| 17-Year Olds May Again Enlist In The Coast Guard Wounded, He Picked Off Seven Japs Ron Burr returned Saturday from n trip to Oakland, where he saw Har old Hart, formerly a driver of one cf the Burr logging trucks, who has been in the Marine Corps for the past year. He is in the Naval Hospital at Oakland recovering from a mortar shell injury which he received on one of the islands in the Pacific where the • Commandos made a landing, some weeks ago. He told Don that had not a buddy alongside Trim pulled him down the shell would have killed him. After he had been laid out on a stretcher, preparatory to being taken on board the hospital ship, and with his gun lying alongside him, he saw a bunch of Japs starting to set up a machine gun farther up on the beach. He lay there, wounded as he was, and picked off all seven ot the gun crew. ' The Harts still own their home here in the north part of town, but Mrs. Hart is working in the San Francisco Bay area. ■J V-Mail Letter From North Africa Written by Don Willett “some- where in North Africa,” on December 30, the following V-mail letter was Don, before going into the service, was employed at the plant here and lived at the Fred Belloni “Boys House:” “Hi ya, pappy! Sure nice to hear from you again. Guess, you thought I’d forgotten you, eh? I Imagine you must have got the limit today or are you the hunter you used to be? I haven’t seen a fowl of any descrip tion yet. .They must have left this area for wood when hell broke loose I call my office over here. There wasn’t much to do today so I hauled three loads of crushed rock for my office. Yep, it goes in what I call my officer over here. Here it .is practically January and no rain or snow. Something is bound to descend soon. Maybe it will be in a different kind of a liquid form. I guess the draft board has nearly picked up all the available men. Course not all, ’cause some have a way of staying out. Army life isn’t so bad, but one day I’ll have my choice of which I want. No need to say which that $ yfljl soon. be. I'm not a 30- Pop. years man. Wi J. " ■ Was Here On Furlough Before Going Over Sea as Bob’s. (Bob Baumgartner). It, How much I, have'missed you dear would seem a bit strange for me td motftgf, sit by a file again. Right now I am I feel that words cannot tell. Enlistment of 17-year old men in shirtless far comfort I don’t even And I pray that God in his goodness ;the United States Coast Guard, Marine Corps Sergeant The following letter and poem, wear a shirt except when it is ijeces- Will guard you and keep you well. ¡halted temporarily, will be resumed sary. ‘ • • • * isary. I recall other.days of ihy childhood, A. M. Willey Here For A Day again in February, recruiting officers written by August J. Blumyer, some The poem of the ship ia a ’ tri# story Yoy. tenderly stood by my side, 1 -a __ «__ Master Gunnery Sergeant A. M. at Coast Guard headquarters in the where in the Pacific, was sent to Mrs. in verse. I would never have writtdiy As;I lay on my bed hot wjth fever Willey, who gave up his dairy busi- 1 Alaska Building at Seattle announce, Ira Bumgartner of Riverion. He is it if Bob hadn’t asked me if I had. And toe^d on my pillow add cried. the young man who was with her ness here a year or so ago to join Young men who are physically So just tell Bob if it hadn’t been for When 1' needed you moafyou were son 1 Bob, in the Navy and the Sen the Marine Corps, was a Coquille qualified and who are seeking a war him that poem would never have near'me, ' . ----- -- tinel prints them because it gives a visitor from Monday until Tuesday Ume c«reer of action and adventure been written. If I was down hearted and blue ” slant on what the boys out there are morning this week. He is a mechanic wil) b* enlisted and sent to Alameda, I really think I am going to come You were always ready to cheer me doing and thinking, and the poem ex and was stationed for some time in Cal*L f°r preliminary training, out to breg on after the war is over. I A pal that was good and true. •» the South Pacific. He did not report, With the Coast Guard active on presses a sentiment that everyone I have just about decided to make it Tonight as I’m writting dear mother at least not for publication, where every major battlefront of the world, feels toward “mother." He wrote. __________ my new home. I’ve never quite for- Out here on my floating abode, and "how much action he had seen, from the South Pacific to the Medi < couple of months ago: This finds me feeling pretty well in gotten and 1 believe there are bet- I recall how you guided by footsteps but he was near the fighting front. terranean, from the foggy Aleutians every way as Christmas approaches.' ^opportunities there than back in To follow the straight narrow road. He came up from San Diego and to the channel coast ot Europe, more Missouri. when he left Tuesday ¿was on his and more men are needed for special It will be my second away from home, , Daÿs are pretty dark now but they And now that Pve grown into man hood my first off United States soil. This way to Portland, where Mrs. Willey ized training in amphibious warfare atmosphere and scenery is hardly brighten again. Bad as war is it And learned to be honeet and true. is in the hospital. He will report back “hd in other duties now being per- fitting for Christmas. I always pic- doea ,U oi M» som® ««x* H makes As long as I live I’ll remember soon at the Marine Corps base at San formed by men of the Coast Guard. us appreciate “ the ■* great ‘ and J wonder ■*“ Dear mother I owe it to you. j The Coast Guard took an active ture Christmas with plenty of snow, Diego. ful land we have to live in. All of us Though thousands of miles are be evergreens and holly to brighten part in the historic assault on Tarawa who are away from it will see it in tween us, and Makin in the Japanese-occupied things up. I can’t fit a cocoanut palm It Is Now Captain a new and wonderful light. After all Of ocean and mountains and plains. into the picture. It won ’ t seem like Gilbert Islands; they landed forces there is only one United States of Yet I feel the day is not distant Earl C. Hamilton 'on Bougainville; they drove landing Christmas to me. It will be more Since his recent visit in Coquille barges ashore at Attu, Kiska, Sicily <just like another day come and gone. America, There will never be When dear mother I’ll greet you No place on - earth can when he was here with Mrs. Hamil and Italy, and they are ready for the I Each succeeding day is just like the another, » again. one before it. I scarcely notice the match it I can see your face light with glad ton from California a few weeks ago, big pushes yet to come. ness Earl C. Hamilton has been advanced I Information regarding enlistment passing of time. It is almost a year . In this letter I am going to inclose from the rank of First Lieutenant and in the Coast Guard may be obtained now since I left the U. S. and about a verse I wrote last spring. Some- As you welcome your long lost boy. he is now Capt. Earl Hamilton. The from room 319 Alaska Building, Sec 18 months since I last saw my home. thing I wrote to my mother for Once more I’ll embrace you dear mother However, I like to think brighter days Mother’s Day. Perhaps you would promotion was made prior to his ond and Cherry, Seattle, Wash.. are ahead when all of us can observe like to add it to your collection of Our hearts will be filled with joy being sent overseas to the European i Then I’ll sit down and tell you my theatre, his postoffice address now i Chadwick Lodge, A. F. & A. M. a good old fashiohed “White Christ poems from service men. story being New York City, mas,” in the good old American way. Special communications of Chad I never will tire of hearing the strains TO MY MOTHER Other days will relive again. « wick Lodge are scheduled for Sat of that ballad. Our here on the wide blue Pacific Now I bid you farewell dearest Don Estes Took Course urday, Feb. 5, at 8 o’clock, with work mother I am not allowed to tell you what Far from home and old friends that At Harvard University in the M. M., and on Friday, Feb. 11, happened on a certain day not so Far out on the ocean blue, I knew. On a card to Alton Grimes and the work in the F. C. Stated communica- terribly long ago.—Its all something | With , these words, there will never ¡Today of all days dearest mother T II would like to-forget. Whenever I _ _______ __ ____ ...____ _ _ be another My thoughts turn ___ homeward to you. invited toattend. get me chance to stop by some day. 'On this Mother’s Day I am thinking So loving, so kind and true. was oh his"Way back to Pensacola, W. B. McLarrin, W. ” M. I I’ll tell you the whole story. ”T w i As time on wings swiftly flies, Florida, after taking a two weeks’ Remember — Norton's for office, I I will always feel that the liand of Of the morning now one year past me course In third: dimensional photog Insurance Specialist, F. R. Bull, s God guided my destiny then, as well Vfhen I kissed you a parting goodbye. school and home supplies. 37tfs raphy at Harvard University, which he said was very interesting. He added that he did not know how much longer he would be stationed at Pensacola. Bob Kline In Training At Montana State College Bob Kline has written his father, C. W. Kline, that he had graduated from A squad to B squad at Mon tana State College at Bozeman, where he was sent after finishing the course at Buckley Field. Colo., camp. Bob is in the Army Air Corps and if he continues to pass the squad requirements he will finish with E squad—it takes a month per squad from A’' to E—and he will then be sent for final training to some air field like that at Santa Ana, Calif. With the increasing number of air pilots now available for active ser vice overseas the examinations for steady advancement are becoming increasingly more difficult and many B! the young men with whom Bob as in training at Buckley Field have . £een discharged from the Air Corps. i Private first class and Mrs. .Co Patrick and his sister, Mrs. R. Adelin, of Seattle, Wash., • were over^tHght guests of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Miller at their home on the North Bank road last week. Pfc. Patrick is on furlough from Cherry Point, N. C., where he is in training in the Marine Corps. He expects to be sent overseas on return to his base. ~ . Jack McCracken Qualifies As Aviation Cadet F. E. McCracken on Monday receiv ed a telegram from his son, Jack, that he had qualified as an aviation cadet after 28 days of basic training at Buckley Field, near Denver, Colo. From there he will be sent to college somewhere for further training. He wrote that the exams, both physical Coos County Boy One Of and mental, were very stringent, and The Mars Crew Members with the cutting down now of new Marvin J. Floyd, a Myrtle Point men for pilot training that 80 per young man and the son-in-law of Mr. cent of his group were not passed. and Mrs. A. L. Hooton here, is one of the crew members of the Mars, the jloth Zwicker Boys Are largest transport plane in the world Now In South Pacific which recently made a round trip to Fred and Elmer Zwicker are now Hawaii. Floyd was not on that initial I both somewhere in the South Pacific flight, but will be making trips on the flying boat soon. He is stationed I their mother, Mrs. Fred H. Zwicker, at the Alameda Air Base, and his 1 reports. Fred has been stationed in wife, the former Beth Hooton, is em- 1 Hawaii for some time but has re- ployed down there in a defense plant. I cently been moved and Elmer left • _____________ . i the United States mainland a short Income Tax Returns prepared. Call !time “8°- ✓ 280-M for day or evening appoint- j ment. George L. Maynard. 2t2s A Letter From The South Pacific Calima csnli. ov for fl.OO I* 1 '■ I .1 TIME OUT FOR GLAMOUR! . »Mtf Omte Leslie Salt 2 lb. pkg............. 2 for 15c Baking Powder, K. C. 25c jar 22c Baking Soda, A & H 1 lb. pkg. 10c We’ve been amazed, looking around at oiir shelves and displays, to see the hundreds of items that aren't rationed. And we’ve arranged this “Green Tag Event’* to call them to your attention. 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