News From Our Boys In Active Service
Mr and Mrs Marlin Evans receive a cablegram that their son Cpl Donald Evans has completed all flying missions and will be home soon. Other notes report George Linn visiting his parents in Bandon, Keith Maurie on 30 day leave, Sgt Orvin C Smith returning to the U.S., Major Earl Osborne promoted, Ivan Cotton wounded on an aircraft carrier, Bryce E Evernden arriving in the Philippines, J Bell promoted to radioman, Lt Milton Bell reassigned, Lieut Wallace J Carl’s grave photographed in Australia, Lt Robert L Medbeck assigned to Cates Air Base in Africa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marlin Evans
Cpl
Donald Evans
Cpl Evans
Furloagh
Keith Maurie
Navy
South Pacific
J. S. Giberson
Ruby Cotton
Ivan Cotton
Philippines
Joe Evernden
Broadbent
Bryce E Evernden
Marines
Pacific
Evernden
Mra
W L Bell
J. Bell
Naval Air Base
Island
Tarawa
Bell
Milton [. Bell
Ft Benning
Camp Livingston
Sen
John Carl
Arago
Wallace J Carl
Australia
Adolph Haberly
Bandon
Lt Carl
Melbourne
Africa
Robert L. Medbeck
Gaylord
Cates
Blanca
Air Transport Command
Tacoma
Wash
Frendy D. Medlock
Medlocks
Frendy, Jr
Advanced Rating Miss Eda Smith Joined Spars at Cambridge
Miss Eda Smith, formerly of the town, now with the Spars and stationed at Cambridge Mass, has been advanced to SE 2nd class. She is a local high school graduate who worked as a stenographer for about two years at a local creamery, later moving to Portland for war work before joining the Spars. Her sister Mrs Kenneth Button and family remain local residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eda Smith
Spars
Cambridge
Mass
Eda
Portland
Kenneth Button
Mother of Air Ace Dies At Hubbard
Mrs H L Carl of Hubbard mother of Oregon Marine Air Ace Major Marion Carl died at Canby hospital after a year long illness aged 77. Surviving relatives include two sons Marion and Manto, daughter Virginia Carl, six sisters, a brother, and other extended kin. Funeral plans were not yet announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H L. Carl
Hubbard
Oregon Marine Air Ace
Marion Carl
Pacific
Norway
Canby
Inlaw
J D. Carl
Arago
Carl
Carls
Manton
Army
Ledside
East
Manto
Virginia Carl
Northwestern University School of Journalism
Evanston, Ill
Chester Ellingsen
Oakland
Calif
S L. Lafferty
Jennie Price
Rose Ashton
Lilie Hartig
Coquille
Maude
Ruby
Cari
Lt Belloni Receives Citation During Lingayen Gulf Campaign
In the Philippines Lt Robert C Belloni of the 434 Field Hospital is noted among Oregon personnel in Lingayen Gulf operations. He earned a Bronze Star and Purple Hearts were awarded to seven wounded, with posthumous honors to an officer and three men. Belloni, a Myrtle Point native, was a former track team member at Myr tle Point and a Sigma Alpha Epsilon member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luzon
Philippine Islands
Sday
Lingayen Gulf
Gamena
Innix Powett
I Corpe
Oregoniana
George G Kelly
Washington
Portland
Robert C Belloni
Mesa
Myrtle Point
Union H
Oregon
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Maronic Lodge
Lions’ Club
Myrth Point
Belloni
Returns From Visit by Mrs McClellan and daughter
Mrs McClellan and her daughter Mrs June Hull returned Monday from a visit to Klamath Falls and Grants Pass. In Klamath Falls they stayed with Marion Gant, brother of Mrs McClellan, and in Grants Pass with Mr and Mrs James Hawkins and family. The Hawkinson couple left last December to buy a place near Grants Pass on the Redwood highway. He was formerly in the sawmill business with two brothers and worked in a mill at Grants Pass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McClellan
Mra June Hull
Klamath Falls
Grants Pass
Mra McClellan
Marion Gant
James Hawkins
Hawkinson
Granta Passa
Redwood Highway
Grants Passa
Elisworth Explains Need for Nurses in War Effort in D C
Elisworth reports on Congress drafting nurses for armed forces and the urgency to induct workers. He notes the high bill introduction rate, with most bills dying in committee, and cites recent production goals for Oregon farmers amid wartime needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roman
Reet
Elisworth
Congress
Oregon
House
Socrate
Senate
Department of Agriculture
Oregon farmers aim for higher crop goals in 1945 drives
Oregon production of cover crops is a major contribution with revised goals. Vetch reductions and increases for Austrian winter peas and common rye grass noted. Alfalfa and red and alsike clover goals doubled. Mr G F Goinsler, Western Division AAA director, praised farmer committee resolve at a January meeting and said aides will assist farmers throughout production to meet tough challenges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon
G F Goinsler
AAA
Farmer-Comitteemen
Portland Visit By Dement Relatives
Mr and Mrs Russell Dement Mrs Ellie Dement and Mrs Flentge Perkins traveled to Portland last Friday. Mr and Mrs Dement returned on Sunday while Mr Ellia Dement and Mrs Perkins remain until Thursday to visit relatives, including Mrs Dement’s daughter Alleem and Mrs Perkins’s sister Mrs Lois Bayley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viet Portland
Russell Dement
Ellie Dement
Mra Flentge Perkins
Portland
Mra Dement
Ellia Dement
Mra. Perkins
Alleem
Mra Perkins
Aiter
Lois Bayley
Also Mentioned on This Page
George Linn
Security Bank
Armed Service
C . Linn
Orvin C. Smith
United States
Army Air Forces
Mediterranean
Ft Douglas
Utah
Earl Osborne
Italy
Barbara Osborne
Osborne
Air Ace
Rob’t Belloni
Wash. D. C
Washington, DC
Gage
Myers & Myers
L. W. Oddy
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