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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1945)
Mrs. Margaret Cecelia Clinton of 123 South Elii.tt St, Coquille, last week received the Purple Heart posthumously awarded to her hus band, the late Lieut. Leland Jack Clinton, who was on the U.S.S. In dianapolis when it was torpedoed off Guam last July 3Cth .and sank with the loss of the greater portion of its personnel. Lieut. Clinton was bom in Myrtle Point December 29, 1918, but-had spent most of bis life in and around Coquille. He graduated from the high school here in 1938 and later attended O.S.C. ait Corvallis where he graduated in logging engineering in 1941 and belonged' to the S-A.E. fraternity. • . He was also a member of Chad wick Lodge, No. 68, A-X ft A. M. Alter graduating from Corvallis, he was connected with the Sutherlin Logging Co. until he enlisted in the Detroit Lions Get To Laugh At Our "Jeep Lieut. Clinton was married on Dec. 30, 1944, to Margaret Belloni. He was the only son of Theodore L. and Mabel A. Qlinton, wbtr reside at Johhson Mill, just south of Coquille. He is also survived by a sister, Gretchen, wife of Lieut. Jack Laird of Coquille. < U. (it) Leland Jack Clinton ____________ Rotary Club Plans Christmas Holiday Dance For Schools He held the Asiatic-Pacific cam paign medal with three bronze stats ...... i Urt»,,', , , „------------- -—— A gala, festive Christmas holiday dance with music by Medford Fuller’s dance band has been slated for Fri day evening December 2lst, in the Casaba Jamboree Set For Tonight At Community Bldg. Wrestling matches will make their bow in Coquille tonight at the Co quille Community building, when Jack Johnson, local promoter will put on the first grunt and groan contest in recent years for the Coquille Aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. Fresh from the toughest contests in the nation, according to advance Re leases, come Jack Lipscomb, 175 pound West Coast champion to tangle with the meanest man in Sweden, the Swedish champion Gust Johnson who is 172 pounds stripped. Sneeze Achieu, «,171 pound China man, who likes nothing better than a good bout with any comer will take on Joe Lyman, 169 pound_Oregonlan. Doors open at 7:30 and the tussle starts promptly at 8:30. There will be a second match two weeks from tonight. — New Officers For 1946 Bond Drive Goes At the last meeting of the Chamber i A L—. J of Commerce at the Hotel Coquille,} A nCOCI Willi Vllliaren that Lincoln, school, with Smith as principal,^ has the sum of 36,375. Mrs. principal of Washington eported »1,775. The high Waunda Kintzley Initiated Into Job's Daughter? Waunda Kintzley was initiated i it” Job’s Daughters, Bethel No 15, Mon day night at the regular meeting held in the Mas.-nic Hall. An out standing feature of the Bethrl is th*, choir of ten veicis, wtkh adds js '. ly to the inflation cer mord 1. M m bers reported ill were Nancy Godard- Sally Gable and Adri:-he Ku >»r.ks Following the negt regular m e in"- Dec. 24th, a party will be held in th banquet hall of the Masnnio Ttrrt”! at which time secret sisters wil b< revealed. Later, the Bethel laugh ters will go around t ie di.hr r streets singing Christmas Amis. The installarfon of naw officers^ originally planned tor De»1. 26th, will be held Jan. 7th. At the previous meeting, the following were elected: Honored Queen, Laura Emily Ruble; Medley; Senior Benham; Junior Marshal, Guide, Marten McCauleys Have Guests At Fairview