Out-of-Doors Stuff
M. C. Hartman, Executor
I Mr». Ward Evan* . last Wednesday
evening with the following atten
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CINCE FINLEY or LOU BRALY
Coquille
THE OLD JUDGE SAYS
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By July 1, 1944, Russia had re- in Portland, viiated at the home of
ceived 11,000 planes under lend- Mr- and Mrs. John Widmark last
lease, Great Britain 10,800. Most of Tuesday.
the planes for Russia went from1 Wednesday guests at the home of
Great Falls, Mont., to Fairbanks, Mr. and Mrs. John Widmark were
then to Nome and across Bering' Mrs. Harry Collier, Glen and Nancy,
strait to Siberia, thence to the fight- G,en Collier, Mr. and Mrs. H. L.
Ing front. Planes for Great Britain Crawford .and Gay Saundbaum, of
were delivered in the Mediterranean North Bend, Mr. and Mrs. Ivan
area, with a goodly number going to Robison and children, bf Coquille.
England direct. To the British went
Ivan Robison came in from Farra-
78,000 trucks and other motor vehi-, gut, Idaho, last week for a few
cles and 51,100 tanks
To Russia day«’ furlough with his family at
there went 300,000 trucks and other ............................................................___
self-propelling equipment.
the American equipment that will
The equipment sent to Britain and ever be returned.
Counties which
Russia is but a small part of the have been expecting to acquire road­
war production. The guns, tanks, building equipment from the sal­
trucks. etc., sent land-lease are only vaged war goods have no assurance
a fraction of the equipment that has that there will be enough still usable
had to be supplied American forces, to satisfy even 100 of the 3 000
and there are few of the articles in counties in the United States
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A. C. Schultz
Gilmore Service
Station
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