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Pvt. Leo O. Reed, son of Leo V.
Reed, office man for Hedda Swart, is
now stationed at Chanute Field, Il
linois, where he is just completing a
course in advanced electronics and ra
dar. Pvt. Reed graduated 8 th in a class
of 300 at an RM school at Truax Field,
Madison, Wisconsin.
Bill Busch, formerly employed in Mr.
Farrar’s District, was home from the
service about the first of March. He has
been attached to a "baby flat-top^’ in
the Navy. He states that he contacted
his brother, Vernal, (U.S. Marine
Corps) while in the South and Central
Pacific.
Albert Glen Luther, weighmaster
with the Department, received notice to
take preinduction physical examina
tion.
Gordon K. Tonkin, formerly em
ployed by the Highway Department
from 193 3 to 1942, has been visiting
his Salem friends recently after hav-
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ing served over three years with the
U.S. Army Engineers, mainly. in the
Pacific area. Gordon has received a
medical discharge and is reported to be
enjoÿing a well-earned rest before again
assuming full participation in, civilian
activities.'
Lt. j/g Wilson Siegmund, son of C.
E. Siegmund of SIAÇ, was home on a
furlough in April.
Wilson is in the Navy Communica
tion Department. After taking special
training at Harvard University, he was
stationed at Seattle, and later at San
Francisco, leaving for overseas duty in
the South Pacific in July, 1943. While
in the South Pacific he jvas stationed
in Australia and at different times in
several of the small islands.
He was lately given a temporary as
signment at Liaison Officer with the
Fifth Army Air Force in the Philippine
Islands, and left for his furlough from
there.
Aviation Cadet Loren Bosten, son of
Mrs. Elsie Bosten of the Claims Divi
sion, SIAC, has begun the second phase
of his flying training at Eagle Pass
Army Air Field in Texas. On complet
ing his training he will enter advanced
flying school of the AAF Central Fly
ing Training Command.
Miss Betty Bosten, in her Senior year