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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1942
Page
6
Rev W A Couden formerly supplied the Myrtle Point Presbyterian church and has lived with Mrs Couden in Coquille for the winter. He went to Portland last week for removal of cataract from one eye hoped to restore his sight after years of deprivation.
June events include St Ann's Altar Society and Presbyterian Ladies Aid gatherings at Mrs Paul Breuer, a parish hall card party, and K Klub bridge afternoon with prizes. Community groups plan fundraisers, new officers elected, and a Townsend club speaker at the grange hall with a potluck.
Local briefs report Barker family vacation plans to Spokane for ten days, store duties by Mrs Winnifred Ray, Harvey Williams starting as L. H Pearce garage attendant, and workers, including Parker and Weekly, moving to Mare Island for government service. Cromwell family and others visit Langlois, Cantonment projects near Albany, and a new army cantonment housing thousands of troops. Also notes displacement of a dispensery at Fifth Street, Marshfield job referrals, Pendleton relocation of the Christy family, Pearl Harbor naval aviation assignment for Ensign Randleman, and Lebanon and Roseburg visits by locals including Dr and Mrs Bender and Mr Clinton.
Oregon State College reports 14 Coos county students among 75 total graduates in the seventy third annual commencement. The class includes 101 graduate degrees and 650 bachelor’s degrees with many from Myrtle Point and Coos county.
The West Coast Lumbermen's association urges a full program of maximum production of all softwood lumber in common boards and structural sizes to meet urgent needs of the War and Navy departments and the Maritime Commission. War Production Board Chairman Donald M. Nelson calls for immediate industry cooperation as lumber becomes 100 percent war industry.
Mr and Mrs C E Wilder spent Sunday with friends at Coos River. Memorial Day caused no sale at Mike Daniela's place Saturday. Austin Dodge returned from a Rogue River fishing trip to Illahe with two Chinook salmon amid bad weather and poor roads. The Kroeger family moved to Seasine for a truck driving job. Henry Knight and wife visited Beaside and Fort Stevens recently.
The notice urges workers to peel cascara bark for peak earnings up to 30 dollars daily. It notes Army Navy and civilian hospitals require cascara urgently and calls for extensive harvesting from trees with caution about fire and regrowth from stumps.
Mr and Mrs Harold Andareon host Olsen family and Ray Richardson family while China Moss and son David stay in Eugene. Mitchell Myers family plans a summer at camp with trucking work. Gordon MacKerrow and wife visit Spokane as guests of Robert Lundy, brother of Mrs MacKerrow.
The 1907 class at Union High, the class of 36 years ago, was honored last Friday night. Three members Dost William Van Altenin, Willan Giles, and Effie King Shindell attended. They completed a two year course and later entered state normal schools to finish their education.
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