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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thia discussion brings back many memories. We
lived in Portland for many years, my mother was born there and Dad was born in
Condon but went to Portland since he was a young boy, his mother died in 1903
and his farher and thry came to Portland not too much later, apparently with a
new wife. My grandfather died in 1917 so Dad was made independent at
a young age.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>He worked in the office, for a long time in car
accounts. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>They kept records on each boxcar by hand in big
books.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Before computers they went to a key punch system
and Dad was in xchardge of that. That was when World War 2 was going on
and was a very difficult job for him and the key punch operators.
Also Dad was general chairman of the Railway Clerks of SP&S and their
subsidiaries for 25 years.Then we went over and worked in
Personell.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>After high achool and then going to Pacific
Business College where you were considered graduated so when I was 17 I
started working at the SP&S, first as a messenger which I believed was
$2,95 a day. I went to competer school; at night and started gaetting
finally t be personal steno to Mr. Phillips on the second floor This
was in one of the two old red brick buildings (complete with
cockroaches.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We drove over the exit from the Burnside Bridge
that was torn down and not far from the train depot in Portland.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I understand this to be in the Pearl District
now.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Eunice McKinney Young</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>