Myrtie Potst Travels to Tiger Country in Football Fight
Myrtie Potst travels into Tiger country to face Yamhill Carlton High School in a football contest. Game set for 8:00 p.m. on the Tiger field. Coach Bob Dixson notes uncertainty about the opponent and names three starting sophomores as part of the effort.
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Myrtie Potst
Tiger Country
Tigers
Yamhill-Cariton High School
Yamhill County
Tiger Field
Ry Nichols
Bob Dixson
Yamhill-Carlton
Gridders of the North Country Look to Run and Shoot
Coach Dinson outlines an offense described as run and shoot. He stresses the method and urges attention to the model as the team prepares for the long trip north to view a key time.
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Dinson
Commendation Award for Myrtle Point Student Named
Principal William Richardson announced William C. Mast as Myrtle Point High School’s Commended student in the 1972 PSAT NMSQT. NMSC named 38,000 Commended students nationwide, the top 2 percent of expected graduates in 1974, below the 15,000 semifinalists.
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Myrtle Point High School
William Richardson
William C. Mast
National Merit Scholarship Corporation
NMSC
United States
Edward C. Smith
Naticr
Logging Loco Mover Sparks Deadly Creek Trestle Tale
On November 25 1912 engineer Billie McDowell steered a new logging locomotive along Bill s Creek east of Bandon toward the Coquille River. The voyage passed over a massive trestle 104 feet above the gulch with 31 spans and five stringers, built by the Lewis brothers and Barklow. Passengers and workers faced a grim morning as the scene shifted from a routine run to disaster amid timbering challenges and injuries to Adkins Humphreys and others.
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Billie McDowell
Coquille River
Yons
Bill’s Creek
Bandon
Dollar Company
Bear Creek
Seeley
Anderson
Coos County
Oregon Coast
Smith- Powers
Myrtle Point
Pow
Aasen Brothers
Rink Creek
John Aasen
Lewellen Creek
Norway
McDonald and
Vaughn
Blue Ridge
Carter Logging Co
George H. Chaney
Glen Aiken Creek
Coos Bay
Cody and
Crane
Leo Carey
Sampa Creek
Dollar Logging Co
Seven Mile Creek
Yellow Creek
McDowell
Charle
Jth
Sondon
Guy Rose
Myrthe Poim
Fred Adkins
Lester Wright
Chencey Huma
Wright
Oregon
San Francisco
Adkins and
Hum
Lewis Brothers
Bandoo
Dan Barklow
Myrthe Point
Barklow
Radley
Adkins
Camp Munday
Chandy Mumphreys
Sway
Fred Adhing
Rol Andere
Public Meeting Notices and a Logging Train Disaster
Notices detail Blyrtle Point and Port of Coquille River commissions with monthly schedules at city hall and Lil Barn Norway. The text shifts to a logging train wreck where McDowell’s crew faced a collapsing trestle, boiler rupture, and multiple fatalities including McDowell Smith Wright. Anderson Rose Humphreys survived with severe burns and injuries.
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Coquille River
Lil’ Barn
Norway
Rol Anderson
Goodby
Billie
McDowell
Smith
Wright
Anderson
Rose
Humphreys
Guy Rose
Tragic Bandon Logging Train Wreck Recalls Survivors
Eyewitness accounts recount a devastating wreck near Bandon with Adkins dying. Rol Anderson survived after skin grafts. Lottie Belshaw recalls meeting Anderson years later and a mysterious man seeking skin samples.
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Lottie Carey Belshaw
Myrtle Palm
Lottie
Bandon
Anderson
Bill
Lote Tle
California
Aeroes Rol Anderson
Croge
Bekersfield
Call
Rol
Chancey Humphreys
Oreee
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Jercy Wilson
Ken Harris
John Mast
Mike Stidham
Richard Harvey
Tom Fiera
Bilt Mast
Dave Winkelman
Jim Hubbard
Steve Arment
Dan Seals
Sammy Johnson
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Scott Riley
Dee Vie
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Owen Nousel
Randy Bob Jody Karas
Matt Newby
Isa
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Larry Nichols
Barry Stevens
Bill Mast
Jjank
University of Oregon Bureau of Business and Economic Research
Jerry Wilson
Phreys
Parkersburg
Ban
Don
Blyrtle Point City
Spruce
Myrtle Point City
Pisoaing Commission
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