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From Our Files: Sept. 24, 2025
Sept. 28, 1950 As many as 16 arrests were made this week on a variety of charges.…
September 17, 2025
From Our File: Sept. 17, 2025
Sept. 21, 1950 The Crusade for Freedom campaign is now underway. A proclamation was issued outlining the…
September 15, 2025
From Our Files: Sept. 10, 2025
Sept. 14, 1950 After an eight-week strike, employees of Willamette National Lumber Company in Foster went back to…
September 5, 2025
From Our Files: Sept. 3, 2025
Sept. 7, 1950 Jackie and Ed Bishop, Sweet Home brothers wanted in this area by federal, state and…
August 28, 2025
From Our Files: Aug. 27, 2025
Aug. 31, 1950 Police are looking for a capricious clock snatcher who took two electric clocks from the…
August 20, 2025
From Our Files: Aug. 20, 1950
Aug. 24, 1950 A modern, new lookout, which will be manned for the first time next year, was…
August 14, 2025
From Our Files: Aug. 13, 2025
Aug. 17, 1950 A six-foot raised center island is included in plans for widening of Main Street. It…
August 6, 2025
From Our Files: Aug. 6, 2025
Aug. 10, 1950 City Council approved the purchase of a new one-ton flatbed truck to replace the…
July 30, 2025
From Our Files: July 30, 2025
Aug. 3, 1950 City Manager Jess Parker announced the widening of Highway 20 through Sweet Home is…
July 25, 2025
From Our Files: July 23, 2025
July 27, 1950 The second application of anti-mosquito spray (DDT) is scheduled this week in the early…
July 21, 2025
From Our Files: July 16, 2025
July 20. 1950 The city’s first flag pole was erected on the side of the local police…
July 11, 2025
From Our Files – July 9, 2025
July 13, 1950 The subject of a three-week manhunt, Jerry Macomber, 27, was nabbed in Medford after…
July 1, 2025
From Our Files: July 2, 2025
July 6, 1950 The Sweet Home area received its first 1950 anti-mosquito spray by air and pickup…
June 25, 2025
From Our Files: June 25, 2025
June 29, 1950 Police are looking for a marauder who apparently rode out of the woods on…
June 17, 2025
From Our Files: June 18, 2025
June 22, 1950 A recent census revealed Sweet Home’s rise in population made it the highest percentage…
June 13, 2025
From Our Files: June 11, 2025
June 15, 1950 Police Officer Albert Osborn was cleared of a manslaughter charge at a preliminary hearing…
June 3, 2025
From Our Files: June 2, 2025
June 8, 1950 The city will receive the first of three anti-mosquito sprayings in June. A contract…
May 27, 2025
From Our Files: May 28, 2025
June 1, 1950 The Sweet Home Swimming Pool Association, inactive for several months, was reorganized when new…
May 23, 2025
From Our Files: May 21, 2025
May 25, 1950 Four high school students received minor injuries when an unidentified roadside vandal threw a…
May 15, 2025
From Our Files: May 14, 2025
May 18, 1950 The 88-member class of 1950, graduating this week, is the largest in the school’s…
May 6, 2025
From Our Files: May 7, 2025
May 11, 1950 The city superintendent of grade schools proposed establishing a junior high school as a…
April 30, 2025
From Our Files: April 30, 2025
May 4, 1950 The Oregon State Highway Commission turned down Sweet Home’s request to install a traffic…
April 23, 2025
From Our Files: April 23, 2025
April 27, 1950 The town celebrated the dedication of the high school’s new auditorium, the completion of…
April 19, 2025
From Our Files: April 16, 2025
April 20, 1950 Henry Clay Tollett, 55, one of two holdup men who in 1947 robbed the…
April 13, 2025
From Our Files: April 9, 2025
April 13, 1950 The City Council voted to follow the lead of other Oregon cities for Daylight…
April 1, 2025