Local Author - Christine Roney book reading 'Beyond Stone' at the Langlois Library

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Wednesday, March 22, 2017 - 6:00pm

Christine Roney will be at the Langlois Library on March 22nd at 6pm.  She will do a reading from her book 'Beyond Stone'. She may also surprise us with a tidbit from her new book as well. Although beginning her professional life as a lawyer in California, she prefers novels and screenplays to briefs and trials. She lives here locally on the South Oregon Coast. Contact Langlois Library for more information at 348-2066.

Langlois Scrappers set National Record during War Effort

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This photograph appeared in the Oregon Journal on October 11, 1942, along with other photographs celebrating the efforts of local schools and organizations taking part in the nation’s first full-scale scrap metal drive of World War II.  The scrap drive was orchestrated by the U.S. War Productions Board and the U.S. Office of Education and was promoted heavily by radio, newspaper, and motion picture companies.  Rhyming slogans using “slap the Jap” like the one in this photograph, were common during the early stages of the war effort against Japan, when Americans hoped for a quick victory against an enemy perceived by many as racially and militarily inferior to Allied forces.

Nationwide, approximately 30 million children collected 1.5 million tons of metal for the scrap drive, helping the War Production Board meet its quota.  During the effort, a group of 33 students from Langlois, Oregon, won acclaim for gathering “an average of two and a half tons each”—a national record.

 

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