Southern Pacific Car Supply Improves Rail Service
An Interstate Commerce Commission letter from September 15 cites Southern Pacific as best supplying freight cars amid a 10 year expansion. It notes 46,004 cars added, 35.9 percent gain in ownership, 442 percent in capacity, and low unserviceable car rate of 19 percent.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Len Wayne Morse
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ICC
Southern Pacific
Southern Pacificc
Oregon Lumber
Oregon
Myrtle Point Loses Local Leader in Move to North Bend
Spenny Ross Leav ing Myrtle Point heads home to North Bend. The Herald notes the loss to Myrtle Point and the gain for North Bend as they join friends in wishing success. The local store adds John P. Davis of Portland to its staff, bringing wide furniture experience from Yakima and Portland firms, and plans to move his family to Myrtle Point by November.
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North Aerheiring
Myrtle Point
North Bend
Herald
John P. Davis
Portland
Yakima
Myrtle Point Plans Pool Boost Adds Community Drive
A proposed swimming pool near the Myrtle Point school aims to serve PE classes year round and attract shoppers from the district. Fundraising totals 3255.38 in the Community Swimming Pool fund, built from fair booths, school activities, 4 H sales, and local events.
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Myrtle Point
Coos County
Community Swimming Pool
Security Bank
F. A. Booth
Fair Grounds
Myrtle Crest School
Harold Vance
Fire Prevention Week Brief Highlights Fire Safety
Fire Prevention Week runs October 9 to 15 urging nationwide fire safety awareness. The dip sheet emphasizes that action by the public can reduce fire deaths, citing 11,000 lives lost in the year and urging Americans to heed the prevention facts.
Timber Sales For 1956 Report From Bureau Of Land Management
The district reports 169 MM bd ft of timber sold in fiscal 1955 and seedlings totaling 263 000 for planting across 429 acres. Four fire patrolmen were funded, with two stationed on river road projects, one on the Vincent Creek Burn and one on the Williams River Burn. Field work covers 350 000 acres. 50 000 acres of Curry county public domain remain uninventoryed due to funding limits.
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Protection Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Smith River
Vincent Creek
Williams River
Curry County
Coquille
Coos River
East Fork
Middle Fork
Coquille River
Loon Lake
National Forest Service
State Office
Powers
Siskiyou Forest
Forest Service
Weyerhaeu
Boundary for exchange in north district unsettled
The north district boundary for exchange purposes remains undecided as access routes are proposed, including Camp Creek drainage in the plan.
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Camp Creek
BLM Timber Sales and Coos Bay Hearing Sought
Creek Burnet area timber plans progress with undeveloped BLM land. Middle Creek design near completion and two miles to be built via fall timber sales. South Coast salvage market limited to Eugene bidders if first sale bids fail. Advisory board urges northwest hearings in Coos Bay with BLM and government staff coordinating.
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Creek
Burnet
Bureau of Land Management
Middle Creek
South Coast
Siuslaw
Eugene
Tom Conklin
BLM
State Office
Robert Wolf
Comptroller General of the
United States
Senate Interior and Insular Affairs
House
Northwest
Coos Bay
J. F Kronenberg
Bandon
Geaney
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Hiland Theatre
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Bureau of Land Timber Sales
Lounsbury
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Third & Central Coquille, Ore
Biegger’s
Buick
Chevrolet
Burr - Sullivan, Inc
Coquille Bootery
RED Goose Shoes
Your Family Shoe Store
J. A. Lamb Company
M. P. Pettit
Sporting Goods
Coquille, Ore
Johany
Hermans
Thompson’s
Penney’s
Nywe ‘Cotton York
Coquille Auto Co. E
Oldsmobile
Harry’s Appliance
Maytag& Crosley
W. Main
Pontiac
W. Front - Fheme
Mara Corday
Lex Barker
Universal-Internationals
Man
Bitter Ridge
Coker
Joe Marsh
Hack Willis
Hack
United States Brewers Foundation
RCA Victor
Thorntons
Rittenhouse
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RCA
Vieter
Consumers
Banden
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