Conrad Brevick, police reporter for the Seattle; Post-Intelligencer until he enlisted in the ordnance depart
ment early in March, got more out of his six weeks’ course at the Univer sity of Oregon than any other man in the corps. When he left Eugene in April for Camp Hancock, Georgia,
War service recently called Will H. Warren, general assignment reporter, from his typewriter in the Oregonian local room to an executive desk with the Portland Young Men’s Christian Association, where he now is an assist
ant secretary in the shipyards work of the organiration. Among his
where he is now stationed, he carried
duties is the editing of a sure enough
with him, besides a comprehensive knowledge of requisitions and mili tary accounting, the promise of a little Oregon girl that she would be his wife after the war. His fiancee is Luceil Morrow of Portland, :1 soph omore in the University of Oregon. “Connie” still writes police reports from Camp Hancock, but now they describe the exploits of the kitchen police and are no longer sent to the P.-I. —-o Claude Bristol, formerly of the staff
newspaper, detailing the gossip and happenings of the yards. Mr. Warren was secretary to Mayor Albee during the latter ’s administra tion and returned to newspaper work when Mayor Baker took office. He is gratified at the opportunity given
of the Oregon Journal, who took the
ordnance training corps training at Eugene, is now on the Atlantic coast and in writing back to friends, says he had the honor (‘I) and distinction
of making the entire trip in a box car, he having been assigned to kitchen police and a box car serving as the center of activities in the culinary department. ——o Henry M. Hazen, for several years Salem correspondent for the Port land Telegram, has been in Portland for two months acting as political reporter and attending to the mass of work that a primary campaign entails. It is expected that he will
him for war service work, and is said
to have his ear lifted for a possible call to France as a Y. M. C. A. secretary.
——o C. E. Wilson, formerly of the Yaki ma Daily Republic and later with the Salem Capital Journal, has returned
to the latter paper after an absence of four months. He left December 1 for Texas for a visit. Mr. Wilson is city editor of the Capital Journal. J. C. DeBall, who had the place in his absence has returned to Albany. __,_-,__._ F. W. McKechnie, formerly mana ger of the United Press in Portland, who joined the service some months ago and is now stationed in the radio electrical school at Mare Island, was
a recent visitor in the oflice of the Oregon
Journal
in
Portland,
later
visiting relatives in Eugene. ___o___ Mrs. Edna Morrison, one of the
remain in Portland until after the
La Grande Observer force, spent the
election in November. ——-—o » A pleasant and patriotic meeting of country editors in Pendleton was only marred by the Bulldogger ed., who persisted in “butting in” until tossed out of the commercial club window by the Leader man, with the approval of his esteemed colleagues.
week end of May 18 in Portland looking after business matters. While there she attended several social functions of her former neighbors and friends.
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Phillip Sinnott, formerly Portland representative of the United Press, recently made coast representative of
moi‘__
Miss Henrietta McKaughan of Ida ho, who came to Portland to assist in the publicity work of the Third Liberty Loan, is now a member of the staff of the Oregon Journal. __o__ A. W. Nelson, who was city editor of the La Grande Observer for several
that concern, has been put temporarily in charge of the Los Angeles oflice
years, has opened up an independant
of the United Press.
job printing shop in La Grande.
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