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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1950)
rrld.y, February 3. 1950 f Inexpensive Fashion Thrill -Seeking Bobby -Soxers Haunt Jail Corridors In Hunt For Romance WHEN YOU CHOOSE ONE OF.... Check THESE BARNES Atlanta Feb. 3 U.R) The next?" wondered huge Hugh 0) attractive teen-ager surveyed Cromer, ch ef jailer. . . herself in a large mirror, ane ne sum mey mn p m-.... might have been making last visiting hours, often with school m nute preparations for a high books under their arms. Some Khool dance date with her best are only 15 to 16. bov friend ' Thcv be and Plead fo? per' o) ia ft y But that was not ner n The mirror hung in the chief from newspapers so they'll have . i"? mi . ,im. stone- a honafide excuse to Bet inside jauers . , - ... faced Fulton County tower here, the jail. f,yhhaougChTe.he waseUher at ininritos are there to see I-hnnl or on the way home. actual loved ones. But most of fflhite "e bobbv sox briade comes She was one oi huiiiwum" juo. ........ thrill-seekine bobby soxers who Man Picked Out inrill-seeKiiiB t.-ti I i.i.. MM thom stnnrl In front TXK MEDfOFD (OHESON) MAIL TRIBUNE ETTEB 6) JST"" " 7 Ke thy gosit.ng," Cromer "What will gins win " . WHIG IIISIUC lC ..-. -. - girls pick out their man by the simple process of looking them all over. . What happens then? At iirsi, (knu luet tiillr deClinf AChOOl- girlishly. But more often than not. Cromer said, the first visit In the Day's News B mAnn. jsnwna . . ni rrnmnr KB rt. the first Thnt words are written 3USt iiiji,..h rpiuilt. In after having come over the fl f letters p0Urlng out undy ii .... t uiqi n hreeze. . . . - i v. . i i Tiu rin tnoir about four and a half hours, which is about a half hour longer than summer weather time. The snow is about 10 feet deep beside the road, considerably higher than a car, but on the roadway it is hard and packed dry and crunchy with the zero cold, with plenty of friction. Not much danger of skidding, and if you did skid you'd merely go Into a soft fluff of snow at the side. STARTED late and spent the night at Eugene. About seven inches of snow here last night. The highway has been plowed, and the city streets have been plowed. It's a wintry-looking M While shaving this morning, I listened to a news broadcast via a radio in the adjoining room. Two below, the announcer Says the lowest temperature since 1924, when It went to four below. . 1924! How well I remember that date! I was running a news paper in Eugene then a morn Tt. harmened in December. There had been two or three weeks oi Diue aim weather. Warm and sunny. The flowers blooming. Several peo ple had mowed their lawns. One afternoon I went off the deep end wrote one of these lyrical edi torials about the weather. I turned It in to the printer about 5 in the afternoon, dusted off my hands and went home. Along abouf midnight a cold front struck down from the north and when we arose the next morning there was a snow blanket of some six Inches and the mercury was plummeting to ward zero. It took me years to live down the kidding. FROM Eugene north, the snow gets deeper. There isn't much uuw u. iciivia I " " - . ln love for the man behind bars Tliii.. va4npn iirVtnn ttiAV PAtl bearing gifts of candy, food and cigareis. Cromer said an attractive of fice secretary recently offered Jail Chaplain Bill Allison "a nice sum of money" if he would fix It so she could see a con- iiMpH murHprpr "Uo'D en Tnmanltf Innltlnt?" she told him. "I just want to meet Cromer said he tried to offer fatherly advice to the feminine visitors, particularly those of the odvious inrui sei. But thev still come, and plead. and visit and find romance separated by prison bars Man Arrested For Stealing Own Car Columbus, O., Feb. 3 (U.R) Dillna rmo ,,n u,lth n tlPUT tUitl in auto theft today after they arresiea james m. juner, oj, ui Westminster, Md., for stealing his own car. The 1948 model car was listed her 7 A urpplr latpr hp tolri nolice t- i i r I i. Ui 1 ln ne I1UU 1UUI1U lb iiiiuot:ii i Rolf Imnrp But, he confessed to police here, he didn't tell his insurance company, instead, ne coiieciea an insurance cnecK ior iwi.oa then came here to sen the car Whan armatnri ho hnii mflrlp AT rnneements to dispose of it for Pol ce snirl he will be ne a on an open charge until a warrant arrives irom Baltimore Mental Patient Admits Setting Hospital Afire ...mi. -n ti,. hlohwnv hut the Davennort. Ia.. Feb. 3 U.R) going is still good, the snow dry a mental ward patient reaauy and 'sandlike. admitted setting a fire which rri ..nLpa on Tt takes snuffprf out thp lives of 41 wom- more than weather to stop those en, Mercy hospital employes boys. On the open highway ine testified at a coroner's Inquest. going ts easy enougn, dui m ic cnipiiyt- iuiu n .uinc a towns its tougn. ine uhuiu jury yeaieruuy iumi mi a, cunua lights are a pest. When you have Epperly, 22, of Rock Island, 111., j i .nnht n Ian tnnu or tnlH thpm chp pt flip firp in hpr so behind you, you hate to come room Jan. 7. An official board 10 a IUll SIOU. IUU J1UVC W wiiv-n ui ini.iwiv aaiu tio -uiitiiigs ovtu ' ... ml . 1. ...in! WU1U l ...U . 4 i 4 n ,i I re peSKy inoi Wy. llicjr umis nunc .i wiuicanco iudiuicu i on till the poor driver finally the Inquest yesterday, a sanity has to stop to keep irom crasn- commission ai rock isnira pa ins Into- the cross traffic. Then judged Mrs. Epperly insane and he has to make a full start. she was committed to an East His wheels spin. If he lsn i Moline, ill., state hospital, cusslna" it's because of the innate courtesy that is drilled into theSO pllOtS OI the hlgnway JUR- h. InnlrH mP nvov with n flshv Bprnnuta. Eventually his tires, I i t with tons of weight above them, gl ycar ., he siM ..nnd , ncver cut down to the pavement and saw before." pile. irucK ana irauer UCK... But he took mc h, and gavc to move forward. At the next , ui. iW'-jJii? .P. Such is life in Oregon in one .... - .j. - --oi l ie Diggcsi siorms in years nlplv to kppn rnllintf till tile am li rns ffreen. dul nine iiint;a w A-i'i. h Thn ton npnnunp in out of ten fate is against him L tonight's Journnl says: "More mm n BijB itu mi i.viii snow coming, Biiing tast wina a full stop. . . Due." There are frustrating minus in thin life, and this must DC one of them. PORTLAND is a mess. The snow is inches deep on the streets in spite of plowing. Churned by thousands of wheels. it la olinnt lha mntlitpnpv of damp sugar. But somehow your tires one inrougn ana you seep roiung. Thanks to a telephone rcscr- irollnn Bmnnimivlntlnni nrp Wait ing at the hotel. Everything is lovely till you come down to take the car to the garage. You line up and wait until finally an attendant comes along and tells you: "Might as well go some where else. We're full up." You go somewhere else. He's full up too. The garage people explain it this way: "Everybody living out in the suburbs got caught in the storm, stored his car and put up at a hotel." I PROWLED the streets for three-quarters of an hour, and finally came back to the big garage near the hotel where I'd tried first. "Look here." 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