August 11, 1955
Three Sweet Home families were made homeless last Sunday morning at 4:08 a.m. when a fire in the apartment house they were living in at 1533 “T” Street burned to the ground with all of their belongings.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Duncan, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Walker, and Mr. and Mrs. Larry Whitton, each with one child, had all of their belongings burned in a blaze that firemen were unable to control.
Sweet Home residents who have seen a pink poodle playing around town recently won’t need to get their glasses checked or their heads examined. It’s real.
Mrs. R. E. Atkinson suddenly tired of her Maltese poodle’s white coat, which she says is alwasy getting dirty, decided to dye the dog a bright pink when she bathed her last. Then the little 3 1/2 -year-old dog ran around the neighborhood in the height of fashion, probably startling everybody she met.
Grade School District No. 55, at the regular monthly school board meeting Tuesday, purchased 12 1/2 acres of propert to be used as a site for a junior high school. The property ?known as the federal housing site?was purchased from A.L. and J.M. Weddle for $35,000, William Meidinger, superintendent of District 55, said.
Miss Gwen Heeter is Frontier Days Queen of ’55! Gwen, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Heeter, Holley Road, was named the 1955 Frontier Days celebration queen at ceremonies held Wednesday night at the FD open-air dance which got the three-day annual celebration under way. The 17-year-old, 5-foot, 1 1/2-inch Sweet Home girl graduated from Sweet Home Union High School in June and said she plans to attend a business college this fall.
August 7, 1980
About 80 Sweet Home residents sat through emotion-charged testimony “on a hot topic on a hot night,” as hearing officer Ed Schultz summed it up, when local people and county officers exchanged opinions Thursday night, July 31 in what was intended to be the last public hearing before a final decision on the site of the new Pleasant Valley Bridge. The decision on the bridge site probably will be made by the county commissioners within the next 60 days, Schultz told the wilted and weary audience at the end of the 2 1/2-hour hearing.
The first step in beautifying the business district of Sweet Home is being undertaken by a commitee of the Sweet Home Chamber of Commerce. Chaired by Lee Fountain of Home Federal Savings & Loan, the Sweet Home Beautification Project is being launched to make the Sweet Home business district a more attractive place for shoppers and, consequently, to attract more business for the community’s businesses.
Carrying a list of 21 questions concerning the May 20 primary election race between Rep. Bud Byers and Sweet home schoolteacher Doyle Johnson, Royal E. Abeene has been gathering signatures on a sample petition.
Hydroplane race driver Neal Yapichino died last Thursday at 9:31 a.m. at the Sacred Heart Hospital in Eugene.