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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1947
Page
2
The Game Commission adopted final hunting regulations for 1947, keeping most tentative rules from two weeks earlier. A notable change removes the concurrent elk and deer season in southeastern Oregon, with that area no longer included in the regulations.
Kilgore dairy facility has installed a new bottling line with a capacity of 16 to 1 6 quarts per minute reducing processing time by about an hour. The machine is electrically controlled with a new loading device added during the upgrade.
Twenty four students completed a week long non denominational camp run by Myrtle Point Presbyterian church at Camp McKinley in southern Coos county. A $3 registration and $10 food fee applied with a discount for those who learned Bible verses. Rev Richard Cochran led the program with Mrs Cochran assisting. Counsellors included Dan England Mahton Springfield and others. Sunday closing featured a guest day with a dinner and awards ceremony for completing work.
HankS We are sincerely grateful to friends and neighbors for their many kind acts of sympathy during our recent sad bereavement Our appreciation cannot be adequately expressed Mr and Mrs Frank Sibold Mrs Faye Frye.
Jamen M. Jeb has assumed leadership of the Myrtle Point Assembly of God church succeeding Walter E. Smith who moved to Baker Oregon. Jeb arrives from Aniak Alaska where he served as a missionary traveling by dog team. He brings wife and two children Floyd 13 and Linda joining two older children Ernest and Paul.
The Powers library reports 156 registered borrowers and 103 open days in the year. It started with 1182 adult and 170 children books, added 242 by gift or exchange and 180 by purchase for a total of 1774 volumes. 2289 adult and 2318 children volumes were loaned, with 142 non fiction, 537 magazines, totaling 5296 volumes. The budget was 400 with 76.51 from fines and gifts. Donations came from Mrs Lyle McCullock.
Sete Ib focus to the ies x4 er ebentel. Suen ekamines Mrs. William Richards and others from the Women of Moose heart. Mr. William Richards presides the Board with Mrs. Bruce Munro as secretary. New library room equipment includes an oil burner, lamp, blinds, curtains, and furniture.
Wilmer Robert Northrup Jr son of WR and the late Ruby Carey Northrup received the navy unit commendation ribbon from Cmdr E B Quilter commanding officer of the seven for heroism as a torpedo squadron crew member attached to USS Enterprise from November 19 1943 to February 20 1944 in actions against Japan in the Pacific War Northrup a Myrtle Point native attended public schools after his mother’s death he moved with his younger brother David and their father who now resides in Gardiner Grandmother Alice Carey and aunt Charles Belshaw are mentioned relatives.
The Myrtlewood bakery building is undergoing changes including a new roof and front remodel. The work is being done by Thomas Dixon and Son.
The old Central school in Coos Bay features a brick bearing Mr Volkmer’s name from 1808 with notes of his 1884 and 1893 work in Daniel Giles’s brick yard alongside the “Umbrella Man” Robert Ahr. Volkmer, a longtime hardware dealer turned retiree, plans to donate the brick to the new pioneer museum in Coquille.
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