Recent Finds August

Thanks to my friend Carla Axtman, I have some wonderful new buttons to start researching. A quick look on this button for Charles Luebbert for State Senator didn't yield much.

What I did find was just two articles in the Eugene Register Guard about 17 years apart mentioning that Mr. Luebbert worked for Freightliner Inc. The first article (or job posting) was in 1965. The second was a story highlighting layoffs of 1,000 employees at Freightliner in Oregon during the recession of the early 1980s.

Another archive held papers from the Urban League of Portland from the early 1970s, where Mr. Luebbert was fairly active and even nominated to serve on the Board of Directors. On the list of names on the side of the letter head, I noticed the name of Carlos Rivera. He was a candidate for Congress in 1974.

Hopefully more will turn up about Mr. Luebbert. The button contains a union bug and candidate info on curl.

The second button that Carla gave me was this one with the slogan: 'I'm for CALVERT'

This pin is from the Grants Pass area of Oregon. Has committee info on the curl, so we have a great place to start looking for information.  On my first hit in the ole google news archives is this doozy:
"JOSEPHINE COMMISSONER RECALLED IN LIGHT BALLOTING" from August of 1979. Hopefully this will lead to something really interesting. The reasons the article gives that he was officially recalled are very cut and dry and also very indicative of the region today. They claimed he was"causing unnecessary expansion of county government", "voting for foolish county projects" and last but not least "building a political empire!"

Not much else besides the news of the recall. I will have to seek out local archives and do a little more digging. Two great mystery pins have started to have their mystery solved. Local buttons are always fun to get just for sake of learning about some of the wild stories in local government.