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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1969
Page
2
Myrtle Point Herald is published every Thursday from Myrtle Point Oregon 97454. The notice lists mailing address Box 878 and publisher information.
The Broadbent particleboard plant promise by GP stalls after a Portland head office statement. Locals fear overoptimistic financing and question sincerity while speculators and schools worry about tax revenue and crowded classrooms. The halt sours community faith but hope endures for a future timber economy recovery.
Secretary of State Clay Myers plans to place 25 000 high school youths in summer jobs though demand exceeds supply. About 8 000 youths in Portland are expected to apply through Youth Opportunity, with hundreds applying daily at other offices. Job developers report employers lack available positions as youths seek work to support education and families.
The piece argues that conservative leaders fear student demands may takeover schools though unlikely. It urges colleges to listen to student concerns about class size grading methods lectures and use of student assistants to improve education and give students a meaningful voice in campus operation.
A public hearing on the 1988-70 budget last week led to questions about adding 960,000 to the building fund. The annex hearing is scheduled for July 16.
The interview with Charley Fox recalls his father John Foy’s early Coos County projects from water works in Marshfield to bridges in Coquille and Coaledo. Fox, born 1877 near Myrtle Point, details family trades, logging methods, and his own long career from mining to Coast Guard service and later dairy farming in Langlois.
The July 10 1913 Myrtle Point Enterprise reflects heavy advertising with five ads on page one and reports a mid summer fair drawing 1600 admissions for the Cops and Curry Cowmy Pair Association races. Myrtle Point defeats Coquille 9 6 in a following baseball game amid slow track conditions.
A reader criticizes county commissioners for proposing a Courthouse annex in Coos Bay claiming funds were misused and allege a long targeted effort to shift county control. The letter urges Myrtle Point Powers and Bandon councils to ally with Coquille against annex moves and calls for reactivating the Taxpayers Association and a taxpayers meeting.
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