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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1957
Page
7
Myrtle Point Bobcats lose league game 43 to 41 at Coquille as star forward John Whitaker sat out with flu. Watson leads Myrtle Point with 11 points while Coquille rallies after halftime but falls short.
Grant and Phillips each scored 10 for Coquille as the varsity beat Myrtle Point 44 39. J V team fell to Coquille 44 39 while Coquille’s Schnick netted 9 and Waggoner 8 with Capps 4 and Roady 2.
Coos Bay beats Myrtle Point 36 to 21 with several matches decided by pins and decisions. Exhibition bouts featured Thill and Rice securing pins for Coos Bay while upcoming meets against Reedsport loom at 7 30 PM in the high school gym.
Myrtle Point's freshman basketball team played three games last week and won all three. They opened at North Bend and upset the Bulldogs 43 to 39, then defeated Coquille 41 to 19. The third game was played.
At Myrtle Crest the Ban don Cubs trailed as the Freshmen squad led 44 to 38 at the final buzzer. Readout lists R. Mast S. Larson M. Radloff C. Watson A. Mills R. Getchell H. Thomas A. Barklow L. Red ford J Edlund A. Hale S. Lan caster W. Babcock J. Miller as members.
The Bobcats won their second league game by outlasting Bandon 21 to 14 at Myrtle Crest. Bandon used zone defense full game while Myrtle Point slowed in the second half feeding a fourth quarter only by a foul shot. J V game went to Bandon 61 44 as Bobkittens fell.
The Myrtle Point Sportsmen's club held its regular meeting Tuesday the 15th in its club house with new officers presiding and a busy schedule announced for upcoming events.
Harold Watzling presiding officer leads the club with V V Hagedorn as vice president Guy Mauney as secretary treasurer and directors Walter Barklow Harrell Hutchinson Clarence Strong Tom Forrest Ron Endicott and Curley Hansen. The club will host the Oregon Coast Council at its March meeting and furnish a ham dinner It sponsors a social night for families in February with events for all members Read into record that the State Game Commission tentatively adopted our limit of 25 pads per day by hook and line Chub Mullen showed films from Alaska and Canada A practice shoot is planned Sunday the 27th at 100 pm Art Jenkins left Wednesday to visit daughter Mrs Joe Davis and family at Corvallis
Sitkum News reports visits by Earl Simmons and family from Medford to the C Fish home and Harold Miller of Myrtle Point with Earl Wilson who has enlisted in the air force. Myrtle Leaf club held a no-hostess meeting at the gym kitchen with several members attending. Ivan Laird retired from Salem after attending Gov Holmes inauguration. School health nurse Mrs Clark visited the local school, and Ray Jones took daughter Terry to Portland for a medical check-up.
Adams Chevrolet of Gold Beach was named the low bidder for two 1957 1%-ton pickup trucks for the Coos Curry Electric Cooperative. Bruce Shavere, the general manager, announced the purchase for meter reading and service work.
Other bidders were Capps Motors, Bandon, Burr Sullivan. The note lists possible bidders for road projects in Coquille and Gold Beach with several local businesses named in the bid group.
Readable fragment lists Lounsberry Ford and Coquille Auto of Coquille and Dunning Motors and Dempsey Dodge of Brookings as the local car sellers referenced in the notice.
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