history

Aug. 31, 1950 Police are looking for a capricious clock snatcher who took two electric clocks from the…

Aug. 24, 1950 A modern, new lookout, which will be manned for the first time next year, was…

Aug. 17, 1950 A six-foot raised center island is included in plans for widening of Main Street. It…

Aug. 10, 1950   City Council approved the purchase of a new one-ton flatbed truck to replace the…

Aug. 3, 1950   City Manager Jess Parker announced the widening of Highway 20 through Sweet Home is…

July 27, 1950   The second application of anti-mosquito spray (DDT) is scheduled this week in the early…

July 20. 1950   The city’s first flag pole was erected on the side of the local police…

July 13, 1950   The subject of a three-week manhunt, Jerry Macomber, 27, was nabbed in Medford after…

July 6, 1950   The Sweet Home area received its first 1950 anti-mosquito spray by air and pickup…

June 29, 1950   Police are looking for a marauder who apparently rode out of the woods on…

June 22, 1950   A recent census revealed Sweet Home’s rise in population made it the highest percentage…

June 15, 1950   Police Officer Albert Osborn was cleared of a manslaughter charge at a preliminary hearing…

June 8, 1950   The city will receive the first of three anti-mosquito sprayings in June. A contract…

June 1, 1950   The Sweet Home Swimming Pool Association, inactive for several months, was reorganized when new…

May 25, 1950   Four high school students received minor injuries when an unidentified roadside vandal threw a…

May 18, 1950   The 88-member class of 1950, graduating this week, is the largest in the school’s…

April 13, 1950   The City Council voted to follow the lead of other Oregon cities for Daylight…

Feb. 23, 1950   Sweet Home Active club members will launch a fundraising drive as the first step…

Feb. 16, 1950   James Lee, local tavern and pool room operator, and George Gessler, owner of the…

Feb. 9, 1950   Jack Barger, 21, who last week inflicted a 12-stitch gash on the forehead of…

Feb. 2, 1950   Local thermometers indicated a low between one degree and minus seven degrees this week.…

Jan. 26, 1950   President Truman’s estimated budget for the fiscal year includes a requested appropriation of $200,000…