News o[ Our Service Friends

Major Lawrence King, Army Air Force, is out of the service and has returned to his business, the King-Marshall Lumber Co., Bakersfield.

Lieut, (j.g.) Len CooPer, Navy Air Base, Astoria, Oregon. He of the staff of the Portland offrce flyer, is norv at the Nar1al rvas formerly a member of Wendling-Nathan Co.

Louis Dougherty, former manager of the Folsom, Calif', yard of Sterling Lumber Co., and who was in service with ih. Nu.ry Seabees since 1942, is norv out of ihe Navy and is back with the company as manag'er of the Roseville, Calif., yard.

Lieut. James R. Pierce, USN, was home from service in Japan, October 24. He u'as formerly with Paramino Lumber Co., San Francisco.

Lieut. Hank Aldrich, USN, is stationed at Treasnre Island. San Francisco. He was formerly associated in business with his father, Harry Aldrich, in the Aldrich Lumber Co., Eugene, C)regon'

Chief Petty Officer William Brown oi mer manager of the Oroville, Calif., yard ber Co., is out of the service and back at

T/5 Homer E. Maris, U. S. and is back at his old job on Plywood Corp. of California, the Seabees, forof Sterling l-umthe Oroville yard. is

Technical Sergeant Sydney H. Smith, Jr,. son of Syd Srnith, San Diego retail lumberman' has received his honorable discharge from the Army. He was in the Service for three years, took part in the defense of Great Britain, and saw action on the European front in Belgium and Germany. After December 1, he will be associated with his father in the lurrber business.

Pfc. Albert Koll, son of Milton L. Koll of A. J. Koll Planing Mill, Ltd., is in Birmingham Hospital, Van Nuys, suffiring from injuries received in a train wreck in Germany. He rvas with the 20th Armored Division, and was flown to California from Germiny. He is on a 40-day furlough.

Al Young, now back in civilian life, has returned to the sales stafi of the Ed Fountain Lumber Co., Los Angeles.

C. H. Munsie has joined the sales force of Brush Industrial Lumber Co., Los Angeles. He was a Major in the Canadian Artillery with five ydars' service, and was with his father in Canada in the sawmill business before entering the service.

Army, is out of the service the order desk with Harbor San Francisco.

Bill Morter is back in civilian life again following several years' overseas service as Boatswain's Mate in the Seabees. He has returned to his old job as salesman for Brush Industrial Lumber Co., Los Angeles.

Vic De Vore, former manager pany's San Martin, Calif., Yard, after several years' service.

Sterling Lumber Comnow out of the Armv

S/Sgt. Eddie Hodges has received his discharge from'the army and is now with the Southu'est Sash & Door Co., Los Angeles. Eddie was in the army three years and saw service in Cuba, Trinidad, and North Africa.

S/Sgt. Frederic Buckley, son of the late F. S. Buckley, has recently returned.to San Francisco after four and a half years in the Army where he served in Iran with the Persian Gulf Service Command. He has received. his discharge and is back with the F. S. Buckley Door Company.

Captain Frank W. Berman, Jr. of San Francisco was recently discharged from the Transportation Corps of the Army after more than three years' service. He is now associated with his father selling lumber.