Lr Council Begins Residential Area Structure
City manager Ben Nichols received a letter from the Coos road and Gravelford Road section noting road surfacing completed with a request the city assume maintenance. Council expressed concern about Reedsford Road flooding and Gravelford slides in winter and tabled action pending weather and further talks with commissioners.
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S Lr Council
Ben Nichols
Coos Road
Dee's Grocery
Gravelford Road
Reedsford Road
Gravelford
Dietz
County plans Maple Street upgrade with city or county crews
The county signals future Maple Street improvements from hilltop to cemetery east boundary. The project may be done by county crews or county reimbursement to city crews. City upkeep has occurred in the past, but this year shows little progress.
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Maple Street
Pas
MP Youth Ribbon Winners At State Fair 1967
Myrtle Point youths earned fourteen blue ribbons at the Oregon State Fair last week in Salem. Winners include Joyce Lillie for vig food preservation and Marlene Walker for Groom Your Room and chicken diner.
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Tom Flanna
FEA
Salem
Myrtle Point
Oregon
Joyce Lillie
Suzannne Abel
Ben Lillie
Vegetable Garden
Marlene Walker
Joyce Lille
Tom Hanna
Andy Vincent
FFA
Linda Southmayd
Walter Seals
Jersey
Phyllis Pillette
Betsy Hartless
JoAnn Mast
Signal School Course Completed By Local Man
Private Ronald E Van Vinck, 21, of Myrtle Point, finished a 21 week field radio repair course at the Army Southeastern Signal School in Ft Gordon Georgia on Sept 1. The training covered electrical fundamentals and servicing radio transmitters and receivers along with operation of testing equipment including tube testers signal generators and frequency meters.
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Ronald E van Vinck
Edward E van Vinck
Myrtle Point
Army Southeastern Signal Shet
Ft Gordon
Beans Flourish Amid Shorthanded Pickers In October Outlook
Bean season at Powrie fields presses on with sun and rain shortages. Lack of student pickers shifts schedules, fields open 7 am to 7 pm, with crops described as fabulous and possibly extending into October. Coquille Valley Elks plan a Sunday picnic on the golf course fairway with a 100 dollar adult fee and free kids, picnic noon to 1 pm. Local editor invites reader comment on the City Log absence.
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Powrie
Catholic Church Adjusts Mass Times at Sts Ann and Michael
Starting Sunday Sept 3 masses at Sts Ann and Michael in Coquille shift to 1000 am with a second service at 800 am and 1030 am. Religious instruction for grades is on Tuesdays with two sisters teaching younger students and Father Fleming guiding high schoolers.
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Sts Ann and Michael's Catholic Church
Coquille
Michael Fleming
Local Appraisers Complete Special Training At OSU
More than 200 county appraisers from Oregon completed the 12th annual Oregon Appraisal Short Course at Oregon State University. The two day program, co sponsored by the university and the State Tax Commission, aimed to improve accuracy and uniformity in real property valuation for tax purposes with emphasis on residential and commercial appraisals. Participants from Coos County included George B. Back, George W Clarno, Glenn A. Moen, Lee J Nelson, Paul M. Veterrsick, Theodore A Erickson, James E. Brown, Donald R Trigg, and others from Myrtle Point and Coquille.
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Oregon
Oregon State University
State Tax Commission
Coos County
Coos Bay
George B. Back
George W Clarno
Glenn A. Moen
Lee J Nelson
Paul M. Veterrsick
Theodore A Erickson
McKinley
Myrtle Point
James E. Brown
Donald R Trigg
Coquille
Dettman Wins State Elks Golf Championship at Coquille
Dettman defeats Milt Roth 6 and 4 to claim the State Elks Golf title at Coquille Valley Golf and Country Club over Labor Day weekend. Last year’s champion Dr J N Matechetts shot a hole in one on the 10th day earlier and won first in the first flight. Sixty plus Elk golfers competed across eight flights with Don Houston, Tony Forbes, Bill Kistner and others taking top honors in their divisions.
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Dettman Coquille
Elks
Coquille Valley Golf and Country Club
Milt Roth
Dettman
Roth
Ionship
Chuck MacManiman
Elk
Opening Day Attendance at Myrtle Point Schools Drops
Opening day figures show Myrtle Point High School with 432 students, down from 460 last year. District totals varied: Maple 136 vs 131, Spruce 129 vs 117, Myrtle Crest 464 vs 488, Arago 60 vs 59, Bridge 124 vs 130, Broadbent 47 vs 52, Dorn 29 vs 30. officials expect numbers to rise as vacations end.
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Myrtle Point High School
Maple
Spruce
Myrtle Crest
Arago
Bridge
Misread Text Mentions Safety Award Scene at Pony Village
A fragment mentions a safety award event at the Pony Village Motor Inn in North Bend alongside a lost time incident last week. It references Bil Meed as PRAL’s real manager in Coquille and Homer Beale, PP&L’s West division manager.
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Homer Bedle
Pacific Power & Light Company
West Oregon
Portland
al Sprague
Scvidert
Pony Village Motor Inn
North Bend
Bil Meed
Pral
Coquille
Mid the
Marines to Lead Cashmere Fair Parade Color Guard
Representing the Thirteenth Naval District a Marine color guard from the Seattle based Marine Air Reserve Training Detachment will march in the Chelan County Fair parade in Cashmere Washington on September 9. The color guard includes Sgt Richard E Haworth Sgt Larry L Butts Cpl William C Stencil and Cpl William L Jorgenson all listed with hometowns Oklahoma Oregon Illinois and Minnesota respectively.
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Thierteenth
Chelan County
Cashmere
Wash
Marine Air Reserve Training Detachment
Seattle
Central Washington
Richard E. Haworth
Okeene
Okla
Larry L. Butts
Myrtle Point
Ore
William C. Stencil
Chicago
Iil
William L. Jorgenson
Minneapolis, Minn
City Court Fines Virgil Anderson for Bottle Throwing
Virgil Anderson fined 980 dollars for throwing a bottle on a public highway. Ralph Clarno fined 350 dollars for disorderly conduct.
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Virgil Anderson
Ralph Clarno
Computer Aids Scholarship Bid For Students
North American Educational Computer Services in Princeton NJ unveils a computerized scholarship search. It matches a student’s qualifications to over 700000 aid items and aims to access $30 million in unclaimed aid from 1966. The ECS system stores more than $500 million in aid and returns donor names and addresses after a detailed questionnaire.
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North American Educational Computer Services, Inc
Princeton
ECS
Educational Assa
ESC
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Coquille Valley Elks
Don McClellan
City Log
Myrtle Point Herald
Catholic Church
OSU
New State Elks
Dr J N Matechetts
Don Houston
Stan Knight
Tony Forbes
Bill Kistner
Steve Novak
Gary Sipe
Len Miller
Lou Robinson
Bob Jones
Eamy Epplee
Chuck Griffith
Terry Warren
Ross Pinkley
Boyd Wilson
Lewis Moore
Broadbent
Dorn
Ahan Award
Coquille Area
Bill Head
PPa@L
Reprecenta
Fendd
Déetrict
aNacmic Fower
Homer Beale
Pp&l
Man
Baleen
Oscar Weed
Chalsaan
Jimmie’ King
United Geed Neighbors
Myrtle Hotel
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