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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1946
Page
2
A barber shop crowd proposes a prewar Lonely Heart Club to pair a willing bachelor with a eligible bachelor girl to free up housing. They claim civic leaders, a dentist, and local tradesmen will back the venture with rites, funds, and social events to form married couples and provide a home.
An editorial from the Christian Science Monitor argues brewers use vast sugar supplies, noting 900 to 300 million pounds yearly for beer. It calls for Washington to ban sugar use in brewing during wartime rationing and price controls.
The Myrtle Leaf club gathered Thursday at the gym with Mrs Julius Benham as hostess. Members planned a $5 donation for the March of Dimes and cut pajamas for Red Cross. A tea towel shower was given to the departing hostess. Attendees included Mrs Elmer Strode, Mrs Perley Crowley, Mrs W A Nickason, and others. Nearby moves include Rex Brown and Earl Wilson traveling to Coos Bay for eye treatment and several residents relocating within the area.
McKinney and here file for the Coos Bay camp, listing local details and procedural steps for establishing the site. Readers should monitor notices for deadlines and required filings affecting the project timeline.
Gladye Berklew and Bob attend with Claire Bushnell and Gene Reed alongside the Bushnell family. Victor serves as guest of honor at the gathering.
A school meeting was held Sunday to gauge interest in hosting classes next year if a teacher can be hired. District students have been attending Bridge for three years. Local residents shared weekend visits and dinners with neighbors from Camas Valley, Myrtle Point, Roseburg, Coquille, and Holley. Bruce Weathers, recently ill with scarlet fever, is improving and should recover soon.
County AAA committees choose practices from the state handbook to aid farmers in soil and water conservation. Six new practices appear for 1946, including green manure with summer legumes, clover green manure, straw spreading to curb wind erosion, and establishing perennial bromegrass on steep slopes. New plantings of forest trees and land clearing for pasture are added, while several last year offerings are dropped.
Catching Creek Carl Spaulding of Spaulding Lumber left Saturday on a business trip to Portland and will return late week. Victor H Bushnell BM Ic of the Ravy, son of Mr and Mrs Carl Bushnell, arrived home for a short leave and will return Tuesday morning by bus for Los Angeles. R H McCall bought sheep from Del Remo Monday and drove them to his ranch on Floras Creek.
A letter from a grateful reader, Anna Pauls of Vancouver Washington, describes years of suffering from rheumatism and arthritis and asks inquiring readers to write to her for information about a relief remedy.
Economists argue census metrics misclassify small country residences as farms. They note 40 percent of "farms" produced only 6 percent of output in 1939 41 percent on hard surfaced roads 60 percent with electricity 40 percent with telephones and 61 percent with running water.
Economists say the rise in rural farm population may be offset by other country trends. The article notes uncertainties and questions whether increases reflect meaningful shifts in overall population.
Mrs Marcia Wella of Union high school faculty spent the weekend with friends in Coos Bay and returned Sunday morning.
Mr and Mrs Ben Breuer with Mr and Mrs Charles Molntee of Coquille spent Saturday night and most of Sunday at Reedport and other points of interest north of here.
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