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36 California Highways
trict materials engineer, district office
engineer, and district maintenance
engineer.
As assistant district engineer of District
II, Baxter has been in general
charge of construction and maintenance
of state highways in Siskiyou,
Modoc, Lassen, Shasta, Plumas, and
Tehama Counties and the eastern part
of Trinity County.
Nett, in assuming Baxter's post at
Redding, is returning to a district
where he served as district construction
engineer between January, 1952,
and September, 1953. Prior to that,
his career with the division had been
in the Fresno district, starting in 1930.
He served in the Seabees in World
War II.
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Until April, 1951,_ when he was
transferred to Redding, his highway
work was in the San Joaquin Valley
and adjoining mountain areas. Working
out of the District VI headquarters
at Fresno, Baxter served as dis-
Baxter, the new district engineer of
District IX, is a native of Los Angeles,
an engineering graduate of the University
of California, and an employee
of the Division of Highways since
1930.
Baxter Goes to Bishop
As service and supply engineer prior
to 1953, Harris had full charge of
procedures for procurement, warehousing
and distribution of materials
and supplies used by the Division of
Highways.
his return from World War II military
service with the Army Engineers
and the Allied Military Government
in Italy.
He is a native of Oregon, and received
his degree in civil engineering
from Oregon State College in 1917.
He served in World War I and then
entered engineering work, joining the
Division of Highways staff in 1928 as
an instrument man in the Eureka district.
Subsequently he served in Bishop
and the Sacramento headquarters
office.
Milton Harris, Frank Baxter and
Walter Nett Are Given New Jobs
Harris has been district engineer of
District XI, covering Inyo, Mono, and
the eastern part of Kern Counties,
since February, 1953. Before that he
was service and supply engineer for
the division, a post he assumed after
Graduated From Oregon State
To replace Harris as district engineer
of District IX, with headquarters
in Bishop, McCoy promoted Frank E.
Baxter, who has been assistant district
engineer of District II, with headquarters
in Redding.
Baxter's post in Redding was filled
by Walter M. Nett, who for the past
year has been assistant construction
engineer for the division, working out
of Sacramento headquarters.
FRANK E. BAXTER
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PxoNtoTrorr of Milton Harris to the
position of Construction Engineer for
the California Division of Highways
to succeed Don G. Evans, retired, was
announced by State Highway Engineer
G. T. McCoy.
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