<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">I was a baby in the Depression, and Junior High age at the beginning of World War II.<BR>
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I can remember my father working for a dollar a day. Then he worked at the Kaiser Shipyard in Vancouver, WA, during the war. My sister and I saw Mrs. Roosevelt christen a ship, and we were close enough to see her.<BR>
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One set of my grandparents (Helgerson) came to Oregon from Wisconsin around 1900. The other set (Thomas) came to Oregon from <Missouri around 1900. The Helgersons started at Hillsboro, and ended up at Dallas, and the Thomas family started at Beaverton and ended up at Dallas. Then my mother was born at Dallas, and so was I, and so was my oldest child.<BR>
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It has been interesting to me to read all your stories, similar to mine but different.<BR>
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Cleo in Sacramento</FONT></HTML>