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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1954
Page
7
A community organization invites new members while debating whether to increase membership fees and consider alternative funding options. The item notes outreach efforts and calls for input from potential supporters.
A column satirizes clothing design with scarcity of buttons and stubborn zippers, recounting a reader’s hunt for lost buttons and a wife sewing on six new ones. It also notes a gift from Jack Hall of Washington DC: 1840 Capitol newspapers and antique ledgers. The piece closes with concerns over muddy water on the Coquille due to spring logging.
Mr and Mrs Murl Laird and son David from Tacoma are home on a few weeks leave. Murl serves in the navy air corps. Peggy Enycart of Coquille visited the Tom Leifeste home over the weekend. Several others, including Earl Wilson, Pauline Sasse and Joanne Southmayd, had measles last week. Memorial weekend visitors at the J E Haynes home in Springfield included Peggy Powell and the Wilson and Leifeste families. Elmer Strode and family traveled to Medford to see the Wiliam Strodes. The Myrtle Leaf club met at the gym for an all day session with Mrs Don Baker as hostess. attendees listed.
Mr and Mrs Buck Goodman visited from Klamath Calif over the weekend. Jack Willing underwent an appendectomy Tuesday evening at Mast hospital. Mr and Mrs Fred Sharp left for Florence Wednesday morning. Mrs Dayne Hudson spent Monday and Tuesday at the Bay with her daughter Mrs D A Kent. Dave Kent supervised raising and leveling of Mrs M A Ehrig's house. The Bridge Extension unit met at Myrtlewood camp for an outdoor meals session.
Mrs Frank Fish and Mrs Al Richmond led the event with good attendance. An open fire meal was served. Officers were installed in the afternoon. Mrs Eddie Hatfield named chairman for the coming year. Miss Young and Miss Mooney of Sandy Creek serve as secretary and treasurer, with Mrs Howard Winkelman as vice chairman.
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