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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1956)
TUESDAY, JANUARY 3 1956 IIERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE NINE 1 Two veteran railroaders enHH a total of 89 years ot service with me Huuuivin -aviiiu iHsi wees. They were D. R. Fox, 1022B Mc Kinely, a telegrapher for 39 years, and Hurshell Allison of Portland, a passenger conductor who has been with the railroad for 50 years. Fox began railroading on the Portland division in 1909 when he hired i out as a warehouseman, and began operating a telegraph key In 1910. In June. 1910, he was appointed combination operator and station agent. At 20, he was one of the youngest men ever to hold a station agent's job. In 1915, he resigned, only to re turn to railroading In 1921, ' when he went to work ns a clerk In the Shasta district of the Sacramento Division, He first came to the Klamath Basin when he transferred from Truckee. California, to Merrill, where he worked as operator agent until 1949, when he moved .to his present Job as telegrapher at the west end office in Klamath Two Veteran Railroaders Complete 89 Years' Duty Falls. His last "trick" was worked on Thursday evening. On December 20, his daughter, Ida Marie Myers, carried on the family tradition by signing on with the railroad as a telegrapher. Fox says he has no definite plans for the future, and mentioned a large yard "and lots of things around the house" which will oc cupy his future time. He has two other daughters. Mrs. Irene Leavitt of Klamath Falls, and Dr. Emma J. Oilkin son, who is in the final six months of internship at a Denver, Colora do hospital. Fox has worked through a tech nological revolution in the art of telegraphy. When he first came to work, the old key and sounder rat tled into his .ear, and the tele grapher was looked on as man speaking a sort of a foreign lan guage. While he was with the SP, the old sounders were first dis placed by the telephone, and now, by the teletype printers. "We used to have 10 men In a ML. I'm. . ... ljjitll ! Li J telegraph office for each one man ue have now," he remarked. Allison, the top conductor in seniority on the Portland Division and one of the top men on the railroad, has worked his entire 50 years on the Portland Division. A conductor on the Shasta Daylight since the train was first put on the rails in July, 1950, he made his last trip from here to Portland Saturday evening. He was also known to passen gers on the crack overnight Cas cade, which he would handle on its southbound dash from Portland to Klamath Falls. A Portland resident, he plans to "work on my garden" and in greenhouse he and his wife have as a hobby. He went to work in Roseburg as , From 1929 to 1932, he worked as a brakeman in 190S. and In 1909. 1 an assistant trainmaster on the oecame one M ine younsi men ; porand Division under Donald J. train wreck, and has had only one personal injury accident. That was in 1915, when his left foot was to be appointed a conductor on the SP. In 1919. he was first appointed a passenger conductor, and in 1928. only two years nfter the Cas cade line through Klamath Falls was opened, he made his first run to Klamath Falls. - Russell, now president of the SP. In his entire career with the railroad, ho has never been in a OSBURN HOTEL EUGENE, ORE. ' Thoroughly Modern Mra. J, E. E.tUr Ih laiUr Jr. FroarltUu PB5HdOU l.r 00U4 LIM(llt iocmIon '"'"" lor the B.itVlln, - II Hoitl BUY LJjy Tht Chape) by tht Garde O'Hair's Memorial Chapel . Service for Alt Income ' Terms 18 Month! to Pay 6th and Pine Sts. . ' Phone 3454 Keith O'Hoir, owner Injured when he fell off a step on a moving car. Ha said that there waa no "one big thing" that stands out In his memory, but that he has just en joyed working on the railroad. Don't Take Chances with Colds - RELIEVE SUFFERING ONE SURE WAY THAT Does More Than Work on Chest When a chest cold makes you miserable, you need Vlcks VapoRub-the proved medi cation that acts two ways at once. When you rub It on, Vapo Rub quickly relieves muscular soreness. At the same time, VapoRub's medicated vapors bring relief with every breath. Soothing medication trav els deep Into your nose, throat and large bronchial tubes. Congestion starts breaking up. Coughing eases. Warming relief comes, lasts for hours. So when colds strike, de pend on THIRTY-NINE YEARS with the Southern Pacific ended Thurs day night when telegrapher D. R. Fox, shown here working hit last shift, retired. Fox, who lives at I022B McKinley, began working with the railroad in 1909 on the Portland Division, and, with the exception of a six year break from 1915 to 1921, has been with the railroad ever since, mostly as either a telegra pher or combination station agent-telegrapher. On December , 20, his daughter, Ida Marie Myers, joined the railroad as a telegrapher. "Aft 1 c. ' TE8) tiki i ;" Alaay ml DREW AND DREWS' Mansrore AND couivniY Open Till 9 P.M. n. i m mm. m . IT S HERE AGAIN! DREW S MANSTORE TREMENDOUS CLEARANCE . . . PRICES HAVE BEEN SLASHED TO CLEAR... IN ALL DEPARTMENTS INCLUDING MENS WEAR, BOYSWEAR, WESTERNWEAR. MANY ITEMS NOT LISTED ARE ON SALE. BE EARLY FOR BEST SELECTIONS. SPORT COATS $J00 $2400 $3400 SPECIAL GROUP Vol's To 29.50 Small Sixes o CURLEE RATNER Vol's To 35.00 H. S. AND M. Vol's To 50.00 SLACKS Hart Shaffner & Marx Vol's To 27.50 99 SPECIAL GROUP Vol's To 59.50 - Mostly Small Sizes CURLEE Vol's To 50.00 to 59.50 ! CURLEE V. Vol's 59.50 to 65.00 H. S. 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