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JORDAN TO NEBRASKA
January, 1967, ended our third term assignment in Jordan, but we did not leave until April 21st. My final report on the East Ghor Canal project was due in February but I had developed a blood clot in my leg and was hospitalized for several weeks.
My next assignment was to be with Soil Conservation Service at Salinas, California. State assignments were made after overseas personnel had served out of the States for at least 10 years. The assignment was approved by both the Agency for International Development and the Soil Conservation Service. I received my authorization on April 14th, and expected to report for duty in Salinas in early June. Before we left Washington I was handed a change of orders. I was assigned to the Jordan Desk in Washington, D.C.. The reason given! (I never did find out who did it), "This old man is 60, and will be of little use to us again, overseas".
Our travel orders were for home leave to Denver, Colo. We had purchased a VW Bug in New York and were going to drive thru to California. Neither Verna nor I wanted to live in Washington, D.C. and after much discussion, we decided that now was the time to retire, so I took the remainder of annual leave I had accumulated and sent Washington a notice of intent to retire as of Sept. 30, 1967.
Where to retire became a topic of much discussion, we had enjoyed our 10 years in Longmont. Dale and Peggy were both living in California, and we liked the area around Sonoma, but there were other things to consider.
Dad died in 1960 and Mumsie was living in her home in Crawford, and was in failing health. Ernie was still in the Navy, and Lawrence was very busy with his veterinary practice in Boulder CO., I was free to help, so the final decision was to retire in Scottsbluff.
We made numerous trips from Crawford to Scottsbluff. By September we bought a house and enough furniture to move into our own home. Because of the Arab-Israeli war in June 1967, our furniture didn't arrive until April of 1968.
We were back in familiar territory in Scottsbluff, we had lived in Gering from 1940 to 1945. Verna's brother Weston, owned MIDWEST FARM SERVICE, the company I had started in 1942, so we saw them often. It was an interesting experience for me to be back in Nebraska, and have an opportunity to be close to The West Nebraska Experiment Station. Several of my classmates from the
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