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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1956
Page
7
Arago church group led by Mrs Betty Broadbent will host a basketball day on January 16 at the Bent School gym. A game is scheduled against a visiting team with the local group anticipated to participate actively.
Fragmentary note lists places including Mapleton Coos Bay Port Orford Geld Beech and Manton with Korth Band. Mentions a master in attendance and an address for guest invitations. Readers see incomplete details about invitations and participants.
Myrtle Point high school remained partly closed after flooding. About 35 percent of students unable to attend. buses resumed January 10 with one exception to Hertzog route. Semester exams moved to January 18 19 and 20 to allow students out of school to return for review.
A 50 minute color Christian drama The Missing Christians will be presented at the church Sunday evening starting at 7 30 p m. The Ree ia e will wage an evening at Arago. Tom Forrest spent the weekend with his brother F E Forrest of Reedsport. Mr and Mrs Truman Hartley and children returned Tuesday after holidays with Mr and Mrs Rolf Holmstrom in Medford and Mr and Mrs Norman Hartley in Mr Shasta. Mr and Mrs Eugene Eggers and family and Mr and Mrs John Eggers visited Tru mentley. Mr and Mrs Karl Dement visited San Francisco California last week. Mrs Art Barger of Grants Pass.
Pacific Power announced its Swift hydroelectric project on the Lewis River, with two power houses, a 256000 kilowatt capacity, and first power expected late in 1968. The dam will sit south of Mount St Helens, feeding a canal to turbines and boosting the regional system by roughly 200000 kilowatts during peak demand.
City of Myrtle Point Oregon council approves adding Chapter XI to the charter to issue bonds of 135000 for sewer system additions and extensions with a tax levy to pay principal and interest. Election set January 30 1956 with polling at City Hall.
Norman Vincent Peale promotes a new gift edition titled A Treasury of Faith linking the Bible with The Power of Positive Thinking. The package combines a black leatherbound Bible and a deluxe Faith edition with a grain of tard seed in a clear plastic pull tab, illustrating their shared inspirational aim.
Fragmentary legal notice records vouchers and publication dates for Myrtle Point dated January 9 with later dates January 12 19 26 and publication on February 2 and 9 in 1900.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 5th day of January, 1956. Seal. My Commission expires May 31, 1959.
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