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Groundbreaking for Sambo's, South Riverside, Medford |
Mayor Dunlevy with shovel, South Riverside, Medford / Dunlevy poses with other dignitaries, digs shovelful / men examine plans, Elliott Equipment Co. in background |
10-10-1966 | |
Medford Fire Department in Action; Fire on South Ivy |
Fireman leaps out of bed, dresses, slides down pole / view from top of ladder truck: turns onto West Third, drives down unidentified streets / ladder raises to roof of multistory building by railroad tracks / man climbs ladder to camera / view of people standing on street below / South Ivy Street fire: front of house, firemen removing burnt debris / dark interior: chopping hole in ceiling, removing carpet and soggy debris / scorched washing machine / fireman pulls hoses across street / fireman removes breathing apparatus |
10-10-1966 | |
Red Cross Blood Donor Honored; White City Shooting Range Competition |
Closeup of handful of commemorative mail / / man in suit chats at Red Cross offices / nurse takes his blood / he drinks water / he holds tubing and waits in line / on gurney with blood pressure cuff / exterior with nine gallon jugs on table representing amount of blood he's donated / / long shot of shooting range, Agate Lake area, as men target practice with pistols / closeup of targets mounted on shed as holes are being tallied |
10-10-1967 | |
Senators Percy and Packwood Speak; Medford Airport Parking |
Reception line: Illinois Senator Charles H. Percy and Oregon Sen. Bob Packwood shaking hands with line of young women / Percy and Packwood pose with one young woman / banquet scene: Packwood speaks at lectern, Percy on dais / audience stands and applauds / Percy speaks / Percy enters froom / movie cameras on tripods / Percy speaks in front of microphones / Percy and Packwood / ABC cameraman / youthful audience applauds / Packwood speaks / closeup of Percy speaking / / Medford Airport terminal, pan down to "No Parking, Reserved Cafe Mgr." on bumper / pan across parking lot / "Terminal" sign on building, pan to parking lot / more of same / sign: "Medford-Jackson County Airport" / jetliner in distance beyond parked cars / control tower from middle distance, pan to "Public Parking" sign / terminal from distance with parking lot in foreground |
10-10-1968 | |
Pinehurst School; North Medford High School |
Displays on elementary school classroom wall: "Trees," "History's Greatest Feat," "Old Times and Faces" / young male teacher raises window shades / pan across walls, blackboard, young woman peering in / / / pan across North Medford High School entrance / theater building / adults with nametags / woman arranges tray of crudites / pan across crowded cafeteria set up in gymnasium |
10-10-1968 | |
Employment Service Trailer; United Crusade Luncheon |
Man standing by Oregon State Employment Service trailer / closeup of man / legend painted on trailer / pan across trailer / / luncheon scene: man at dais speaks / pan across audience with signs: "North," "Southwest," "Special Events" / VIPs standing in front of pledge board / |
10-10-1968 | |
Medford City Manager Robert A. Duff Greets New Planner |
Medford City Manager Robert A. Duff and other men shake hands |
10-11-1965 | |
United Medford Campaign Luncheon |
Banquet scene: speaker in front of tote board / table captains stand and report, applaud. Names on tote board: Martin Herrin, J. R. Acheson, G. Clark, C. Webb, Dick McCandless, Willard Chinn, Jay Elliott, Calvin L. Jones, George Brennan, Dunbar Carpenter, D. F. Keiser, C. C. Christensen |
10-11-1965 | |
SIAC-AOI Meeting on Taxes at RVCC |
Pans across meeting room, speaker at lectern / exterior: four men discuss paper |
10-11-1965 | |
Accident: Logging Truck and 1950 Studebaker |
Pan across wrecked, loaded L. H. Dalkenberg log truck and 1950 Studebaker--truck damaged much worse than car. Crater Lake Highway or possibly Table Rock Road |
10-11-1966 | |
Fire Truck Demonstration, Grants Pass Elementary School |
Elementary school parking lot: children walk to fire engine / fireman on ladder truck asks question, crowd of kids raises hands / ladder wings, men climb it / teacher clipped to end of ladder, ladder raises / shots of extended ladder, pan of crowd of schoolchildren |
10-11-1966 | |
Josephine County School Board Meeting |
Men and two women in crowded office talking, looking at papers |
10-11-1966 | |
Parents and Children, Jackson School Lunch Room |
Lunchroom scenes: mothers and fathers with elementary school children eating in lunch room / closeups |
10-11-1966 | |
Wreck on I-5 |
Pans across damaged guard rail / closeups of debris / grille of wrecked late 1950s Plymouth / closeups of interior of car / extreme closeup of grille |
10-11-1966 | |
Medford Elks Lodge Collects Animal Hides for Vets |
Exteriors, Elks Lodge, Medford: men examine tanned deer hide by loaded pickup / banner on pickup: "Raw Leather for Vets Gathered by Medford Elks Lodge #1168" / man handles raw hide in pickup bed, regrets it / man delivers raw deer hide to barrel on sidewalk in front of lodge |
10-11-1966 | |
Medford Meeting; Central Point School; Dave Brubeck Quartet |
Luncheon scene: speakers at folding-table dais / listeners including Mayor Dunlevy / pan across scene / more of same / / students leaving Mae Richardson Elementary School, filing past camera to school buses / / band on stage: drummer, bass, piano, saxophone / Dave Brubeck in hallway schmoozing / sidemen taking a break Dave Brubeck Quartet disbanded 10 weeks later, on December 26, 1967. Sidemen in October consisted of Eugene Wright, bass; Paul Desmond, sax; Joe Morello, drums. Frank Bash at :15 (far right)
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10-11-1967 | |
DMV; Veterans Domiciliary Leather Shop; New Medford Parking Lot; Fender Bender |
Sign: "Drivers License" / eye testing machine / closeup of Driver's Manual / DMV personnel / shot of parking lot through window / DMV staffer inspects car / / man displays leather, moccasins while another man cuts pieces for leather project, men tool leather, glue leather together / man displays tooled belt: "DeWitt McMahon" / / sign: "Free 2 Hour Parking," parking lot on Sixth Street, Medford, between Riverside and Bartlett--future site of Middleford Parking Garage / Mayor Dunlevy in parking lot with VIPs, pan to cars in lot, pan back to sign, Newberry's in background / / chain-reaction car accident on East Main, Medford--three cars with dented fronts in street in front of Century Building |
10-11-1967 | |
Gold Hill Cemetery |
Pans across concrete tombs in cemetery: Edwin Carlisle Stanwood, Josephine Catharine Stanwood / man doing something inscrutable--picking at rotten stump or concrete / pan across cemetery / man presses ear to tombs, smiles / trash on ground / |
10-11-1968 | |
Red Cross Blood Drive in Medford |
Exterior: nurse walks to building / sign: "Blood Center" / interiors: pan across reception area, blood donors on cots, nurse poking vein, volunteers typing up paperwork |
10-12-1965 | |
Logging-Timber Tour |
Logging starts chain saw, makes final cut into tree, tree falls (doesn't make a sound) / tour group walks down road / loader piles logs, pan up trees / bulldozer skids logs / pan across tour group / tour leader / loading logs onto "Gus Pringle" log truck / chaining down logs / grader checks logs / truck drives onto scale / truck drives off / another truck arrives, "Austin L. King" on door |
10-12-1965 | |
Nobel Laureate Walter H. Brattain in Medford |
Men in suits talk with Brattain on sidewalk in front of Hotel Medford / extreme closeup of Brattain |
10-12-1966 | |
Grants Pass Fire Engine Visits Elementary School |
Firemen and Dalmatian with Grants Pass Fire Engine No. 3 / elementary school children swarm out of building, pose with teachers in front of engine / dog is led past, petted by, children / children file past fire engine |
10-12-1967 | |
Rogue Valley Livestock Auction Honors Frank J. Dutra |
Interior, auction barn: steers enter pen / auctioneer at work, presents plaque / exterior: man displays plaque /closeup of plaque: "Frank J. Dutra--In Appreciation of Your Support for the Past [illegible] Years from the Cattlemen of Southern Oregon" / more shots of steers in auction pen / audience / price display sign / sign: "Rogue Valley Auction, Auction Every Thursday" / cattle pass through chute |
10-12-1967 | |
Remodel of California-Pacific Gas Co. Building, Medford |
Men breaking concrete around window (as seen from outside and inside building) / exterior: "California-Pacific Utilities Co." neon sign on building--gas company building, Main and Holly, Medford / architect's rendering of remodeled building |
10-13-1965 | |
Medford Mayor Dunlevy Signs Arterial Street Bonds |
Mayor Jimmy Dunlevy at desk, signing bonds / closeup of 1966 Arterial Street Bond and coupons / shot over shoulder as Dunlevy signs bond |
10-13-1966 | |
Medford Buildings and Businesses |
Pan across Medford Shopping Center / carnival set up at MSC / Medford residences / neighborhood grocery (Rose Grocery on West Jackson?) / apartment building on West Sixth / Fehl House, South Oakdale, pan to apartments next door / Medford Plaza Apartments / Lewis Manufacturing Company / interior of machine shop, men and woman at machines / through windshield of car driving down Riverside at Tenth: Sis-Q Motel, Pulver's Motel sign, Medford Motors, Courtesy Chevrolet / farms in East Medford / Medford Airport / |
10-13-1966 | |
Fruitdale School Break-In, Josephine County |
Police car door: "Sheriff Josephine County" / "Fruitdale Elementary School" on building / boys' bathroom door off hinges / policeman taking photos of open files / pan across filing cabinets / policeman takes statement |
10-13-1966 | |
Women Stuff Ditty Bags at Red Cross |
Women at work in warehouse / pan across items for bags: nail clippers, soap boxes, wash cloths / closeup of women at work / |
10-13-1966 | |
Wrecked Car; Southern Oregon College Hannon Library Construction |
Mangled automobile in garage / closeup of broken windshield, bent steering wheel / Florida license plate / pans across damage / / VIP poses in front of Hannon Library, Southern Oregon University, under construction / pan across construction site / same man at Enco service station on Siskiyou Boulevard, Ashland |
10-13-1967 | |
NASA Lecture; Downtown Medford Pedestrians |
Pan across audience sitting in school desks in classroom / VIPs, army officer looking at NASA Gemini program photos / VIPs chat / / sidewalk scenes, near Main and Central, Medford: pedestrians, shoppers walking on sidewalk, waiting at crosswalk, jaywalking / "Miller's," "City Market," "May Co.," "The Gift Horse" signs in background |
10-13-1967 | |
Jackson County Planning Commission Meeting |
Pans across audience, Jackson County Courthouse auditorium / pans across Jackson County Planning Commission at dais |
10-14-1965 | |
Vocational Agricultural Program, Phoenix High School |
Tractor cultivating field / young men walk across field / boys drive two tractors working same field, boys watch / teacher shows flash cards of tools to classroom full of boys / shop scenes: tools, lathe, acetylene tanks, tire changer, boy working acetylene cutting torch / using flamethrower to burn weeds as boys watch / |
10-14-1965 | |
Explorer Buys Caveman Camper |
Logo: American Institute of Exploration / Caveman Camper Selected for Expeditions painted on camper mounted on pickup truck / stack of camper frames at factory / pan across campers in factory yard |
10-14-1965 | |
Jackson County Election Department, Voting Machines |
Pan across IBM voting machine cardboard boxes / women count boxes / man demonstrates machine / woman rapidly punches cards / office scene: man on phone, women punching cards |
10-14-1966 | |
Ashland Elks Salt Deer Hides |
Man shovels salt onto hide, folds it / repeat / men unloading station wagon at warehouse |
10-14-1966 | |
Bulldozer Changes Course of Bear Creek |
Bulldozer in field / pan from officials to Bear Creek, Central Point area / cameraman points with finger from creek to old course / bulldozer pushes dirt into stream / bulldozer pushes dirt out of stream |
10-14-1966 | |
North Medford High School Construction |
Pan across quiet construction site, buildings half completed / man climbs ladder to scaffold, shingling building / man carries shingles / closeups of men shingling / |
10-14-1966 | |
Elementary Teachers Music In-Service Class |
Men in suits raise flag / pan across teachers with hands over hearts / teachers in classroom / teachers at table with kindergarten music equipment: rattles, cymbals, bells, triangle / teachers bang slowly in time together / woman at piano keeping time |
10-14-1966 | |
Lumber Mill Fire |
"Big Fires" fire safety billboard on lumber mill building / burning lumber, log pond in foreground, wigwam burner in background / pan across smoking ruins, water raining down on cameraman / firemen connecting hoses / firemen in smoking ruins / pan across burning lumber, building / fire engines pumping / pan across same scene |
10-14-1968 | |
Dam Dedication; Packwood Sign Error; Vietnam Soldiers Charity |
Concrete structure under construction / pans across crowd at construction site in hills (Lost Creek Dam?) / pan across seated high school orchestra / VIPs at dais prepare / VIP speaks at lectern / pan across dais / / woman displays "Bob Packwood for U.S. Senator" poster, pointing at handwritten "for" / Packwood sign on roof of car without "for"; woman writes it in / / children with tables heaped with drawstring hygiene bags, probably for GIs in Vietnam / pan across children |
10-14-1968 | |
Secretary of Agriculture Freeman Congressman Duncan at Grants Pass Airport |
Small plane lands at Grants Pass airport / Freeman and Duncan pose for camera / greeted at airport by locals / |
10-15-1965 | |
Governor Tom McCall Delivers Budget Speech |
Oregon Governor Tom McCall speaking at dais, pan to sign: "1967-68 Budget" / pan across audience / assembled cameras recording event / reporters taking notes / McCall again |
10-16-1967 | |
Construction at Olson Lawyer Lumber Inc. |
Exterior: SOTIA--Southern Oregon Timber Industries Association headquarters, man in front / man holding display board: "Lumber Production" / closeup pan down board: "slabs/edgings (chips), planer shavings, bark (garden mulch)" / pan down another board: "Plywood Products: How Plywood Is Laid Up" / another: "Sawmill Products: dimension, boards, finish, industrial remanufacturing" / another: "Other Wood Products: sawdust, shavings, chips, particle board, pulp & paper, silvachemicals, posts & poles, fuel" / log truck on Crater Lake Highway overpass / Olson Lawyer Lumber Inc. mill building / pan across mill yard with wigwam burners / more pans across mill yard / carpenter at work on mill building / interior of idle mill, welder at work / bandsaw blades / carpenters at work on mill / executive gets explanation of switchbox / boxcar at chip loading station |
10-17-1966 | |
United Crusade Banquet |
Pan across banquet scene / board behind dais: "United Crusade 1966-67" "Goal $204,958.84" / man writes totals on blackboard / |
10-17-1966 | |
Dr. James Turpin of Project Concern Speaks in Grants Pass |
Man walks up to lectern / another man, ditto (Dr. James Turpin, Project Concern) / shot of audience, Oregon Cavemen and woman walk up aisle |
10-17-1966 | |
Masons in Grants Pass Lay Cornerstone |
Masons parade on Grants Pass street / pan across half-completed brick building / Masons sing / speaker at mcrophone / installing cornerstone plaque / |
10-17-1966 | |
Grants Pass Rapist Is Arraigned |
Sign above door: "District Court" / prisoner and deputies walk down stairs / they walk across courtyard into building / officials discuss |
10-17-1966 | |
Red Cross Meeting; Girl Scouts Leaders Meeting |
Luncheon scene: women speaking at dais, Red Cross building / pan across scene / more of same / / women sign in, Girl Scouts headquarters, Medford / pan across meeting / song leader leads them in song / sign: "A Girl Scout Leader Tries" / women pin fleurs de lis to blouses / closeups of Girl Scout Leader magazine, handbooks, 1968 calendar |
10-17-1967 | |
Fire Hazards in Medford Fire Hall |
Medford fire chief or fire marshal examines potbelly stove, ash tray, electric heater / stands in front of fire engine / "Fire Dept." on building, pan down to chief and fire engines / chief with stove again (brass fire pole in background), pan along rickety stove pipe to where it enters wall |
10-17-1968 | |
Medford United Crusade Report |
Banquet scene: speaker in front of tote board / table captains stand and report, applaud.Names on tote board: Martin Herrin, J. R. Acheson, G. Clark, C. Webb, Dick McCandless, Willard Chinn, Jay Elliott, Calvin L. Jones, George Brennan, Dunbar Carpenter, D. F. Keiser, C. C. Christensen |
10-18-1965 |