Opinion ID: 1149221
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Heading: Applicant's Background

Text: Jolles is [34] years old. He was born and raised in New York City, educated in the public schools of New York and graduated from high school in 1946. His parents had immigrated from the Poland-Austria area of Eastern Europe. Through his parents and special schooling he was exposed at an early age to certain socialistic and so-called left-wing principles and beliefs. Neither his parents nor any other members of his immediate family were Communist Party members, and his parents opposed his joining the Communist Party (hereinafter also referred to as the `Party').    [His] father was unemployed during part of the early depression years. In the latter part of the 1930's    [his] father opened a lunch-counter business which he operated successfully for many years. Jolles was honorably discharged from the Navy after serving 22 months in 1946 and 1947. He attended New York University from 1948-51 from which he received a bachelor's degree in 1951. While in school, Jolles worked at a variety of part-time and summer-time jobs and from time-to-time assisted his father in operating the lunch stand. Following graduation from New York University in 1951 he was employed as an assistant buyer in the New York garment industry until 1953 when, for reasons hereinafter explained, he went to work on the waterfront as a longshoreman. He was a longshoreman until 1957 when he came to Oregon.    [He worked] first at Meier & Frank's [department store] for a short period before entering the employ of the Portland law firm of Anderson, Franklin, Jones & Olsen.