Growing Up in Vale

Donald E. Masterson Jr., Published 2011. Paperback, xi, 504 pp.; 23 cm. Inscribed (personalized) and signed by Author on title page dated 3-12-2012; pictorial end papers; black-and-white (including one fold-out) photographs and some in color at the end of the book. In Very Good condition. Glossy blue pictorial covers with a black-and-white Library of Congress photograph (Russell Lee, "Waiting for the parade to begin," Vale, Oregon, July 4, 1941) framed by red and blue horizontal stripes; light wear to covers and edges with minor bumping to corners. Binding firm. Pages clean throughout. [From back cover] "I grew up in a magical time. It was magical in the sense that I lived almost a Tom Sawyer-like life growing up in the small town of Vale, Oregon. We could ride out of school, float down the river, hunt jackrabbits, blow the hell out of things with firecrackers, and watch our heroes at the Rex Theatre." A memoir of growing up in Vale, Oregon during the mid-twentieth century, by a businessman who spent 31 years with Ore-Ida Foods. Masterson draws on family history to incorporate stories of his parents, who were cowboys and pioneers in eastern Oregon, alongside his own accounts of the home front during World War II, working summers in Alaska, Army service, work at Boeing, and a long career with Ore-Ida Foods in Ontario and Boise, Idaho. Contents: Introduction; Growing up in Vale; Grade School & High School; Dad; Mom; Barbara; Siblings; Relatives & Our Family; World War II; College; Alaska; The United States Army; The Boeing Airplane Co.; Ore-Ida Foods, Inc.--Ontario; Ore-Ida Foods, Inc.--Boise; Politics; Photos; Index.…