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S E R V IC E N E W S
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jj Lt. L. R. Chandler, Sea Bees, "Pop” as
he is-known to his many friends, was a
welcome visitor in Salem recently. Pop
;s home on leave after seeing service H
Prance for the past several months.
Miss Birdie Hebei,., ex-chief mailing
clerk at the Highway Department in
Salem, graduated last summer from
yeoman’s school in Cedar Falls, Iowa,
and is now a Yeoman, third class in the
Waves. She is stationed in San Fran
cisco where she works in the Navy
offices in the Federal Building. Birdie
finds San Francisco an ever-interesting
and active place in which she ishappy
to be stationed,
Capt. Daniel J. McLellan of the
United States Marines, wearing three
combat stars, spent a 3p-day leave, in
Salem, Oregon, and Monterey, Califor
nia, after two years in the South Pa-1
cific. while home he was1 married to
Jane Vincent of Monterey and San
Francisco, Calif.
Capt. McLellan was employed by the
Mighway „Department during vacations
while going to Oregon State college.
He is the son of D. J. McLellan, of
the State Engineer’s Department. ,
Lt. Comdr. A. F. PaPson is in the’SE
Mathias group pf islands in the South
Pacific.
Frosi Welding
On Highway 99
South of Eugene
Phone 528
Route 4
45 West 7th
Scoberl Building
Material Co.
Eugene, Oregon
Sgt. Cyril R. Suing of Salem, 21-
year-old ball turret gunner on the crew
of a B-17 Flying Fortress, has recently
been awarded the Air Medal for "mer-'
itorious achievement1’ while participat
ing in heavy bombardment missions in
the eighth air force offensiye against
the enemy over- continental Europe.
Before entering the army air forces
in May, 1943, he was employed by the
Boeing Aircraft Co., in Seattle, H H
mechanic. He won his wings at Las
Vegas gunnery school in March 1944,
and is.mow a member of the 486th
bomb group, a unit of the third bom
bardment division, the division cited by
the President for historic shuttle bomb
ing ;pf the Messerschmitt plant' at Re
gensburg, Germany.
The sergeant is the-son of ML and
S B C. A. Suing of 1045 N. Church
street, Salem. His father is an em
ployee of the State Industrial Accident
Commissiom
| Mr, Loren R. White, Firm Division
Supervisor for the State Industrial Ac- '
cident Commission has the honor of
having three sons in the service.
Ellis B. White, PhM 2 |g u .S .N .R . is
spending a 26-day leave with his wife, .
the former Janrose Wimer and his baby
Son,’ Phillip Lynn, born Sunday, De
cember 1^/1944. Mr. White has just
returned from six months duty in the
Aleutian Islands.
Pvt. Loren J. White of the Army
Paratroopers also spent a ten-day leave
with his parents in December, Mr. and
Mrs. Loren R. White of I H | Salem.
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Giustina Lumber
Company
Lumber, Shingles, and
Building Material-
Phone 1010
Eugene, Oregon