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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1931
Page
5
In a gym practice for a Roseburg game, star player Truman Wagner crashed to the floor and lay unconscious. The incident caused a quick ambulance response and stunned the crowd as teammates feared a fatal outcome.
Myrtle Point Bobcats fell 22 to 16 at Roseburg as both clubs struggled for scoring. Entler and Durland led Roseburg with 8 and 6 points while Myrtle Point’s Ostrander topped locals with 6 and Wagner added 5.
Last Friday's student assembly set behavior rules and announced fee collection. The towel and student body fees are due Monday January 19 with report cards distributed the same day. Classes mostly keep current rooms and exam locations will be announced early this week. Athletic tickets are on sale through class presidents.
A class of two girls and nine boys starts high school at mid term. They take three subjects total and receive two full credits for a rush geogramy course taught by Miss Woodward. The course compresses a year’s work into one semester. English I I is by Mins Woodward and algebra I by Mr Linn. Enrollees include Ann Har locker Ida Coaner Alden Barklow Chester Houser Leroy Miller Harold Weekly Claude Preasler Ray Guer in James Ray Edwin Rackleff and Cecil Barzoo. They will not be initiated until next year.
Last Wednesday Miss Fay Irvine named the girls basketball teams. Today the groups will meet to choose captains and managers. Named players include Eileen Clinton center Imogene Burgess side center Rachael Bonces guard Ade Mae Culbertson Louise Ocheltree and many others across freshmen sophomores and juniors with multiple forwards centers and guards listed.
The Herald reported honorable mention for The Myrle Leaf in last week’s contest. Clarakanie Papers won beat news notes with authors from Grant Pass Myrtle Point and Mall City, with the journalism class pleased to earn a cup for the showcase.
A sophomore meeting opened with a discouraged president and panic in the room. The secretary read notes from the last meeting noting a treasury of 86 and cries over dues. Calmer faces show the class under stress as signs read Sophomores Pay Dues.
Eleven students attended a meeting for debate interest. Mr. Wagner leads the affirmative with a history from prior county teams, and Mr. Church heads the larger negative squad. Try-outs follow exams, with matches planned in Gardiner North Reed Marshfield and Coos counties.
Frances Fearnley explains stepping in as editor for the Myrtle Leaf after the regular editor was unavailable. She describes the abrupt shift to overseeing the paper from writing to printing and hopes the issue maintains the initial high standard.
Teachers read aloud exemptions as a tense school moment. Some students hope for relief while others acknowledge their own chances and resolve to work harder next semester. The piece urges effort to seize opportunities and avoid missing benefits by hesitation.
Myrtle Point junior high beat Powers junior high 16 to 14 Friday night at Powers. The first half was 6 to 3 in Powers' favor and the tied score at 13 to 13 led to a late rally. Ed Rackleff from near center gave Myrtle Point the winning shot with 46 seconds left as Rackleff Ray Carver Barger Weekly started, with Dru liner subbing for Barger in the final quarter.
Lyle Carver Lloyd Hyde and Steve Endicott face questions about why they are not playing basketball. Endicott is too old to participate while Hyde has taken too many semesters. Carver sits out until second semester for missing last year’s attendance. Coopet and Pearson practice nightly mainly for exercise as they graduate this semester.
The Myrtle Leaf ends its first semester publication as the journalism class hands over to the English VI class. Editors, managers, and staff bid readers adieu and wish the next class success, noting Miss Barker as instructor and listing the eight student leaders and thirty juniors.
Last Tuesday the first period class won the typing contest by four stars over the second period. Gilly Griggs, chairman from the losing class, was appointed to organize the show. A drawing selected each participant’s name in the box for an aide.
Fragmentary note mentions trade names and a troupe heading to a theater on a Wednesday in January, with unclear context and no definite events or entities identified.
A six week cycle lists about sixty students who have not returned their cards. Some students forget or misplace cards delaying attendance tracking. Cards will be issued Friday, but teachers worry about recording excuses for absent students who fail to return theirs.
The English V class has finished Treasure Island and now studies poetry. Students write 2000 word papers after three outlines choosing one to expand. Titles include Mars theories, gardening on paper, cheese making enzymes, Crater Lake, and history of music. Class average on standard tests was 97.
The calendar outlines major activities from February through May. It includes county debate on February 18 19 Sophomore and junior programs in February and March, county tournament March 13 14, faculty and student activities in April, and the senior banquet commencement on May 22.
The writer reflects on not assigning stories to student reporters for the final issue. He notes relief and gratitude toward Miss Barker and classmates for their work in Foarentiana class and with Andy Newhouse.
With Miss Woodward away at a conference in Eugene, students assume roles in teaching. Letha Hazelton leads the morning geography class while Marjory Hazelton handles the afternoon session. Kenneth Leatherman directs English I first period, Doris James and Rachael Bones teach the second English I class.
The lettermen club outlines the initiation for those who earned football letters and other schools at the upcoming basketball game between Myrtle Point and Coquille on Friday January 16. The ceremony will occur between halves of the game.
Mary Ellen Hartley Margaret Chase Carey Bones Elisabeth De ment Andy Newhouse and Miss Woodward left Thursday for Eugene to attend a high pol conference. They returned to Myrtle Point Sunday. Ernestine Schneider was absent Friday morning due to illness. Julia Myrl Charles and Kenneth Leatherman were absent Tuesday.
The high school orchestra grows with new members Basil Smith on drums and Aileen Demem on triangle. Harold Mullen has trained enough on his saxophone to join the group.
The junior class party after exams has not only been postponed but given up due to a game with Coquille that night. A skit program will replace it. The new date is not fixed and may precede the Marshfield game.
A fragment reports Mr Rickard Mr Wagner Walter and Kenneth G batch in a batc house connected to the R C Cement works and a high building. No further details available.
At the G A C meeting on Wednesday members decided to work up stunts to perform at the games. They were asked to pay their dues which had not been paid yet. The fee is twelve cents for a semester.
Teachers will not hold classes Friday to finish correcting exams and turning in grades. Cards will be ready to hand out Monday morning. Mr Linn will register every student this week to ensure access to books before Monday.
A meeting was held last Wednesday at 12 40 to discuss senior pictures to be taken the last of this month or the first of next.
The Ag I boys work in the shop while Ag III and V boys construct a forage and woods shed for Mr. Adams. A building eighteen by ten feet is being built of white cedar lumber.
Local notice invites residents to sell used books through the library. Put name and asking price in an envelope inside the book and turn it in at the library with the book. Jean Pressler will coordinate the exchange.
Oregon health reports show pneumonia sweeping the state in the week ending January 3, with only 17 counties free. Total cases reached a high not matched by other illnesses, though the statewide sick list fell from 806 to 264. Coos County reports 22 afflictions.
Mr and Mrs Roland Weekly visited Myrtle Point. A Gravelford crowd attended a dance in Brewster valley patardey night and reported a fine time. Mr and Mrs Lige Culbertson visited Coquille. Mrs Culbertson had troublesome teeth pulled. Miss Marion King health nurse visited the school. Frank Strong and family were Sunday visitors at the Andrew.
Mrs Alzora Dell Flater died January 4 1931 in Parkdale Oregon aged 61 years 4 months 6 days. Born August 29 1868 in Saranac Michigan she was survived by her husband John A Flater son J Roland Flater and sister Mrs J J King. She joined the Seventh Day Adventist church in 1918 in Medford Oregon and was buried January 7 2 o clock at Idlewild Cemetery Hood River Oregon.
First Methodist Church schedules Sunday school at 10 a m and morning worship at 11 a m The sermon titled Squarely With will open the second in a series on this challenging topic Eyworth
Evening program at 6 30 p m includes worship and outreach activities. Morning sermons begin at 1 00 p m with anticipated attendance and outreach efforts.
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