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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1948
Page
8
Morton Tompkins, Master of the Oregon State Grange, calls for a severance tax of 25 cents per thousand board feet on timber harvested in the state. The measure would fund reforestation and rehabilitation of damaged areas such as the Tillamook burn. An initiative petition filed January 26 seeks a November 1648 general election vote.
Fragmented ad item notes two cows for sale or trade before February 20 and a wanted-to-rent house near Myrtle Point. The text is garbled but lists names like Lloyd Eggers and references a local scene including roadways and addresses.
Myrtle Point high school's Bobcats travel to Myrtle Creek Tuesday for a return game on the Vikings court. The Bobcats sit fourth in district five with 6 wins and 5 losses after beating the Reedsport Braves last weekend.
An advanced register record shows Victoria the Guernsey cow from Oak Park Brookfield dairy Coos Bay produced 7188 pounds of milk and 3838 pounds of butterfat in ten months of twice daily milking. Victoria is sired by Dick of Penn Villa, with 46 offspring in the AGC club Performance Register, and the record was supervised by Oregon State College and submitted for AGC approval.
The county plans a weed control display with talks by M Chamber OSC extension engineer Ren Warren Virgil Freed and others. The event covers weed prevention strategies and bed preparation as a response to the growing weed problem across the region.
Charlies W Scott, president of the Southwestern Oregon Sportsmen’s Association, calls a special meeting of directors and members at North Bend City Hall Friday at 3 pm. The interim committee meeting will follow the same night, with potential discussion of game laws and local issues.
The first Beaver sale of the season raised eighty five thousand five hundred eighty three dollars and seventy five cents for state coffers. Bidders from Oregon participated as the auction offered 200 pelts. The proceeds were to be divided among papermen, landowners, and beaver managers according to the season’s sale terms.
The passage notes a portion of a contract with the Game mission funds salaries of trappers and administration for the beaver management program. A daughter of Mr and Mrs RW Gronemyer was released from Mast hospital Tuesday.
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