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Powers News highlights 1968 graduates and local events
Thirteen women attend an early Home Extension meeting in Coos County Oregon with spice theme and tastings. Powers High School senior Fred Cunningham reports on the 4 H summer school in Corvallis. Local officials address ambulance service, library programs, and bicycle training. Chaparral Lodge celebrates 50th and 60th anniversaries with members and visiting lodges from North Bend Coos Bay Coquille and Myrtle Point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porth
Janice Taylor
Judy Porter
Roger Bushnell
Coos County Extension Service
Oregon State University
William
Dean Porter
Cortland Ellis
Edwin Mots
A. L. Burch
Fred
Coos Bay
Lillian Ross
City Recorder
Mast Hospital
Powers
City of Powers
Vickie Hathaway
Henry Hathaways
Fred Stock
Community Action Council
Jim Richards
Hester Peterson
Clyde Ellis
Ed Bedwell
Harry Hutton
Frank Lockherd
Diana Birdwell
Jim Smith
Hazel Lewis
Mahalah Aber
Shragg
Elizabeth Elam
Dorothy Leggitt
Conrad Lapp
Charleston
Chaparral Lodge
Lapp
Rathbun
Dan Lake
Kenneth Cookran
Robert Walshingham
Rebekah
Thorp
Clifford Edwards
Fru
North Bend
Usar
Nelson
Jennie Lien
Donald Andrews
Rebecca Newell
Lila Holmes
Rose Ebb
Rom
Vern Catin
Hilda Bishop
Homer Hollway
Bernard Berry
Coquille
B.D. Neavall
Robert Brown
Myrtle
Olga Rovet