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About The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1944)
27 GIVEN COMMAND W ith the Army Air Force Engineer Command in Italy— Bringing with him years of varied experience, Capt. Lock- wood W. Franklin of Salem, Ore., was recently given command of an avia tion engineers utility detachment main taining a key airfield for allied air power in Italy. In civilian life Capt. Franklin was resident engineer in the Oregon state highway department. He received his ORC commission in the crops of engi neers in 1936 but was not called to ac tive duty until February, 1941. His first assignment was a combat engineer officer commanding a platoon. Later he was transferred to the staff of corps area engineer as supply and reproduction officer. He joined the avi ation engineers in the days when the need for building and maintaining air fields for the successful prosecution of military operations was most acute. Be cause of - his outstanding qualities as a leader of men and his varied military experience, his aviation engineers utility detachment has shown a most enviable record of achievements superior offi cers declare. Capt. Franklin was born a t , Ocean- side, Calif., but has lived in Salem so long he considers it his home .town. Coos County, Oregon Better wages, better working condi His wife, Ruby, and sons, Lockwood, tions and a 10-day sick leave provision 15, and Robert, 9, live at route one, have been granted Coos County, Ore box 9J, West Salem.— Oregon States- gon, employees. 3/c. Lester M. Davidson, M.M. l/c , has just returned home from the South Pacific on a well deserved leave. Will iam Glen Davidson, C.C.M., is station ed at Irquois Point, Hawaiian Islands. Glen wrote home that he ran into Jack Sherman, C.C.M., former highway em ployee and they sat down and had a visit about old times with the depart ment just like two school girls. Also that he had to beg to get to read the TAe Oregon State Employee, for there was only one copy is the outfit. W arrant Officer Gilbert "Gib” An derson, former member of H ughletts bridge gang, has returned home for a well earned leave and is looking well. "Gib” has been in the South Pacific. Ten months at Pearl Harbor, then to the Ellice Islands and then got in on the Gilbert Islands invasion. "Gib” is w ith the U.S. Navy Civil Engineering Corps. And so we will wind up Service News w ith the one about the reporter interviewing the visiting Frenchmen: "W hat do you w ant to see in America most?” the reporter asked. "Vee vish,” the frogs began, "to visit that famous Mrs. Beach who has so many sons in this war.” Eugene Concrete Pipe & Products Co. P. O. BOX 947 - EUGENE, OREGON
