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^-**^****^CRLcyriJör4A*^oo7 BAKER COUNTY LIBRARY 2400 RESORT ST BAKER CITY OR 97814-2721 Exp 05/07/2016 i||i|||||||ii|iil>ihl||iil|i,iiih|||hiii|,||ilh|i|||i"iiii1 Äh 1 Photo coúrtesy of the Eastern Oregon Museum in Haines July 4 Parade in Haines -1914 Positively Baker County www.therconune.com Thursday, July 2, 2015 Est. Haines 1901 ~ Haines, Baker County, Oregon ■ Volume 114, Number 27 • 12 Pages • 75 cents A Toasty 'Toast* to Haines Royalty By Gina Perkins Photo by Gina Perkins Tim Kerns giving his wife Jan a little ride onday night's potluck dinner celebration in honor of the 2015 Haines Queen and Grand Marshal, Jan and Tim Kerns, was very well attended. The room was packed with family and friends and, although a bit toasty in the Methodist Fellowship Hall, everyone outdid themselves-rn-trnrr^- ing wonderful food and seemed to thoroughly enjoy themselves. Special thanks to Marge and Helen Loennig who provided the ham, to Vicki Justus who baked and decorated the beautiful (and scrumptious!) cake, and to Mary Rider who served as By Gina Perkins hostess.Thank you as well, to the Friends of Haines president, Melissa Garner who emceed the event and to Sandy Wood who veryone has a unique story and path Georgia.....to answer the call, some battle helped in many ways behind the scenes. The Kerns were each they travel in this life. scarred, some new to the ways of war, each presented a special clock generously donated and engraved by While Harry Galloway's began in different but with one thing in common: They J. Tabor Jewelers. The tables were very festive and folks had fun The Call. Pennsylvania nearly 99 years ago, and Answered Fred sharing stories about the couple. The Unit was officially designated as the Warner Sr.'s started about a decade later in Duane Boyer had a special surprise for the Kerns. He borrowed Baker County, the two men's paths merged in 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional); Code one of Gene Westberg's buggies and had banners displayed on May. They were selected to be part of the Name: "Galahad," later it became popularly the carriage. Tim noticed something was up when the Grand Mar Honor Flight and Oregon Delegation and flew known as "Merrill's Marauders," named after shal Banner seemed to be on one of the shafts where the "horse" to Washington D.C. together to be honored for its leader, Brigadier General Frank Merrill. should be. He quickly caught on and gave his Queen a short little their important service to our country. Warner Formed into six combat teams (400 per team), ride on the lawn. Jan noticed right away what the buggy whip was detailed the experience of the trip in his letter color-coded Red, White, Blue, Green, Orange for, too. and Khaki, two teams to a Battalion, the rest which appeared in last week's Courier. We are all blessed to live in Baker County and it’s wonderful Harry Galloway and his wife, Phyllis who he formed the H.Q. and Air Transport Commands. little communities like Haines can have such a big heart for their After preliminary training operations were met and married in Melbourne, Australia, came neighbors and such a sense of patriotism.“ undertaken in great secrecy in the jungles of to Baker City in the mid-70s. "We were looking When we hear of all the terrible, unimaginable things happening for a nice, quiet place to live," explained Phyl Central India, the Marauders began the long in other parts of the world, the words, "there's no place like home," march up the Ledo Road and over the outlying lis. seem to have even more meaning. The couple had lived and worked in 43 ranges of the Himalayan Mountains into Wishing everyone a safe, fun, and meaningful Independence states, New Zealand, and other exciting places Burma. The Marauders with no tanks or heavy Day celebration. as Harry worked on the pipelines as a laborer, artillery to support them, walked over 1,000 earning his way to becoming an inspector. He miles through extremely dense and almost im and his wife live now quite close to the natural penetrable jungles and came out with glory. In five major (Wallabum, Shaduzup, Inkan- gas pipeline in Baker City that he had in gahtawang, Nphum, Ga, and Myitkyina) and spected decades ago, ironically. An Army man, Galloway says he was in thirty minor engagements, they defeated the heavy artillery prior to WWII. During the War, veteran soldiers of the Japanese 18th Division (Conquerors of Singapore and Malaya) who he was a part of the elite Merill's Marauders. The following information explaining their criti vastly outnumbered the Marauders. Always cal role in the War was taken from the website moving to the rear of the main forces of the honoring Merrill's Marauders 5307 Composite Japanese, the Marauders completely dis rupted the enemy supply and communication Unit (Provisional) www.marauder.org. "In August of 1943 at the Quebec Confer lines, and culminated their behind the lines op ence, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime erations with the capture of Myitkyina Airfield, Minister Winston Churchill, and other allied the only all-weather airfield in Northern Burma. The attack on Myitkyina was the climax to leaders decided that an American Long Range Penetration Mission behind the Japanese four months of marching and combat in the Lines in Burma was needed to destroy the Burma jungles. No other American force ex Photo by Gina Perkins Japanese supply lines and communications cept the First Marine Division, which took and Above, Tim and Jan Kerns are and to play havoc with the enemy forces while held Guadalcanal for four months, has had as the 2015 Haines Grand Marshal an attempt was made to reopen the much much uninterrupted jungle fighting service as and Queen. Merrill's Marauders. But no other American needed Burma Road. At right, The festive cake was made by Vicki Justus. President Roosevelt issued a Presidential force anywhere had marched as far, fought as call for volunteers for "A Dangerous and Haz continuously or had to display such endurance, ardous Mission." The call was answered by ap as the swift-moving, hard-hitting foot soldiers, proximately 3,000 American soldiers. The of Merrill's Marauders. volunteers came from state side units, from the jungles of Panama and Trinidad.....from the campaigns of Guadalcanal, New Guinea, New See THE CALL page 2 M E 0 94922 23720 0 Reminder: July 11, 2 p.m. Dedication of late Don R. Guyer’s Wartime Memorabilia at the Warhawk Air Museum in Nampa, Idaho. Hells Canyon Motorcycle Rally July 9-13 www.hellscanyonrally.com Baker County Fair Board Meeting July 7 at 6 p.m. at the Event Center Jimmy Lloyd Rea, Jr., you will be missed by our community. Celebrating the sweet notes of your life. 4005 23rd Street • PO Box 226 Baker City, OR 97814 (541) 523-3616
