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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1948
Page
9
State Grange Master Morton Thompkins announced the 1848 convention will be held in Coos Bay June 13 to 17. Final site selection favored Coos Bay for better housing after bids from North Bend and Coquille in Coos County.
Sitkum residents hosted and visited relatives and friends from Myrtle Point Roseburg Pleasant Hill and Coquille with dinners church camps air show attendance and travel plans. Local residents added trips to Bend Portland Ashland Gardiner and Des Moines while wildlife activity included panther sightings near the Flentge Perkins cabin.
Mrs. Emily Shull has been signed to teach the fourth grade in the local grammar school. School board members and Paul T Franzen, new principal, announced the appointment this week. One more teacher remains to be contracted to complete the grammar and junior high staff.
Eighty seven persons attended a roent beef feed at Camp McKinley August 1 hosted by Presbyterian church members. Rev. Richard Cochran said the event closed the Presbyterian Summer Bible camp with a short afternoon program after the meal. Cochran led the camp as supervisor and Cliff Alsen served as director. Parents, friends and camp participants joined in the Sunday dinner.
Mr and Mrs Austin Dodge and family traveled about ten weeks visiting Denver Florida and Washington DC and other points of interest. Their route included Canada and a rainy trip through eastern states where they met the John Hunt family in Yellowstone Park.
Keith Bushnell and Dwight Roberts enlisted in the United States navy and departed on August 2 from Portland to San Diego for boat training after working at a local Safeway store. Farm living costs rose sharply since 1935 39 with clothing up 128 percent furnishings up 103 percent and building materials up 124 percent.
Staff Sergeant Frank Brown of Myrtle Point Oregon serves as a general clerk with the Tohoku Military Government Region near Sendai on Honshu Island. He joined the Army October 12 1942 and trained at Fort Benning Georgia before serving with the 504th Parachute Infantry in the European theatre and sailing for duty in that theatre on March 20 1947 to his present unit.
A report notes that the federal government spends about ten times more per pupil educating Indians in federal schools than in public schools. The finding highlights cost disparities in American education policies affecting Native communities.
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