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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1973
Page
2
The Myrtle Point Herald is published every Thursday in Myrtle Point Oregon. Printed details list roles including editor and general manager with names and staff credits and indicate the paper’s establishment in 1960 and mailing details.
The Myrtle Crest Gym hosts the 35th annual festival on April 13 at 7 30 p m with bands from Reedsport Brookings Harbor Sluslaw Pacific North Bend Coquille Bardon Gold Beach and Myrtle Point. The Southwestern Oregon District 7 Honor Band directed by Robert Wagner of the University of Oregon will perform.
Supervisor W P Kenuyne announced safety award letters to Siskiyou personnel chosen by the Forest Safety Committee. Duane D. Kuse of the Chetco Ranger District is named Outstanding Safe Worker with about thirteen years of federal service. Other district winners include Jay Woocy Galice Cyril K Wood Iron Melvin McCurdy Illinois Valley James A. Cook Powers and Francis E Snell Westside Engineering Wedderburn.
Senators Ripper and Grannell along with Rep Stevenson push the Offshore Fisheries Bill through the House unanimously. The measure would create a 50 mile fisheries conversation zone and move to Senate hearings. Public hearings drew hundreds as log exports and fisheries concerns dominated legislative activity statewide.
Funeral services are set for Thursday at 3 p.m. in the Myrtle Point Chapel for John Calvin Caudle 80 who died April 9 in Coquille. He was a livestock rancher since 1937 and leaves wife Golda Myrtle Point son Wayne and daughter Leils Rochek with several grandchildren and great grandchildren. Interment at Myrtle Crest Memorial Gardens.
National Library Week runs April 8 to 14. Flora M Laird Memorial Library invites all area residents to visit, with free access for rural and city patrons to books magazines stereo records and resource materials. Newspapers including the Oregonian are on the rack and interlibrary borrowing is available with a new photocopier for public use.
Letter urges a community memory project for pioneers who settled the upper Coquille River Valley from 1850 to 1870s. It calls for a Pioneer Memorial Lodge at Danny Myrtlewood, funded by a Security Bank account, with donated labor and materials, to serve youth and families for years ahead.
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