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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1944
Page
2
A Myrtle Point civic note laments a Sunday triple tragedy and urges calm and discretion. The column shifts to warn readers that 1946 income tax forms will be complex and government clerks may push higher tax take, advising careful self prep or hiring an expert.
The text argues that when people become angry jealous or drunk they lose all sense and are driven by overwhelming emotions. It compares humans unfavorably to animals noting a flood tide of feeling that leads to irrational actions.
A collage of stray sentences mentions Japan debt hesitations from 1904 1905, schoolroom misadventure with the phrase the bitter end, log camps on the South Fork, a woman’s arrest for vagrancy, and scattered references to war actions and German submarine reports amid a general wartime milieu.
A collage of seemingly stray items mentions a tombstone inscription sparking humor about two men buried together, a December 11, 1934 Roseburg highway slide, a city hall and salmon season notes, a December 13, 1936 account of hunting coons, Christmas shop hours, a Myrtle Point school Christmas program, and a Portland music firm's car accident near Beroadbent with a fatal curve fall.
The Nit wit notes heavy discussion urging the city to purchase a dredge arguing it would ease work by dredging canals rather than undertaking grading or arrests.
Robert C. Bushnell Seaman second class of the U S Navy returned to his hometown for a five day leave from Farragut Idaho where beach training is conducted. He will depart Thursday by train from Coos Bay to Farragut. Neighbors and relatives hosted and visited with the Bushnells and Higgins families.
Remote REMOTE Dee 14 Mr and Mrs Qolon Williams moved to their new home in Reedsport Monday Mr and Mrs A H Ritchey were shopping in Roseburg Monday Powell Lancaster of Bridge and L B Jennings were Roseburg visitors Monday Mrs George Smith and Mrs Henry Weathers were aquille visitors Tuesday Mr and Mrs Henry Weather and family and Shirley and Dean
Mr and Mrs Marvin Stacy and family were visitors in Myrtle Point on Saturday. Mr and Mrs James Culver of Beidge dined with Henry Wyrick Sunday. Mrs A A Banick of Myrtle Point visited Mrs O A Bremmena, Sunday. Mr and Mrs Howard Rackleff and DeWayne toured Myrtle Point and dined at the B England home.
Pleasant Point residents report visits from Mr and Mrs Ellis Southmayd at Harold Simmons home in Coquille and Mr and Mrs Guy Mann as another Sunday social note.
Mrs Mara Maratere and Keat left Catching Creek to visit Mrs Roy Spires and family Tuesday. The trip brought a small group to the dek let area for a brief gathering.
Total losses to the United States since December 1941 reached 1,857,000 deaths and all causes as of August 31, 1944, revealed at Fort Douglas Utah headquarters. Gen Somervell quote about difficult tasks.
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