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under J. H. Scott. Becker worked with
Phelps on the Alaskan railroad and la
ter served in the army until injured in
a motor accident. After Arnold jumped
out of the army he immediately leaped
into matrimony. (Don’t tell anybody
but she is from Denver and is Irish).
Pfc. Al Bates, computor on Nehalem
engineering party, visited his former
fellow employees while on a furlough
recently. (Al is headed for somewhere
with an engineering topography batal-
ion. He was training in Louisiana and
Al says Oregon still looks mighty good
to him.
Tech. Sgt. Manuel Boyes recently
returned from the Islands; on furlough.
He is visiting his folks in Tillamook.
Manuel is a former employee on E. O.
Baintef’s maintenance Screw.
Captain L. W. '(Locky) Franklin,
after two • and a half years of overseas
service in England, Africa and Italy
returned home in Salem on furlough.
Locky, a former highway resident en
gineer, stopped in to greet his many
friends and while in Salem gave an in
teresting resume of his experiences
overseas at the February meeting of
O.S.Ë.A., Salem Chapter No. 1.
His first experience under fire was
at the initial landing at Oran where his
engineering company went in shortly
after the first wave of shock troops.
Locky was kept busy building and re
pairing runways and roads as the enemy
was very active during our campaigns
in Africa and Italy.
•Captain Franklin left for the East
Coast March 1st, for re-assignment.
Staff Sergeant James H. Carlin was
home in Salem recently on a short fur
lough. "Jim” is stationed at Camp
White in; charge pf a detail guarding
Germans prisoners of war. Prior to that
he had served in the Pacific theatre..
To his friends Jim is a big, husky and
very likeable fellow. The German pri
soners of war, however, will certainly
get no coddling as far as he is concerned.
James (Dutch) Roland, F.‘ 2/c, who
worked on Hedrick’s patching crew for
several seasons, but was at Long Creek
at the time of his enlistment, says he
likes Sunny California but would rath
er be a t Long Creek plowing snow.
Ruel A. Tanler, AOM 2/c, is on a
tropical islahd with insects galore and
lizzards five feet long and they are not
lounge lizzards.
Lois E. Laughlin, Long Creek, em-
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