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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1961)
"PLAN NOW TO ATTEND THE : Central Point Lions Club Benefit Breakfast SATURDAY, APRIL 8 7 a.m. to Noon Centre! Point Legion Hall All Proceeds Go to the Boy Scout Fund Pancake, Ham, Eggs, Juice, Coffee, Milk ADULTS $1.00 Children 50c ; X yy-j i':! y'.w' HV v v ' 1 fy f 1 5 f f-f . i VV -S..JrA - r!V IlJ . "C ' YT' AT w i y Vyjv.y' " nr i . J 1 1 o hX- -i III ii m i , , . it T?rr vi f 1,1 :; - r- 4 If :j? I.. ;ir'U;rIpi:ij CI RAISED BY HAND-Abandoned by its mother, a two-months-f. old female kangaroo is bottle fed in Lincoln Park Zoo at Chicago by. Zoologist, Gene- Hertz. The mother kicked , the v youngster-out of iher poiich four months prematurely and f now faces 'abandonment rcharges in kangaroo court if she .doesn't jump bail.-. The youngster is kept in an incubator simulating temperature and mother's pouch, i Showboat Docked For Brief Run Staved for Years St. Louis. Mo.fllPiS-If was -1937 when Capt.-J. W. (Bill) VMenke's , Goldenrod show 5 boat docked on' the levee here to play what- was to be i a two-week engagement.' ,., "But, business was so good we decided to' stay,' .explain , ed Capt; Menke... ' ; . Today, 23 years later, the ; Goldenrod, - tied securely to ' the foot of Locust St., re--. mains the sole survivor of a . page that is now romanti- cized In song and story! Y Here on the bank of the Mississippi, the former river queen still functions in the J role for which sh was cre-.j-ated-a floating theater. . The old boat appears a lit- tie out of place, located just several hundred feet from Y where the city Is construct- i ing an ultra-modern alumi t num arch, which wiil sym- bolize St. Louis as the Gate- .. way to the West, And, just: 100 feet north Of " the Goldenrod, moored, to a wbank of the river, is one "of . the most modern river ex- v cursion steamers afloat, the ' S.S. Admiral, with its gleam- h mg, metal body., ' Forgotten Age ' t . Capt. Menke, too, a robust i'man who a p pea r's ' much ..younger than, his 81 years, ,is part of the tradition of an ".-almost forgotten age. He vividly remembers the t 'golden age of the show f.'boat, when scores of . them f-'used to ply the Mississippi, jthe Ohio, and all the rivers Cfrom Pittsburgh to' New Or Vleans, bringing entertain Jiment and the theater to the y- people of the towns and .vil lages along their routes. Kt Bill Menke is one. of four Jbrothers who took to - the driver when ' "showboating" t. was at Its peak. He and an- '.'other brother, . Charles, still live aboard the Goldenrod. ; It began for the Menkes In '1904 when Bill and brother iBen decided they had enough "-of life at a Jersey City fac 4ory. The twd'set out from "Pittsburgh on the Mononga ;hela and took- a . job adver tising various showboats , of '.the time. J "We used to travel a week 'i ahead of the showboat dis tributing hand bills and put ".advertisements in the local papers," said Menke. f- In 1911 Menke bought his first showboat, the Sunny "' South, at Parkertburg, ' W. -Va. It was the first of seven downed and operated by " the ' Menke brothers, and as , he ' put it, "It was the beginning of 26 years.' of ' one-night .. stands." ' . ' - 4-' "We would ' leave : Pitts '!iurgh in i'llarch and return "the next March,"' he' said. '-"During the winter months i-we would play -the South. We'd visit each town along ' the route twice a' year, one '". on the trip down, and .once on the way back. ' -.. .: 1 ; : r ' , 'I ; . humidity . cond'tions m the ; (UPI . Telephoto) You- had: .to; be : a "good picker," to get along, the cap tain explained.) Stops were usually at the smaller towns. In 1930 the New Sensation, fifth of a series of famous showboats bearing, that name, was destroyed in a wind storm at ,. Mound City, 111. And another of his boats, the Hollywood, . had . its bottom cut out by ice in 1941 near Paducah, Ky. The last of Menke's . fleet, the Ctoldenrod, was the queen of ' them all. -. Built in 1909, it was the largest show boat to bid for the trade of the river towns. The Golden rod, which, seated 1,400 pa- irons, was bought by Menke in 1922. ,. , .... . Now, as in times past, per formances: are held nightly on board the showboat.. To day : the programs ' are melo drama, with .the; audience in vited to boo i the villain and cheer the hero; - i- . :;-t "Business Is still, good," Capt. Menke said. . ' "We could go anytime we wanted to. We've got a steel bottom ' now;" ; - :' He made no' mention of a noticeable sag -in (tHe Gold enrod's top,' deck. i He made it clear he has no plans for retiring. ;' . .'."They'll have to carry me out of here.'Vhe said.- . -j When they do, it will be the end of an era. 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