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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1960
Page
8
Classified notices seek cash for small tracts of timber and stumpage buyers. Also listings for hours keeper, ironing babysitting, Douglas fir stumpage, and a public notice by Abraham Fry dated May 5 1960. Poultry feed products advertised by Purina dealer in Roseburg Oregon.
Broker John C Heeren offers a two bedroom home with a double carport and work shed. Prices show $5 800 NERE but details indicate monthly payments around $40 and FHA suitability with terms and a maple street location.
A statewide committee plan emerged to organize colleges for Oregon's future. Lloyd Kuntz presided over a discussion with James Frost and Arnold Fhert highlighting the need for housing, enrollment growth toward 47 000 students, and new facilities funded by student fees under the state system.
Maclyn Gerald, 37, the last of about 10 100 World War II veterans to use GI bill funds, graduates from Oregon State College in fisheries. He fought at Cassino Italy, was captured, and spent 16 months in POW camps before liberation.
Supervisor H C Obie announced the sale of 380000 board feet of Port Orford cedar and other species in the Taylor Creek drainage on the Galice Ranger district. Rough and Ready Lumber Co of Cave Junction bid 148000 dollars, above appraised value, with Mountain Fir Lumber Co and SH g W Lumber Co also participating in the oral auction at Grants Pass forest headquarters.
Georgia Pacific shows a first quarter earnings gain of about 300 percent with sales rising 17 percent to 46 million and per share earnings of 3.75. The firm highlights a new low cost panel process from green veneers and kraft pulp, with planned plant startup in Springfield Oregon and an Oregon Toledo mill expansion adding 300 tons daily.
The report notes bark and wood waste will yield cyanide-family chemicals and a plywood plant at Sphield aims to start by mid year. Break-in periods for these operations should be largely over by year end, with new plants expected to lift results afterward. Georgia-Pacific Corp leads integrated forest products including plywood and chemicals, with extensive timber reserves to support ongoing operations.
Hawaii prepares a walk through display in the natural resources building at the Oregon State Fair September 2 to 10. Tad Kanda leads the Hawaii exhibit funded by the Hawaii Department of Economic Development. A special Rawanan Das will honor the showing with Hawaiian bands and possibly Hawaiian food concessions.
Listings show multiple newborns at Mast Hospital with parents and birth weights including Bruce Weathers Coquille boy 9 pounds born April 25 1960 to Mr and Mrs Bruce Weathers. Others include RP Whittaker Norway girl 10 pounds born April 25 1960 and Claude Findley Powers girl 7 pounds born April 26 1960. Additional births feature Jimmie Sturgill Morth Paint Bev Douglas Harris Mertle Pont Bos Marvin Ungar Port Orford boy 10 pounds 10 ounces born April 28 1960.
Broadbent residents held an open house warming for the Robisons with cake coffee and punch. Many chipped in to buy a set of PNotrave as a gift while a band played and hostesses led the event. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Virgil secotth Mr and Mrs Rav eond Long and others. The Pomona Grange presented a 5th degree ceremony to Broadbent members including Kenneth Stone and Charlotte Lackey. The 4 H club met as scheduled in May and other community activities were noted.
The note records a May 12 event at p.m with Paul Raven the 4H agent presenting films. It lists social visits including Mr and Mrs Frazier Hoffman with Mr and Mrs Verlin Moore, a Broadbent juvenile grange reorganization Saturday evening at the grange hall, and parent attendance urged for the juvenile program. Various local residents travel to Bridge, Myrtle Point, and Eugene for church, bowling, hospital, and family visits.
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