty-one, which is a new record for voting in this chapter. Edwin À. Pease, Construc tion Office Engineer, was elected presi dent; G. W. Ross, Division Office En gineer and retiring president, was elect ed vice-president; Lowell Shinn of the Accounting division and George Kay- ser of the Cost Analysis department did such yeoman service as financial secre tary and treasurer, respectively, that they were reelected to their former po sitions. Woman suffragò now has come., to the fore in chapter affairs^—Blanche Munson pf the Maintenance department was elected corresponding secretary. Hooray for the fairer sex! Webb Ross, retiring president, gave, a speech to the chapter thanking them for their support during his tenure of office, and the newly elected president;, | "Ed” Pease, gave a brief speech of ac- ceptance and stated that he hoped he would have as much support from the chapter as was shown the retiring presi dent, Webb Ross.- (We are sure that he will-ihave.) Floyd Query and Buck DeFrance gave the chapter a resume of the Gen eral Council meeting and brought out several points of interest concerning retirement! I A fter the business session, ice cream, cake and coffee were served to the famished crowd. We understand that Chet Paulsen, one of Eddy Clymer’s right hand men, Q doing his best to build up business. for Henry Ford. Chet took a brand new 1946 Ford out o f'th e shop on a field trip and tried to test out its dura bility by rolling it over about seven times, .during the course of which Chet broke his collar bone, severed a tendon in his hand, and suffered many other cuts and bruises. Chet is back on* the job again, h u t we can’t say the same for the car. All joking aside, we are glad to hear that Chet is recovering as well as could be expected under the circumstances. Eddy Clymer is takjng sick leave fo r a month or so and has headed south for some hot springs treatm ent/ IH e hopes to, be back about the middle of February. Manfred Olsen, who was. with the department for about a year ¿as Soils Engineer, under Ray Webber, has left the department to take a position as Superintendent of Streets'! Tor the City, of Medford at a more lucrative salary. \Tha*t’s thirty for now— cheerio, and* keep "pluggin’.” I — Jack Rhodes BEND CHAPTER No. 3 The ¿chapter unveiled jiew officers 'for the new year on the 21st of De- icember air* a dinner held at the Pine Tavern in Bend. S. Paul Jones took the bow ¿as president, but postponed his speech. Wayne Lithgow was announced as vice-president, Marguerite Elder as- 'secretary-treasurer, and yours truly- a | delegate. Jack Vaughn, retiring prexy, gave the swan song and Forrest "Bash ful” Cooper outlined the legislative ob jectives as published by the state head quarters. Shortly after the first of the year, Howard "C y” Cox lost his father. I Howard Roberts, I fate of the yon side of the Cascades, may now be found at the Redmond maintenance office (Continued on page 18).
