Society Notes Highlight May Turnout at Local Teas
Mrs Bud Leep and Mrs Del bert Leep hosted a cradle shower for Mrs Jean Leep with orchid yellow and green decor. Numerous guests served refreshments and gifts. other society items include room mothers tea at Myrtle Crest school and May 7 Rebekah Lodge honors, plus club installations and bridge gatherings across Myrtle Point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bud Leep
Delbert Leep
Jean Leep
Giles Harris
Cliff Millen
Lovell
Austin Howell
Eldred Leep
Joe H
Gail Johnson
Cheryl Hyatt
Sheila Sullivan
Nancy Evans
Steven
Allie Millen
Donna Jean Leep
Karl Howell
Paul
Debra Leep
Nancy Millen
William Gross
Dave Pinkerton
Pete Nemec
Mike Sults
Myrtle Crest School
Myrtle Crest
H. H Thomas
Norman Jarvis
Milton Roth
Darrell Brodie
Gordon MacKerrow
Arthur Henry
Harold Watzling
Clem Rasmussen
Don Troxell
Harold Clarno
Elton Schroeder
Russell Evans
John Heeren
Gilbert Brower
C. D. Nasland
Sam T
Robert Powrie
Glen Wolff
Beneeca
C. S. Lehmanowsky
Dishner
A. E. Freeman
Francis Barklow
Robert Gates
Paul Haramer
Oliver Enland
Martin Rinchietins
Ralph Whitaker
Una Rebekah Lodge No. 120
Noble
Arthur Ratcliffe
Noble Grand
Rose Jewett
Jack Ellis
Three-Links Club
Hoffman Wayside Park
Julia Dbeeson
Dean Brown
Lehmanowsky
C S. Lehmanowsky
R. Johnson
Howard Whitaker
Austin Dodge
Frank Meldrum
Paul Hammer
W. S. Ross
E. O. Semper
Myrtle Point Declares Free Week Clean-Up Initiative
City council approves next week as Spring Clean-up Week in Myrtle Point. Residents may pile trash on the curb for free collection. The meeting also warned about loose dogs, ordered surveys of the South Myrtle Point sewer plan, and granted a liquor license to Joe Rennaker for the Pastime tavern.
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Council
Myrtle
Sol
Erickson
South Myrtle Point
Joe Rennaker
Pastime Tavern
Captain James Cook and the Douglas Fir Logging Saga
The article chronicles the first logging on record for Douglas firs along the North Pacific coast by Sandwich and Cook in 1776. It highlights Lord Sandwich as senior partner and Captain James Cook as navigator founder, detailing Cook's rise from labor to navy command and his voyages including Nootka Sound and the Vancouver shore, amid Spanish and Russian incursions and native reprisals.
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North
Pacific
Sandwich and
Cook
Lord Sandwich
James Cak
Navy
James Cook
Oregon-Washington
Nootka Sound
George Vancouver
Captain Cook
Furs and Firs Sparked Northwest Trade with China
Phillip Parrish recounts in Before the Covered Wagon how the Discovery and Resolution rode to a booming fur trade with China. Ships harvested sea otter skins from 1799 to 1802 amid Russian and Spanish interests, while white traders cut white firs for masts and China opened markets across the Pacific.
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Phillip Parish
Resolution
China
Seven Seas
George Vancouver
Discovery
Phil Parrish
Northwest
North Pacific Coast
Alaska
Aleutians
California
Myrtle Point High School Baccalaureate Exercises This Sunday
As announced last week, Myrtle Point Union High School will hold its baccalaureate exercises this Sunday evening at 8 00 p m in the school gymnasium. Rev Edw McClurg will give the address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herald
Myrtle Point Union High School
Edw. McClurg
Used Cars at Southwestern Motors May 1-15 Sale
Volume-72 listing cars from Southwestern Motors with 100 percent guarantees, descriptions include 1952 Chev four door, 1951 Buick hardtop under 13,000 miles, Ford V-8 four door, 1947 Chev four door, 1952 Chev ton pickup, 1949 Willys Jeep four wheel drive, 1948 Packard four door, 1950 Plymouth four door. Prices range from 78 to 2188 dollars. Myrtle Point Oregon dealer Hush Wika, phone 2002.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwestern Motors
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Percy Barzee
Gravel Ford Women's Club
A. Lamb
Robert McCue
Ike Miller
Lilburn Cook
Art Jones
Frank Haney
Claude Randleman
Lloyd Hantley
Cecil Hartley
M. F Freer
Russell Parrish
Woman's Club
Myrtle Point
Myrtle Hotel
J. M. Myers
Howard Rackleff
Genevra Mantz
L. A. LaFlamme
Glen Putnam
Rackleff
Putnam
W. J. Crim
Hall
R. E Doyle
Harold Clarne
Coos County
Myers
Albany
E. F Hall
Portland
Aileen Wilson
Assembly of God
Coquille
Jane Schroeder
Paul Franzen
Tommy Triplet
Dianne Schmidt
Janice Coffman
Lovella Noden
Janet Whitaker
James Thomas
Ariene Heins
Hall Thomas
Edith Ann Dunn
Ann Hammer
Andrea Lehmanowsky
George Linn
Blanche Rankin
Pines
Alice Hammer
Mary Jo Schroeder
Harold Stemmler
Harold Stemmlier
Jack Dunn
Don Driscoll
Laverne Noyes
Sam Dement
Lawrence Mullen
Martha Circle
The
Methodist Church
Conrad Edlund
Rosebury Road
Gareth Goddard
Max Simpson
John Rhodes
Arlo Duncan
Ray Epperson
WSCS
Coos Bay
Kay Petersen
Arnie Zimblemann
Karl Dement
Richard McCuskey
Wallace Husted
Walter Gary
Mike Daniels, Jr
Alvan King
W. A. Roush
Elton Ansen
Leroy Robinson
Bill Roush
Mike Daniels, Sr
Luther Daniels
Clifford Bartles
Eric Dornath
Louis Robinson
Otto Koppe
Freida Grumbling
Ann Roush
Gary
Elmo Shepherd
Wesley Guy
Reese Daniels
Homer Rose
Vera Cunningham
John Belloni
Tom Forrest
Don Lockhart
Lewis Shindell
Salem
D. Nattand
Waldemar Eeuring
Chand Mast
Wm. Downing
Citizens’ School Committee
Elton Schrdecer
C. R .Anderson
C. R. Anderson
W J. Crim
C. D Nasl
Ted Green
L A. LaFlamme
T G. Guerin
Henry Rosslow
Floyd Hall
Anderson
Billie Brodie
Hiland Theatre
Brodie
Steven Goddard
Dean Noyes
John Driscoll
Paul J Seka Rendlend
Erry A
Gueet
Billie
Tex’s Market
Is. Te
Virginia
Rex Harrison
Warner Brow
King Richard and the Crusaders
Our Or Trn v
Jim Devens
Accaleaureate
Crisco
B. Hormel
W. K
Nabisco Ritz
Red Arrow
United
Chevrolet
Willys
Mom
Ore
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