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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Wednesday, March t. 1950
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Crescent City To Celebrate
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Msdrord and Jackson County His
tory from the filet of the) Mail
Tribune 10, 20 and 34 rears ago
10 YEARS AGO TODAY
, March 8, 1940
(It Was Friday
War department asks for bids
on proposed radio operations
building at airport.
Father Black Breakfast club,
recently formed group of local
Catholic men, to meet Sunday.
Bounty payments on coyotes
by county to end March 15.
Hiatt lakes reported less than
one-third full but enough water
believed available if economy
practiced,
Harry Lowe directs presen
tation of play "Cyclone Sally" at
bams valley high.
20 YEARS AGO TODAY
March 8, 1930 '
(It Wts Saturday)
Early spring predicted for val
ley by local prognostlcators.
Floyd Young, frost expert, to
arrive here March 17 for or
chard duties.
Phoenix defeats Talent 25 to
16 to win county basketball title
In close game.
William Howard Taft, form
president and supreme court
chief Justice, dies.
34 YEARS AGO TODAY
March 8, 1916
(It Was Wednesday)
Albert Crawford Gaddls
awarded first prize in baby week
parade held Monday.
New bulldlnfts in Medford last
year totaled $146,413 in value;
Increase of $80,845 over year
1914.
Edwin Smith, 82, pioneer of
Jackson county and political
leader, dies in Grants Pass.
Comedy
! Prospect High To
! Present
Friday Evening
Prospect, Mar. 8 On March
II), at 7::U) p.m. in the Prospect
high school gymnasium, the stu
dents of Prospect hlRh school
will present the three act com
edy "Ho Couldn't Many Five."
The plot concerns five beau
tiful sisters, all of marriageable
brc, all very intent of being ca
reer girls. Living In the same
house with them, Is their father's
old maid sisters, Etta, who, be
cause of being Jilted when
young, has taught the girls to be
man-haters.
When Mr. Barton comes home
and announces that ho has invit
ed his wealthy boss' son, Donald
Reagan, to spend the week with
them, It is a literal bombshell
to them all. The girls, at first,
are determined to ignore him,
but arc finally persuaded to at
lrat be civil to him.
When he arrives, he meets
each of them separately and each
of them falls promptly In love
with him, Donald is so attracted
by their charms that he falls
In love with each of them, thus
highly complicating matters.
The cast includes Mr. Barton,
the harassed fother of tho girls,
played by Warren Bnrr, a senior.
Mrs. Barton, the mother, is Max
ine Chandler, a Junior.
Mary Gregory, a senior, Lou
ise Degman, a junior, Helen
Robertson, a freshman, Sonna
Staggs, a senior, and Marion
South, a Junior, are the sisters.
Donald Reagan Is played by
Richard Barber, a Junior. Etta
is played by Melva Rogers, a
sophomore. Granny is plaved by
Margaret Taylor, a freshman.
Stage manager ig Gerald Will-1
son, a senior.
Over at Crescent City preparations are going
forward for a big community blowout on March 18
when the coast town dedicates its new dock. Aside
from the great impetus which the dock will give fish
ing, lumbering and other industries of the seaport
region, there is another good reason for the people
there to celebrate for the pier stands as a monument
to community cooperation and enort having been
built on a volunteer basis by the citizens themselves.
THE Del Norte Chamber of Commerce has long
Koom oHi-looirni'i'mT fr. camira forloral fiiT.flo fnr
construction of breakwaters and jetties in the Cres
cent City harbor. The efforts have met with some
success m more recent years but it became increas
ingly apparent that the creation of shipping facili
ties and encouraging of commerce had to be attended
to by local interests if additional harbor improvement
funds were to be forthcoming.
So a group of businessmen, commercial fisher
men and timiermen got their heads together last fall
and decidecr to build their own dock. Donation of
lumber, money and material, time, labor and use of
trucks was pledged and it was agreed to seek the aid
of alher public-spirited citizens, not only in Del Norte
coOty, California, but in Curry and Josephine, the
two nearby Oregon counties.
THE campaign met general favor and within a week
QOfin (nns -.f l-Aolr Vin hncn mvon fnf a fill 10(111
UVUU bUlJO Ul Mt-VJ, gATt.ll 1.V.1 .vvv
feet long and 13 feet high.
Beneiit programs were held, money was raised
in taverns, theaters, clubs and other business places
for the purchase of such needed material as nails,
gasoline, tools, and insurance and the various and
myriad items which go into a major construction job.
Trees felled in all three counties went into the
project, sawmills giving 350,000 board feet of timber
and decking at an estimated total worth of $17,000,
and hauled to the site free.
Bank clerks, restaurant owners, businessmen and
employees of local construction companies took up
hammer and saw to add their bit in the, community
enterprise.
TT IS conservatively estimated that the dock, which
has a main pier 900 feet long, a commercial fishing
pier 222 feet long, a lumber wharf head with a 110
foot approach, and a loading platform 120 feet long,
would have cost $175,000 had it been built through
private contract.
1MEDFORD and this section of the Rogue River val
.ley have always had a keen neighborly interest
in Crescent City. Thousands from here visit the
coastal city and its adjacent beaches each season and
undoubtedly many will drive over to help celebrate
the dock dedication. E.C.F.
Crosstown
by Roland Co
"He'll have 10ms catnip on his instead of peanuts.'
Tallest Man Admitted to
Practice of Law In Oregon
Texas President
Of Eagles Plans
Visit Here Soon
Crater lake aerie, Fraternal
Order of Eagles on Thursday,
March 9. will entertain "Texas"
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Jake Colca
Jake Colca, Texas state Eagles'
president, who is visiting to chal
lenge Oregon members to a mem
bership contest with Eagles of
Texas,
Sheriff of Dallas county, Col
ca wears western garb and is said
to have a pair of six shooters
without which he never travels.
He will be accompanied here by
A. Warren Jones, past worthy
president of the Oregon FOE.
The visit will be the only one
made by Colca in southern Ore
gon and delegations from Lake
view, Klamath Falls and Lake
view are expected here.
The meeting, and initiation
Thursday will commence
promptly at 8 p.m. A dutch lunch
and special entertainment will
conclude the evening.
Dead lint Sunday Classified is si
Noon Saturdays
LIONS NOT WELCOME
Boston (U.R) Five year old
Nina Von Drewitz understands
the proolems of Mary, the little
girl in the nursery rhyme who
owned lamb. Nina's teacher
won't let her bring her pet lion
cub to school.
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open stuffy nose. You breathe V.
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RED CROSS
Published in cooperation
with the Jackson County
Red Cron Chapter by . .
PENNEY'S
Throw Rocks at Them?
Oregon's air raid warning network, it is now
learned, will not be set up on a permanent, active
basis but will be merely given a full-scale test and
then packed away in mothballs to be quickly reacti
vated should need arise.
IJAD this bit of information been given out at the
time the air raid warning system was ordered re
established some weeks ago, it would have precluded
much of the criticism which followed.
Criticism at the outset was largely based on the
fact that military and other governmental branches
had given no previous indication that any emergency
existed whicri would warrant re-establishment of the
air raid warning system.
REGON and California state officials said greater
ooperation from the federal government was
d in the matter, at both military and civilian
levels. California spokesmen were particularly bitter.
Said one: '
"Let the armed forces take somebody into their
confidence. Let them take the governors of the states.
If they can't trust them, let them tell the adjutants
general. They wear a uniform."
IT IS reassuring to learn from more recent news dis-
patches that should the volunteer airplane spotters
be called to duty m the coast states, they will act
merely as a supplement to a $320,000,000 radar screen
which is now under construction.
Still more assurance would be felt if there were
some fighter aircraft stationed along the possible in
vasion front. As it is, an Astorian-Budget editorial
rather succinctly sums up by asking who the volunteer
spotters and radar operators are supposed to warn,
adding: "And what will we do if the spotters spot
hostile planes? Throw rocks at them?" E.C.F.
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Porflander Quizzed
In Attempted Holdup
Portland. Ore., Mar. 8 (U.R)
Detectives todnv were question.
ing 23-ycnr-nld Donald Ynr-
brough of Portland to determine
If he played any pnrt of the at
tempted grocery holdup last
week-end that ended In death for
two would-be bandits.
Police said Yarlinuigh hud ad
mitted driving a car the holdup
men planned to use . In the
escape.
His companions. Henrv Doug
las Smith, ;t. and Jny V. Har
ris, 25, were shot and killed by
Eugene Archibald, fluycar-old
grocer.
Archibald and his son-in-law,
Marvin K. Bt-hrens, had been
playing cribuage In the back of
the store when the two men en
tered and made the robbery
attempt.
Detective Capt. Howard Kelly
said Yarbrough waited for the
holdup men in a stolen cur and
drove away when he heard
sirens.
Campus Chest Contest
Lacting In Appeal To
North Carolina Pupils
Chapel Hill. N. C. U.R) The
"campus chest" beauty contest
turned out a total bust at the
University of North Carolina.
The campus chest fund was de
signed for tho relief of needy
American and foreign students.
To pep tin contributions to the
cause, sponsors decided on a
beauty contest in connection
with thp February 8-10 drive.
Sororities balked at the idea
of furnishing candidates for the
contest after a second look.
"What girl wants to be known
as 'Miss Campus Chest ?" said
Marie Nusshaum, a Pi Beta Phi.
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By William Warren
United Press Correspondent
Salem, Ore., Mar. 8 (U.R)
The tallest man in the world
swore to support the constitu
tions and laws of the United
States and of the state of Ore
gon and was admitted to the
practice of law in this state
Tuesday.
Clifford Marshall Thompson,
45, who is eight feet, -seven
inches tall, was granted the right
to practice law in Oregon in
brief but impressive ceremonies
in the Oregon supreme court
chambers.
The man who moved that he
be admitted to the bar was Ken
neth Kraemer, Portland attor
ney who is five feet, six inches
tall.
Others Small
The oath of attorney was read
by Arthur S. Benson, clerk of
the supreme court who stands up
to five feet, four inches.
And Thompson was sworn in
as an Oregon attorney by Chief
Justice Hall S. Lusk, who stands
well, shall we say? he's the
least tall of the high bench.
Thompson, who traveled with
circusscs for 13 years, billed as1
'the tallest man in the world.
will practice law in Portland.
His office, at 2425 N. Killings-
worth street, is also his home,
and the furniture and fixings are
built to king size so that he has
no added problem of furnishing
a downtown office.
He practiced law in Iola, Wis.,
about four years before coming
to Portland last August. He got
his law degree at.Marquette uni
versity in Milwaukie, Wis.
Size 22 Shoes
Thompson, who wears size 22
shoes and has his suits tailor
made when he can find a tailor
who has the perceptive, was
with the Al G. Barnes and Cole
Bros, circuses.
Traveling around, he has had
quite a problem in the matter
of hotel accommodations. Hotels
just don't have nine-foot beds.
"At home I have a special
made bed," Thompson said.
"When I have to stay in a hotel.
I order a room with two beds
side by side. I sleep mostly in
one bed and stretch out my feet
in the other."
How about the matter of feed
for a frame that size?
For breakfast Thompson will
eat a big bowl of oat meal, four
eggs, four pieces of toast, three
doughnuts and a pot of coffee.
He'll eat a substantial lunch,
varying with his desire.
Then for dinner, he'll have a
two-pound steak preferably T
bone or tenderloin. With this will
go two baked potatoes, a vege
table of one sort or another, six
slices of bread, two pieces of
pie and a quart of milk.
Also Notary Public
After being admitted to prac
tice law in Oregon, Thompson
went over to the capitol build
ing, to the office of Secretary
of State Earl T. Newbry, and
took the necessary steps to be
come also a notary public.
Then he and Kraemer went
out to Court street and got into
Thompson's special built car. It's
a standard club coupe (Chrys
ler) but Thompson has had the
front seats removed and uses the
back seat for the front seat. The
seats are cut down and slanted
back. A foot or so has been
added to the steering wheel. The
added room enables Thompson
to reach the clutch and brake
without difficulty.
And as Kraemer observed as
they started the drive back to
Portland, "when you're riding
in the front seat of this car, you
feel like . you're riding in the
back seat."
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you select to fit your purse.
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