50s Frogs Magazine Vol. 12
Page  15

SN William B. Eidson, USN
Training Class Early COR

In 1950, Bill served in the Korean War as of UDT. Bill helped pioneer combat swimming, closed circuit,  diving, underwater demolitions, and mini-submarine (dry and wet submersible).  Bill received two purple hearts serving our country. He was discharged in 1955.
  An expert varmint caller and marksman, Bill loved the outdoors. With the cooperation of the U.S. Wildlife Service and as president of the first varmint caller association in the State---the Oregon Varmint Callers Association---he  helped limit the population of predators by calling them in with a blowing device. Rather than using poisons and trapping to limit populations,  Bill spearheaded sport where predators could be taken more easily. He received count-less awards for competitive hunting including cougars coyotes, bobcats, and silver foxes.  (He had also been known to assist in yellow-bellied mamot control within the  city limits on occasions.)
  A hair salon owner for 30 years, Bill was truly an artisan of hair design. He was known as the premier hairstylist in downtown Bend with the unique ability  to incorporate song and dance into his precision cuts. At a time

when did not have fashion hairstyles to our quaint high desert community, Bill wanted to thank all his clients for decades of loyalty. (His family thanks you for putting up with his off color jokes).
  Bill’s greatest passions included family, hair,  and Har- ley Davidson’s. Those who knew him describe his as “a lover of life”, a self made man”, or “a man’s man”. All would agree that you always knew where you stood with Bill. There were no shades of grey, and that he was bigger than life. Bill left on his terms, the same way he lived his life. He looked good up to the end and never gave up the fight.

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Things never were the way they used to be. Things never will be “the way it’s going to be someday.” Things are always just the way they are for the time being. And the time being is always in motion.
Alexander E. Xenopouloudakis