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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.”
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