News From Our Boys In Active Service
Updates on servicemen including Lt Ernest Davenport visiting Ardmore Oklahoma before deployment and Lt Ernest E Davenport training as co pilot with a heavy bombardment unit at Ardmore Army Air Field. Pvt Reuben E Cotton returns from Camp Roberta California awaiting reassignment overseas. Major Laird in Japanese prison camp correspondence confirms his endurance and good health. Sgt Martin D Evans awarded the Army Air Medal with German flak fragment included. Special rate offered by Union High School for servicemen purchasing 1945 annuals.
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Johnnie Franich
San Francisco
Roy Spires
Pleasant Point
Reuben E Cotton
Camp Roberta
Calif
Reuben Cotton
Sonsa Hospital
Mabel Martin
Koral Martin
San Diego
South Pacific
Union High School
Eugene Laird
Elton Schroeder
Major Laird
Pitland
Laird
Ernest E. Davenport Som
Albert Ro Traver
Myrle Poiit
Army Air Field
Ardmore
Oklo
Saya
Servie
Army
Minses
Masuinge
Pampa Texas
Leatherwood Completes 55 Missions in Combat
Staff Sergeant John E. Leatherwood of Myrtle Point Oregon has flown over 55 combat missions as an aerial gunner with a B-28 group operating from Corsica in the Mediterranean theater. He is awarded the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters for meritorious achievement and bravery.
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John E. Leatherwood
Myrtle Point
Ore
Corsica
Mediterranean
Twelfth Air Force
Italy
Leatherwood
Byrtle Point
P P. Leatherwood
Mra
Sara Leatherwood
Balkans
France
Tunisia
Mitchell Great
Brilant
Salerno
American outlook on wartime diet and Oregon flour enrichment
Miss Lutz of Oregon State College reports wartime food production improving American diets with more milk eggs fruit and vegetables. A proposed Oregon law would enrich white flour while meat supplies may drop 6 to 10 percent, affecting protein availability for families.
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Regen
Miss Low
Lutz
Oregon State College
Missa Lutz
Oregon
United States
Cis Gata
US Department of Agriculture
Victory Garden Harvesta
Returns and gatherings highlight local news notes
Mr and Mrs Hugo Michel returned from a Portland business trip. Misa Erla Philips visited from Portland. Mrs A L Broden is in Belle Knife hospital Coquille. Sunday and supper guests from Coquille at various homes. A barn dance is planned at Oaks Pavilion Myrtree Point. March of Dimes campaigns are being arranged in the county. Legislative bulletins from Oregon Legislature will be available at the Myrtle Point Herald Press. A local contest winner’s Marine service update noted. Oregon farm activity details and a new country home purchase near Spruce Street are reported.
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Portland
Hugo Michel
Misa Erla Philips
Misa Phyllis Roush
A. L. Broden
Belle Knife Hospital
Coquille
Marie Michel
Harry Brown
Wendall Hall
Mr. Breuer
Ada Lemon
Bud Griffin
Olle Samuelson
Don Gillespie
Verne Landy
Oaks Pavilion
Myttree Point
Curley
Wranglers
Marshfield
Elton Schroer
the Herald
March of Dimes
Thin Town Dinner Guesta
Mia al Jones
Sos
Myers & Myers
Willian Sempert
South Pacific
Thie Stein
Oreear Pinney
Old Heme
Folka
Middle West
Dulaney
Howard Whitaker
Wilson Place
North Fork
Spruce Street
Victory gardens promise plenty for Oregon families
In 1945 fruit and vegetable supplies may dip slightly but most Oregon families can still ensure ample food by planting and maintaining victory gardens again this year.
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Oregon
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Oklahoma
A R. Davenport
Robert Kelree
Ernest Davenport
Martin D Evans
Mark Panna
Reek
Lucy N Wood
Earl Cox
Ray
Wusband
L. A
Wood
Camp Wolters
Texas
G. C. Tichenor
Brink
Mike Daniels Auction Mart
Coquille- Myrtle Point Highway
Walter Schroeder
Norway
Fordson
Ole Cooper
M. L. Daniels
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