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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1955
Page
8
The Myrtle Point High School will host an educational program featuring students and Mrs. Brodie. A notice asks anyone with extra room to house students to contact the high school or Mrs. Brodie for arrangements.
The council awards the Ash Street project with curb, gutter and sidewalk work planned. Dist. No. 3 covers a block bounded by Maple and A street, 1st to 4th, with improvements estimated at 53 600 dollars and bids to be called.
A city committee including John Heeren and Ernest Bryant is tasked to investigate street ting in districts, focusing on oversight and potential improvements within the municipal framework.
A guest column contends oleo disrupts the butter market, inflating taxes and farm surpluses. It urges banning oleo until farmers can keep pace and calls for pricing parity with butter to aid dairymen, livestock, grain growers, and local schools.
A reader argues taxes and government stockpiling push farmers toward cash sales and city job drift. He criticizes rancid butter dumps and rising oleo prices, urging fresh butter access and affordable groceries. Name withheld from Herald office.
Myrtle Point announces a Play School run by the High School Homemaking classes for 4 and 5-year-olds. Sessions run April on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday from 1 00 to 3 30 with 15 enrollments. Applications available from Miss Crossant or Mrs Schroeder at the high school.
Ford Worsham Jr won a leg on the John Cawrse trophy breaking 48 of 50 with 24 from 16-year-old line and 24 from handicap. Oregon Journal Telegraphic shoot leaders were John Cawrse 23 Bill Knaus 24 and Clovis Church 23. An interchurch group plans a pre Easter shoot April 3 with upcoming events March 27 and Good Friday services April 8 from 1 to 3 PM with seven words of Christ.
An adult education program starts spring term with a three hour credit course in Myrtle Point on Thursdays 7 to 9 45 pm for ten weeks. Instructor Lawrence E. Butler of Southern Oregon College of Education teaches the class with an $18 fee due at first or second meeting. First meeting free to the public. Other courses offered in Coquille and Coos Bay include Psychology of Learning, English composition, The Maladjusted Child, General Biology, Essentials of Man, Western Civilization, United States history and government. Information from Miss Lillian Farley, county school superintendent, Coquille.
4 H News reports a poultry show for club members and leaders set for Saturday March 26 at 9 30 am in the extension conference room of the Coquille courthouse. Noel Bennion Oregon State College poultry specialist will discuss 4 H poultry projects and offer help on showmanship. Other events include forestry field day training, summer school at Oregon State College for 12 year olds and up, livestock and crops tour, and related activities from Coos County with about 55 4 H members involved.
The 4 H-ers live in fraternity and sorority houses and dormitories during summer school. A livestock fitting and showing field day is held in June for dairy sheep and beef club members with skilled instructors and a potluck lunch followed by a game of ball.
In a 1955 appeal Joanne Brown of Coos Bay promotes the American Cancer Society crusade. The campaign uses the Sword of Hope emblem to urge nationwide support for cancer research early detection patient services and education. The goal is 24 million dollars to fund cures and outreach.
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