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No Strike he’ll start rigt^ eoen^ain, Coquille S. D. A. Church
I For “Two more bucks »day.*’!
Helps With African Missions
A Soldier Speaks to
John L. Lewis
"Buzz" Always Did
Make Friends
*
Extract from a totter to his mother
from "Buzz" Holmstrom, land-based
somewhere in the South Pacific area:
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The following poem from a boy
duty in New Guinea was sent to Mr?
Letter From Marc Shelley
and Mrs. B. D. Keener, who give the
To George F. Burj
Sentinel permission to print it It
Writing to thank Geo. Burr for the ¡tells very forcibly what the men in
courtesies shown him on his recent the service think of strikes:
visit ¡n Coquille, and for the invita
tion to the Rotary lunch, .“the mem
I’m full of* damned malaria
ories of which linger,” Mark Shelley
I shake the whole day long,
says he could write enough about
The quinine’s ringing in my ears
what he has seen and done to fill the
I’m anything but strong.
Sentinel, but anything which would
Mosquito bites all over me
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Lieut. T. Ranald Hanly
M
Here For Week’s Visit
■
Lieut. Thomas Ranald Hanly, who
has jyst finished his training as an
Air Corps pilot at B25 TransiH
—i
Transitional
School at Mather Field naar
near nacra-
Sacra
mento, came in on a furlough
lunougn Sun
aun-
day night and is a
Floyd Peterson home
. . ’
, About those seeds you sent me. It
resided for many years. He is visit
just wasn’t practical to plant them
ing relatives and friends here and in
myself, so I gave some ef them to
Bandon. -When he returns to duty
some natives I know. I read the
he will go to Columbia, South Caro
My
ears
are
full
of
New
Guinea
Mud
directions carefully and then, mostly
“1 am in the pink,” he goes on, M .
.
lina, for further training.
muddy ditch.
by the sign laftfuage, I told them “have seen a lot of the Pacific, calm
how to plant them.
and stormy, never lost a meal. Have [ I’m living in a jungle,
SeaBee Ernest Dalton
You just have to imagine the pic helped pay the 10 gal. gas deal off It's hot as merry hell, ft
ture. We were squatting^in front of many times over. The war looks “C” rations is my menu,
Came West For Christmas
his thatch hut. With the smoke very good for us and the Japs defin
No cooking can I smell.
Another Coquille boy visited his
front the little fire inside seeping out itely and positively get whipped For this I get two bucks a day
present home which is in Vancouver,
through, the roof. There was a pig where we meet them. Am very proud And a chance for a little ground,
over Christmas. He is Ernest Dal
or two rooting around, and the na of this ship; all have proven they That measures four by six by four— ton, who worked for the Coos County
tive’s two pickaninnies, dirty as the •have what it takes.’ Have had my And a covered grassy mound,
Highway Department for about five
dickens, needing their noses wiped, feet on land twice in about two
years. He has been in the Sea Bees
not a stitch of clothes, but cute as months. First Ume' was
on the My P31 who came down here with me' for over a year and just came back
anything you ever saw.
beach where I met Frank Harlocker,The lad wa* fu,t eighteen, ■
from six months work, somewhere in
He wears a sort of trousers ar and enjoyed every minute with him. 2,ot hlm a.
h*'11 never 'eave
the North Atlantic.
z He is at present in Rhode Island
vuverrlei ia
«iTOl,
‘
rangement made out of a banana Liberty on the beach is very limited. yhe coverlet
is green,
leaf and his wife a grass skirt. He When we go ashore we say we are Another one will see no more
getting additional training for service
has great bushy, fuzzy hair, but her going ‘ —
—. beach.
,__ .... ’
Another lost an arm
on the
elsewhere.
head is shaved and hgr face blacked . "Geo.
McDonald
Jr. _________
is dubbed __
The
“Geo. McD<
_______
__ And hundreds more I do not know
The Ernest Dalton’s still own their
with charcoal because somebody has Banker from Coquille.’ He is look-! Who now are safe from harm.
place on East 4th Street in Coquille
| I ing and feeling
»- j 1 , But when I hear a bunch of guys
Well I <«• im o u„i
i
<
ieelin* fine.
iin*- I 1 -----
waa —
rated
and may move back there after the |
er^ni J
U P
I CarP*nler!1 Ma*’ la‘ Cla“ The Car' Are safe and far away,
war as they haven’t found any place
, XyS
w uCtiC
XCIX <X
W d J |
Are
safe CX11V1
and far
away,
ground and make a little row, show- 1 —
•- misleading
— —»«— —
penters Mate is
on -
a De- J Refuse j0 worg because they want
quite like Coquille yet.
ing them how to plant the radishes. stroyer. Anything, ‘Chips’ fills In, and Two doUar, more a day
Then I dig a little hole and show them that sayings runs true aboard. ‘We do j onJy wi,h we had them here
Injured Riverton Young
f
how to put six squash seeds in a the impossible but a miracle takes a For
a week or two>
hill and another four feet away. It little longer. • ’ >» ”
Man Ia Slowly Improving
To
To live
Uve in
in Guinea
Guinea jungles
jungles
was touching to see how intense
Well it looks like I’ve about run And there we>d let them gtew
Mrs. Ida Baumgartner writes the
their interest was. His wife asked Ollt Of ''stuff. ??.
aqoa anv
” ' DI
Please
say hdllrx
hello fzx
to
Sentinel from her home at Riverton
me If they finish in one moon but I friends and will be seeing you all. We’d, give them all malaria
that their son, Robert H., who was
said I think two moon. When I left
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Let mosquitoes have a feast,
wounded in the South Pacific last
they were just as happy as an Amer Husband Of Local Girl Receives We d make them bury many a lad year and is now convalescing at a
ican family that had fallen heir to a
Fl.in. C«..
From North' West- S0“111’ and East hospital in California, is regaining
We’d feed
from g
fortune. . I sure do hope those seeds Distinguished Flying Cross
his strength and is now able to walk
thrive there..
Lieut. Richard O. Sherrill, whose We’d let a hot sun blister them,
with crutches. He hopes to be
I can say a few words of the na wife, Mrs. Markie Sherrill, is em- T’would be no “Palm Beach Tan." to come home soon.
,
tive language and am getting pretty ployed in the ration board office here'
good at the sign language. I tell and makes her home with her par- We’d let them hear the wounded moan
them my name is Buzz but they 1 ents, Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Smith, hasWe’d let them see them die,
Delbert Starr Takihg Army
simply can*t say it that way. They 'recently been decorated with the dis- 'With snipers’ bullets whizzing close
Aviation Training In S. D.
call me “Boos,” so I answer to that tinguished flying cross in the South With star shells in the sky. x
Delbert E. Starr, son of Mr.
name, too.
Pacific.
•
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** known And then we’d send them home again Mrs. J. W. Starr of Coquille, is
You know I can see where experi as a “Jungle Skipper,
_’ ” .. 1
To their ten bucks a day,
Stationed at the Jamestown College
ence has taught the natives right of the character of the South Pacific To tell the others what they’d seen in South Dakota, where he is receiv
about this clothing deal. They mostly islands over which they fly and on Way down New Guinea way.
ing Army Air Force instruction. Af
are healthy and it is because they get which they land.*
z_ i I'll bet those guys would have enough. ter five months there he <¡11 receive I
such good ventilation. When you
Lieut. Sherrill has over 900 flying At home they’d gladly stay,
an appointment as Aviation Cadet. |
wear clothes you sweat and in no hours to his credit and has been in
time at all you get irritated and the several bomb attacks by the Japs.
first thing you know something like
“athlete's foot” sets in Somewhere Corp. Bob Littrell Back
on your body. It does not get well
From Camp In The Southeast
and soon becomes a little sore which
Corporal Bob Littrell, formerly
will develop into a big running ulcer
and from there on I don’t know what with the Littrell Supply Co. here, but
who is now in the Army Air Force,
happens.
was here with Mrs. Littrell last week,
So long, Haldane.
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F.
C. True. Mrs. Littrell is employed in
2nd Lieut. Howard D. Caudle
the Mt. States Power Co. office at
Finishes Marine Flight Training Marshfield. Bob has been stationed
Second Lieutenant Howard Donald in one of the southern states but when
Caudle, son of John David Caudle, he left Tuesday evening it was to re
of Coquille, this month will complete port to the base at Fresno Calif.
Ration points and prices on
His brother-in-law Frank True, re
his advanced flight training at the
beans are low, but nutrition
Pensacola, Florida, Naval Air Train cently inducted frym the Coquille
and nourishment are high.
ing Center. He later will be assigned Selective Service office, left Monday
Most important oí all, they
to duty with an aircraft squadron of evening to attend Boot camp at Far
taste nrslL Fix np a pot
the Marine Corps.
'
ragut, Idaho.
of beans real soon. Iavy>
Pink«' Rods, Limaa
Blackeyes, Soys—
we've got ’em all.
1 Climaxing a three months' study of
i the West coast missions of Africa,
and the Countries of Iran, Ethiopia
and the. Holy Land, members of the
Coquille
a
,
. . S. D. A. .. church
, . Presented
,___
*Pec,al Pro«ram »he last of IMS, «nu
and answered, and that there are plans
' °1« “thirteenth
Sabbath
.
- ” overflow
__ of- for missionary nurses and teachers to
fering of >102.00 to help establish
be sent>s soon as possible. Two gen
~
i mission stations
eral conference officials, W. G. Tur
thirty-five millions of
ner, vice-president, and E. D. Dick
rw*nnlp
people in that sect
section of the world.
secretary will go to West Africa very
Mrs. Virgil McKinney, superinten
soon it is also reported to the church
dent, reports that Dr. George W. ¡here to assist in the reorganization
Allen, a Seventh-day Adventist mis
of (hat territory, which before the
sionary physician, and wife, are now
en route to Nigeria, there to head a war was under the direction of the
fifty-bed hospital located at Ile-Ife, church body in England. Both have
the sacred city of the Yoruba tribe. traveled in these lands.
Large 8-Piece Dining Set
$109S0i|
Slightly Soiled Kreohler DAVENPORT ft
CHAIR Was 1139:50 Now
*. -,
FASHION FLOW DAVENPORT & CHAIR
Was 1139.50. Now
, - .
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o
BABY FURNITURE
Crib Mattresses - High Chairs
Bathinettes - Bassinetts
Nursery Seats
Purkey Furniture
(When Yoe Think of Furniture Think of Purkey)
and help you save on ration points, too!
a N extra
W a R bond
LOAN —NOW
—4th
I
wlue J l
There never has been ■ time when Conservation meant
so much, both to you and your Country.
Lubrication and general periodic checking of all the work
ing parts of your car will save you MONEY! to say nothing
of hard-to-get parts and labor for costly repairs.
a, “doÿUL
OjUUUpiAS "
¡AMudiu
uwdh?
We still have Ethyl Gasoline!
BEANS
PGM IN J
Large Limes
(2 pts, lb.)
2 lbs.
(no points)
SOY BEANS .nb,
20c
(no points)
BLACKEYES tlbl
19c
Pork ft Beans, Van Camp (15 pts) No 2 17c
Beans, Libby Baked (9 pts) 14 ox. jar 11c
Pre-Cooked Beans Copelands (1 pt) 8 ox 15c
Raisins, Del Monte 15 ox pkg. (4 pts) 12c
Green Beans (Little Mill—no pts.) No. 2 13c
Beans, Gardenside (no pts.) No. 2 can ..14c
llbJ„
Samuray. Jaim -J ica A (piodit
GRAPEFRUIT—Arizona— lb.
ORANGES, Sunkist—lb.
LEMONS—Sunkist—lb.
nWTLFV APPLES—’b.
LETTUCE, Ice Berg—lb.
tn weight
a PICNIC
Modem curing
make F1CWICS
and every bit as
a
WAS LOAN '
[B ob ’
BEANS ^:,,,Sn"uÄ.44c
M J B—lb. jar.......
Airway Coffee—lb
Nob Hill—lb. bag-
produci
(niiu"-
(2 points lb.)
COFFEE
aMK-R .' '*■
We stock PRRSTO-LITK BATTERIES. Wp also have bat
tery recharging and testing equipment,
Keep your battery in «hape ■“<! y°w carwlH give better
performance,
SAFEWAY
Edwards High Grade
Bring your car in as soon as possible for your Chek-Chart
mm tit«.
“COMPARE THESE TYPICAL
SAFEWAY VALUES
Crackers, Sodas or Grahams, 2 lb. pkg. 29c
Ritx Butter Wafers, 1 lb. pkg. ....*.
Peanut Butter, Beverly, 2 lb. jar
Jell Well, assorted flavors, pkg.
Cheese, Kraft Amer. Spread (1 pt) 5 ox. 22c
Margarine, Dalewood (6 pts.) lb....... 24c
Heinx Baby Foods, strained (1) can....... 7c *
Cranbry See, West Peak (19) lb. jar ...._ 15c
Tea, Canterbury black ¥« lb. pkg.
a
dWW
’79
7 PIECE DINING SETS
Walnut or Bleached Finish
; make a
SWELL Meal!
SHELL
numbering over three million. There
are forty-two churches in Nigeria, she
said. In surrounding countries are
vast areas where the Christian mis
sionary has never entered.
It ia'also announced that recent
calls for physicians from Emperor
Halle
of Ethiopia have been
1
ÿ.iaianiud Vlcatà
» HAMS—Ready to eat—lb..-.:.........
PICNICS—Read yto eat—lb.........
SLICED BACON—Cudahay’s—lb.
SALT PORK—lb..................... ■/
GROUND BEEF—lb...............
BEEF ROAST—GYade A—lb
29c
2&
Spty, Crisco or Snowdrift (5)—1 lb.
Peas, San Wan No.-2 can (15)-------......
Spinach, No. 2 Mt can (12) Libby...........
Shortening, Royal Satin (5) 1 lb...... —
Mop Sticks, Spring each. ......... ..... ......
4
Your Shell
Strictly Fresh Eggs—Lowest Market Price
STAMPS—G-H-J—Good thru Feb. 2«
BBOW/I STAMPS—R-g-T-V
Expire‘Jan. 2»—V geed thru Feb. 2<
* SVOAK STAMP M -
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Good thru March 11
SAFEWAY
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