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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1945
Page
4
A Washington release lists Myrtle Point on the postwar building program, seeking an $85,000 federal post office. Local leaders are urged to push for the project, with several groups urged to act quickly to secure the funding.
Charles Kissell of Catching reek fought a long struggle with a strange sea creature off the Bandon jetty. The eel like monster, about four and a half feet long, was identified by Kissell as a Beke of the Cod family. It has a salmon head, eel body, a five inch dorsal fin, and weighs an estimated 85 to 400 pounds. It was shown at Myrtle Point Tuesday.
Three fires on the Middle Fork, started last Saturday amid low humidity, are now reported under control. Fires burned about 50 acres each near Lost Lake, Slater Creek, and Blue Nocee sites, with Coos Bay Lumber supplying equipment and a crew. hunter-caused spark suspected but not confirmed.
Ross and wife now run J. T. Ross General Merchandise at Powers. They installed a telephone this week from a North Bend naval air base release and added a refrigerated meat case with daily fresh meat shipments. The store offers meats foods clothing and fishing tackle.
Coos County 4H participants Virginia Moon Dorothy Gibney and Patricia Sanford won blue ribbons at the State Style Revue in Salem October 1. They competed among about 160 entrants wearing garments in divisions VI IV and V. Separate blue ribbon and red ribbon awards went to Barbara Se Riverton Juanita Hinze North Bend and Karin Peterson North Bend for canning cooking and camp cookery.
Mast Hospital Medical staff and patients from Coquille Myrtle Point and Bandon are listed. The birth section notes Mr and Mrs John M Huff of Myrtle Point welcomed a daughter born October 1.
Readable fragments indicate a local notice mentioning individuals Ray Beck and Ea Brown along with street addresses and building names. No clear event or action is evident to determine a definite news item.
Carl Diebold of Portland one of the owners of a Myrtle Point sawmill attends business in the area early this week. Superintendent Dellas Norton and Prof Floyd Summers attended a Portland conference of superintendents. Harold Belloni Red Wise and Clifford Wilson visited from Eugene and Corvallis. Russell Daniel Dement born at Mast hospital on Saturday morning Oct 6 1945. grandparents Verl Johnson and Ellis Dement. All are doing fine.
Mr and Mrs Harold Cilarno travel to Portland on an extended business trip for their Variety store. Mrs Robert Sheedy manages in their absence. Mrs Nerweed Brown was advised last Saturday that her sister in law Mrs E Jones has stayed with her husband’s parents for several weeks.
The 3 inch gun on the minesweeper YMS 288 at Okinawa bears the name of Shirley Auerney. Gunners mate second class Jack Lakey from Myrtle Point Oregon painted it before transferring to the United States. Lakey’s shipmates recall several West Coast locations and Washington DC as his address. The gun fired during the Okinawa campaign and will guard the ship on return.
A brief fragment notes a shift toward assisting Japan to address mental fog or confusion, signaling a humanitarian or intellectual effort. The line hints at international support and a focus on clarity of thought amid postwar concerns.
Funeral services were held Tuesday at Schroeder Mortuary in Coquille for Maxine Billie Hall eleven year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Erwin Hall of the city. She died Saturday morning at Mast hospital after a Leukemia illness. Born April 28 1924 in Red Star Arizona she is survived by her mother step father and other relatives. Interment was in Norway cemetery.
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