Word: bandon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Western World of Bandon, Ore. appeared a notice: "Lost-At Port Orford beach, a hunk of right thumb with small piece of thumb nail attached. Finder please notify Ruth Tucker...
Meantime, Science was of little avail last week to 40,000 terror-stricken inhabitants of Western Oregon where forest fires raging in the parched timberland were whipped down to the coast by high winds. Fire completely destroyed Bandon (pop. 1,500), burned parts of De Poe Bay and Myrtle Point, menaced a half-dozen other small communities and 400,000 acres of timber, including some of the famed redwoods of Northern California. In Bandon, where practically all buildings were razed, a dozen bodies were recovered. One man was killed clearing wreckage, some 30 others were missing...