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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 18, 1943)
s X K ♦ A A home &n a few days’ furlough. After now Flight Engineer on Cargo Planes a year of extensive training Corporal He is the son of Mrs. Lucy H. Blum, Blum received his wings at Billy of thiF city. * Mitchell Field, Wisconsin, and he is Calling cards. SO lor SLOC Lowell Waggoner's Letter From England Any Coquille Boys In London? The following are extracts from letters received by Mrs. S. H. Boo sted from Lowell Waggoner, now stationed somewhere in England, and Floyd M. Marney, who is with his Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Winegar, who which will be interesting to his many ■„ outfit in London, writes his mother received word last month that their friends here: here, Mrs. Bessie Marney, asking her son, Kenneth, navigator on a bomber,; Dear Friends: to ascertain if there are any men in was missing in action, this week re the service, stationed in London, who ceived further word from the War! After nearly two months we can are from Coquille. So far he has Department that he is alive, but is a a«ain ’«rite, and we are getting all been unable to locate anyone from prisoner of the Nazis, somewhere in 0“r back mail, and it la the most wel- come thing imaginable. A fellow has here, and Mrs. Marney solicits the Germany. ____________ to write prett/often so as to insure Sentinel's help by asking anyone who knows of a Cbquille young man sta Letter From Bob Bailey • re»ular incoming «r hy might tioned over there to contact, her. Who h No» h C.lifornU ¡¡J ‘ ■X“ Extracts from Floyd’s recent letters The fallowing letter from Bob thing and everyone is the kind I like are printed below and what he says about the Red Cross activities are especially worthy of note: Kenneth Winegar A Prisoner of War I got a letter from home today and ; ot addrea< I^ve waited a little while also four Sentinels. They come by just in case we mi«ht change again, spurts and I enjoy them so much, i Hated to leave Texas to corne to Every time I get my Sentinel I turn !the desert here in California. Abi- to the column, “Local Boys in Ser- I tone, Texas, is a nice town and here .. A ... .. . . ’ fhnra — newly arrived, have quite an edu- lot of the items are about there ian isn ’ ’ i t ne««. any nlaM place ♦- to «to goxex«pt 4 to guys I don’t know but there are Los Angeles which is about 276 miles cation coming. It h quiu chilly Bnd here quite a few about boys I went to from here. school with and I enjoy finding out I We are really roughing it out here; now, but after all winter is setting ar4 no dimouto here—just about them, where they are, what living in tents, no lights and rations ¡in they are doing. I. have hopes of but I guess it’s nothing compared to blackouts and how black are the finding out if any of them are over what our buddies overseas are go- nights! No wher, can you see « light Bt night. As yet I know very here. Several of tfie fellows have ing through. I sure erf joy the paper and sped- uttle about England but will write met old friends of theirs but there A lot of isn’t a single soul that I have met ally the section for the Boys in Ser- „ r le>rn It that I know. Surely I’m not the only vice. It shows where they are and material in the land and should prove ¡interesting. _ representative of Coquille over here. what they are doing. We are a cavalry outfit now but, We are ln En<ii,h money now. We have a Red Cross truck that ■ $30.00 -------- --- to • be «xchanged comes around, parks somewhere and mechanized, so haven't seen a horse I - turned • in real American women hand out fresh yet.* That would be the last straw. and received for it seven pounds, doughnuts eight shillings, a sixpence and two Wm. A. Ulett Is Now are good, one penny pieces. They are larger like that. A Lieutenant, Junior Grade than four bit pieces however. I am I surely do hope the people Geo. A. Ulett, recently received a home don’t get to thinking the war letter‘from his so« William A., tell is just about won. Thf hardest is ing that he had Tteen advanced yet to come, I think, and it will be ,from Ensign to Lieutenant, J. O., in a lot slower going but we have .them 1 | i the Navy and has been transferred on the run and that’s what counts. from Kansas City to*Atlanta, Ga., We stay at Red Cross Clubs when where he is instrument instructor. we go into London and get our bed and eats. The Red Cross is doing Wally Moore Now At a wonderful job over here. We fel ( *’ lows would have a hard time getting Great Lakes Navy Camp a bed and something to eat when we Wally Moore, son of Mr. and Mrs. ’ go there if it wasn't for them. J. A. Moore and a C. H. S. graduate I made a trip to London with two last May, recently completed his of the fellows. Had a very good time. training at the Farragut Navy camp Saw lots of things I read about in in Idaho, and is now attending the history at school. About the most Hospital Corpsman School at the interesting was Westminster Abbey. Great Lakes Navy camp near Chicago. It is very old, parts of it were built in the eleventh century. I was in the rooms where all the kings' and queens’ tombs are. I also stood over tombs of Kipling and Dickens. Was in the place where all the kings and queens have been crowned. It was all very interesting. There are lots of people and a lot of activity. Practically two-thirds of the people were in uniforms of some kind of other. I believe a fel- : low will see more different kinds of uniforms from different countries See Schroeder’s Jewelry Store in in London than in any other city in Coquille for Diamonds and Watch the world. 1 Straps. tfs DAY BEDS 13.50 to $8.50 KITCHEN STOOLS $2.75 NEW CHESTS $7.05 to $12.50 Service and Protection Buy Your ” Auto Fire Life and Accident and Health INSURANCE From Corporal Lawrence J. Blum Is Home On A Furlough Corporal Lawrence J. Blum, now 1 JaiiaA4U|b* Celebrate Thanksgiving Thriftily don - t TOMATOES, Standard (21 pts.) No. 2Vi can ..... 14c CORN, Country Home (13) No. 2 can ............... 14c TOM. JUICE Sunny Dawn (3) No. 2 ______ I........ ...:.10c APRICOTS Red Tag (18) 12 os. can ..................... 12c APPLE SAUCE Hood River (14) No. 2 ........................... 13c CRANBERRY SCE Conway 8) 2 12Ys-ox. cans ........... 37c HARVEST PICKLES 1 qt. 33c Grn Tom. 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