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J. E. Hooten returned last week . from Detroit, Mich., where he went to get a new car. Mr. Hooten returned by the way of the south- I ern route and stop[>ed at Waco,1 Texas to visit a sister and family i and look over the country, which Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mills went was his former home. Major and Mrs. Roy Mueller of Portland were down Thursday to Portland Sunday to attend the I Mr. and Mrs. Bayard Reed of visiting Mrs. Mueller’s mother Stale Funeral Directors’ conven- . Roseburg, spent Mothei's Day Mis Maude Wheeler Major Muel tion. They returned home Wed- i here with her sister, Mrs. R C. McNew, and attended the morning ler is leaving on the 19th for nesday. worship service at the Methodist Germany, where he has been re Pete Nelson spent Mother’s Day I Church. Mrs. McNew accompanied assigned. His family will follow with his w ife and daughter, Mrs. | them home and is spending the later. week at Roseburg w ith the Reeds. I Mr. and Mrs. James Eticl Mil Robert Summers. He is employed Mrs. Fannie Goude is now resid- | by the Army Engineers on the led and Mrs. James Thiede and son Dennis of St. Helens, Oreg.. dam at The Dalles, the second ing at the home of Mis Schultz. w?re week end visitors at the largest dam in the Northwest. 198 West Main, and will be glad I Mrs. Nelson plans on moving to to have her friends visit her at . Lewis Thiede home. this address. The Dalles soon. l-add Goodwin, son of Mr and Cecil Beck, accompanied by his ; Mis Albert Adkins drove to Mrs L. R. Goodwin, who is at-1 sister-in-law, Margaret Heck, | tending the University of Oregon Coos Bay Saturday aftern<x»n and made a trip to Detroit, leaving Dfntal school in Portland, has spent Mother’s Day with her Portland on the Streamliner April been elected president of the jun daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. 30, and returned in a new car. ior class for the term of 1954-55. Forrest West, Craig and Marcia. Miss Heck remained at Boise, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Witcher of Saturday night they attended the Idaho, for a visit with relatives Junction City were dinner guests Coos County Band concert with and returned home Monday. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clif over WX) junior high and high Mr. and Mis. J. A. Kiker re ford Smith. Mrs. Witcher a n d school students participating from ceived word of the death of his several schools in Coos county. I brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Mrs Smith are sisters. Gordon Kiker, as the result of an automobile accident at Hydro, Okla. Mrs. Kiker was killed in the accident, April 27, and he died three days later. Double funeral Sound Familiar? service was, held at Hydro May 2. Mrs. Billie Coen and her broth ers, Jerry and John Harrison vis ited Barnes Hospital in Vancou ver, Wash., Monday, where they saw their father, W. C. Harrison, and Charlie Whipps. They enter tained many of the wards with vocal numbers. As Sunday was Charlie’s birthday, the trio and the men in the ward joined voices in Happy Birthday. Mrs. Coen re- ports that her father will soon be leaving the hospital. She said also that Charlie was coming along fine, and that he sends his thanks for all the lovely gifts he's re ceived. Page 6 The keiitiiK 1. Cottagi flrove. Oregon CITY Thur*. May IS ITU SMITH SERVING IN Al MU KRY AIK STATION PENSACOLA, Fla. Navy Lt. Lloyd J. Smith, Jr., son of Mr ' and Mrs. Lloyd J. Smith of 104 I South Fifth street. Cottage Grove. | Oreg., and husband of the former | Miss Shirley M. Yates ci Detroit, Mich., is serving at the U. S. Nav al Auxiliary Air Station, Corry ! Field here in the Naval Air Basie , Training Command as a primary i flight instructor in Basic Train ing. Lt. Smith reported aboard from the Instructors Basic Training Unit, Pensacola. Completes Basic BRIEFS PVT. ROBERT DEE ANDER SON, son of Mr. and Mrs. lien Anderson, lias completed his basic training at Fort Ord, < alif., and is now at Fort Benning, Ga„ w here he is attending a school on In fantry Sound Range. He expects to be there until the last of May. (Mrs. Harry Castle, correspond ent..) Donald Gene Bost and Harvey Bennett, both stationed at Treas ure Island. San Francisco with the Navy, sjxnt the week end here with teir parents, Mr. and Mrs. with their parents, Mr. nnd Mrs. ent.) CAMP PICKETT. VA.— Maj John W. Wiscarson, 31, son of Mrs. Hazel I. Wiscarson, Disston, is one of 4/XX) officers and en- listed men who is taking part m the Army's giant logistical ma- neuver, LOGEX-54, at Camp Pick- ett, Va., this week. Student officers and soldiers from the schools of the Army’s technical and adminstrative ser vice are working under simulated combat conditions to perform all the paper work necessary to sup port operations of a 4<XJ,00(J-man army. The Major, whose wife, Mar garet, lives in San Antonio, Tex., is a veteran of 14 years’ Army service. He is normally stationed at the Medical Field Service School at Fort Sam Houston, Tex. CAMP PICKETT, VA.— Army Sgt. Ted L. Stephens, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy B. Stephens, Cottage Grove, served with the i LOGEX-54 Support Group during ROBERTS & DRURY Phone 444 We Give S & H Green Stamps M VRTIN I'ARTUTPATES IN AIR DROP BEPPU. JAPAN Pvt. Luther 1» Martin, whose father. Luther W. Martin, lives in Yoncalla, Oreg., recently participated in the first mass air drop in the Far East using the Army's new T-10 para chute. Martin was one of 1,000 "Rak- kasans" in the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team's 2d Battalion who bailed out near Oita, Japan, during the mass train ing exercise. The Yoncalla soldier, who join ed the team last December, is a wireman in the battalion's Head quarters Company. A veteran of Korean duty, he wears the UN and Korean Service Ribbons. 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Ore gon City, is a gunner in Batters D of the 2d Anti-Aircraft Artil lery Battalion He entered the Army last June. annual logistical ma-( troops w ill uni ! v 1 „ hildi.t Air Force maneuver to be held at the Yakima Firing center, near of the support group Yakima, Wash., t h e last three and supply 4,000 of- men taking part in weeks in May. Sergeant Stephens, a former student at Linfield College, work ed for the Stephens Trucking Company before entering the Army last July. PVT. EASTBI KN AT IT. LEWIS FORT LEWIS. WASH Pvt. Dale Eastburn, 20, son of Mrs Olive L. Eastburn, 39 North L being street, Cottage Grove, specially trained and equipped at Fort Lewis for duty with the enemy-aggressor force during Ex- ercise Hill Top. Green uniformed aggressor troops will field test the 44th In fantry Division in the joint Army- Air Force maneuver to be held at the Yakima Firing Center, near Yakima, Wash., the last three weeks in May. Private East burn is a member of the 9th Engineer Battalion's Company B. He entered the Army last May and completed basic training at Camp Roberts, Calif. His wife, Dorothea, lives at 1795 East Main street, Cottage Grove. Seigeant Peterson is a supply Combat Battalion's specialist in the 9th Engineer Headquarters and Service Company. OFFK EKS ELECTED ANNI AL SHIELDS C EMETERY MEET At the annual meeting of the Shields Cemetery association Fri day night at Mills Chapel officers were elected for the coining year. They are: Dr. W. E. Lebow, presi dent; Armand Wynne, vice presi dent; Mrs. Frank White, secretary and treasurer, and board of trust ees: Floyd xJones, Frank White conuiuiiw “ composed of Max a Tonole, Frank White and Floyd Jones. A general discussion by the 13 members present was held on cleaning up the cemetery, burning and spraying of vines and ScoUh broom for Memorial Day. It was announced that Tonole. Jones and Jtm Allen of North Bend had made quite a difference in the ap pearance of the cemetery grounds already Now Is the Time To Phone 518 For Richfield’s Rich-heat Burr.or Oil FORT LEWIS, WASH— Army Sgt. Allred C. Peterson, 35, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Peter son, Route L Cottage Grove, is being specially trained and equip ped at Fort Lewis, Wash., for duty with the enemy-aggressor force during Exercise Hill Top. Green uniformed aggressor BOB FRYE, AGENT Richfield Oil Co. Phone 518 Cottage Grove We Give Northern Stamps On Fuel Oil Purchases ^öiff D0UAR SA(£ CpI. Robert Summers Builds Good Will By Work in Germany Cp). Robert Summers with Co. B, 35th Engineer Batallion in Ger many is building German-Ameri can good will in Germany the past lew months by using the Com pany's bulldozer to level the ground in some places and exca vating in others. Some interesting clippings from German papers have lieen sent to his wife, Bar bara, telling of the work being done. They read in part: CpI. Robert Summers, the, B Co. bulldozer operator, added another star to his German-Ameri can relations crown when he com pleted the earthwork for a sports platz for one of Bamberg's Cath olic chinch ■ lob coiwK'iot of stripping and leveling an area about 75 yards by 150 yards and involved the moving of approxi mately l.OtMi cubic yards of earth ('[>1. Summers also recently com pleted a 300-yard-long glider field or the church's Youth Center, and i xcavated the foundation lor the proposed Catholic church. He levelled the air-strip at Burg Feuerstein in front of the ch qu l, also the big square in front of St. Kunigund and athletic field at Hallstadt, as well as several other places. Another job credited to B Co., with Cpl. Summers operating the bulldozer was the retrieving of an M-47 tank after it had been stuck for a week in a frozen stream during a field exercise. It was reported a dangerous job, Ix-cause the tank carried a combat load of 99mm ammunition. 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