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10 (Sec I) Statesman, Salem, Ore Friday, Oct 2, 1953 Ralph Watson, Jack of All Trades and Master of One, Decides He's Had Enough5 By WENDELL WEBB Managing Editor, The Statesman . For as many years as should be remembered, : when anyone wanted to know anything about Oregon and its political - set-up they'd probably first ask either Ralph Watson or David 0Hara. OUara, with the answers still at his tongue-tip, is going strong as head of the state elections bureau. ' Watson, ditto, has decided to .take it easy and this week re tires from the active scene. As one-time Willamette bad-boy, hos pital attendant, newspaper re porter, practicing attorney, state corporations commissioner, and long-time political -editor of the Oregon Journal, "I've had enough." :p v- . . For the past four years, the plumpish, dry-humored . Watson has been public . relations con sultant for the Oregon S t ate Highway Commissioner. In that time he has provided Oregon newspapers with thousands of stories and pictures on. the state roads. Now, his work will be taken over by the State Travel Bureau. t . Rrtird Ohm Before ' It was long before his high way commission work that Wat son acquired his fame. The high way work, actually, was taken on after he'd already retired "if I'd known1 how long I , was going to live I would have known how long I needed to work but I didn't so I worked. ' i Watson went into his first re tirement right after the 1947 leg islative session when admirers threw a party for him at the Marion HoteL He was retiring as I political editor of The Oregon Journal a post he held for 41 years with four years out in state service. Watson was born in nearby Zena, the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Watson, "sometime before the turn of the century." (He admits nothing but doesn't deny being about 74). He was grad uated from the old East Salem School in the 1890s, then went to Willamette. He lasted there about inree years. I There was an After Dark Amusement Club in those days. One Saturday night the amuse ment consisted of moving all the skeletons and stuffed animals in the ' Willamette museum to the chapel The nerves of the late Rep. Willis C. Hawley, then Wit lamette president, underwent considerable strain when he walked in the chapel for the next morning's service. Four members of the ADAC also underwent strain. They thereafter attended other schools. Watson elected Stanford and spent a year there. Then he came back to Oregon; was city edi tor of the Capital Journal in Salem for a year; went from there to spend two years as at tendant at the Oregon State Hos pital ("advancing to second cobk"); travelled to Pendleton to be" a reporter on, the East Ore gonian; then joined the Ore gonian staff in Portland; returned to Pendleton to the Pendleton Tribune, and finally took over s uuuucai eaiinr nr in i ir p crrn Journal in Portland in 1906V Settled Down-a Little He'd apparently settled down a bit by then possibly because the previous year he had wed the beauteous Neva Griswold. whom he'd met at Willamette who still attempts to supervise his welfare from their Portland . home at 3524 N. E. Killings Worth. - But he still wasn't through straying in 1911 he became sec retary to then Gov. Oswald West, and in 1913 became state cor porations commissioner. It was his job to set up the newly authorized corporations depart- m.nt I... - 1 a men, xwu jciu j iaier mere was a change in administration and in corporations commissioner. That gave Watson a chance for a new venture. The same dav he became corporations commission er he had passed the state bar examinations, after studying un der the late U.S. Sen. Charles McNary (who then was dean of the Willamette College of Law). So, the corporations commission job at end, Watson set up a law practice in Portland. But two years Jater the Oregon Journal'! I long-noted editor, C J. Jackson, enticed him back on that paper and he stayed there. Mock Time in Salem his subsequent long career as toc; his many trips to national conventions; his travels with can didates for high office. r Much of his time' was spent in Salem as it has been since he came out of retirement to work for the state highway com- iiuisoiuu, iic naa upi c a nursqay to say "goodby." ; . 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This is Ralph Watson, genial dean of Oregon newspapermen, who Thursday retired for the second time. best-known journalists on , the west coast One of his long-time cohorts still holds down the statehouse reporting job for the Oregonian Wayne PettiL An other, Al Lindbeck, for many years statehouse reporter for the Oregon Journal, retired year ago. ;. i-:-'"::'-)'-- There was still some ' doubt Thursday that Watson could re main long out of some harness or other. j- . . ; : County Forest Fund Reaches All-Time High An all-time high fund appor tionment to' Oregon counties, bas ed on 25 per cent of forest re serve rentals and sale of timber, for the year ended June 30, 1953, was announced by Secretary' of State Earl T. Newbry Thursday. This apportionment aggregated $6,029,382, which was more than $1,000,000 in excess of the appor tionment, last year, ended June 30, 1952.. , . . . Lane County topped in the cur rent apportionment with $1,296, 500, followed . by Linn County with $493313 and Douglas. Coun ty, $491,125. Marion County gets $198,831; Polk; $2,943; Yamhill $18,518. ; - . Mtd3'r(Tjl hlosf VJantcd TV of All Own the t th.t k pAed ;k 91 ' TV at the price of most Turret Tuner guarantee, single dial tuning for pnt VHF Sd coming new UHF sUt Shis brilliant performer in a smart, com- pact Arable 0 St a history-making low pneei See xt now. ,. SWtDialV SS :y . UHf-VHF Unlagi w rPX" Rang - J J SEE TIIEil : ; : IIOU i 1870 Lcma Arm. Open Thirty-Nine From. Valley Join Services1 . Thirteen Salem men and one woman were among 39 mid-valley servicemen and women to enlist in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps during September, Salem recruiting stations an nounced Thursday. Enlisting in the Women's Air Force was Barbara. Ann Adams of Salem. -,., . v ;. i. '," Navy men from Salem were Darold K Canden, 1765 N. 5th St; Dalmer H. Bates, 160 N. 24th St;. Daniel H. Danforth, 1520 N. 18th St; and William H. Gwin, 2625 Lansing Ave. Five Salem men signed up for Army duty. . They include? Frank E. 1 Weber, Army Air Borne; Keith D. Ackerson, Arthur T. Akers,' Jerald R. . Keuscher and Charles L. Houston, all regular Army. George H. Allen enlisted in the Aviation Cadets, while Edwin E. Stahl, Donald E. . White and David C . VanDyke, all volun teered for the Air Force. Marine Corps enlistees were: Joseph L. Abero, Brooks; Albert G. Simmons, Stayton; Vernon M. Bantsari, Amity; and Doral Stewart, Portland. Lillian J. Barnett, Stayton, joined the Women's Army Corps and Edith May Haugen, Yamhill, the Waves. . . '. The following Willamette Val ley men enlisted in the Navy: Arlin E. Adamson and David L. Young, both of Albany; Clifford E. Davis, Monitor; Albert A. Ball, Seal i Rock; James . D. Garbck, Kernville; Edward T. Weaver, Scio; and Lamar S. Tilgner, Dallas. Alexandera W. Miller, McMinn- ville, was assigned to a special Army school and Maurice E. Ruth, Dallas, and William R. Garham, Silverton, enlisted in the. Army Air Borne. Regular Army enlistments from valley communities were: Daniel P. McLeod, John L. Ras- I mussen and Larry D. Arendt all of Aurora; ' aiues L. Had ley, Grand Ronde; Almon C. Hopkins and Roland J. Frazier, both of Silverton. - Lewis D. Olson, Silverton, and James F. Prosser, Mt Angel, joined the Aviation Cadets and William R. Wall, Dallas, the -Air Force. . . MODERN WAYS MECCA (INS) Bedouins of the Arabian deserts . are being wooed from nomadic ways they have -followed for centuries .by model farm communities and irri gation projects founded by Saudi Arabia's King Abdul Aziz al Saud. ' - . costs no moRE Thsa Othsr ir S3t$ . . . Gives Ycu 70 sq. x Bigger fcfcrel Oil DISPLAY AT Monday and Friday Ereninas Newspaperboys' Day Designated - For Tomonrow :l v Experience as a newspaperboy provides youngsters "with a lot of the stuff that goes, into build ing a successful and happy life," Gov. 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