first retirees meeting
THE BEGINNING AND FIRST MEETINGS OF THE SPRINGFIELD CHAPTER OF RR RETIREES.

These two newspaper article appeard in the NOVEMBER 8/9, 1973 SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI NEWSPAPER. I have on file also, a letter from GEORGE F. STONE, a Grand Vice President of the National Association where he wrote to A. L. YATES, that the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION of RETIRED and VETERAN RIALWAY EMPLOYEES, Inc., presently "have 600 paid up members for 1974."