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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 16, 1961)
f 1 Tenanls Keeping LA Coliseum : Personnel Busy Los Angeles -fUPD- The trou bles that beset most landlords can t begin to compare with J the problems facing Bill Nich olas, whose tenants ostenta- j tiously rip up the lawn, un .. thinkingly lose equipment and tnen nave the gall to demand immediate structural changes. Nicholas isn't in charge of a madhouse - though sometimes is surely must seem that wav. He is general manager of the r. huge Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. His occupants include al most everything and every one. Last year, for instance. the 101,573 seat stadium was home to gigantic professional football players and tiny ban- ; tamweight boxers, dignified religious services and rollick ing western rodeos. Nicholas has run the Coli seum since 1946, but it is only recently that he has begun to feel like an apartment house manager cramming people in. Before 1958 he only had to worry about getting in the Los Angeles Rams, UCLA and Southern California during ff - other events during the spring a and summer. Dodgers Come Then came the Dodgers. Walter O'Malley decided his team would take up tempor ary residence in the stadium. So the Coliseum got 77 more playing dates and a much ma ligned 40-foot-high left field '. screen, not to mention foul poles and a backstop. The recent addition of the American Football League Los Angeles Chargers gave Nicholas more experience in schedule squeezing and about left the groundkeepers with : the shakes. During 1960 a chauvinistic Coliseum spectator could have seen 42 football games (not in cluding pee-wee tilts at half- time). 77 baseball games, the Mary's Hour religious pro gram. Coliseum Relays, sports men's and vacation shows, a rodeo, July 4th fireworks, two championship boxing bouts, and, of course, President Ken nedy proclaiming the " new frontier" at the Democratic National Convention in July. Needless to say, the many events keep the groundkeep ers and work crews on the run. In a weekend in early fall, when the Dodgers are still playing and the Rams and Chargers have started tneir exhibition seasons, the Colise um faces changes almost daily. On a Friday evening the screen and backstop may be up. Saturday-no more screen. The baseball structures have been replaced by goal posts and football striping is on the grass. Sunday afternoon after another hectic switch the field is again ready for baseball. It takes two work crews of seven men each a total of eight hours and costs about $1,000 every time the screen and backstop go up or down. By November the field is a groundskeeper s nightmare. There is nothing left in the middle of the gridiron but a few straggly roots and plenty of dirt-which sometimes is sneakily dyed green to fool the players and fans into thinking it is grass. According :.- to Nicholas, not even the ' .broncos and Brahma bulls at I the rodeo tear up the turf like li, football players. The Coliseum grass and the ! stadium's workers get a rest ''only during February and . March. But if any more teams move to Los Angeles these : . months might also be filled with events. What might hap- .. pen to the playing field then . is beyond credibility. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. Scout News Troop 38 Hornbrook The violent wind and rain storm of March 5 brought a sudden end to week end camp-out of Horn brook Boy Scout Troop 38. The boys left Saturday morning and had made their camp on McKinney creek where they had planned to set out trees for the forest service. Since they were forced to break camp and re turn home even before their project was begun, they will undertake to complete the wnrlr at a later date. The troop was accompanied by their scoutmaster, Raipn C h a d w i c k. and furnishing transportation were Louis Hiitrhitu. Oscar Barnum "Buck" Skeahan and James Dickison. Mpmhnrs of the troop par ticipating were Frankie Car- rioza, Steve Lckert, Jim Brown, Mike Dooley, Allen Swafford, Billy Spearin, Bob Hntrhins. Dannv Thompson. Steve and Dale Farmer, Doug Bennett, Darrell Jones. Mike .Turnbow, Ernie Burcell and George Chadwick. EGG PRODUCERS Chicago - Iowa. California, !., ;; LPmopmBCmiKB BOB Pl!l!-l,.!l.HHnW . . ... . Ml PIP IWIMllllllll I fc I II I " ' ' ' .r J SPECTACULAR SAVINGS ON SOFA BEDS AND ROCKERS! rKtfy W ? !SS en; litis 4 vft pw5wsfg0 " Lit- 1 f1!,, SPECTACULAR SAVINGS ON DIVAN BEDS! ITT i ii!iB,i,t.t.ugT:rifTiimn'gTm HTTK711I.MFTnnWFTai.Tllll.ini SPECTACULAR SAVINGS ON SOV4 ANT) CHAlTt SUTSr Till ! HTM'a ! tm WmW, m I mmwm.u SPECTACULAR SAVINGS ON 3-PIECE SECTIONALS! 7YT FfDE CHOICE! BIG SAVINGS ON SWIVEL ROCKERS! WIDE CHOICE! r : .. . .ilW4J-;'.' 1", km V " sJ Ut' t I M Nil 1 01 EAST JACKSON STREET IN MEDFORD SHOPPING CENTER Upon Tonight and Friday 'Til 9 P.M. Saturday 9:30 to 5:30 PHONE SP 3-AAA1 Pennsylvania and Minnesota lead the nation in annual pro duction of eg?s for market, i 'V-
