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who served 90 days between Sep
tember 16, 1940, and July 25, 1947
and who were discharged under
conditions other than dishonorable,
are entitled to training benefits.
The length of training depends
upon the length of service, and
the maximum benefit is for four
years.
As a service to veterans in the
Some 2450 Pecific Northwest
community, this newspaper will veterans reinstated
*16,106,500
publish a weekly column of news worth of national service life in
briefs from the Veterans Admin surance during November, the VA
istration. For more detailed in disclosed this week. The VA said
formation, veterans should con
that insurance with a face value
tact or write to the nearest VA
of *330,604,500 has been put back
Contact Office at Odd Fellows in force by veterans since Feb
Bldg., Portland Oregon
ruary.
Deadline for reinstating NSLI
Benefits Available
without a physical examination,
Veterans who have discussed except where the policy has lapsed
school or on-the-job-training under for no longer than three months,
the G. I. Bill or vocational rehabil is December 31, 1947. Realization
itation act may, in nearly every of approach of the deadline has
case, resume training if they so given impetus to the reinstatement
campaign. Only two monthly pre
desire, the VA stated this week.
A total of 166,483 veterans have miums need be paid to reinstate
started training in the Pacific term insurance, the VA ephasized.
Northwest, whose cases remain in Question of the Week
Q. How and where do I apply
the VA files. Of this number
91,575 have discontinued training. for hospitalization for a service-
The VA said that all but 706 connected disability?
A. See your nearest veterans
of these veterans are still eligible
for further training. Of the 706 administration contact representa
ineligible, 506 are disabled vet tive, or apply at a VA regional
erans whose rehabilitation has office or hospital. A letter ad
been completed through training dressed to the nearest VA office
under public law 16. The remain also will suffice. In an emer
ing 200 are trainees who exhaust gency, you may telephone the
ed their eligibility while training nearest VA office collect.
under the G. I. Bill.
The thousands of veterans who
stopped their training are nearly
all eligible for more training,
the VA emphasized, in citing some
of the fundamental eligibility reg
ulations.
Under the G. I. Bill, veterans
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the Salt Lake Line, and many
minor railroads were being driven
over deserts and through moun
tains. Lumber boomed with new
markets. Wherever he packed his
balloon (blanket roll) a man could
get a job, though he might be
only a man of fifteen years.
Camp Chief
George Grabby—“the High Red”
co his hundred and fifty men on
on Idaho
reclamation project
stands in my memory from a
powerful array of boss men as
the king-jack of them all. He
was yet in his twenties when I
worked for him, though he had
been a team-camp walker for
ten years.
A red pine figure, lean with iron
brawn, blue-eyed,
brick-haired,
hugely mustached, George Grabby
lemains to me the perfect image
of a man among men. He was
famous among construction work
ers nation-wide, and a picked
gang of them followed him from
job to job.
Because he could furnish a crew
of great efficiency that would stay
on the job as long as High Red
was running it, he could practi
cally name his own wage to con
tractors and his authority was ab
solute in camp.
The like was common in the
on hand
West of that time.
Most boss
men had loyal followers who would
set the pace at work. In return,
such a boss would stand with his
road as well as in the camps. Con
E. M. YORK
gang against the owners. The
GENERAL
CONTRACTOR
tractors who relied on less inde
Red
was
a
chief
rugged
men
in
108 A. St.
Phone 1107
pendent foremen had to hire the
the headquarters towns and on the culls. and scrubs of migratory
labor. *
Forty Years Ago
BEAU MONDE BEAUTY SHOP
When I came to High Red’?
OVER PALACE CAFE
MRS. MILDRED BAILEY
camp I had been on my own for
Featuring Helene Curtis
a year and was well on the way
to becoming a rowdy road kid. In
that era migrants formed a large
part of the West’s population.
They existed in three distinct and
hostile groups; the migratory la
borers, called hobos or working
New Scientific Permanent Wave
stiffs; the yeggs, called Johns;
and the wandering beggars, called
ALSO OTHER HOLIDAY SPECIALS
tramps, bums or bread-and-butter
Johns.
Each group in turn, had its
own tribes. Mortal enmity blazed
always between the laborers and
the yeggs, for it tfas the depre
dations of the latter that made
grief for all rovers on the road
and in the towns. The yeggs put
on a romatic front as social rebels
and invented terms of contempt
You'll enjoy athletic activities
for all men who worked. Joe Hill
more (and win more often) when
and any other wobblies were yeggs
your eyesight is perfect. Your eye
•n the first place. In their lurid
lexicon a logger was ’timber beast’,
sight can be perfect too, with the
a construction laborer “mud cat”,
proper glasses. However, if you don’t need glasses, we’ll tell
a ranch hand "scissor bill”, a
miner “rock rat”, and so or,.
you so when you have your examination.
All the tribes were hard on kids.
Oversized and husky for my age
rind with a practiced talent for
handling horses and mules, I waa
yet always put on a boy’s job—
OPTOMETRIST
dishwashing in the camp kitchen
Phene 445
Hillsboro
233 E. Baseline
or packing drinking water on the
works. Bosses persisted in treat
For Further Information Inquire at Kullander's Jewelry Store
ing me. exactly as my own relatives
“You Can't Be Optomisitic if You Have MISTY Optics”
had before I struck out for my
self. I was badgered with per
sonal questions, nagged about my
manly predelictions for chewing
tobacco and profanity, and usually
faced with the threat of the law
being set on me to take me back
to my folks. But they did work
me and handle me. Boss men
brought me up from 15 on.
Owe In The West
la my fifteenth year I started
out on my own in the Idaho sage
brush country. SoOn the boss of
the job came to be the biggest
man alive to me. At that time
in the West the boss man was a
picturesque character, more like a
chief of a tribe than a modem
work-leader of industry. Common
speech gave various bosses salty
titles. A railroad section boss was
"king snipe”; the ranch foreman
was “ranfrod”; in the logging
camps the men of authority were
"the push”, the “bull-buck”, “the
hookker” and above all “the bull
of the woods”;on construction jobs
the
“walker”,
"’gaffer”
and
“straw" ruled the works; and these
were always mighty men of mark.
The labor chief of highest rank
was the camp boss, in the woods,
or on construction, or with the
great cattle spreads. It was a
time of railroad expansion and
reclamation projects.
The Mil-
vaukee was built to Seattle; the
Western Pacific, the North Bank,
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SEAL SALE ,6646
FOREST GROVE—Of the 17,-
000 envelopes of Christmas seals
sent out by the Washington county
Public Health association remit
tances have been made for about
4500 totalling approximately *6,-
000.
Last year’s total at this time
showed a total of *4336.94.
CHEST GOALS HIT
M c M innville — Five towns in
the Yamhill county community
chest drive have reported their
full quotas, with five other eitiea’
returns not yet complete.
Cities who have reached their
goal or gone over the top include
McMinnville, Sheridan
Carlton,
Amity and Dundee. Yamhill, New
berg, Lafayette, Willamina and
Dayton expect to reach their quota
within a few days.
HOLLY, BIG BUSINESS
GRESHAM—Right now, holly
growers, are working day and
night as they endeavor to meet
the demands of the market both
for wholesale lots which will be
made into wreaths and Christmas
decorations, and for the ,Christmas
gift boxes, which are sent from
the northwest to all parts of the
country.
Throughout northwest Oregon
and western Washington, the cli
mate : to- ideal fw the jgrowiog of
•■fine holly.
Californ.a is the largest market
for-Oregon Jseily, -but the eastern
markets are opening up more each
year.
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Approximately 400,000 indivi
duals visited Timberline Lodge
during 1946-47, according to es
timates that have been made by
the U. S. Forest Service.
For Pasteurized
MILK
CREAM
and
BUTTERMILK
right from the farm to
your door, write or call
Telephone No. 8812
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Timber Rt., Box 56
Vernonia, Oregon