Veteran recalls wartime service and reunion plans
Point recounts receiving a 15000 word newsletter from a former first sergeant. He served in Canada and Alaska on the Alcan highway before joining the 62nd Engineer Light Equipment Company at Camp White Oregon in 1943. He served with the 625th Engineers and sailed from New York aboard the Queen Mary in 1944. He fought in England France Belgium Holland and was in Germany at VE Day before moving to the Philippines where the Japanese surrendered. Plans are under way for a company reunion in 1986 in Illinois. He authored a 190 page history of the unit published for veterans.
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Philippines
Ward
Kirschs Visit Portland and Valley Cities
Mr and Mrs Ted Kirsch and family spent a week touring Portland Salem Albany and Corvallis for business and pleasure. In Portland they stayed with Kenneth Sawyer agriculture chairman of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. In Albany they visited C R Apple and in Corvallis hosted by Mr and Mrs John Hess with Hess an engineering instructor at Oregon State University. They also visited their grandfather Augusta Kirsch in Stayton.
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Ted Kirsch
Portland
Salem
Albany
Corvallis
Kenneth Sawyer
Portland Chamber of Commerce
C R. Apple
Corvall
Kirsch
John Hess
Hess
O. S
Counties Face Welfare Budget Revisions For Next Biennium
Coos county projects a welfare budget totaling about 1 025 808 for the coming two years with state and federal roles rising. Proposals urge state takeover of most obligations, raising county caps to 20 percent, and amendments to the six percent limit to ease county burdens.
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Aiken
Coes
Coes County
Coos County
Coos
Multnomah County
Association of Counties
Dora School Pupils Stage Valentine Party
Dora school hosted a St Valentine’s gathering despite rain and poor roads. Mrs Easton assisted 16 pupils in games and contests while relatives enjoyed refreshments including potato salad pickles cake ice cream and Kool Aid.
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Dora School
Easton
Marlin Long
Troy
T S Easton
Canyon
Mapris
Paul White
Larette Jimmy
Sha
Jay Counts
Wilma Nickey
Joyce
Harvey Osborn
Johnny
Barbara
Harry Mast
Fred
Mabel Cotton
Claude Fitzgerald
Stephan
Linda Roan
Kathryn
Thelra We'ker
Shirley Baker
Gloria Staman
Marvin Bilderback
Albert Weathers
Kenneth Johnson
Selma Plans Founders Day Event and School Building Talks
Selma hosts a Parents Teachers meeting at 8 p.m. in the Junior High auditorium with C N Pree of Portland presenting on school buildings. Founders' Day observance will be led by Mrs. Howard Whitaker. O W Pafford visits San Francisco for family illness then plans to assist in Santa Anna with auto and electrical business.
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Oregon
Washington
C. N. Pree
Portland
Parentie
Education For
Howard Whitaker
O. W. Pafford
San Francisco
Lettermans Hospital
Mr. Pafford
Santa Anna
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Tilinole
Europe
Kirschs
Valley Cities
Ritchie’s
Myrtle Point
Mave
Slim
KeuRai
St Oace
Felsheim
Sitage Valentine
Capodl
Pet
Triangle Poultry
Triangle
Ae Nee
Egon
Berkeley
Moon
Eighth Street
Sempert’s .— Wrth
Henry
Selma
Ba Bown
Pall Ryan
He Bey
Ciac
E. C. Barker
International
Emeryville
Cali
Geo. F. Burr Motor Co
Coquille
Timkin
Eaton
P & U Tools
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