Coos County votes feature strong turnout and budget defeat
Coos County voters turnout reached 66 percent with 19 200 ballots. The Myrtle Point School District 41 budget failed by 689 to 723 while County Commissioner seats shifted. Key races saw Robison reelected and Waldrop winning in Band on, with several budgets defeated and a motel tax approved. Bennett says a new budget may be considered June 29. fixed costs limit reductions.
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Myrtle Point
Ag Aeappes
Gerald Bennett
Bennett
Ener
Woody Robison
Ickey Moffitt
Fred McCulloch
Bay Area
Moffitt
McCulloch
Bandon
Eddie Waldrop
County Commissioners’ Board
Hal Meeks
Arian Fischer
Robism
Waldrop
Republian
Irene Johnson
Coos Bay
Thomaschaeffer
Johnson
Jack Beebe
Eastside
Schaeffer
Mary Ann Wilson
Coquille
Elsie Parrish
Yolanda King
Dave Tankersley
C. Benjamin Carnahan
Robert E. Jones
District Court Dept. 2
FBI
Leroy Elliott
Jones
Elliott
City of Bandon
Medford
Jerry Lansman
Lausman
California
Jerry Brown
Ronald Reagan
Jerry Ford
Myrtle Hotel Fire in Myrtle Point Under Investigation
A late Saturday blaze at the abandoned Myrtle Hotel in Myrtle Point caused heavy upstairs damage and smoke throughout the old section. Firefighters from Myrtle Point and Coquille fought the fire for over four hours, evacuating residents of the new section, with state police investigating the cause. The building is owned by Wilfred Laird of Bandon and leased to Betty Edwards.
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Myrtle Point
Coquille
Myrtle
Elvin Murray
Murray
Bertha Ralph
Sempert's Drugs
China Sails Restaurant
Club Lehua
Wilfred Laird
Bandon
Betty Edwards
Thank You to Myrtle Point Fire Department
Business owners publicly thank the Myrtle Point Fire Department for prompt efficient action late Saturday night as a hotel burned threatening three downtown businesses. Volunteers’ quick response kept the building and neighboring structures from destruction.
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Myrtle Point
Myrtle Point Education Association signs three year contract
The Myrtle Point Education Association ratified a three year agreement at the District 41 School Board meeting after teachers approved the deal following a one week delay. Resignations from Kenneth Earnest and Richard Chiesa were announced as they leave for personal reasons and private business respectively. The district screened 15 candidates for MPHS head basketball coach, with a top choice to be presented at the June 7 board meeting. Three teachers were assigned to coaching duties for 1976-77 including Ivan Watts as head golf coach, Bob Steele as assistant wrestling coach, and Paula Sangster as assistant girls basketball coach.
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Myrtle Point Education Association
Kenneth Earnest
Richard Chiesa
Earnest
Chiesa
MPHS
Gerald Bennett
Ivan Watts
Bob Steele
Paula Sangster
Sawdustress Mick Rowell Shapes Coquille’s Stage in 1976
In four days to opening night of Sawdusters 1976 Mick Rowell toils as the seamstress amid a neat Willow Street home strewn with fabric scraps and thread. She crafts 20 to 25 original costumes yearly for Coquille’s theater, while also tending bar three days weekly at her son in law’s Myrtle Point tavern, balancing time between wardrobe and play rehearsals. Her peers praise her work as affordable, tailored disguises that boost amateur performers’ stage presence.
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Dennis Austin
Mickey Rowell
Sissure
Willow Street
Mickey
Myrtle Point
Coquille Group
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Point
Nces
Larry Qualman
Larry Perry
Bill Grannell
Marshall Warrick
Jack Ripper
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Jimmy Carter
Virginia Rebben
Woody
Robert de Giulie
Mpea
District
Myrtle Pett Herald
Laura
Mickey Rewell
Fanng
Sawdueters
Fang
Robert de Cialis
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