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classification and pay division of the
Civil Service Department for two years;
Selected to head the Research and
Training program is Gene Huntley who
has served nearly two years as classifi
cation and pay technician for the Civil
Service Department. Huntley is a grad
uate of Willamette University and has
a master’s degree in industrial rela
tions from Duke University. Prior to
entering m ilitary" service in 1943,
H untley was an instructor óf ecónom
o s I at -Duke.
Oregon Winter
Sports Pictured
(Cover Picture)
By E. A. Rostell
Through the air with the greatest of
ease flies this master of the skiis as he
descends the slopes of one of I the na
tion’s leading winter sports areas, with
Mt. Hood, Oregon’s highest peak, tow
ering in the background.
This particular type of sport is hard
ly for the novice, for whom lesser
slopes and easier trails are available.
More than 250,000 skiers and spectators
converged on the Mt. Hood area last
winter and many 'more are expected
during the 1947-48 season.
Timberline Lodge and Government
Catnp areas, w ithinI six miles of each
other, offer numerous facilities, with
a varied choice of accommodations at
the latter. Timberline Lodge has long
been famous as one bf' the outstanding
winter resorts in the nation and is al
ways mentioned in the same breath by
skiers in the know when they speak
of super-publicized Sun Valley.
Last winter 60(10 plus people came
to Timberline Lodge in just one day,
and this year .8000 will not be sur
prising. In preparation, more chairs
have been added to the mile-long lift.
Three tows will be in operation,- as well
as snow cruisers to reach heights not
covered by tows and lifts.
W inter sports at Timberlihe were
well under way by mid-November and
will stilji.be going on in June when
the Golden Rose tourney, closing the
Portland rose fetsival, will be held on
the 13th.
Christmas time / a t the Lodge’is® f
particular joy. Mistletoe over- every door
warns' the w ary. to beware. Festivities
begin the afternoon before Christmas
Eve with an open house ;y,and at nine
on Christmas Eve, 'with- a large, spot
light from the top of th'ejjodge
ihg the way, Santa jClaus arrives’ byer |
the snoyrs by skiis with a pack fulL of
gifts,for every guest,in the house.
While Timberline and Government
Camp may be the best deevloped ski
areas , in Oregon, snow sports , are g|n-
erai throughout the stated .w ith more
than 15 area^Hn full swing ¿11 through
the winter, offering Oregonians some
of the best skiing terrain' in all the
west. I
RAIN-MAKERS
Government encroachment into ’the
fields of private eriterprxse is a- favorite!
theme of the view-wi^h-alarmists.
These I last I few months haye’ marked
the birth of a new type of private en
terprise—making rain for money-;—
that provides interesting grounds for
speculatipn as to its future. Inevitably,
when the -skfes become full of rain
makers 'busy hunting thunderclouds to
sprinkle w ith their dry-ice pellets, a
clamor will arise for the government to
take over and make rain in the public
interest. Should this come to pass, the
Public Rain Administration will need
administrative talent <o£ a high order:
a corps of " Solomons who can weigh
the interest of the farmer against those
of the I gol-f^r;; a shrewd strategist^ at
the top who knowsjSwhen to call for
the, dry-ice treatment on Sunday clam
bakes of the opposing political party.
I Public Personnel Review
Qctober, 1947’ I
Money may not bring happiness, but
m;ost people like to I have enough of it
around so they can choose their own
misery.