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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1943
Page
3
Powers California residents attend the Victory Follies at Powers High School this Saturday at 8 pm. The event features a one act play, skits, and novelties with admission equal to a dollar in war stamps. Reserved seats cost five dollars. Students sell stamps at the post office booth and accept bond orders to fund a life raft for sixty men.
News notes Sgt Hopkins and Pvt Hayes report European and Pacific theater service with brothers visiting in wartime. Also John Thorp at aviation school in Oklahoma and Everett Warner preparing for maneuvers in Tennessee. Final account filed for Thomas F Hagerty estate in Coos County with hearing set December 28 1948.
Gunnery Sgt Laroy, furloughing with his mother Mrs Mary Stewart, returns to San Diego for medical treatment for tropical infection after nearly three years in the South Pacific. Paul Celentino, once a woods worker here, now reports serving in the European theatre of war. Betty Brotton of Portland visits parents before heading to New York for WAVES training after duties at Montgomery Ward and schooling at Powers high and Myrtle Point high.
Lions Club dinner heard plans to form a Boy Scout troop by year end with talks from Ralph Kalagher Marg hfield and Evan W Avborn Coquille. They discussed restarting in Powers after years without an active troop. Mrs Caver and daughters left for Seattle for a week.
Mrs. Nettie Smith of Kelso announces the engagement of her daughter Miss Eleanor Y. Smith to Sergeant Glenn H. Ross son of Mr and Mrs E B Rider of Eugene Ross a U S Army sergeant currently in North Africa grew up in Powers and attended focal high school Grandparents Mr and Mrs William Link reside in Powers
Mrs Lawrence Bray received a potluck dinner and gift shower last Tuesday at her home honoring her birthday. Attendees included Mrs Martin Stallard Mrs Joseph Boutin and Mrs Wm Reeves.
Local friends note the marriage of Alyce Schneider, a former second grade teacher, to Philo T Bemis of Tigard. The ceremony occurred in October at the Lake Grove Congregational Church.
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