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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1933
Page
2
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The sales tax proposal, defeated recently, would reduce county levies by about one mill and save roughly 3 million dollars yearly for state school districts. Estimated revenues would total about four million dollars annually, with 75 percent allocated to districts per classroom units, and 28 percent to county school funds. The plan would lower tuition for pupils across non high school districts and features tax-levy reductions by county assessors based on this fund.
At Friday's student body meeting plans covered a ping pong tournament committee, Christmas name drawings, and second semester preregistration. Football letters will be awarded to 12 seniors and juniors, debate coaches were named, and the annual Christmas program was scheduled with music and a one act play.
A fragment shows the phrase we nominate for school officers with names Albine and Kirleonds appearing in a nomination context. The text is incomplete and lacks surrounding details such as position or election date.
A brief note indicates a person named only by first and last initial received a home currency gift. The fragment provides no date location or formal details beyond the clue of a monetary gift to a specific individual.
Last Friday a group of ag boys built three sivachers in the auditorium with sophomore help for lumber braces and drilled iron to bolt uprights. Upperclassmen set them in the gym for the junior play Friday night. The report notes a Ford car joke about Ellis Southmayd and mentions incomplete door casing between rooms.
In a chaotic school scene Don LaBranch warns of quitting basketball after a shiner from a scrimmage accident. Damp spots and leaks under the bleachers interrupt play while tickets and receipts for a past play are tallied.
A chaotic scene in a school hallway features Leslie Hermann fleeing down the stairs clutching socks, chased by a mob of boys led by Roderic Barklow and Jim Bartlett. The event inspires playful banter about hanging stockings as a real stocking is made. Students trade white slips and names in a festive, bustling year end atmosphere.
A practical joker found a box once containing alips and paraded it among student groups asking if anyone wanted to draw another alip. Reactions ranged from surprised to disappointed as dawn broke and vice principals expressed rueful amusement.
Mira Alverdes announces all girls without athletic tickets cannot play on interclass teams or receive points. A December 18 check showed eligibility, and those without tickets will be barred from games after the Christmas holidays.
Leone Rissberger will lead the lost and found department for the Girls League. She will locate owners and return items once reported and seek owners if items are turned in unreported. Remaining items like pens and pencils will be auctioned at year end for the group.
Students depart for Christmas vacation Friday afternoon and return January 2. Miss Rogards' class, including Eleana and Gia, decorated the classroom tree last week as part of holiday activities.
May Radford returns to school this week after a week of illness while many pupils suffer severe colds. The seventh grade studies The Charge of the Light Brigade and Christmas programs are planned for Friday afternoon in two rooms. A Christmas Surprise is performed alongside other numbers.
The notice states third grade entry includes Jack Elli who has been absent and cannot return to school yet. It notes a period of absence and ongoing effort to reestablish attendance.
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