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AGRICULTURAL CH A PTER No. 26
Wedding bells take the spotlight in
A gricultural chapter’s first appearance
in "Chapter News.” Miss Edna Youn-
gren, bacteriologist in department head
quarters at Salem, and Donald Duffield,
in charge of weights and' measures,
traveled altarward November 23. Fol
lowing the honeymoon, both reported
back to duty.
The chapter has added a fine group
of new members during the year, and
now fys nip and tuck between the plant
division and the division of foods and
dairies for head-of-the-roll h o n o r s .
Newest employees to come into the fold
are Ben Davidson, shipping point su
pervisor at Redmond, and H. H . Cal
kins, Powell Butte, also w ith the cen
tral Oregon shipping point service.
Eighty per cent of the new members
are servicemen, either returned to their
civilian posts w ith the department or
added to the payroll as new employees.
Frank McKennon, the chapter presi
dent and chief of the department’s di
vision of plant industry,"' "received an
outstanding honor at the hands of the
National Association of Marketing O f
ficials. A t the annual meeting in Cali
fornia in late' October he was named
second vice-president. I
Sympathies of department members
throughout the state are extended to
Ben Durland. Mrs. Durland passed away
in November in La Grande, where she
had gone from ' their Salem home to
visit her daughter, Mrs. H enry (R uth)
Culp. Condolences went; earlier to three
o th e r, chapter members who lost loved
ones—-Miss Hilda Bartels, upon the
passing of her "mother; Ella S. Wilson,
whose sister died in September; and
C. N. Andreassen of Pendleton (branch
office -of the, division of grain inspec
tion), who also lost a sister.'
Virgil H iatt, one of the World W ar
II veterans home from foreign lands
earlier this year, discarded his chemist’s
apron long enough November 26 to
give a talk before the Aesculapian club
of Salem high school. About chemistry,'
of course.
A. B. "A rt” Caples spent his No-;
vember vacation in San Francisco visit?
ing a son. Caples, working out of For
est Grove, | covers several counties for
the divisionI ¡of foods and dairies?
I (Continued on page 34);.
WILSON & SHOFF TIRE CO.
Recapping - Vulcanizing
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Springfield, Oregon