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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1955)
Shipping Veferan Hew Port Director San Francisco (U.R) Charles lait, a 40-year veteran of West Coast shipping and trade affairs, has been named San Francisco port director by the State Board of Harbor Commissioners. The 57-year-old former San Franciscan succeeds Robert H. Wylie to the $16,000 per year position. Wylie was discharged last November, and Carl Smith, secretary of the Harbor Board, has been acting as port director since December. . Tait now heads a stevedoring company and importing firm in Seattle, where he has been a state pilot commissioned for four years. Boy Scouts Troop 8 held Its regular meet ing Tuesday. Our scoutmaster talked about our snow trip com ing up Sunday, Feb. 27. We are to meet at Scout headquarters at 9 a.m. A visitor at the meeting was Sgt. Moore from the U. S. Air Force. He talked about radar and about radar lines that are stretched across the Arctic ocean called the Dew Line. He also talked about the Evergreen Line across Canada. He showed us a film on the Strategic Air Command. Gene Harvey - Scribe SHEEP DIE IN FIRE Gresham (U.R) Twelve sheep perished last night when fire destroyed a barn a mile south of here. Thursday, February 24, 1935 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE STTTST , Body in Funeral Home For 38 Years To Be Interred in Missouri Memphis, Tenn. (U.R) "Brother Ed" Cochran died in 1917. His body was taken to a funeral home in Caruthersville, Mo., and remained there un claimed for 38 years. Next Sunday a Baptist min ister will intone prayers, and strangers who never knew the forgotten Negro will sing hymns. Then Brother Ed will be buried. .. Throughout two world wars Brother Ed's body was kept in a wooden casket. Sometimes the casket was propped against the wall of the funeral home. His body was brought to Memphis by a surviving broth er, Ezra Lee Cochran. Ezra Lee said his wife had "been after me to tend to it" for some time. Cochran household. His brother The subject of Brother Ed and sister-in-law had heard re came up last Christmas in the ports that his body was still in Mother Refuses Child Transfusion Portland (U.R) A hearing into a mother's religious reasons for not permitting a blood trans fusion for her child was post poned until next week by Mult nomah County Circuit Judge Donald E. Long yesterday. . The hearing was called on petition of Ralph William Cook, who asked for a order to restrain his ex-wife, Doreen Mae Cook, from interfering with medical treatment needed by their five yearnold daughter, Sandra Rae. Cook said the child needed to have her tonsils and adenoids removed, but the mother would not permit a blood transfusion if such treatment should become necessary following the opera tion. . . He said Mrs. Cook was a mem ber of , the Jehovah's Witnesses. The Cook's have another daugh ter, Linda Doreen, 4. Caruthersville.' "If it is true, we should go up there and do something," Mrs. Cochran said. Several days ago, the Coch rans got a ride to Caruthers ville. "We told the man who we were, and he took U3 to an open box leaning against , the wall like you see dolls in store win dows," Mrs. Cochran said. The body, covered and well preserved, was returned here. Curious View Remains J. S. Edwards said flowers had been sent to his Memphis funeral- home from both whites and Negroes who. . had heard about Brother Ed's funeral. Ed- wards said as many as 4,000 persons nave waiKea into ine funeral home to view the body." "Our telephone has been ring ing off the hook," Edwards said. 'They want to know if it's really true, about a man who died in 1917 and was still around." Good Embalming Job Edwards said the Missouri funeral home did a good em balming job, because all he had to do was take care of minor defects. Ezra Lee said his brother would have been 73 years old had he lived. He died at 5. "My wife was after me to tend to it and I wanted to see him be buried before I died," said Ezra Lee, 66. Td like to have him put away right before I pass on myself." Cub Scout Group Visits Mail Tribune Offices: Seven boys of Pack 4, Den 1, Cub scouts, of Oak Grove school, visited the Mail Tribune plant and offices Wednesday afternoon..1 Mrs. Charles Main, den mother, and Mrs. F. Wit beck, assistant den mother, ac companied the group. Boys making the trip were Larry Gerritsen, John Witbeck, Jon Knips, Steven Roemer, Lanny Brewold, Wayne Howard and Dale.Hockersmith. .1 r YOU MI TBflOK M THE jSMCfFERIft- n uv BIG FREE PARKING LOTS Ask About Extended Free Parking for Other Downtown Shopping (Effi(E)(DIE'iriEffinA SIXTH AND GRAPE STREETS OPEN 7 DAYS A (R) WEEK UNTIL V P.M. O Brands You Know O Sizes You Want O Varieties You Like O Prices That Please M EflT and SECT E 1 1 CJ HERS' Roast Beef - Roast Turkey - Fried Chicken - Swiss Steak 2 fori? 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