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About The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1947)
g as believing that Civil Service can' bè Oregon , rugged peaks, and forests are made to render a distinct service to the in close kinship with grazing herds. public by improving the efficiency of Photographer Ted Rosin of the State state employees through recognition 'of Highway Department Travel Informa their rights; merits and service as public tion Department came by this Way in servants. Maybe the time is ripe to' September and noted the photogenic praise where praise is due and to vo combination b f cattle and towering Mt. ciferously^ complain where conditions Washington in the background. So he justify! paused here at the Low rie ranch, four Do the members feel th a tw e should ttdles east of Suttle Lake, to' add one take our objectives more openly to the more picture to his growing collection public for support? Should we become of Oregon scenes.. active in exposing public disservice Incidentally, Mt. Washington, named, wherever and whenever it occurs? Have of course, for George Washington, I is we the merit and strength to be held 7802 feet high- Although it may be up to the public view? ' we~ the classed as one of the lesser peaks of selfish, self-centered ¿group that some the* ^Cascade range, it is one of the have called us? Are we worthy of re more? scenic and one of the most diffi spect, are our intentions proper? Can cult to climb. The top part of the peak we justify our aims and actions? I 'fs; a rocky spire which had defied all These are sottie of the Association’s efforts of alpinists until August 26, problems. Every member probably has 1923, when six young climbers from some good ideas and opinions about Bend achieved the summit? Since then them. The next general council meet ascents; have been infrequent. ing rs a good place at which to present I Mt.-Washington is only one of many them, but don’t just wait t'ilL then. scenic gems scintillating in Oregon’s?, Write in to 'th e headquarters office at great outdoors. During the past sum any time (new address is 311 Oregon mer tens of thousands of visitors were Building, at Salem) ; discuss them in lured from all parts of the nation to the Chapter meetings and -‘have the' sec enjoy vacations itt 'Oregon’s cool green retary write. Talk up the subjects? and lands. - crystallize your thoughts. Then, when Cattle are but one of Oregon’s ex the ' council decides our policies, let’s tensive -agricultural resources. During all go to town and spread the news 1946 livestock brought a cash income high and ¿low! Let’s have something of 150 million dollars to Oregon farm- really w orth .while to make a noise 4^#s. They expect to realize even more about and T H E N let’s make that'noise during T947, thus keeping agriculture where it will count! in the fore as the leading revenue pro ducer for the state. The forests in which the cattle ROUND UP TIME H | OREGON grazed represent another big economic i-V^Cover Picture) ' asset, bringing in many millions of By ERNEST A. ROSTEL dollars dUring the past year, Mills have When round-up time copies to th'. been turning outflU'mber in all sections upland meadows of the high Cascades of the state for use throughout the of central Oregon, mooing cattle and world. - bawling calves, sleek and well fed from.grazing on summerpastures, 'will The average man ; is ¿proof enough soon be ready to be moved to lowlands that a woman really can take, a joke. and then to market. Any .bald-headed, man ¿can tell you Cattle ranges are often thought“ ofI in connection with great prairies attd it is possible to come out on top and endless fields, of waving grass, but in still be a loser.