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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1949
Page
2
Excerpts from letters to the Inter Church Fellowship reveal dire conditions in Hartlanden with 52 refugee families relying on scarce rations. They describe milk, butter, meat, sugar, bread, coffee, and limited clothing, noting overcoats require points and a single pair of shoes must last five years.
A collection of wartime notes from families in US, British, and Italian zones describing gratitude for Christmas packages and food aid. Letters speak of spared homes, saved families, and shared relief amid postwar hardship, with requests for ongoing support and friendship.
Fragmentary crossword clues shown for horizontal and vertical entries. Reconstructed hints include reception, handwriting, original, exclamation, Italian river, note of scale, and other scattered terms with missing letters and partial words. The readable items suggest a themed puzzle entry on a newspaper page.
Reader memories recall wed ding serenades with kettles and spoons and a shivari rite. Others describe plasterers soaking lumps to remove sand and a rubber ice memory from winter streams. The column invites signed letters to The Old-Timer Box 340 Frankfort Ky for future issues.
Oregon State College lists 463 winter term honor roll students including Marty Stallard of Powers with straight A grades and Alf Aurland of Norway with AB grades. Stallard, a pharmacy sophomore, Aurland, a senior in engineering, among 85 with straight A’s. seniors lead classes with 158 honorees, sophomores 131, engineering 96, science 92.
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