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16 SERVICE ^-N EWS Corp. Berl Williams is in France with U. of W. in Seattle. Gordon recently Patton’s Third Army. He says he has spent a short furlough at Portland and seen a lot of bombing, strafing and ar Neah-kah-hie. We understand there was tillery shelling, as well as quite a bit quite a drop in the local duck census of the country. He also says the French while he was there. Hope he does the girls are pretty good looking but he same to the slant eyes if and when he isn’t very well acquainted with them as gets the opportunity. yet. Sgt. Herman M. Baxter, formerly Walter A. Hill, S 2/c, advises us he plant foreman on Lou Kerber’s paving is at Great Lakes attending the Service crew, is in Burma with the Army En School and is at present learning fire gineers where he has spent the last 12 control. Walter has been in 13 months or 13 months. "Herm” has visited Bom and says he is anxious to get it over bay and Calcutta, being in both cities with so he can get back to the old job about March, 1943. He says that coun of pulling levers for an oiling crew. try has lots of rain, fevers, insects and He was formerly with Boldt’s crew. snakes, but to his surprise the natives T /J William Black, with the Army are quite friendly. Engineers "somewhere in the Marianas” Among those still at Camp Parks are advises he has been getting the Maga Lou Kerber, C.M.M., Paul Davies, C. zine and enjoys it very much. Bill is P.O., and Lester Davidson, M.M. 1/, all anxious to get back among God’s peo Seabees with considerable foreign ser ple and on the good old payroll again. vice. We are sure he won’t have to wait long Don Taylor, C.S.K., Seabees, is now the way things look at present. in the Marianas, having left the states Lieut. Everett C. "Clare” Jones, for in September, so advises Mrs. Taylor, mer highway sign crew foreman at who says Don has been too busy to do Klamath Falls, and now with the armed much exploring as yet but has been forces in Holland, has been promoted able to see quite a bit of the results of from staff sergeant to second 'Lieuten the shelling and bombing as well as ant. The commission was conferred on considerable moisture. Drop us a line, the battlefield. 'Clare was through the Don. African and Sicilian campaigns and has Sandy Monroe, formerly Highway been in Europe since "D ” day. Department section helper at Mitchell Major Al. York, formerly with until the recent unpleasantness started Scott’s Engineers, is somewhere in in the Pacific, has been visiting his old France but as we have no further in friends in Central Oregon. We don’t formation can tell no more until some look for the Marine Corps to do much of his writing friends pass the informa until Sandy gets back from his fu r tion along. lough. Gordon Scott of the Tillamook Another visiting Marine in Central Chapter, is in Navy training at the Oregon was Alvis Logan who used to
