Statesman Journal from Salem, Oregon • Page 10

PAGE Ttn The OREGON STATESMAN, Sdem. Oregon, Sunday Morning April 29. 1945 'IN-JT-MEv. me 5fe sewn. Salem Man -Helps Rebuild i Hi gli Bridge WITH VS.

SERVICE FORCES GERMANY Reconstruction of the highest bridge on-the European continent, 116 feet high and i Appraisal Due Of Forest Resources PORTLAND, April. praisals of Oregon and Washington forest resources for the national survey by the American forestry; association will begin Hay 1, an association officer said today. The survey, expected to take five months to complete, already has been made in California and several southern arid eastern timber producing states." i Plans are being "made here by John CRedlngtoh, jtleki secretary, of the forest resource appraisal jfnmittee who said today. Burt Kirkland regional association consultant would direct the survey in the northwest states. Redington said the survey originally was planned to determine the wartime drain on timber resources, but was expanded to include postwar factors.

He said the survey would break down timber acreage in owner-shiD classes, volume of standing Jack Costello Home After Jap Attack 'Jack L. Costelli aviation radioman 3c, "USNR, served" as radioman and tunnel gunner in a navy Avenger torpedo-bomber plane based aboard the famous "Fighting Lady" while that carrier lashed out at Japan's inner defenses. Recently returned home on leave the aircrewman was attached to air group three, which was, on the carrier whose earlier exploits in i I i 1 mwwmmit- xj 1 1 James To wrie Wounded, At Oldiiawa "of Mr. and George B. Towne, 545 South 15th st was wounded seriously at Okinawa on April 8, his parents were notified Saturday by the war department The, tele-; gram followed by a evf hours a V-mail message in young Towne's handwriting declaring that reports of his wounds would probably be overemphasized.

'i I However, he is known to have received chest injuries and his left leg was broken. The battle was his sixth. Before going south he had been at Attu and Kiska. He enlisted in March, 1941," in the regular army. A brother, PFC Charles P.

Towne, regular army medical corps, was a prisoner on Luzon. The family, not having heard from him since the Philippine invasion, believes he may now be in Japan. Still another brother, William J. Towne, employed as an army engineer in the Philippines when the war began, was liberated from a Japanese camp there, is now in San Francisco and is expected home early 4his week." Two Salem WACs Train At Fort Oglethorpe; Will Be Technicians FORT- OGLETHORPE, April 28 Two Salem, women are taking basic military, training at the Third WAC training center here as members of onetf the newly organized WAC medical companies. They are: Pvt Alta R.

Hewitt 1040 East Rural and Dorothy G. Middleton, 155 Garden road. Prior to enlistment in the women's army corps, Private Middleton was the cashier and office manager for the Oregon liquor control commission. She is the daughter of Lelace H. Ellis of Salem.

Private Hewitt owned and operated a beauty parlor in Salem before she entered the WAC. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. H.

Benjamin of Woodburn, Ore. Basic training includes a course of instruction in the fundamentals of army life, military customs and courtesies, army orientation, physical training, map reading, the articles of war, and army administration. On completion of basic training they will be assigned to the en listed women's technical school to be trained as medical technicians or medical clerks. timber of various species by coun ties and the potential yield in tne next ten' years in terms of saw-logs, pulp wood, peeler logs and types. Qardy Promoted 15TH AAF IN ITALY John Clardy.

27. of Dallas, has recently been promoted to the grade of staff sergeant, according to an announcement by his group commander, Col. H. K. Mooney of New Orleans, La.

A top turret gunner. Sergeant Clardy is stationed in Italy with a B-24 Liberator heavy bombard ment group which has flown more than 225 missions. He has participated in many of his outfit's bombings of oil refineries, railroad yards and assembly plants in German-held southern and central Europe. ioining the air corps in August, 1943, Clardy was employ ed by U. W.

Logging Co. A veteran of more than 20 missions, he has been awarded the Air Medal and one Oak Leaf Cluster. combat are dramatized in the navy's documentary film, "The Fighting Lady." In flying his many combat missions, the bluejacket participated in air strikes against vital shore installations, shipping and aircraft and was on the raids that struck at the very heart of the Japanese empire, Tokyo itself. Also he attacked Jap concentrations in the Philippines, Formosa, China French Indio-China, Chichi Jima and Iwo Jima. The son of Mr.

and Mrs. A. F. Costello of Jefferson, the 22-year-old radioman-gunner was a student at the Jefferson high school until he enlisted in the navy in October, 1942. Pvt John Drasdoff, son of Mr.

and Mrs. John Drasdoff of Independence, "got three Jerry snipers beiore ane got me' and is "getting along okay," he. wrote ais parents from a hospital in Bel- 5ium. He was wounded in the head- but now 'you can't even see where I was hurt except for a big bump where J3: the bullet hit me." Private Drasdoff also wrote that he had a really nice nurse" who had been in Independence several times, and that "it was nice to talk to someone your home town." He entered the service on Dec. 3, 1943, and went overseas last July.

He was wounded, for the second time, on March 31 and will receive an oak leaf cluster for his purple heart medal. Lt. Staryl Austin Gets 3 Oak Ousters A 9TH AIRFORCE FIGHTER- BOMBER BASE, Germany First Lt. Staryl C. Austin; 24, Salem, Ore.

a P-47 Thunderbolt pilot -in the Germany-based 373rd fighter-bomber group of the. 9th air force has been awarded the first three Oakleaf clusters to his Air MedaL The tall Oregonian was cited "for meritorious achievement in aerial flight against the enemy." A veteran of 111 combat hours, he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Staryl C. Austin, route 3, box 740, Salem.

William Bartels Wounded on Luzon SILVERTON PFC William Bartels, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Bartels, was wounded on Luzon March 26. In the signal corps, Bartels has been overseas more than three years. 165 feet long, is the proud claim.

cf Company A of the 332nd engi-; Tteer general service regiment, a jrrack nnif of engineer section, ad-'. vance section, communications zone, engaged in rehabilitation be- hind advancing American armies. Schlotthauer, Salem, was foreman in charge of i the pier erection riggers. i iv iook me company jusi sw days around the clock to build the span, a main bridge link in the river crossing. Through its com-' pletion the speed in which supplies flow to the fast-moving ar-; mies has been greatly accelerated.

Engineers, working without a pause in sleetfc snow, high i winds and freezing temperatures completed the job in 15,686 man 1 hours. Before construction could begin more than 730 tons of steel wreck age, left by the Germans who had I done a thorough Job of destruction in the hope of delaying the pursuit, had to be cleared; test piles drivers in the river bed, roads to the bridge laid, ramps constructed and platform's and secondary bridges built over the river for moving heavy engineer- ing equipment and supplies. Al- though the entire area at one time was flooded by two feet of over- flow water from the river, the work was carried on. Pvt. Laurence Klrsch, 21, son of Mr: and Mrs.

Ira Klrsch, Meha-- ma, was killed March 4 in Germany. He was a graduate of Stayton high school. Robert Hartley To Graduate With Lieutenant Rank Robert W. Hartley, son of Mr. Mrs.

J. M. Hartley of 30 Beach Salem, will be graduated from officer candidate school -at Ft Benning, with the rank -of lieutenant in the infantry on May 7. Fellow classmates have rated him second highest man in the class. Hartley was given a medical discharge after going into the army when the national guard was mobilized, but re-entered the service in 1942 and has been stationed at Ft.

Worden. Following a leave, on his graduation, he will to Camp Roberts, as ari infantry replacement officer to train His wife, the former Patsy Ransdell, will attend her husband's graduation. Another s5n of Mr. and Mrs. Hartley, Jimmie, who went in-to the navy last February, has qualified for navy crew and will be reassigned for further training.

-He has been at San Diego and will be home on leave on completing his boot camp training. COFFEYYILLE, Km, April 28 Second Lt. Leo R. Knepper, son of Mrs. Ada Knepper, route three, Salrrn, has completed 10 weeks of photo-reconnaissance pitol training at the Coffeyville army air field and has been sent to Third air force staging area.

Lieutenant Knepper attended the Chillicothe Business college at Chillicothe, in 1936-37. He received his wings at Douglas, Nov. 20, 1944. jCw. -1 A A.U.S.

STRATEGIC AIR FORCE STATION LV ENGLAND Lt CoL Robert C. Irwin, husband of Ury G. Irwin of 1515 North 16th St, Salem, recently arrived in this war theatre of operations and received a brief orientation coarse at this station desicned to help him adjust himself to combat in a combat sone. Lieutenant Colonel Irwin will soon transfer to his permanent station from which America's fithtinr planes cover ourad-vance into Germany. Mrs.

Irwin is now visitinr with her parents, Mr. and Mrs, John F. Hinds, 19 16th St, Corvallis, Ore. Prior to entering- the army air forces, Irwin was employed as an auditor for the division of audits, secretary of state's office. S.

Sfft David O. MeRae, nose-run ner en a B-17 with the Eicbth air force In the European theatre, was awarded his third Oak Leaf cluster to the Air Medal this spring. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. D.

O. McRae, route two, box six, Salem. Bill Reinhart, who carried The Oregon Statesman for several years, is now winning prizes by writing pieces about Oregon's State Department, of Forestry. Reinhart is with the navy at Wesleyan university, Middletown, Conn. His mother, Mrs.

Arthur Reinhart, is in the inspection department at the forestry building here. The students in the V-12 school were to write some papers and young Reinhart, who is now 18, chose the forestry work. He based his article on Assistant State Forrester L. Cronemiller's log, and won the prize offered. Reinhart graduated from the Salem high school in 1944.

1 tiJj CREDIT HELPS YOU TO PAY FOR PLATES ASYOUWEA Donald E. Carey, son oir Mr." an4 Mrs. A. E. Carey, route one, Ly ens, was this spring graduated as a flight officer in the arm; air i Edgar Schlittenhart Hospitalized at Fort George Wright PORT GEORGE WRIGHT.

Tech. Set. Ed ear W. Schlit tenhart has reported to the AAF convalescent hospital here aftef eight months in the European the atre. Sergeant Schlittenhart served as an eneineer-runner on a B-17 Fly ing Fortress with the 15th air force.

He wears the European theatre of operations ribbon and the Aif. Medal. Sereeant Schlittenhart is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack McTimpery, now o'f Oceanlake, Ore.

James Purdy Wounded in Action In South Germany Mrs. J. Edgar Purdy has received a telegram from the war department notifying her her son, PFC James Purdy, with General Patch's Seventh army in southern Germany, has, been wounded in action. Dr. Purdy, superintendent of the Salem district of the Methodist church, was buried on Friday.

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Schlotthauer, son of Mrs. L. Schlotthauer, 1890 North Liberty Salem, was foreman in charre of the pfer erection riggers with a crack unit of army engineers which reconstructed the highest bridge on the European continent in 50 days. He was inducted in May, 1942, received his basic training at Camp Claiborne, and is one of the original members of the outfit which has been overseas 31 months. During that time he has been awarded three Bronze Service Stars for participating in the Normandy, northern France and Germany campaigns.

Before entering the service he was a sandblaster foreman at Grand Coulee dam. Mack C. Maison Finishes First Air Training OTTUMWA, Iowa Lt. (jg) Mack C. Maison, USN, one of the more than 600 officers who have been returned from the fleet for aviation training, successfully completed naval air primary arming at the naval air station, Ot-tumwa, and has been transferred to the Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Tex, for intermediate training.

Lt. (jg) Maison served aboard a destroyer for 13 months before reporting to the Ottumwa station. He is a 1943 graduate ofthe Naval Academy. His home address is 315 Bellevue street, Salem, and upon successful completion of intermediate training, he will be designated a Naval "aviator. W.

C. Cameron Cameron Butte Grandsons of Mrs. Hattie B. Cameron of 398 North 21st st. are SSgt.

W. C. Cameron, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Cameron of Portland and SSgt.

Cameron E. Butte, whose father, Carl Butte, lives in Salem, and mother in Astoria. The latter sergeant won nationwide notice when it was reported that a letter written to him by his grandmother, Mrs. Cameron, was found on a dead nazi soldier in Italy. It had been taken from a buddy who was to have delivered it to Sergeant Butte.

The buddy was missing in action. Williams at Tillamook Cpl. Edward Evan Williams, 22, USMC, son of Mable E. Williams, 860 Hoyt st, has reported for duty at the naval air station at Tillamook following at 27-months tour of duty with Co. Third battalion, 22nd marines, which participated in actions at Eniwetok and Guam.

Williams is a graduate of Salem high school. He has been in the marine corps three years and nine months and was awarded the Purple Heart last October. in 'Fresh up Si keep smiling! A great self-starter for a happy mood is clean-tasting 7-Up. Its chipper freshness leaves your mouth feeling wide-awake. You "fresh up." You feel like smiling! Just look for the nearest store display ing the 7-Up signs.

Him like it Hies you Oregon Phone 8751 rHf.V. hmii. 'v A. SELMAN FIELD, Monroe, Representatives of 38 states and the District of Colombia received winrs and commissions as aerial navigators here when the AAF training- command graduated class 45-11 In ceremonies at the post theater. The graduates will shortly be potting- their konwledge to use In every theater of the war.

Members of the gradoatinr class Included Joe W. Bowersox, Jr pictured above, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W.

Bowersox, 2346 Hazel Salem, Ore. OSC Editors Are Selected CORVALLIS, April 28-(A')-Or-egon State college's student daily, The Barometer, will have two editors next year both coeds. Margaret Duswell, Sherwood, and Joan Mead, McMinnville, were chosen by the publications com mittee. Each will edit the paper a half-year. Anne Lumsden, La Grande, was named Barometer -business -manager.

Donna HilL Corvallis, will edit the Beaver, college annual, with Ruth Hoffman, Portland, as business manager. Two Salem WACs Get Good Conduct Medal Pvt Bessie I. Blakely, daughter of Ruth G. Winters, 2690 Ninth and PFC Isolde M. Zitzewitz, whose mother, Augusta Zitzewitz, resides at 2875 Portland road, have recently been awarded the Good Conduct medal, Col.

Kermit ti. Stevens, commander of Pratt army air field at Pratt, has announced. Both wear the uniform of the women's army corps and are members of the base" unit at Pratt SCIO Kyle B. Folsom, route 1, Albany, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Frank I. Folsom of the same locality, plans a visit home late in May, it has been learned. He is in military training at Camp Roberts, Calif. He is a grandson of Mr. and Mrs.

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