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Commission and will report for work
during the month of February.
RULES CHANGES
Three minor rule changes are pend­
ing adoption by the Civil Service Com­
mission. Columbus Day is officially be­
ing deleted as a holiday. Military leave
rights are being changed from a cal­
endar year to a fiscal year basis to
conform with the fiscal year schedules
of the army and navy. Accrual of an­
nual leave by regular and Sasonal
workers is being clarified.
The Sea
(Cover Picture)
By ERNEST A. ROSTEL
Great waves from path^^BwaWBKfn
times of fury pound fierce tattoos on
agel^s rocks, offering scenes of terri­
fying beauty born of mysterious power
of which man has no ken.
There is perhaps no coastline in all
the world th a tjiM more I spectacular
than that of Oregon bearing southward
400 miles from the mouth of the Col­
CONFERENCE SCHEDULED
The western regional conference of umbia river to the California line.
the Civil Service .'Assembly of the Rugged, rocky headlands alternate
United States and Canada will be held with smooth sandy beaches all the
in Portland, June 5, 6 and 7. Civil Ser­ way, giving the Oregon coast an indi­
vice employees and personnel officers viduality of its own.
And where the sea |com:^ to meet
from public agencies from all western
states and provinces will attend the the shore, man is at once conscious of
the ever-changing panorama at land’s
conference.
end. In times of stress, when winds
ENGINEERING TEST CONSULTANT
are heavy, from across t® boundless^
Maurice N. Juve has been engaged deep, how the breakers lash the shore
by the Civil Service Commission to and how the waves break themselves
act as a consultant in the preparation in a million bits against rocks so stub­
of civil engineer1 examinations. Mr. bornly standing in their way.
Juve is a licensed civil engineer.
In times of calm, gentle surf spread!
COOPERATIVE TESTING
caressing fingers far on smooth white
Beginning March 1, the Oregon State sands and then draws them back again,
Employment Service will inaugurate a as little pink shells dance in wakes of
cooperative testing program with the sandy waters. The surf plays a sym­
Civil Service Commission. Typing per­ phony of the everlasting seas, lilting
formance tests for clerk typist posi­ and soothing when there is relaxing
tions and dictation performance tests to be done on the friendly shore.
Moods of the deep are ever chang­
for the lower level clerk stenographer
positions will be administered by the ing; perhaps mortal minds in a w ay
staff of the Employment Service of­ may have things in common with the
fices in localities in Oregon where the mysteries of the sea in moods of cheer,
Employment Service has installed a in moods of sadness and in moods of
testing program as a part of its service anger. Waves and surf make moods of
to the public. The program eventually the sea known to. all,I but unlike the
will be expanded throughout the state. sea, mortal’s iiBBd?-str-ife^are,'’ oft
At the present time testing progranis covered by an enigmatic face toward
are administered in local employment Life and its uncertainties.
But what people may do, and-^Hvhat
offices in Portland, Salem, Eugene and
people may think means naught to the
Corvallis.
mighty ocean. A thousand years from
how it shall be b e a w M agfgjB Ore­
Geologists tell us that the gradual gon’s shores. Yes, a million years from
melting of the polar ice cap will raise now in times of calm' its surf will still
the ocean level high enough to inun­ be exploring sandy shores; even as in
date New York City in another 50,000 the days that present generations are
to 100,000 years. We wish the geolo­ now enjoying— E’en ag in the days that
gists could be a little more definite as have fled beyond the hills of ten mill­
so we could make our plans.
ions yester-years.