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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1944
Page
4
A local event honored Mr and Mrs A A at a Saturday night party. Attendees included family friends and neighbors as the couple received recognitions for their years of service. Plans for future celebrations were discussed.
The obituary recalls Harriett Elisabeth Gould born March 28 1858 San ta Clara California who married George A Gould July 8 1873. The couple moved from California to Oregon in 1882 and settled along the Millicoma river in Elkhorn, raising a family of twelve in isolation. Mrs Gould helped with all chores, knit wool garments, and supervised schooling under sister Miss Ocla McClay. Five of their nine children survive along with 15 grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren with the oldest at Washington State College and the youngest seven months old.
A 4H award grants a year’s subscription to the American Poultry Journal to Pill Domenighini of Bahdin for being judged the best in a local poultry event.
Announcement from H C Seymour honors Domenighini as outstanding 4-H poultry club member in Coos County. JF Bishop credits Domenighini’s achievement. 25 Oregon counties share the award made possible by RR Hannas, editor of the Journal. Domenighini belongs to a club organized last year at Parkernbury school on Bear Creek under Edith Van Leuven. Bill Prefera keeps Black Minoreos for the club project.
War Department reports hundreds of publications reach overseas embarkation ports with no AP numbers. Postmasters must refuse to accept mail to Army personnel unless AP numbers appear and must secure full military addresses including unit designation and AFO numbers from subscribers or next of kin. Publishers urged to stop mailing to overseas addresses lacking complete details.
The War Food Administration announces Growin in 44 Week for April. Oregon surveys show near record plantings with wheat acreage up about 25 percent and oats barley and corn combined down about 9 percent. Potatoes fall 18 percent, and strawberries are 20 percent lower. Weather and prices could alter final acreage. sugar beets may replace some western Oregon potatoes. Nationally, total plantings approach 376 million, up 4 percent from 1943.
Oregon’s 1943 potato production totals reached a record high with farm output at 10,335,000 bushels and cash income of 8.862 million dollars. Klamath led with 15,000 acres, Malheur 10,000, and Deschutes, Crook, Clackamas, and Marion near 6 percent each.
A fragment remarks that income tax is a dreadful yet necessary evil causing tempers gray hair and strained nerves as it contemplates the fate of the man who bears it. The passage notes a harsh view of taxation's toll on individuals and society.
A man recounts excessive earnings, taxes, and deductions leading to a tax bill equal to all he earned plus 960. He contemplates poison but learns life insurance forgiveness for 1943, choosing instead to seek life in a city jail to learn about its bread and water. He speaks with the collector of Internal Revenue who informs him of his obligations.
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