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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1967
Page
7
Readable items reference Myrtle Point and Coos Bay families including Charlie Thompson Wayne and Kenneth with Eugene connections. Guests with their father Charlie Thompson gathered day after Christmas.
Local families from Dora Sitkum Coquille Myrtle Point and nearby towns gathered for Christmas and New Year celebrations. Notices include travel to Port Townsend Coupville Pleasanton and Seattle for relatives and care of visiting kin across several households.
By October and November the Rainbow Girls of Elgin Chapter 37 with Beta Sigma Phi and local volunteers prepared ditty bags for Marines in Chu Lai Viet Nam via American Red Cross. About 200 bags from Coos County, 60 from Myrtle Point, supported letters of appreciation from Pfc James Clark and Col D R Wingett USMC, expressing holiday gratitude and interest in pen pal connections.
Sitkum residents report illnesses from flu while Christmas gatherings bring together relatives from North Bend Coquille and Eugene. Ivan Laird attends a Four Square church wedding in Coquille and later a funeral in North Bend as Joe Reynolds serves in the Navy on Christmas leave amid Vietnam era concerns.
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